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 
Leave her be. In fact, here’s a spoiler for everyone: they all die. As seen in the LoF comic books, when Luke talks to his descendant Cade.
Or here’s an alternative: Let every character be alive, so we can have another Empire vs Rebel war, and Luke can live another 200 years and kill the emperor every other decade.
Get over it! We need to move this storyline forward! If I read another SW book that brings back the Empire just to have it crushed, I’m going to burn all my SW books!!!!!
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When I want “Rip your guts out”, heart-breaking realism I watch the news. I watch and read Star Wars to be entertained, not shocked and depressed at how realistic it is. In fact, if I had seen what happens to Anakin in Episode Three before seeing ROTJ, I probably wouldn’t even be a Star Wars fan right now! I don’t want to be heart-broken. I don’t want my guts ripped out. I like the good guys to win and I like the bad guys to lose, simple as that. Real life if FULL of the alternative, don’t mess with the fantasy.
Jim, my kid watches some shows on Cartoon network that are right up your ally. Theres Jake Long, Ben Ten and the little ninja kids with the cowboy and the walking smiley face guy.
Adult oriented entertainment is best when relates to emotions adults understand. In the end, the good guys will win, but having some real gripping content on the way to that end is what makes the story mean something more. In the end the good guys will win, but it will not be without cost.
I can respect that opinion Jeremy – I guess I just don’t really agree with it. I think you can have gripping content and not be heart-breakingly sad. BTW, for what it’s worth, I’m not signing the petition…..I’m just talking about what I prefer that’s all. It is a good story either way – some of the best Star Wars I’ve read.
However, I do still think Mara will be back; the ability to “hide in the Force” is still new and developing, and the descriptions of it which they’ve provided so far leave room for her to return via that route; unless they burn the body in the next book, I’ll be looking for her return in Revelation.
[…] the less, I am signing the petition. I guess that is how we fans […]
I agree. It was wrong for the author to kill off Mara Jade. The sacrifice would have been more fitting if Jacen either went after his mother or his sister.
bring mara jade back
hey i don’t know much about her, but i think you should bring her back also
“When I want “Rip your guts out”, heart-breaking realism I watch the news.”
Clearly you didn’t see the special about the four-year-old cancer patient who got to swim with whales, then. =)
“I watch and read Star Wars to be entertained, not shocked and depressed at how realistic it is.”
If you need everything to be peaches and cream for you to be entertained, you’re gonna live a boring life. Star Wars isn’t a best-selling saga for its cover art.
“In fact, if I had seen what happens to Anakin in Episode Three before seeing ROTJ, I probably wouldn’t even be a Star Wars fan right now!”
That’s really, really sad. Because last I checked, Episode 6 has a ever so slightly touching scene at the end. Perhaps you’ve seen it? It involves a funeral pyre. And let’s not forget the whole “THEY BLEW UP A PLANET” thing. A planet of pacifists dies? Nah, don’t care. Some jedi gets herself offed fighting for TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE DEMOCRATIC WAY like they’re so VERY fond of? OH NO TRAVISS HURT MY TENDER SENSIBILITIES.
“I don’t want to be heart-broken. I don’t want my guts ripped out. I like the good guys to win and I like the bad guys to lose, simple as that.”
I think the Thrawn trilogy is more your cup of tea then. Maybe we should enact a rating system. Your stuff can be rated EW for Emotionally Worthless and the rest of it can be FI for Fiction Immature People Can’t Handle Without Having Someone Hold Their Hand.