[OT] More George Lucas bashing.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The nerd already gets superpowers and becomes head of an ancient order of knights.

Han doesn't even get payed, if I remember correctly.

And the princess manages to be a character in her own right at least a few times in each movie. Which is a good thing.

Now, if they really want to have bucked convention, she would have gone off with Chewie...

[Barnacle Bill]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
The nerd already gets superpowers and becomes head of an ancient order of knights.

If you truly understood nerds, you'd realize that the only point of stuff like that is to justify getting the girl. There is absolutely no point in saving the universe if it doesn't get you laid by a beautiful princess (or a reasonable facsimile thereof)...

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Han doesn't even get payed, if I remember correctly.

As a nerd who married a beautiful doctor from a family of doctors, I can assure you that getting the girl - when the girl is a beautiful princess - is much better than getting paid for taxi services.

narf poit chez BOOM said:
And the princess manages to be a character in her own right at least a few times in each movie. Which is a good thing.

...but pretty much beside the point, in the context of the first movie & a hypothetical Star Wars series that remained true to the spirit of the first movie.

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Now, if they really want to have bucked convention, she would have gone off with Chewie...

That would have gone beyond realism (as opposed to romantic fantasy) into absurdity. I supposed you could have introduced Jar Jar a movie earlier & had him get the girl, too