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Alan Dean Foster, Author, Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind s Eye | The Writer Experience #141
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Doctor Who; Spock from
Star Trek; the Crystal Gems in
Steven Universe; Valkyrie, Gamora, and Nebula from the Marvel Cinematic Universe … our most beloved characters often come from other worlds, even if they’re recognizably played by human actors.
Alien characters don’t just entertain us with their strange and unfamiliar ways they also reflect our humanity back to us. Science fiction is all about exploring what it means to be human, and we can do that more easily by comparing ourselves against the alien characters we love or hate. This works a couple of different ways for writers:
You can create alien characters who act human in many ways, except for a few major differences and those differences can provide a contrast that reveals something about that human-seeming behavior.
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The closest analogue is what Marvel, another Disney property, has done with its own Cinematic Universe. When
Iron Man first debuted, the idea of a greater continuity was kept to a minimum, as plans for future movies were still uncertain. But as the universe grew, more attention was paid to how things would tie together, leading up to the first
Avengers movie. A lot of fixes were made along the way like making Loki’s staff one of the Infinity Stones but it largely holds together, mostly because it’s not so tightly interwoven. You don’t have to have seen
Ever since rebranding the
Star Wars Expanded Universe as the non-canonical Legends, the Mouse House has been borrowing ideas from some of its more sophisticated stories. Namely, the return of Admiral Thrawn from
Heir to the Empire was one such step towards resurrecting the past. But now, it looks as though additional elements might pop up in the future.
The biggest movie towards acknowledging all of that lost history was perhaps the last film in the Skywalker Saga, which gave us a glimpse of some legendary Sith Lords of yore like Darth Revan. Apparently, though, Lucasfilm is taking things one step further. Indeed, the latest issue in the ongoing
Screenshot: Lucasfilm
When I was nine, on a weekly trip to the local Toys R Us, I glimpsed my hero in miniature: Leia Organa, in her Boushh disguise, hanging on the racks alongside the other Star Wars action figures. I hemmed and hawed over whether to ask my parents to buy her before deciding that it didn’t make sense because I already had Leia that is, the classic Princess Leia action figure, complete with real fabric for her signature white dress. But by the time we were back at Toys R Us the next week, and I had decided I would add this figure to my collection, Boushh had disappeared. Someone else had taken them home. I was bereft; in the early-Internet era of 1998, I couldn’t easily order it online even eBay was relatively new back then. It would be a decade or more before I would come across another Boushh figure; at the time, I was more and more convinced that I had dreamt that such a toy even existed.
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