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 
anyone who believes mara shouldn’t have died is an idiot plain and simple. she was by far the best choice to die. her death is saposed to tear apart the skywalker family. At the end of Sacrifice Jason even explains the reason. Once Ben learns the truth he will be furious enough to attack Jason in a way as to make him a worthy apprentice. Further, I believe Jason IS the good guy now anyway. They have been saying forever that the Jedi are arrogant and flawed. It is very evident to me that Luke, Mara and the other Jedi are flawed and that Jason is searching for a new true way to achieve peace and whatnot. The Skywalkers need to be torn apart because of their failure. It is necessary. So quite whining, Mara was out of date anyway. Although I agree she was a very interesting character, her death was a very good one, it made Jason a Sith Lord. It fulfilled destiny.
Ok enough with the killing..bring her back…………….Yes I understand some of the logic, but its not right…
why did they have to kill her off?! can`t they let at least one jedi die a natural death other than yoda?! please!!!!! BRING MARA BACK!!!
i thought the whole setup was pretty lame. seriously, how many jedi are out there now? tons. why the heck do writers insist on setting up these “must-be” one on one showdowns? also, the fact that they (ben and mara) know jacen’s a sith but don’t tell anyone is stupid as well. gee, let’s not tell luke, cause he’d be mad and might go kill him…. (even though that’s what mara set out to do). she should have told him, and a few more jedi, and went and chopped his spoiled darthy self to pieces. when she surprise attacked jacen from the side in the cave, why did she just ram him? i’m thinking a lightsaber or blaster shot would have been more practical considering the speed. eh, if they were going to kill her off, i wish it had been a better setup. i realize the details are created to support a plot, but the whole end of the book was doing it’s best to ignore logic to support her impending doom. whatever. i hope the rest of the books are better.
good call Kalira from July 6, 2007!! finally another star wars fan that that seems to still have thrir feet on terra firma
Ok, first off, I signed the petition. I did feel like a part of me was missing after I read Sacrifice, much the same way Luke and Ben felt. Ever since Heir To the Emperor, I have adored the character of Mara Jade. She was the strongest and no BS female character in the Star Wars universe. And she has ZERO screen time (she’s not in the new versions of ROTJ – I’ve looked. But “Arica” is in the ROTJ radio play). To see her so strong and emotional over the years and then see her senseless death that was completely out of character was more than a letdown. The former Emperor’s Hand and Jedi Master would have never fallen that easily.
There is a rash of hero character deaths in some of our favorite stories lately. I’m sure there will be petitions on whomever dies in the last Harry Potter book. Last time I checked, you read books to get away from reality. Do we need anymore proof that heroes die? We can turn on any of the news channels about Iraq to learn that. Books are for escape.
I started loving Star Wars the minute the Tantive V was being chased by the Devestator in 1977. I have been reading the books over the years and was soooo glad they continued the stories after ROTJ. (Bows to Timothy Zahn, who SHOULD have been the author at least to write Mara’s death). The last several Del Rey series with few exceptions did not seem like Star Wars to me. The original had so much chemistry and humor with adventure and that has been lacking for a while in the Star Wars series. The only ones I have loved is Tatooine Ghost and Survivor’s Quest. Instead, we get death and gloom and more war. Sure they make for adventure, and I’m all for moving forward. But, at least make it creative.
At the end of ROTS, I BELIEVED Anakin became a Sith. He didn’t just say “Hey, I killed some kids. I am Darth Vader!”
I still do not buy that Darth Emo is a Sith just because he killed his Aunt Mara and that an ancient tassel gave him something to interpret badly. And then he just says, “I am Darth Caedus.”
Always are two; never more, never less, Yoda says in TPM.
Where’s Caedus’ apprentice? It ain’t gonna be Ben! (btw, I thought of the confrontation between Ben and Darth Emo – BEN: Hello. My name is Ben Skywalker. You killed my mother. Prepare to die.)
I will read the next books. I want to see Jacen get the crap beat out of him.
In the meantime, I did write some fanfics honoring Mara Jade. I put pics of her on my desktop and I bought the new figures of Luke and Mara coming in August.
But, what I’m hoping is they claim that this current series is another Infinities issue and will start over. Or could the Mara that died be a clone? It would explain why she was out of character.
i dont care what they do as long as luke skywalker is around for a long time.
” I did feel like a part of me was missing after I read Sacrifice, much the same way Luke and Ben felt.”
THE POINT! Why is it so many people can’t comprehend the fact that plot points can be painful and good at the same time?! Sirius/Dumbledore/Cedric/who-gives-an-osik dies in Harry Potter and everyone goes “NO IT DIDNT HAPPEN THEY’LL COME BACK NEXT BOOK SHUT UP GO AWAY MEANIE.” I had really, really, really hoped that wouldn’t happen to us. I had hoped we were more mature than a bunch of Harry Potter fans that mope about Hermione and Ron not being together yet. I’d sell my left arm for us to be more mature than that. But unfortunately, you folks prove me wrong again!
Things can make you cry and still be good literature. Things can make you stay up at night thinking of what-ifs and still be marvelous plotlines. If the crying and the what-ifs get to you too much, that’s what fanfiction is for. But being upset about a book shows the book made you care, which is the best thing a book can do. I said it before, and I say it again. The fact that you guys are so up in arms proves that what you’re complaining about was GOOD. Would you be this enraged if Kevin J Anderson said that the Death Star was silver instead of grey? No, because no one gives a crap what adjective he uses to describe a particular space station. But saying that Mara is dead, now THERE’S something people care about. And because people care….one point to Sacrifice, no points to stupidity.
“good call Kalira from July 6, 2007!! finally another star wars fan that that seems to still have thrir feet on terra firma”
Thank you, it comes from lots and lots of practice, which you get in abundance dealing with clonetrooper fans. oo; “Maybe CT-5108/8843 isn’t really dead! Maybe that was a clone of a clone!”** And let’s not forget “If Sev couldn’t contact Delta, that means his helmet asploded, which means that his head asploded! Oh no!”
“Hello. My name is Ben Skywalker. You killed my mother. Prepare to die.”
That…was easily the best line I’ve ever read, ever. Evereverever.
**not a direct quote, CT-5108/8843 is Corr, who is just fine(albeit still handless) as of the end of Triple Zero. But the basic idea’s been said, trust me.
Although now that I rethink that, there are probably a few people that WOULD be enraged if KJA called the Death Star silver instead of grey.
Forgive the multiple posts, but this had to be said.
“At the end of Sacrifice Jason even explains the reason. Once Ben learns the truth he will be furious enough to attack Jason in a way as to make him a worthy apprentice. Further, I believe Jason IS the good guy now anyway.”
Who’s Jason?