Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:58:38 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] No, no, not *that*... Jar Jar....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
As with most Star Wars news of the past six or seven months, reports
that a standalone Yoda film is in the works has probably left you
feeling somewhere between "tentatively excited" and "slightly anxious".
Giving entire movies to Star Wars characters is a bold gamble, and one
that could end in disaster just as easily as glory.

But at least Yoda is 900 years old, and the nearest thing to a safe bet
that Star Wars has. There are thousands of stories that could be told
about his life, from an origins story where we watch him grow up on his
home planet to an expanded take on the Clone Wars, as blueprinted in the =

Tartakovsky series. Then again, we could see him on the brink of death,
looking back at all the major achievements of his life. Or maybe =96 and =

this is my current favourite option =96 we could have a whole film about =

the time he built a Tardis and travelled several thousand years into the =

future to Earth specifically so that he could be a bit of a weird
passive-aggressive git to Vodafone customers.

But after that, things will get a bit trickier. Although the Star Wars
universe is teeming with characters, almost all of them fleshed out in
novels and comic books and Wiki pages, there aren't that many you'd
necessarily want to watch a film about. Here are some options on where
the series could go, post-Yoda.
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mark

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