Zahn always claimed that higher-ups forced him to write the Luke/Mara romance into the story because she was by far the most popular female character they had and the readers were clamoring for it, but that it was not in his original intentions.

Zahn always claimed that higher-ups forced him to write the Luke/Mara romance into the story because she was by far the most popular female character they had and the readers were clamoring for it, but that it was not in his original intentions.

If you grew up in a fundie part of the country (like myself, and Mr. Van Der Werff) you know formerly-super-Christian girls like Katy Perry are basically stamped out of a mold. The more insanely anti-sex and anti-worldly-pursuits and hyper-religious their parents are, the more likely they are to end up marrying…

If you grew up in a fundie part of the country (like myself, and Mr. Van Der Werff) you know formerly-super-Christian girls like Katy Perry are basically stamped out of a mold. The more insanely anti-sex and anti-worldly-pursuits and hyper-religious their parents are, the more likely they are to end up marrying…

That's actually kinda tame if you look at how many wars we generally have, worldwide, in real life within a similar period of time.

That's actually kinda tame if you look at how many wars we generally have, worldwide, in real life within a similar period of time.

Individual McDonald's locations are "restaurants". It is only a "franchise" if it's owned by an individual through a shared-ownership agreement with the McDonald's corporation, as opposed to owned outright by the corporation and managed entirely by McDonald's employees.

Individual McDonald's locations are "restaurants". It is only a "franchise" if it's owned by an individual through a shared-ownership agreement with the McDonald's corporation, as opposed to owned outright by the corporation and managed entirely by McDonald's employees.

The Church has always had a problem with sex, sure, and abstinence was always a sign of devotion among monastic orders and such, but the Western Church never actually enacted universal priestly celibacy until like 1200 AD — over a thousand years into the Church's history — and the primary reason that forced their hand…

The Church has always had a problem with sex, sure, and abstinence was always a sign of devotion among monastic orders and such, but the Western Church never actually enacted universal priestly celibacy until like 1200 AD — over a thousand years into the Church's history — and the primary reason that forced their hand…

My own take on this as a kinda-sort-of EU "fan" is this:

My own take on this as a kinda-sort-of EU "fan" is this:

The way he describes how even just talking to George Lucas for a half-hour gave him this excruciating pulse-pounding nauseating headache makes me think if he'd directed RotJ he would've been dead drunk through the whole production.

The way he describes how even just talking to George Lucas for a half-hour gave him this excruciating pulse-pounding nauseating headache makes me think if he'd directed RotJ he would've been dead drunk through the whole production.

There was that shapeshifting female bounty hunter who got killed after the first scene she was in in AotC. That kind of counts, in a crappy way.

There was that shapeshifting female bounty hunter who got killed after the first scene she was in in AotC. That kind of counts, in a crappy way.

I really honestly mean this in the nicest way — or, well, meant to not be a dick when I started writing this comment and then realized there was no way not to, but —

I really honestly mean this in the nicest way — or, well, meant to not be a dick when I started writing this comment and then realized there was no way not to, but —

I don't think she's a particularly interesting character from an objective standpoint but she is a slim attractive redhead with a dark past and murky loyalties and that makes her *by far* the most bankable character from the EU.

I don't think she's a particularly interesting character from an objective standpoint but she is a slim attractive redhead with a dark past and murky loyalties and that makes her *by far* the most bankable character from the EU.