Ok, I am 100% down for this movie, but I hate them adding "A Star Wars Story" to every non-trilogy movie. Just call it Solo, damn it. (I had this same objection to when they did this to Rogue One, but it seems even more annoying now.
Ok, I am 100% down for this movie, but I hate them adding "A Star Wars Story" to every non-trilogy movie. Just call it Solo, damn it. (I had this same objection to when they did this to Rogue One, but it seems even more annoying now.
Probably because the likes of Rogue One and Solo, while connected to the main story of the three trilogies aren't actually a part of that story, which is the Skywalker story.
Its like how Marvel has the New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Secret Avengers and so on, all the teams were connected to the main team, but not a part of the story.
But at the end of the day, the main focus of the three trilogies is on the Skywalker family.
The "A Star Wars Film" films are more like Hero Of Another Story (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeroOfAnotherStory).
You can see where I'm going with this, right?That each of those movies (besides the first one) saw that other films were named Solo and still named their film that? :parrot:
But at the end of the day, the main focus of the three trilogies is on the Skywalker family.
We are to presume that Palpatine caused Anakin to be born via Force manipulation
We are to presume that Palpatine caused Anakin to be born via Force manipulationWait, what?
There's a scene from Revenge of the Sith, the opera scene, when Palpatine is talking about a Sith who could control life and death and who was murdered by his apprentice, Sidious. There's a long standing fan theory that Sidious continued his master's work and manipulated the midiclorians to create Anakin as part of his long term scheme to become Emperor.
As the novel comes to a close during the events of The Phantom Menace, Sidious and Plagueis learn that a young boy named Anakin Skywalker, a former slave found by Qui-Gon Jinn on Tatooine, had been born of the Force. They discern that this is most likely due to Plagueis's experiment of creating life through the Force, which he had commenced about a decade earlier.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Plagueis_(novel)
Looks like it is just fan cannon.
Also Kylo Ren/Ben Solo is a freaking Skywalker in all but nameWell yeah, that's why I mentioned him with Luke and Leia.
Re: Anakin, I thought Plagueis created him. Palpatine super strongly implied it, and even if it's not "canon" (however that's defined), it's a reasonable interpretation, which is almost as good.
Ignoring the reactions of apprehensive residents and wary security personnel, Plagueis hastened along a plush corridor in 500 Republica toward Palpatine’s suite of crimson rooms. He had planned to be at the Senate Building to hear Amidala’s call for a vote of no-confidence in Valorum, which would strike the first death knell for the Republic. At the last moment, however, Palpatine had contacted him to recount a conversation he had had with Dooku. The fact that Qui-Gon Jinn had identified Maul as a Sith was to be expected; but Dooku’s news about a human boy at the center of a vergence of the Force had come as a shock. More, Qui-Gon saw the boy as the Jedi’s prophesied Chosen One!
He had to see this Anakin Skywalker for himself; had to sense him for himself. He had to know if the Force had struck back again, nine years earlier, by conceiving a human being to restore balance to the galaxy.
"Plagueis" by J. Luceno - 32 BBY
The question of whether he and Sidious had discovered something new or rediscovered something ancient was beside the point. All that mattered was that, almost a decade earlier, they had succeeded in willing the Force to shift and tip irrevocably to the dark side. Not a mere paradigm shift, but a tangible alteration that could be felt by anyone strong in the Force, and whether or not trained in the Sith or Jedi arts.
The shift had been the outcome of months of intense meditation, during which Plagueis and Sidious had sought to challenge the Force for sovereignty and suffuse the galaxy with the power of the dark side. Brazen and shameless, and at their own mortal peril, they had waged etheric war, anticipating that their own midi-chlorians, the Force’s proxy army, might marshal to boil their blood or stop the beating of their hearts. Risen out of themselves, discorporate and as a single entity, they had brought the power of their will to bear, asserting their sovereignty over the Force. No counterforce had risen against them. In what amounted to a state of rapture they knew that the Force had yielded, as if some deity had been tipped from its throne. On the fulcrum they had fashioned, the light side had dipped and the dark side had ascended.
On the same day they had allowed Venamis to die. Then, by manipulating the Bith’s midi-chlorians, which should have been inert and unresponsive, Plagueis had resurrected him.
[...] But having gained the power to keep another alive hadn’t been enough for him. [...] Drunk on newfound power, then, he had attempted an even more unthinkable act: to bring into being a creation of his own. [...] But ultimately to no end. The Force grew silent, as if in flight from him, and many of the animals in his laboratory succumbed to horrifying diseases.
[...]
Gazing into Sojourn’s darkening sky, he wondered what calamity the Force was planning in retreat to visit upon him or Sidious or both of them for willfully tipping the balance.
"Plagueis" by J. Luceno - 33 BBY
... "canon" (however that's defined)
The character was created by George Lucas as early as the first draft of Revenge of the Sith—dated April 2003—and possibly earlier than that. His story was massively expanded upon in the 2012 novel Darth Plagueis, written by James Luceno. However, that story is part of the Star Wars Legends continuity, formerly known as the "Expanded Universe," and therefore is no longer official canon as of the 2014 reboot.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Plagueis
Palpatine talks to Anakin about Plagueis' alleged ability to create life using the Force.I interpreted that (with a combination of Anakin having no biological father) as confirmation that Plagueis used that ability to create Anakin, but that Palpatine wasn't entirely sure that he did. I could be wrong, but I guess we'll never really know for sure.
I really should watch those shows. I just hated the Clone Wars pilot movie so much.Ugh, I couldn't get through it (clone war movie).
Saw Solo today. I quite liked it. Was a fun romp in the star wars galaxy without having to be galaxy shattering.(click to show/hide)(click to show/hide)