DBWI: Star Wars gets a movie sequel

...so the later comics and Splinter, which was explicitly supposed to be the basis of a tv show just don't exist in your mind then?

Not a comics person, and Splinter was pure shit. If they wanted to turn that steaming turd into a TV show, it would have been cancelled at the first commercial break.

And I read a script for a “holiday special” and I nearly shot myself just to make myself forget about it.
 
I did read that Nelvana was looking to make an animated Star Wars series in the late 80's - they had an idea for exploring Chewbacca childhood and how he met Han. The concept art is nice enough in a retro kinda way, but the 'planet of the fuzzballs' art for the Wookiee children might not have worked well.
 
If a sequel is made then it also perhaps inspires copycats down through the years and to be honest having seen the "script" for James Cameron's "Dances With Wolves in Space" abomination is it for the best that it has never seen the light of day. If for no other reason we have to thank George Lucas for saving us from that soul-less CGI-fest.

It was time someone told Cameron to stop thinking money and technology were substitutes for story, script and acting.
 
Not a comics person, and Splinter was pure shit. If they wanted to turn that steaming turd into a TV show, it would have been cancelled at the first commercial break.

And I read a script for a “holiday special” and I nearly shot myself just to make myself forget about it.
Doesn’t matter since your supposition is wrong by their existence. Vader did not die, the Empire was weakened but still present.
 
Doesn’t matter since your supposition is wrong by their existence. Vader did not die, the Empire was weakened but still present.

The thing is though the premise dosen't lend itself well to serialization. The Empire is too vaguely defined and perpetually unsucessful to be a long term threatening villain in a saga, but also too all encompassing to leave room for an episodic format with a common set of heros, not that they were even complex enough to carry an extended plot. "Wide as the ocean, deep as a puddle"

Indie could get away with having one note villains in his animated series because most of them were one-shots.
 
Lucas' later works show though that he wasn't above bucking trends and adopting darker aspects though. Look at Raiders of the Lost Ark and it's in-depth look at Nazism and the whole face-melting scene, Temple of Doom with it's near case of child sacrifice and use of human organs, or the cannibalism and dismemberment depected in Secret of Monkey Island (albet as "black humor" that'd get turned into increasingly light hearted jokes later on). I wouldn't put that past him.

Bizarre, dark, disturbing, and gross but not creepy and perverted. It was clear at the end of the movie that Luke and Leia were well on their way to becoming an item which is totally consistent with the genre. Going through the gymnastics of making them brother and sister would have been painful too watch and like I said, creepy.
 
I did read that Nelvana was looking to make an animated Star Wars series in the late 80's - they had an idea for exploring Chewbacca childhood and how he met Han. The concept art is nice enough in a retro kinda way, but the 'planet of the fuzzballs' art for the Wookiee children might not have worked well.

Muppets in Space...
 
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