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24Temple Cloud
I like the way that you're looking, very deeply and believably, into the lingering problems Mara faces. I also like the way that Luke's efforts to rebuild the Jedi Order are going in a very different direction from the traditional one. I think he's probably reasoning that expecting all Jedi to be celibate, emotionless, detached from all personal ties, and able to overcome any problems they might have without needing counselling was part of what had driven Anakin to the Dark Side, and he's determined not to let that happen again.
Then again, I wonder who decided that Jedi weren't allowed to marry, and when? In the original trilogy, although Luke doesn't know that Darth Vader is his father, he knows that his father was a Jedi, and doesn't seem to think there is anything odd about this - so I wonder whether it was later retconning that decided that Anakin's marriage was secret and illicit. I'm not enough of a Star Wars fan to know much about this, I'm afraid.
Whether or not Luke in this story ends up married to Mara or Lando or both, I want them to have the option. Even though I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, and know Mara mainly through fanfiction, I don't like the idea that the Disney corporation can just decide that Luke never married and therefore that all books suggesting that he did are retrospectively non-canonical. It's as though a film company bought the Vorkosigan books, decided to film only as far as Miles and Elli agreeing to go their separate ways, and therefore ruled that Miles's marriage to Ekaterin never happened - or even that Ekaterin now officially didn't exist.
24Temple CloudI like the way that you're looking, very deeply and believably, into the lingering problems Mara faces. I also like the way that Luke's efforts to rebuild the Jedi Order are going in a very different direction from the traditional one. I think he's probably reasoning that expecting all Jedi to be celibate, emotionless, detached from all personal ties, and able to overcome any problems they might have without needing counselling was part of what had driven Anakin to the Dark Side, and he's determined not to let that happen again.
Then again, I wonder who decided that Jedi weren't allowed to marry, and when? In the original trilogy, although Luke doesn't know that Darth Vader is his father, he knows that his father was a Jedi, and doesn't seem to think there is anything odd about this - so I wonder whether it was later retconning that decided that Anakin's marriage was secret and illicit. I'm not enough of a Star Wars fan to know much about this, I'm afraid.
Whether or not Luke in this story ends up married to Mara or Lando or both, I want them to have the option. Even though I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, and know Mara mainly through fanfiction, I don't like the idea that the Disney corporation can just decide that Luke never married and therefore that all books suggesting that he did are retrospectively non-canonical. It's as though a film company bought the Vorkosigan books, decided to film only as far as Miles and Elli agreeing to go their separate ways, and therefore ruled that Miles's marriage to Ekaterin never happened - or even that Ekaterin now officially didn't exist.
