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Basically this is an article from 1980 speculating on the in-universe future of Star Wars.
Got stuff like this in it:
And here's the i09 article about this. Click the link for the whole thing:When Leia resists Luke's romantic advances, out of loyalty to her absent Han, Luke agonizes that he could make her love him by planting the suggestion in her mind, and she would never know. Thus, Luke discovers his own Dark Side.
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* Here the link to the Thundarr The Barbarian article: http://2warpstoneptune.wordpress.com/20 ... barbarian/1980 Star Wars Fan Speculation Is Weirdly Prescient, Also Batshit Insane
Contrary to what you might think, Star Wars rumors didn't begin with the Internet — they've been a crucial part of the series' fandom since the very beginning. Back in those days, though, information traveled slowly, and without daily news items, set leaks, or drone photos (one wonders what Carter Era fans would have made of that phrase), fans were left to theorize about the future of the saga on their own, relying on what scant "official" resources were available at the time. Such speculations would be published in essay form, often in fanzines, but occasionally in glossier, professional publications sold at bookstores and newsstands.
One of the oddest, yet strangely predictive examples of the form appeared in Fantastic Films #20, published in December 1980. Credited to one Bill Hays, the piece speculates not only about Revenge of the Jedi, then more than two years and a title change in the future, but also the prequel and sequel trilogies covering the origins of Darth Vader and the ultimate destinies of Luke, Han, and Leia that Lucas had revealed around the time of Empire Strikes Back's release. To make his case, Hays gathers clues from the two existing movies, as well as earlier drafts of Lucas's scripts, the Del Rey novels, THX-1138, The Bible, Tolkien, the Arthurian mythos, and Asimov's Foundation. It's a dizzying, often bizarre read, with digressions into science, religion, mythology, and history, yet bits of it stand out as strangely accurate in regards to the franchise's future.
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