Comments on: Star Wars and One of the Biggest Movie Retcons of All-Time https://popculturereferences.com/star-wars-and-one-of-the-biggest-movie-retcons-of-all-time/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Sat, 28 May 2022 07:50:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Brian Cronin https://popculturereferences.com/star-wars-and-one-of-the-biggest-movie-retcons-of-all-time/#comment-3524 Sat, 28 May 2022 07:50:46 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=2193#comment-3524 In reply to Riccardo N.

I think it really was a case of it becoming a major trope in the years since.

]]> By: Riccardo N https://popculturereferences.com/star-wars-and-one-of-the-biggest-movie-retcons-of-all-time/#comment-3489 Wed, 25 May 2022 10:33:02 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=2193#comment-3489 When I first watched the original trilogy with the girl who today is my wife, some months before Episode II was released, she had never watched Star Wars before. Well before the credits of “A New Hope” rolled out, she said “Well, clearly the bad guy IS the boy’s father”.
This could mean that either “Empire Strikes Back” launched a trope that had become trivial in twenty years, or that the idea was just the most straightforward in order to have a good story development, even if Lucas had not thought about it in the first place.

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