ixtore
Well-Known Member
Re: Star Wars Episode VII
If I was vague, I apologize. I meant he wouldn't necessarily have a family. Han is the family type. Luke being, as far as I could tell from ROTJ, the sole heir of the Jedi flame, would have responsibilities and the duty to teach what he knows to bring Jedi back into mainstream life. Leia, of course, was 'the other' and maybe Kasdan will make some good hay from that if she is part of this reboot.
I'm just saying that, for me (and thankfully I'm not the one with the responsibility to get the franchise back on track and off to the races) you can't start this new series out with everyone having families and getting together for the holidays. Luke was affected by his very close brush with the dark side, a part of his genome that he lives with day by day. In my version, he would fight to enlighten this new post Empire age and renew the Jedi order as best as he could.
Aside from all that, whether or not Ford, Hamill and Fisher are utilized to bridge the gap and give the series a push in the right direction, totally new characters and plotlines need to be conjured up unless we want to go the way of most other sequelled franchises.
And my fear with the idea of Luke having a child is that we return to the idea of a 'bad seed' arising - like his father - and round and round we go.
If I was vague, I apologize. I meant he wouldn't necessarily have a family. Han is the family type. Luke being, as far as I could tell from ROTJ, the sole heir of the Jedi flame, would have responsibilities and the duty to teach what he knows to bring Jedi back into mainstream life. Leia, of course, was 'the other' and maybe Kasdan will make some good hay from that if she is part of this reboot.
I'm just saying that, for me (and thankfully I'm not the one with the responsibility to get the franchise back on track and off to the races) you can't start this new series out with everyone having families and getting together for the holidays. Luke was affected by his very close brush with the dark side, a part of his genome that he lives with day by day. In my version, he would fight to enlighten this new post Empire age and renew the Jedi order as best as he could.
Aside from all that, whether or not Ford, Hamill and Fisher are utilized to bridge the gap and give the series a push in the right direction, totally new characters and plotlines need to be conjured up unless we want to go the way of most other sequelled franchises.
And my fear with the idea of Luke having a child is that we return to the idea of a 'bad seed' arising - like his father - and round and round we go.
