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bloodyrosemccoyGUYS, GUYS, I'VE HAD AN AMAZING THOUGHT.
WHAT IF GEORGE LUCAS KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING THE WHOLE TIME?
I mean, maybe somehow his deal with the devil meant he could see the future, or at any rate he still had some hope for his own sequels, so back in the early 90s he knew that Disney would eventually scrap the Expanded Universe, which even though it's full of silly shit has some fun stuff in it.* So he decided to spare the fans the angst of losing all that, while still allowing for sequels which didn't follow it.
But how to do it?
Why, by splitting the timeline, of course! And this was back before that was the rad thing to do, so the guy was a visionary.
And he could do it. He had the upcoming Special Editions. All he had to do was make one little change to them. Something that represented an actual character choice, that might split off the universes, but wouldn't take too much from the sacred movies themselves. So he made it a tiny thing, something that had a few reverberations through the rest of the Special Edition Trilogy (like who was hired to do the floorshow at Jabba's palace, etc.), but that he naively hoped wouldn't even register with fans.
That's right.
George Lucas split the timelines by altering who shot first.
TAKE THAT, NERDS. GEORGE LUCAS HAS WORKED TIRELESSLY TO PRESERVE MARA JADE AND THE SOLO KIDS AND THRAWN, AND ALL YOU DO IS BITCH ABOUT IT. FOR SHAME.
And that's my crazy conspiracy theory for the night.
*What? I like the Solo kids! At least, I did before ... well, that's a whole other Sarlacc Pit, isn't it.
WHAT IF GEORGE LUCAS KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING THE WHOLE TIME?
I mean, maybe somehow his deal with the devil meant he could see the future, or at any rate he still had some hope for his own sequels, so back in the early 90s he knew that Disney would eventually scrap the Expanded Universe, which even though it's full of silly shit has some fun stuff in it.* So he decided to spare the fans the angst of losing all that, while still allowing for sequels which didn't follow it.
But how to do it?
Why, by splitting the timeline, of course! And this was back before that was the rad thing to do, so the guy was a visionary.
And he could do it. He had the upcoming Special Editions. All he had to do was make one little change to them. Something that represented an actual character choice, that might split off the universes, but wouldn't take too much from the sacred movies themselves. So he made it a tiny thing, something that had a few reverberations through the rest of the Special Edition Trilogy (like who was hired to do the floorshow at Jabba's palace, etc.), but that he naively hoped wouldn't even register with fans.
That's right.
George Lucas split the timelines by altering who shot first.
TAKE THAT, NERDS. GEORGE LUCAS HAS WORKED TIRELESSLY TO PRESERVE MARA JADE AND THE SOLO KIDS AND THRAWN, AND ALL YOU DO IS BITCH ABOUT IT. FOR SHAME.
And that's my crazy conspiracy theory for the night.
*What? I like the Solo kids! At least, I did before ... well, that's a whole other Sarlacc Pit, isn't it.
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Date: 2014-04-21 07:57 pm (UTC)...
*eyetwitch*
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[insert Keanu Reeves-like 'WHOAH' here because WHOAH]