# WHY did George Lucas kill Star Wars? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 4, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-george-lucas-kill-star-wars/541862 "2010-06-04T01:00:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-george-lucas-kill-star-wars/541862/61 "2010-06-05T07:22:58Z")
> [@Yumblie](#): > > Anakin’s initial turn to the dark side could’ve been fleshed out just a little bit to make it more plausible from a storytelling perspective. Anakin disarms Mace, Palpatine tosses him out the window. Anakin says “What have I done?” and Palpatine says Anakin did the right thing, Mace had clearly gone off the deep end and had to be stopped. Anakin is a touch horrified but is still willing to follow him for his secret knowledge to save Padme. > > Then Palpatine reveals that he doesn’t actually know how to prevent death and gives the whole “We’ll figure it out together” line. Anakin is furious. He almost kills Palpatine, and is taunted to do it much like Luke was in ROTJ. Anakin thinks better of it and leaves. Of course, the events in that room were on surveillance and everyone in the temple saw what happened, so a bunch of jedi come after Anakin. Anakin is so full of frustration and rage from preceding events that he doesn’t even try to explain himself, he kills any jedi that try to arrest him. After everyone in the temple who tried to capture him is dead, he surveys the scene, and it is then that he realizes he’s burnt all his bridges and that he has no one else to turn to but Palpatine. > > This establishes an initial relationship between Vader and Palpatine that’s more sith-like. Vader pledges his loyalty, but secretly harbors resentment for Palpatine’s lie. Vader will work with Palpatine, but once he gets what he needs from him, he’ll have his revenge, then run away with Padme and everything will be ok. All this can be told explicitly in Anakin’s creepy speech to Padme on the lava planet. Padme’s freaked out, Anakin flips out, and in the end, Anakin loses Padme, and at that point literally has nothing to live for other than servitude under the emperor. He still harbors a resentment and anger toward the emperor for many years, until he sees Luke getting fried and decides to finally take his revenge against Palpatine. Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-george-lucas-kill-star-wars/541862/62 "2010-06-05T21:46:28Z")
> [@CutterJohn](#): > > What would make me happy? Take Zahns Thrawn trilogy, throw scads of money at it, and put spielberg in charge. Lucas can be in charge of the technical stuff.. He’s good at that. You have seen [this](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/), right? ---
**Author:** ![CutterJohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@CutterJohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CutterJohn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-george-lucas-kill-star-wars/541862/63 "2010-06-06T20:50:58Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > You have seen [this](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/), right? Yeah.. well.. at least the aliens won’t be out of place this time.. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-george-lucas-kill-star-wars/541862/64 "2010-06-06T23:35:49Z")
> [@CutterJohn](#): > > What would make me happy? Take Zahns Thrawn trilogy, throw scads of money at it, and put spielberg in charge. Lucas can be in charge of the technical stuff.. He’s good at that. You owe me new underpants. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-george-lucas-kill-star-wars/541862.md?page=3)