If this is true it will be the worst misstep ever, it will ruin the only good time about Star Wars which is that time travel does not exist period period period.
:mad: If this has any truth my god, Lucas is fucking with us! He is fucking with us all! He is doing things just to make people hate him!
New info too the show is to be titled Star Wars Underworld and focus on the criminal scum we all know and love, funny thing is the focus on the criminal underworld is one of the things I like about the CGI Clone Wars show. But time travel, NO!
I hope it has time travel. I hope it has prisons where people are frozen as punishment. I hope it has every single moronic trope possible, so that the fanboys have to tapdance at .5 past lightspeed to pretend that Lucas is anything but a hack.
But, yeah, time travel would be a really dumb idea for SW.
Its so obscure I’ve never heard of it, and the SW EU is so vast there is probably a novel that graphically recounts a sexual relationship between Yoda and Jabba:D
But seriously it appears Lucas is deeply involved in this live action show project, he has been talking about it for years. This is not some EU nonsense, this is Lucas himself creating a show where time travel is going to be used to try to stop Anakin becoming Vader.:smack:
*If its true.
It’s astonishing how much outer-space science fiction involves time travel. I suppose it might be because the writers have a vague concept of relativistic time dialation, along with the FTL=time travel equivalence of Relativity. But I agree that it’s way, way overused, mainly because if the past can be changed then you’re talking about the power to alter reality- something that completely overshadows plots based on merely traveling to other solar systems.
The only convention that I can think of that’s similarly overused is ESP, especially British SF. For some reason British SF writers love, LOVE, LOVE ESP.
If there is FTL travel, then relativity must be extended. However, that is not hard to do by saying relativity works great as is in our universe, but when you pop into hyperspace you need to do other things to calculate world lines.
I think time travel is used so much because TV and movie writers think no rules apply to that sf stuff. SF writers using time travel usually at least grasp the implications. I’ll buy it for a greater purpose, as it was used by Ellison in TOS, who also got the implications. As a regular plot device, no.
