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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 4865172" data-attributes="member: 7808">"Jumping the shark" (in its original meaning) refers to anything that is essentially "de-evolution" of the series; a character forgetting key lessons learned before that were critical to character development, a reversal of a plot-changing event, or the series reversing it's overall themes are all examples of jumping the shark (and are the issues people took with Fonzie's literal jump).  Jumping the shark basically requires the audience to forget previous events to accept new actions as plausible.In my mind, the SW universe jumped the shark when Kevin J. Anderson wrote the Jedi Academy trilogy.  This jumped the shark by 1) re-writing history established in the Dark Empire comic series 2) ineptly re-creating an Imperial superweapon threat, forcing the series back into an enemy that had already been defeated, and 3) portraying the characters and caricatures of their former selves.  Of course, I generally consider Mr. Anderson to be the most successful hack in the writing  business, so my opinion may be flawed.  Also, I am appalled that the Daala character has been allowed to exist this long in the SW setting.Luke Skywalker marrying Mara Jade is jumping the shark, because it would never happen with the original, unaltered characters.  The Galactic Alliance turning it's back on the jedi order is jumping the shark, because it is reverting the series back to where it started, without any narative or developmental reason.  Killing off Chewbacca in an undignified manner is jumping the shark, because he has been established as a hero of high order in a series where heros are treated very classically.</blockquote>

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