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Look, folks, the biggest problem with "Star Wars" for some time was that no-talent losers took over. They have no writing skills, no sense of what made the original trilogy so great, or even the positive aspects of the prequels- nobody can deny that Darth Maul was a terrific villain, especially...

Hmmmm...not a bad idea...

"Star Wars" had an existing subcreation. To come up with anything requires one to abide by it. Alan Dean Foster's "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" was interesting in that he only had the first movie to work with. Thus his descriptions of what The Force could and could not do were interesting...

The But the intention wasn't even what you said, which would have been bad enough. You see, your version of what they did would have meant there was always a chance, however slender, that they could have come up with something good. But this was yet another franchise taken over and infected...

"Star Wars" is dead. Kathleen Kennedy and Disney did the seemingly impossible: they killed what seemed to be an invincible franchise. Look, if I had been in charge I would have considered the obvious: there is no possible way the Galactic Empire was going to just be gone after the Battle of...

It's the Golem run amok. Political correctness has gone out of control, it has infested many things, and is destroying them. You cannot just get rid of these people without being subjected to the very witch cries once used as weapons.

All of the Disney "Star Wars" series...back in the 1980s there were two animated series: "Ewoks" and "Droids." And a few television specials, plus the infamous holiday special.

Don't forget, after he massacred the Tuskens Anakin felt guilt.

Love can make people do weird things. Maybe she thought reports of him killing Jedi were false, or that she could "bring him back" to the good kid he was. In the third movie she wanted to reach him and get his side of the story, maybe help him, because she figured he was in too many crosshairs...

But there was one ultimate factor: whatever his flaws, whatever his boo-boos along the way, George Lucas had something Gene Roddenberry also had with "Star Trek:" George Lucas genuinely loved his creation. And there it was. When you see the prequels it's there, even the mocked "Holiday Special"...

I liked the first three movies. The third was indeed better than I remembered, but it was originally supposed to have taken place on Chewbacca's home world- an army of angry Wookies bashing the Empire, that would have made it a five-star movie! The prequels were pretty good. They had good...

Of course it is science FICTION- so one just assumes, as with the USS Enterprise, they have something to deal with it. As Ed the Sock said about "Star Wars" technology: "see that lit-up thing in the back there? That's what makes it go. Who cares?"

They'd better be amazingly adaptive and fast for ships in battle.

Except again NOBODY ever figured that trick out after centuries? Give us Earth humans hyperspace technology today and we'd be building hyperspace ramming missiles in a week.

There's something usually overlooked in science fiction- inertia. Remember that scene from "Spaceballs" where Dark Helmet was hurled against a back wall? That was actually a bit of common sense. A jet fighter on our world doing tight maneuvers can literally make a twenty-pound helmet weigh a...

Curiously in ground combat we Earth humans could stand up to Imperial forces. The problem for the Empire would be if we ever started using nukes. Yes they would devastate Imperial forces but the Empire would wonder about a race insane enough to use such terrible weapons on their own world when...

The USS Enterprise was hurt by a nearby nuke.

It's funny you should mention that. In the late 1970s "Star Wars" comics Chewbacca was able to trick Crimson Jack the pirate by stealing the charts for hyperspace travel from his stolen Star Destroyer's computers. A navigator mentioned using guesswork which would likely do something like you...

But you can still see a shielded ship. So the electromagnetic energy given off by a nuke would just go right through. If I remember blasters were not "lasers," but some sort of high-energy gas which is why light sabers could deflect them- they would not be simple energy. A Jedi, even if fast...

I'm assuming the EMP from a nuke would affect large ships like that cannon on Hoth did. That pulse would be what would make a large ships vulnerable. Don't forget a ship with its shields up could still be seen. Therefore shields did not keep out electromagnetic energy so a laser would just...