Comments on: Trek’s Orci talks reboots with StarWars.com

By: Dunc

Dunc — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:55:14 +0000

No one’s done it so far… Except maybe Legacy, and it took the whole Morrigan reveal to get me hooked there. So the odds are deeply against it.

By: Toph

Toph — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:03:23 +0000

Ah. Hm. Well, maybe the right team could create characters who are (almost) as enticing as the Big 3. Maybe. But yeah, there’s not a lot of room left to experiment with those characters short of a reboot….

I look forward to your giant post. :)

By: Dunc

Dunc — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:24:26 +0000

My problem with this is that I’m very character oriented. A movie set in the OT without the Big 3 is just… filler. It’s the same reason I never got much into the PT, have no desire to play TFU or any of the assorted Knights of the Old Republic games and stuff. And a very large part of why the NJO bored me silly. A SW book or game or TV show can be filler, but an actual movie? No.

And you’re right, that’s not a reboot… Gah. Let’s just say I have a giant post peculating on all this, and hopefully it will all come together before the end of the month.

By: Toph

Toph — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:36:34 +0000

I’m not sure the Clone Wars era is in any way inherently flawed. The Tartatovsky micro-series was certainly well-received, and many of TCW’s flaws just come from how it’s being targeted. (And it’s certainly been well-received by its target audience.) And the Traviss RC books are certainly well-received.

So I think there’s plenty of potential to do something set in that era from a very different perspective. And it could be a very different sort of film.

True, it wouldn’t be an epic conflict of good v. evil with galaxywide ramifications. But it doesn’t need to be, and it doesn’t need to try to be.

But I don’t think you could call that a reboot.