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Even just seeing what she gets up to in the prequel films, I'm pretty sure Padme is the kind of adrenaline junky to pick the dangerous option whenever possible: Phantom Menace: Defies the expectations of the Jedi, the Senate, and the Sith to personally lead an attempt to reconquer her home...

Agreed, but compared to the malicious and/or incompetent active destruction of Star Wars even that isn't that bad by comparison.

Heck, she even participates in philosophical debates with Joshua Graham on youtube these days! (The miracles of voice AI!)

In all fairness to Sidious' feats for most of his existence he didn't really have the need to. The total lack of peers or ambitious underlings meant he never had any rivals to contend with really, and frankly the system he set up was pragmatic from an evil wizard perspective. My understanding...

Oh fuck that's Pullo? Damn, here I was thinking it was news I could let pass me by because it's someone I'd never heard of.

In all fairness to said muppet, there's no indication that Yoda was aware of his relationship with Padme. Obi-Wan almost certainly knew, some of the other Jedi who interacted with Anakin and Padme a fair bit might've, but Yoda? I don't recall any time he even saw them together outside of AotC...

Though it was originally meant to represent the empire in general, I think in most peoples mind the imperial march is tied inextricably to the character of Darth Vader specifically. While it could be broadened once again, I think it is an equally valid idea to attempt to develop new leitmotifs...

I didn’t pick up on the RP aspect either. I’d thought the idea was just to pitch sequel trilogies from a more perfect world, where ideologues weren’t sticking their slimy fingers into everything.

This is something of a leap. In Disney Canon at least the Death Star was only just finished when the events of Rogue One happened, and ANH immediately after. We have no clue what Tarkin planned to do as he spent the Death Star’s entire operational life chasing its schematics and then blew up...

Aren't these at least somewhat contradictory statements? The people who care would be the very same connections that got them the position in the first place, at least in the case of those not placed on merit alone. That would suggest Vader would have quite a few enemies in the Imperial Elite by...

Haven’t been involved thus far but for my $0.02 I think villainous. IMHO Star Wars as a setting isn’t about complicated morality. The good guys may struggle, may fail to live up to themselves, but they are in the end, good.

In fairness, for much of the EU’s run those hadn’t been invented yet, so it’s not fair to judge the New Republic for not using them.

I'm confused by this. Could be a good sign, more likely to be a bad sign. Granted, signs weren't great even to begin with, so it being a bad sign doesn't actually change anything.

I’d go so far as to say that it subverts expectations in a way I like even! Even back then I’d more than half expected them to put the main cast in a convenient hole so that they could simultaneously not be in ep 4-6 and still be around to be used, so Disney having the narrative integrity to...

Another key difference between Anakin and Mace is that while Mace did struggle with attachment too, he grew attached to the institution of the Republic. "Darth Windu" would likely share this same ideological bent, making him probably a character not unlike Darth Malgus from SWTOR.

Prose is a little rough, but it's short enough and fun enough that I'll second the recommendation. That's a snack-fic right there: it ain't healthy eating but it's tasty and light.

It does help that George, the EU authors, and the fans have had 42 years to work on smoothing out the various wrinkles it caused. Sure you can argue that it doesn't make things better (And in all fairness the idea that retcon plotholes are equally bad, patched later or not is a perfectly...

Even if you think that the Larses would be the first choice in all cases, it wouldn't be that hard to make it not work out. I mean think of what that scene at the end of RoTS looks like from Owen and Beru's perspective. A man you've never met with a core accent claiming to be the mentor of your...

I thought Disney’s idea was that planetary shielding blocked hyperspacing in planetside unless you knew some specific details about the shield, which the resistance happened to thanks to Finn? Honestly, it’s not a bad way to avoid the problem, even if it’s still contrived. For example it...

Ohey, it’s Isard doing the thing!