Serafina wrote:Darksider wrote:The starbird saw a number of uses throughout galactic history. It was used as the republic insignia during the Great Galactic war, and according to TCW animated series, the Jedi order used it during the Clone Wars as well. It seems as if the Starbird/Phoenix, is a common symbol throughout the galaxy, which probably made it easier for the alliance to adopt a variant of it as their emblem.
Quite. It's like "hey, let's honor this guy by making this cool-looking eagle-symbol (or other cultural symbol) our official symbol".
While I'm glad other elements of the EU and TV show can mitigate the damage somewhat, the way TFU presented it was as solely to honor the guy because of how he helped found the Alliance (another element of the story I despise with a passion). That's what irks me, no matter how much it gets "fixed" elsewhere, I still hate the story for doing that in the first place.
Serafina wrote:To me, they pretty much only got the idea for the symbol from Starkiller. If it had been a bad symbol, they would not have used it, and the New Republic probably kept it without anyone really remembering why the Rebel Alliance had adopted it in the first place.
Well, Mon Mothma and Leia were there, at least (Bail Organa as well, though he's dead by the time of the NR; Bel Iblis might have been present as well, don't remember). And it was Leia's idea in the first place. Which is more ugh for me.
Now, granted, the NR government as a whole probably wouldn't know, granted. But it was still a dumb retcon that didn't need to be made just to make Starkiller even more "OMG IMPORTANT" than he already was by that point.
Seriously, there is very little of the EU I actively despise.
Order 66 and
The Force Unleashed just managed to push things way too damn far, though.
And yes, I know, I just put TFU on the same level of fail as Karen Traviss. I make no apologies for doing so.