The Mandalorian (TV series)

Fortunately there are many other options and paths they could take besides Rey and Mara Jade. They've created a good lead character who is entirely new in the Mandalorian. I don't see why they couldn't do it again with an entirely new female lead who wouldn't have 30 + years of content and expectations.

Mara Jade was interesting pre Luke but much of that is build up. The substance of her character and her arc depends on Luke being present. She's initially fueled by her hatred of him and then by her love for him. I've been a fan of her's from Heir to the Empire. It's partially because of that that I don't want to see her ruined in live action which based on Lucasfilm's history post 2012 is most likely. Zahn would be involved if she made an appearance but I seriously doubt much good would come from it.
 
First I heard of Mara was in Zahn's books and she met Luke pretty much at the beginning of her introduction. Pretty sure the game expansion Mysteries of the Sith was after that as well.
 
I thought Mara Jade was in those West End games short stories that they re-released in some of the Tales of... books. There's a Mara Jade story and a Corran Horn story in those, that I believe are prior to Heir to the Empire and the X-Wing books. I may be wrong though.
 
West End got the RPG license in '87 and had it through '99, when it went to Wizards of the Coast. In that time, yes, they put out sourcebooks and other materials from the Star Wars Renaissance that began in '91 with Heir to the Empire. Trust me on this one. Tim Zahn created Thrawn (and Grand Admirals in general), Mara Jade (and the Emperor's Hand in general), Talon Karrde, Winter, the Noghri, the name Coruscant for the capitol world, Mount Tantiss, Wayland, Captain Pellaeon, the Chimera, Rogue Squadron, and a slew of other incidental things in those books. West End came up with a lot, but not those.
 
Inquisitor Peregrinus said:
West End got the RPG license in '87 and had it through '99, when it went to Wizards of the Coast. In that time, yes, they put out sourcebooks and other materials from the Star Wars Renaissance that began in '91 with Heir to the Empire. Trust me on this one. Tim Zahn created Thrawn (and Grand Admirals in general), Mara Jade (and the Emperor's Hand in general), Talon Karrde, Winter, the Noghri, the name Coruscant for the capitol world, Mount Tantiss, Wayland, Captain Pellaeon, the Chimera, Rogue Squadron, and a slew of other incidental things in those books. West End came up with a lot, but not those.
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Reminds me of this video I will occasionally watch. Granted, the guy worked for Wizards of the Coast, I still enjoy watching this video.

 
Inquisitor Peregrinus said:
West End got the RPG license in '87 and had it through '99, when it went to Wizards of the Coast. In that time, yes, they put out sourcebooks and other materials from the Star Wars Renaissance that began in '91 with Heir to the Empire. Trust me on this one. Tim Zahn created Thrawn (and Grand Admirals in general), Mara Jade (and the Emperor's Hand in general), Talon Karrde, Winter, the Noghri, the name Coruscant for the capitol world, Mount Tantiss, Wayland, Captain Pellaeon, the Chimera, Rogue Squadron, and a slew of other incidental things in those books. West End came up with a lot, but not those.
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I know Zahn created them, but I thought they appeared before Heir to the Empire. I looked it up and the Tales of books (at least Tales of the Empire/New Republic) came from the Star Wars Adventure Journal short stories. The story where Karrde finds Mara was published in 1994, so those are after Heir to the Empire.
 
Yeah, HttE really kicked everything off. There wasn't anything for several years before that except the RPG, and it was mainly embellishing just what was known from the OT -- didn't even delve into the ancillary fiction of the time. The Tales From books all post-date HttE, Dark Horse getting the comics license post-dates HttE, WEG doing a second edition of the RPG post-dates HttE -- including starting up the Adventure Journal, Kenner revisiting the original action figures post-dates HttE, Decipher doing a Star Wars card game post-dates HttE... It cannot be overstated just how much is owed to that book and its popularity at the time.
 
They just can’t resist, can they. Gotta put the dumb little puppet from everyone’s favorite movie, Episode IX, into their most profitable show on the platform.

“Please? Please like him? We want money, and focus groups suggest this thing is just ugly and yet cute enough it should have made us rich, and even with all the fake articles we put out during Episode IX about everyone loving him more than Baby Yoda, he still doesn’t sell well. Love him?”

Otherwise, I no longer have any great hope for this series. Burned too badly on the past two shows. If I have to put something optimistically, though, I think it might be nice that they lean away from the Empire, which is what it looks like. Dogfights are always a check in my book as well. I could eat my words, but Disney—and Lucasfilm by extension—seem to be cheaping out more and more lately, on scripts, on effects, on props, on locations. So I’ll watch it. I can’t really get “excited” about it anymore.
 
Paul Andrew said:
Babu Frik is the lone shining star of EpIX. You leave him alone.
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