Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed

[Gorehound]

Is anybody here seeing/saw this Star Wars special on the History channel?

It has to be one of the funniest and lamest historical comparison and analytical show I've seen so far.

They grab a bunch of PhD and Master professors to analyze the Star Wars movies!

They talk about

-The scene where the Millenium Falcon is escaping from the giant worm symbolizes the journey of men going to the deepest chasm to find themselves!

-The abominable snow creature and Luke Skywalker symbolizes Hercules and also Jonah getting swallowed by the whale!

-Emperor Palpatine symbolizes THE DEVIL HIMSELF!!!

-Darth Vader's cape symbolizes the AWESOMENESS of the Bad Guy!!

I'm not making this up!

[Mr. Bastos]

I remember being told in HS by my english teacher, when talking about the hero's journey, that Lucas said he was influenced by Joseph Campbell's books. so this doesn't surprise me.

oh and if you don't know who Joseph Campbell is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell

EDIT: If you look near middle of the wiki page it actually says that Lucas credited him as an influence in those movies.

[RockBogart]

I remember being told in HS by my english teacher, when talking about the hero's journey, that Lucas said he was influenced by Joseph Campbell's books. so this doesn't surprise me

oh and if you don't know who Joseph Campbell is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell

EDIT: If you look near middle of the wiki page it actually says that Lucas credited him as an influence in those movies.

Lucas pulls from a whole lot of shit.

[Gorehound]

Now they are comparing Palpatine to Hitler!!

[RockBogart]

Now they are comparing Palpatine to Hitler!!

If you look at how much Papaltine wooed the masses with his speeches and shit, its pretty accurate.

[Black Chanler]

none of it cept the millennium falcon bit was surprising when i saw it

well the part about no women in the empire was an interesting bit

edit: this aired during the 30th anniversary about a month back

[MrQuotes]

yea i saw it, pretty cool actually only problem was they kinda stretched the relations between the movies and other mythology a bit much. some of the connections just didnt make sense

[Gorehound]

yea i saw it, pretty cool actually only problem was they kinda stretched the relations between the movies and other mythology a bit much. some of the connections just didnt make sense

Thats why I thought it was funny because they were overdoing it in the whole historical comparison!