Topic: Star Wars: The TV Show?

[TalonClaw]

Since TV is a whole new medium I have hopes that GL will let a whole new set of ppl work on it.  Anyway I love Star Wars and will eat it up even if it has more bad acting.  

[Javora]

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I'm hoping for syndication, myself.  

I would like to see that myself, however with syndication being in the dumpster the last couple of years I don't see that happening.  A good example of this would be Andromeda moving to Sci-Fi and the possibility of shows like Mutant X being cancelled.  The best bet IMHO for a Star Wars series would be to find a network that could put the series in a slot with other Science fiction shows.  Maybe like on the same night as the Superman series on the WB or the same night as Enterprise on UPN.

But a Star Wars series with a lot of action (unlike Star Trek dialog driven shows) would be very cool.
 

[hobbesmaster]

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Anyway I love Star Wars and will eat it up even if it has more bad acting.    

Well, it has to be at least the quality of Voyager.  As enterprise demonstrates, you can't actively piss off your fan base but you can do so through passive attrition.  

[Lepton1]

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If I were planning this, I'd get it on HBO, since a.) there's no real time constraints on when things need to be done, just at look at how long it takes between seasons of The Sopranos and b.) chances are on a big budget project like this, Lucasfilm would get all the financial and creative control they want without having to worry too much about the network and sponsors.  

If they do put it on HBO, I will gut you for even having suggested it.  I'm not paying 12 bucks a month to see one show.

[Sirgod]

As long as Bea Arthur Doesn't sing, I'll be happy...

 

Stephen  

[Rat_Boy]

Oh dear, not again.

[Dash Jones]

If it is happening...that's saying if it is...my first bet would be that it will first be offered to Fox or one of it's affiliates...just a strange hunch of mine...

[RogueJedi_XC]

Oh, no, you did NOT just dredge up the Star Wars Holiday Special!

Even George Lucas thinks that travesty should be forgotten. I say it should be burned, buried, launched into the sun, and then, just for good measure, nuked.

Even that may not be enough....    

[Sirgod]

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Oh, no, you did NOT just dredge up the Star Wars Holiday Special!

Even George Lucas thinks that travesty should be forgotten. I say it should be burned, buried, launched into the sun, and then, just for good measure, nuked.

Even that may not be enough....    

LOL, yep , I'm an Evil evil man.  

Stephen

[DH123]

Base is on Kyle Katarin.  The Jedi Knight titles had better stories and acting than Episodes 1 and 2.  

[IKV Nemesis D7L]

Didn't Berman and Braga say that they were looking at moving on to another SciFi tv show?  You wouldn't expect them to create something would you?  I'm sure that they would stick to Star Wars canon as well as they did Trek in Enterprise.  

[Rat_Boy]

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I'm sure that they would stick to Star Wars canon as well as they did Trek in Enterprise.  

There certainly are parts of SW canon that meesa wouldn't mind them ignoring.

[IKV Nemesis D7L]

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There certainly are parts of SW canon that meesa wouldn't mind them ignoring.  

Then you'll love this link.  

[Rat_Boy]

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Then you'll love this link.  

Hey Lepton, mind beating him up while you're in the mood?  

[Maxillius]

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Didn't Berman and Braga say that they were looking at moving on to another SciFi tv show?  You wouldn't expect them to create something would you?  I'm sure that they would stick to Star Wars canon as well as they did Trek in Enterprise.  

So it's not enough that they seriously pissed off the Star Trek fanbase, now they have to go and do it to the Star Wars fanbase as well???


Some one shoot them before they mess with 2001/2010

[IKV Nemesis D7L]

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So it's not enough that they seriously pissed off the Star Trek fanbase, now they have to go and do it to the Star Wars fanbase as well???


Some one shoot them before they mess with 2001/2010  

Starring Wil Wheaton as Luke Skywalker
 and Jolene Blaylock as his (Humanoid) spandex clad droid companion  

[Praxis]

Let's see.

A series based on the Thrawn books (5 years after Return of the Jedi) would be just *AWESOME*.  It would be the best as well, as those were the best of the best SW books, and also were the first authorized novels to come out after the movies.

Unfortunately, most of the actors (especially Mark Hamill, aka Luke Skywalker) are too old to play 5-year-older characters.

New Jedi Order would make the most sense.  I loved the New Jedi Order series with the exception of Vector Prime (which they could easily redo).  It's a whopping 19 books long I believe, so a TV series could last a long time.  Plus, while a lot of the original characters are still there, (such as Luke and Leia and Han and C-3PO and R2-D2), they're SUPPOSED to be 25 years older, so they could still use the original actors (that haven't died yet, lol).  Plus with all the new characters (Han and Leia's 3 children that are teens, Chewie's nephew Lowbacca) to fill in, it would be an awesome series.

Though the Yuuzhan Vong on TV might give people nightmares  

[Tremok]

The New Jedi Order series is a stinking pile of crap. The rest of the Star Wars novel line up ranges from average to mediocre. All of it is completely uninspired. I can understand why George Lucas decided to completey reject the Expanded Universe from the Star Wars canon proper.

Star Wars games are where the good non-movie stories are at, specifically the Jedi Knights series and Knights of the Old Republic.      

[Praxis]

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The New Jedi Order series is a stinking pile of crap.

You've obviously not read past the first book (which really stunk BTW).  Dark Tide I and II RULE, as do Star by Star and a number of the later books.

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 The rest of the Star Wars novel line up ranges from average to mediocre. All of it is completely uninspired.

Are you kidding?

The Thrawn trilogy...the X-wing books...UNINSPIRED?  Are you insane?

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 I can understand why George Lucas decided to completey reject the Expanded Universe from the Star Wars canon proper.

Er...when did this happen...the EU is still considered part of Star Wars canon.

Did you know Coruscant was invented in the Expanded Universe?

 

[Tremok]

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You've obviously not read past the first book (which really stunk BTW).  Dark Tide I and II RULE, as do Star by Star and a number of the later books.  

I am tempted to take those Dark Tide books off my shelf and burn them, now that you mentioned them, as they are a insult to my other fine books setting on my shelf.  

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Are you kidding?

The Thrawn trilogy...the X-wing books...UNINSPIRED? Are you insane?  

You bet. Without Remorse (Tom Clancy), Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton), Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien) , and the Dragonlance Chronicles (Mararet Weis and Tracy Hickman) are examples what I consider inspired fiction. Every Star Wars novel I ever read is more of the same trite hogwash typical of fiction based on movies and tv series.  

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 Er...when did this happen...the EU is still considered part of Star Wars canon.

Did you know Coruscant was invented in the Expanded Universe?  

When George Lucas pays no attention at all to the Expanded Universe when doing his Star Wars thing, is not really canon is it? It might have a continuity to itself (LucasBooks doesn't allow novels to contradict other novels), it might be considered a parallel universe or what not, but it's not real Star Wars. The only real Star Wars is the one on film.

This, happily, lets me gleefully reject all of the Expanded Universe rubbish as something not Star Wars.

From the official Star Wars website itself...