That's right- in a 1998 interview George Lucas himself said it was a six-movie cycle. A 2000s comic called "Dandy & Co." had a gag where a little robot time-traveling dog started a stampede of nerd when he said (he was fibbing as a distraction) that he had all NINE "Star Wars" movies in his memory banks.
Lucas has at different points declared he "always" meant for Star Wars to be three, six, nine, and even twelve movies. He retcons his own plans all the time and constantly pretends that he's never changed anything about his "ultimate underlying vision".
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side.Han Solo kills him.
No, really, Han shoots his last clone body dead, before the whole 'souls of every Jedi who ever died making sure he can never return from the dead' thing that Rise of Skywalker (spits) cribbed. A simple smuggler not particularly special beyond being married to one of the most powerful women in the galaxy, who cannot touch the Force, was the one to bring an end to one of the mightiest of the Dark Lords of the Sith.
Pride goeth before the fall.Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side.
It’s even more delicious when Sidious, the master manipulator, is ultimately slain by someone he’d have deemed a nobody and not acknowledged the threat.
Lucas has at different points declared he "always" meant for Star Wars to be three, six, nine, and even twelve movies. He retcons his own plans all the time and constantly pretends that he's never changed anything about his "ultimate underlying vision".
Pride goeth before the fall.
Reminds me of an idea I had where the Shadows from Babylon 5 and their allies get IOST’d into Star Wars somewhere in the Outer Rim during the years prior to the Clone Wars and start doing their usual Shadow-stuff. Including possibly getting Dooku on side or otherwise setting into motion the creation of a viable, a non-Sith puppet Confederacy of Independent Systems.It's more than just pride -- almost all Dark Siders, and even some non-fallen Jedi -- view non Force sensitives as fundamentally inferior.
Reminds me of an idea I had where the Shadows from Babylon 5 and their allies get IOST’d into Star Wars somewhere in the Outer Rim during the years prior to the Clone Wars and start doing their usual Shadow-stuff. Including possibly getting Dooku on side or otherwise setting into motion the creation of a viable, a non-Sith puppet Confederacy of Independent Systems.
The FUN really begins when you remember that the Shadows created the Techno-mages and have access to similar abilities. Meaning that no only can the Shadows recreate the Trchno-mages as Shadow loyalists, but have those abilities themselves. Meaning the Jedi and Sith just got completion both in the field and in a war of deception the likes of which they’ve never faced before.
Reminds me of an idea I had where the Shadows from Babylon 5 and their allies get IOST’d into Star Wars somewhere in the Outer Rim during the years prior to the Clone Wars and start doing their usual Shadow-stuff. Including possibly getting Dooku on side or otherwise setting into motion the creation of a viable, a non-Sith puppet Confederacy of Independent Systems.
The FUN really begins when you remember that the Shadows created the Techno-mages and have access to similar abilities. Meaning that no only can the Shadows recreate the Trchno-mages as Shadow loyalists, but have those abilities themselves. Meaning the Jedi and Sith just got completion both in the field and in a war of deception the likes of which they’ve never faced before.
The thing is that the Vorlons and Shadows were both correct, in a sense. They were also both complete dickbags by the end of their philosophical conflict, but the Vorlons tried to maintain a veneer of being the "good guys" for their own manipulations/egos. That's why B5 was so great -- everything was gray (except for Clark and his government, but it surprisingly worked as a contrast).In B5, the ultimate conclusion is that both sides are manipulative dicks who really need to take a hike.
However, the Vorlon ideal could more postively be described as "order comes from self-discipline, and self-discipline comes from self-knowledge". That's actually not very different from the Jedi vision.
Whereas the Shadow ideal suggests freedom, perhaps, but is in practice much like that of the Sith: ruthless social Darwinism, with the aim of "rule by the strongest".
The Vorlons don't live up to their own ideal (because they are blinded due to being locked in an enternal war against the Shadows, it's implied), and their ideal could be twisted into something dark, but in actual fact, they do seem to at least have meant well. The Shadow ideal could hypothetically be turned into something positive, if they weren't a race of omnicidal psychopaths. But they are, so in practice, they're just terrible.
...Anyway:
Plot twist: to balance things out, the Jedi get Vir Cotto out of the ISOT. The Shadows end up getting stomped, and by the end, he waves... like this:
The Daleks themselves are the tormented result of one madman’s ego. A broken toy if you will. Their creator did his utmost to ensure they could never aspire to be anything but the mutated master race of killing machines we all know and love. Indeed, whenever Daleks get smart enough to break their programming, they almost universally start questioning their creator’s “wisdom.” Many of them proceed to be utterly incapable of living with themselves thereafter.If you want truly evil though, you gotta go with the Daleks. They're just omnicidal monsters. Even when Daleks tried to be "good" they still were omnicidal monsters with different targets.
The romance between Padme and Anakin was also horribly executed. That properly dragged down Attack of the Clones.
Depends on when the Daleks are from.The Daleks themselves are the tormented result of one madman’s ego. A broken toy if you will. Their creator did his utmost to ensure they could never aspire to be anything but the mutated master race of killing machines we all know and love. Indeed, whenever Daleks get smart enough to break their programming, they almost universally start questioning their creator’s “wisdom.” Many of them proceed to be utterly incapable of living with themselves thereafter.
Alas for the universe that such a race has such might. The ruined children of Skaro could probably slaughter the entire Babylon 5 verse for the funnies.
Edit: A force of evil, yes. But the poor twisted souls were made that way.
Yeah -- according to Genesis, Davros purposefully made the template mutants (not the earlier experiments but the pre-production versions that the Doctor tried to destroy) have "defects" (which he called "improvements") to their brains, which made them incapable of being anything but sociopaths.The Daleks themselves are the tormented result of one madman’s ego. A broken toy if you will. Their creator did his utmost to ensure they could never aspire to be anything but the mutated master race of killing machines we all know and love. Indeed, whenever Daleks get smart enough to break their programming, they almost universally start questioning their creator’s “wisdom.” Many of them proceed to be utterly incapable of living with themselves thereafter.
Alas for the universe that such a race has such might. The ruined children of Skaro could probably slaughter the entire Babylon 5 verse for the funnies.
Edit: A force of evil, yes. But the poor twisted souls were made that way.
If the Daleks at their height (Last Great Time War) were in the B5 universe, it'd basically be like all the Old Ones, together, with all their batshit EU capabilities rolled into one faction. Hell, they threw pretty much everything the Old Ones had in equivalence around as party favours against the Time Lords, and vice-versa.Depends on when the Daleks are from.
Pre-Time War classic Doctor Who Daleks (depending on when they are from) would be somewhere on scale of a third age race, albeit a horribly warped one that would likely draw the ire of the Vorlons and Shadows in short notice.