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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

My Letter of Complaint to Dave Filoni


Today I heard a terrible thing- Darth Maul will make an appearance on Star Wars: The Clone Wars (which shouldn't happen but then, we all know how much FUN Dave Filoni has with botching up canon). So, I decided to write a letter of complaint to him to show my disappointment.
It is as follows.


To Mr. Dave Filoni,

I've been a huge Star Wars fan for years( of the movies, books, t,v. show, and games) and its pretty much been my life since I was nine. And for the last three years or so, I've enjoyed watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars. I loved many of the episodes, including the Mortis Trilogy, the Citadel trilogy, the brain worm episodes, and the majority of season one. However, I have become extremely disappointed in the direction the t.v show has taken. Since Star Wars is my favorite story in the whole world, it has upset me to see these things take place in this T.V show(which is my favorite t.v show, by the way). At first it was little things that I didn't mind too much but once season 2 rolled around, these things became bigger. The first problem dealt with the Mandalore Arc and the character of Satine whom I feel shouldn't even exist(due to events that happened in "Secrets of the Jedi"). Even though this upset me, I continued to watch the show(I just skipped those three episodes). Another thing dealt with killing off a character who was supposed to die later on(Even Piell).
But, recently, I have been hearing rumors(which appear to be actually true) about Darth Maul making an appearance in Star Wars: the Clone Wars. The problem is this: Darth Maul died in The Phantom Menace. And since the movies override everything, including the t.v show, this doesn't make sense. Also, the fact that Darth Maul is still alive is extremely far-fetched. I mean, no one, not even a Sith, can survive being cut in half, sent tumbling down a deep pit, and crashing into what ever is at the bottom far, far below.
Even if he survived being cut in half the impact would break every bone in his body, killing him. Another thing about this appearance of Darth Maul is the fact that, when Obi-Wan beat Darth Maul, he was the first Jedi to defeat a Sith in over a thousand years; something I have always thought was so amazing. It was his moment of glory that didn't include anyone else but him. Not Anakin, not Qui-Gon, just Obi-Wan, who I feel deserves something. He is an extremely powerful Jedi and deserves to be remembered as somebody apart from his Apprentice and his Master. Really, without Obi-Wan, nothing would have worked out as they did. I really, really hope this is just a rumor, but it doesn't look like it(from pictures and quotes that have went viral on line). So, if Darth Maul comes back I will just have to STOP watching the show and boycott everything related to it. I'm sorry, I wish I didn't have to but since you aren't going to stay true to the story I have no choice but to do this.
Oh, and if Darth Maul DOES come back, Obi-Wan should beat him- with no help what-so-ever.

From,
Maegen Schmidt

6 comments:

  1. i don't completly understand why he's coming back. i mean the guy was cut in half. what the heck. maybe he'll come back as a cybrog like grevious. but it still doesn't make any sense how he survived. if does come back let obi-wan deal w/him once again. epic battle scene. :)

    p.s. i'm aalya by the way.

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  2. Hi Aayla! I completely agree with you! I certainly hope they have Obi-Wan beat Darth Maul.

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  3. did u actually send this to him? :)

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  4. I haven't yet, but I'm going to. But first I'm going to edit it a bit.

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  5. "There's this notion that everything changed when everything became Legends. And I can see why people think that. But, you know, having worked with George I can tell you that it was always very clear -- and he made it very clear -- that the films and the TV shows were the only things that he considered Canon. That was it."
    Dave Filoni interview on 'The Star Wars show' [41.40 mark]- https://youtu.be/hcNXPNXOv2A?t=2500
    ..

    "I get asked all the time, 'What happens after "Return of the Jedi"?,' and there really is no answer for that," he said. "The movies were the story of Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, and when Luke saves the galaxy and redeems his father, that's where that story ends.""

    - George Lucas, Flannelled One, May 2008, "George Lucas: 'Star Wars' won't go beyond Darth Vader", interview with Los Angeles Times

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    "And now there have been novels about the events after Episode VI, which isn't at all what I would have done with it. The Star Wars story is really the tragedy of Darth Vader. That is the story. Once Vader dies, he doesn't come back to life, the Emperor doesn't get cloned and Luke doesn't get married."

    ~ George Lucas, Flannelled One, 2008

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    ”The novels and comic books are other authors' interpretations of my creation. Sometimes, I tell them what they can and cant do, but I just don't have the time to read them. They're not my vision of what Star Wars is."

    ~ George Lucas 2004

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    "I like to refer to the Interview with Lucas in the Special Editions.When asked about the novels and what not, he simply says:

    ”Those are another author's interpretation of what I've created, and not to be taken seriously, as far as what is really going on in the Star Wars world.”

    ~ George Lucas



    ..



    "Q: What do you think of the Expanded Universe of books?

    A: "The books are in a different universe. I've not read any of them, and I told them when they started writing I wouldn't read any of them and I blocked out certain periods."


    ~ George Lucas 2003

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  6. "I think people over emphasize the importance of the canon level. The intent of the canon levels was, as the main intent was 'if someones looking for the ships from a film, they can than use those fields to check for them only in the films,and thus seperate that from what was in the EU. So we can look at it case by case. I think there is an over emphasis of what those fields mean and what they represent". ~ Leland Chee


    "That 'level of canon' thus helps in terms of bookkeeping. Those 'canon levels' are for the holocron." ~ Pablo Hidalgo


    ForceCast #273: The Galaxy Is Reading - Interview with Leland Chee and Pablo Hidalgo, 2013Starts at about the 1 hour mark so 1:00 - 1:02 mark

    http://www.forcecast.net/story/home/ForceCast_273_The_Galaxy_Is_Reading_154431.asp

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    "What George did with the films and The Clone Wars was pretty much his universe ,” Chee said. “He didn’t really have that much concern for what we were doing in the books and games. So the Expanded Universe was very much separate."


    ~ Leland Chee, 2017 - SYFY WIRE

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    “Lucas’ canon – and when I say ‘his canon’, I’m talking about what he was doing in the films and what he was doing in The Clone Wars – was hugely important. But what we were doing in the books really wasn’t on his radar.”

    ~ Leland Chee, 2018


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    "The dual universe question comes up often. I know George Lucas has mentioned it being two universes, but that’s not how I see it. His vision is definitely not beholden to ours, but ours is definitely beholden to his."


    ~ Leland Chee 2012

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    "I don't read that stuff, I haven't read any of the novels. I don't know

    anything about that world. That's a different world than my world. But I do

    try and keep it consistent. The way I do it is they have a Star Wars

    encyclopedia. So if I come up with a name or something else, I look it and see

    if it has already been used. When I said other people could make thier own

    Star Wars stories, we decided that, like Star Trek, we would have TWO

    universes: My Universe and than this other one. They try to make THIER

    universe as consistent with mine as possible, but obviously they get

    enthusiastic and want to go off in other directions."

    ~ George Lucas, August, 2005
    https://ibb.co/Km1CcNs


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    “There are two worlds here,” explained Lucas. “There’s my world, which is the

    movies, and there’s this other world that has been created, which I say is the

    parallel universe – the licensing world of the books, games and comic books."


    ~ George Lucas, Cinescape, 2002

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