What's up guys, and welcome to the weekly Q&A!
We do have a small giveaway at the end of this video, so stick around for that, but our first question this week comes from
Daysen Flores who asks why the Force seems to change from trilogy to trilogy.
I think that the bigger change comes between the Prequels and the Originals, the Sequel interpretation I think lines up pretty well with what
we learn in the Original Trilogy, but i think there are a couple of reasons for this apparent change, and
the out of universe reason would be that the Force is being made up as we go, I don't think Lucasfilm
has sat down and discovered everything there is to discover about the force, i think we are learning about it as
we go, that's just the nature of storytelling.
But in universe I would say that we always learn about the Force second hand.
We are being told about the Force through a person's individual point of views so
when you look at the Jedi order of the Prequels,
everything that we're learning about is pretty much through their lens, and I think that they
had a well-intentioned but skewed view, and then we have the Sith
who are like a completely selfish view on the Force. When we get to Obi-Wan and Yoda in the Original Trilogy
that's more how I like to view the Force and I think that when Luke says in The Last
Jedi that the light does not belong to the Jedi alone I think that is spot-on.
But again, that's just how I
want to view the Force and I don't think that there is
one right way to look at it, but to kind of answer your question a little more
directly I don't think it is the Force itself that is changing, I think it's the way that we
interpret it, I think that's what's evolving if that makes sense.
Matt Russell wants to know if Luke could stop a blaster bolt like Kylo
Ren could or if that was a dark side exclusive power.
Yeah I think Luke
easily could have stopped a blaster bolt. I don't think that that is a power that draws upon the dark side in the same
way that Force choking or Force lightning obviously do, they're aggressive
Force powers, but stopping a blaster bolt is completely defensive, and as Yoda said in The Empire Strikes Back,
a Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
Alden Diaz, asks what I would change in the Prequel trilogy if I could
change anything. The one thing that comes to mind is I would have kept Maul alive through the entire trilogy so
we kind of got to know him as a villain a little more.
I remember being 12 and in the theater and being surprised that they killed him off cause
I kind of expected him to be present through all three movies like Vader was in the Original trilogy.
But more importantly to me now, I think that not killing him
would have saved a lot of trouble and some convoluted answers about his survival in the Clone Wars series.
Michael Sweat wants to know why the new Star Wars Canon books have been mostly standalone stories, while in Legends
we had a lot of ongoing series like the X-wing books or the New
Jedi Order and I do agree with you that Legends had a lot of book series and it's something that I miss, and
right now there have been,some really great Star Wars canon books but yeah, they are very
supplemental, and they're not always their own thing, and I want those books to kind of get back to telling
exclusively book stories, and I think the reason we're not seeing that is because in the 90's the
books, were the backbone of Star Wars content. That's where the ongoing story was being told.
But now we're getting new movies every year so the films are the backbone, and then
we have the TV series and then i would say
books are third, so I think they're just not Lucasfilm's priority right now. I think what they have to do is sit down
find out what stories they want to tell, where like they need to set down a road map and be like "okay,
these are going to be the movies for the next 10 years, this is a series we're gonna
do." And then they can look at what stories are left and say
"Oh, this would be a great book series." So I do think eventually we're going to see a
series of novels come back that will probably tell their
own stories and I think that would be great, but it's kind of up to Lucasfilm to decide what that story will be about,
and how it's going to differ from what's being told in the movies and the TV series.
Johnny Lowden asks what time period i hope the Benioff/Weiss series of movies will take place in. I think that they could handle
Mandalorian stories very well, because i think they're used to that kind of culture. The way
Mandalorian space is broken up, according to Star Wars Rebels,
Is very similar to the families and the politics of
Westeros. So it's something they're familiar with and I think that they could handle
well, but I also think that that could be an argument against them doing it, cause maybe they
don't want to do something so similar immediately after handling Game of Thrones, but that's just
obviously an era that I would like to see explored. I'd love to see the Mandalorian wars. I think that would make a worthy
series of films. I also think it's very marketable because everyone knows what, Boba Fett looks like, and even if it's not
Boba Fett on screen
you'd look at it and be like "oh I recognize that armor that's very clearly
Star Wars." So I could see that as a possibility, and it's something that I would be excited to see as well.
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Return of The Jedi should be coming pretty soon.
On to YouTube questions, Star Commander asks
what happened to Dogma in the Clone Wars. Just to refresh everyone's memories that's the clone that shot Pong Krell after he
betrayed the 501st. And
this got a lot of up votes so i wanted to address it, but unfortunately the answer is we have no idea.
I think that he likely went on trial for executing his general, but
surely the rest of the 501st would have vouched for him so I think yeah he probably
had a trial, and then was released and went back into service, and we just never saw him on screen again.
TheBurgerHut7 wants to know if you could still see Alderaan across the galaxy after it was destroyed, given how the
laws of physics and light work. Yes you could, in fact in one of the Star Wars comics somewhat recently there is a scene where that happens.
Leia And Luke are stranded on a planet, they look up into the night sky and Leia points out Alderaan or at least
where it used to be. It's actually a really great and moving scene.
Resistance Chris asks when we're gonna see more content coming out surrounding the Prequel and Sequel Trilogies.
I totally agree with you that most of the stories coming out right now are in that Galactic Civil War era
and I hope that we branch out of that a little more. We are already exploring the time after The Last
Jedi in the Poe Dameron comic which is great. We know Star Wars Resistance is coming so i think we are seeing a
bigger push for the Sequel Trilogy era. I don't know
why we aren't exploring the Prequels more. I didn't really like the Mace Windu comic that they
did last year, but I thought that the subtitle "Jedi of the Republic"
had a lot of potential. I would like to see them continue that as a series where each
five-issue arc focuses on a different Jedi so we get Kit Fisto and
Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Yaddle and so on. I think that would be a great idea and a great way to explore more about the Prequels.
Samuel Pedersen wants to know if I'm at all worried about Star Wars Resistance and its anime inspired
animation style. Not at all, and here's why. I almost
didn't watch Star Wars Rebels because when I was watching marketing materials for it I just did not like the animation
style at all. Of course I eventually got over that. I really got under the characters in the story,
so, if I can get past the Rebels animation style, if I can
accept that, I can accept anime. And I don't have anything
against anime, it's just I don't really watch it, and I don't have much experience there,
So it's just not something that is worrying me at all.
Joel Baumgarten
asks if I think we'll ever see the battle of Endor as told from Hera's point of view. I do think eventually, yes.
A recent Forces of Destiny episode did explore a little bit of what she
did after the main battle with a couple of Ewoks, and that was fun, but
yeah, I think given enough time, we will eventually get her full side of the story
whether it's told in chunks or maybe at one point we'll get a comic or something. I do think that
we'll be able to at least piece it together eventually.
That's all the time i have for questions today.
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giveaway, it's just something small but I have an extra copy of The Rebel Files, and
this is a fun little book, it's kind of in the same vein as the old Jedi Path book and the Book of Sith
where it's like a journal almost with handwritten notes in it. It's got a lot of fun little easter eggs
about the Rebel Alliance so if you
want to enter that there is a link in the description.
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