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One Canon To The Tune Of Another
Aug. 10th, 2010 01:14 pmI've just been reading some of the articles on The Secret History of Star Wars, which is a collection of articles (and a 100-word preview of a book) about the development of the trilogy we know and love (and that other trilogy we know). What really interested me is all the glimpses of the Star Wars we missed - the one where Darth Vader really did betray and murder Luke's father, or where Leia was Luke's love interest not his sister, or where there was a whole episode about Wookiees set on Kashyyyk.
And, of course, there's the alternative world where David Lynch directed Return of the Jedi. I can't help but speculate about how that might have gone. How viscerally nasty would Jabba's court have become? How cryptic would Yoda's dialogue have got?
And this leads me to a fun game to play in your lunch hour.
Pick a continuity, any one you like. Speculate wildly about how it might have gone differently if written by another author.
Let's consider the counterfactual worlds in which Warren Ellis wrote WH40K fiction*, and Joss Whedon was in charge of The X-Files.
Listen, there's a hell of a good universe next door.
*I suspect in this universe Nottingham mysteriously burned down**, among other things.
** Note to self: Warren Ellis probably cannot actually set things on fire with his mind. Probably.
And, of course, there's the alternative world where David Lynch directed Return of the Jedi. I can't help but speculate about how that might have gone. How viscerally nasty would Jabba's court have become? How cryptic would Yoda's dialogue have got?
And this leads me to a fun game to play in your lunch hour.
Pick a continuity, any one you like. Speculate wildly about how it might have gone differently if written by another author.
Let's consider the counterfactual worlds in which Warren Ellis wrote WH40K fiction*, and Joss Whedon was in charge of The X-Files.
Listen, there's a hell of a good universe next door.
*I suspect in this universe Nottingham mysteriously burned down**, among other things.
** Note to self: Warren Ellis probably cannot actually set things on fire with his mind. Probably.
