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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunglar" data-source="post: 3257311" data-attributes="member: 854">I really must find that FATAL/Star Wars adaptation! Sounds like fun… Jejeje!Diggus, I agree with you in that the magic, at least for me, is the feeling that in Star Wars you are seeing a grand vision, a great adventure, the hero’s journey (call it what you may!) set in a great, vast canvas, of which we see just a little part.I think that is why the Expanded Universe has proven so popular and why the West End Games guys had such success in expanding the mythos early on, continued by the comics, console/computer games! (I know the Marvel comics came before WEG and I love them, but they were so limited in scope as far as what they could do that what they managed was impressive, still… I know somebody will not agree with this!)That said eyebeams I think makes an excellent point as to what we see in the movies. A casual observer, the person that just sees the movie and has no exposure to the expanded universe, gets exactly that idea of Jedi infallibility. Lucas relies too much in the expanded universe to fill in the Star Wars experience (here I’m going back to a previous argument I made!). I realize there are a LOT of fans out there, and he is just using the tools he has to market his product and make the most money. Nothing wrong with that!However the films themselves, the pure art form of cinema (there may not be such a thing I realize, but indulge me here for a minute!) suffers due to the fact that you get only a sketch of a much richer (Complex? Satisfying?) picture. The original trilogy was grand story, but we got ALL we need to understand the plot in the movies themselves. Arguably I think we did not get that on the prequels.(Soapbox is put away now I promise!)eyebeam, I REALLY like that list you made of what we know of the Jedi form the prequels. Can you or anyone else come up with a similar list but JUST from the original movies? I think our perception of the Jedi is vastly different from just the original movies. I’m seeing the movies again (for the third time tomorrow) with a note pad, so I can jot down what we DO know about what happened before the movies, trying to filter out the knowledge form seeing the prequels.One last thing, Ranger that would ROCK! A Tarentino Star Wars! Or even better, just like they did for CSI when they got him to direct an episode, have him do a NEW Christmas Special! I only have one request; it MUST have Bea Arthur singing!</blockquote>

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