Bring Back Mara Jade Skywalker! Sign the Petition!! July 3, 2007
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Mara Jade Skywalker didn’t have to die at the hands of Darth Caedus.
It was a wasted empty death…
Lucas Licensing apparently allowed this disaster to happen and now we should call on them to reverse it. The Sith have the power to bring back the dead and so too then does the Force.
Whether it is Ben or Luke Skywalker or even someone else I don’t care. I just want Mara Jade back.
To that end we here at ShowMeSciFi have started a petition to Bring Back Mara Jade.
Please sign in and together we can be THE FORCE that will bring Mara back.
Show Me SciFi 
You know why they were right to kill off Mara? This is it. Look at the ending it left us with. You were so emotionally distraught about a fictional character you made an online petition. Score one for the Lucas team!
And if they do cave and somehow bring Mara back (and I don’t mean have her stick around as a force ghost for a few years), I’m out of here. SWEU is a rough group of books to read anyway. I don’t need to be rereading The Last Command and be distracted by how cheesy it was to make Mara alive again. I can certainly satisfy myself with the TV series and a Traviss book here and there. Heck, True Colors is coming out soon; the RC series will keep me good for a couple years. No need to stress about Jacen or what have you.
How could it possibly be a “wasted, empty death”? LOOK AT YOU! The point of a novel is to make the reader feel, whether it’s a comedy, a romance, or a Star Wars book. That’s the whole point of writing, not that “to explain a point or inform the reader” crap they teach you in school. The end of Sacrifice was clearly intended to worry the hell out of you. Mara’s dead, Jacen killed her, then became a Sith Lord, Luke’s gone a little nutso (again), Ben’s…doing whatever it is a kid GAG officer does, and Vader’s rolling in his metaphorical grave. Yeah, “The entire Skywalker-Solo family structure will be destroyed by Mara’s death!” THAT’S THE POINT! Clearly you people don’t understand the concept or value of character conflict! No one — yourselves included — is going to buy a book where everything goes according to plan and everyone is nice and happy. That’s why Palpatine was such a villian, that’s why Vader was Luke’s father, that’s why Thrawn was killed, and that’s why there were assassins at Luke and Mara’s wedding. Admit it. I don’t care what sort of boycott you claim now, but as soon as the next book is out, you’re gonna be there reading it, desperate to know what happens. Personally, it’s the best Star Wars book I’ve ever read, and I’ve read just about all of them. Better than the ROTS novelization, better than NJO: Traitor, better than Star By Star, better than all of them. Why? Because I can’t stop thinking about it. Because I find myself washing the dishes and worrying that Luke’s going to fall to the Dark Side again. Or I find myself turning off the TV because I’m not paying attention to it while I’m raging at Jacen. That’s good writing. That’s GREAT writing.
And by the way. I have to point this out at least once a week, as we seem to have particularly obnoxious fans here at Star Wars. Lucas says X about Star Wars. Or rather, a Lucas-approved book says X. Lucas owns Star Wars. Therefore, X is true. Even if you don’t like X, X is still true. Why? BECAUSE YOU DON’T GET A VOTE. You don’t get to say how many clones fought in the Clone Wars, or how long a Super Star Destroyer is, OR WHETHER OR NOT A CHARACTER DIES. You don’t get a vote. If you’re lucky, Lucas appeases the masses by giving a character a small part in a movie/tv series. But you don’t get to demand that X be made Y. You don’t get a vote. If you don’t like it, learn to write fanfiction or switch to Star Trek.
“The entire Skywalker-Solo family structure will be destroyed by Mara’s death!”
Exactly. That is why Mara died, why I thought it would be Mara that would die, and why I will continue reading the Legacy of the Force series. As I told someone else recently, you can’t have redemption without sin.
One of the things that I loved about mara jade was she was one of the only characters that Luke really fell in love with and who loved him back. I personally have read so many stories that there is always someone has to die and it always the partner of the main character. I mean i am sick of having bad endings in all these really cool stories. So BRING BACK MARA!!!!!!
Do not count my response as a “signature” please. Like it or not a strong character had to go in order for Jacen to get where he is. I thought it was rather smart to do it this way, remember “he will immortalize his love.” As opposed to killing somebody he loves he “killed” any normal loving relations he can ever have again. That is one hell of a burden, and one hell of a sacrifice. To add to that poor Ben will now forever be angry and burning with hatred which Jacen will be able to use to turn him into one of the strongest Jedi the galaxy has ever seen. I’m sure we haven’t seen the last of Mara and I for see many great stories stemming from this event. Maybe a climatic event similar to when Vader told Luke those famous lines, but in this case it would be Jacen spilling it to Ben… should be good, I’m excited.
Nothing ruins a good story like an ending that sucks. Fortunately, in sci fi, unlike real life [which is why sci fi is *soooo* much *better* than real life], bad endings can be undone. Bring back Mara.
Heres a disturbing thought… What if Jacen figures out how to send force ghosts to the Dark side?
Master Mara’s sacrifice was necessary. Perhaps it’s the catalyst that puts a little edge back in Luke’s character that we haven’t seen in a while.
But you can count me in on the petition because she’s a good character but her loss was inevitable.
I think Mara Jade is a main piece in the sw expanded universe and also is the unsolved fact that the dark side of the force itself can bring back someone from the death, so I think it’s a great chance to get that written as a fact in a book. Although it’s a good idea to remark the way Luke thinks about the “gray side” of the force where someone can use dark side powers without being consumed by the dark side, so he can be the one who brings her back to life even if it’s already set that Cade is the first in many decades to do it. I just hope that our opinion may be listened by the whole crew who is creating this books, cause even me, living in México got quite amazed by this bad news about Mara’s death that I feel really responsible for being the voice of an entire nation who loves SW as much as all the world’s other countries united by the same philosophy.
Well, for one thing, I do not believe she is dead. As I read the book, the signs are all there. It will turn out that she has been in a deep healing trance and hiding in the Force until she is needed to swoop in and save the day in the end. There are plenty of hints in the story pointing to a herioc return. It is going to be a great story – I can’t wait to read it!
If they bring her back, it will be the stupidest possible choice. How could you want to undo the line about Luke “Knowing his world had ended” or however it went. That ripped your guts out. Ben protecting the corpse of his mother, so sad, so horrible, it was story telling mastery, and to go back and simply hit the sci-fi BS undo button would be a slap in the face of the intelligence and depth the Star Wars novels have achieved since the new publisher.