Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoTIL the first Star Wars movie (A New Hope) was actually made after a book adaptation, which means Star Wars hype is technically literary-based in naturestarwars.fandom.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up189
arrow-up189external-linkTIL the first Star Wars movie (A New Hope) was actually made after a book adaptation, which means Star Wars hype is technically literary-based in naturestarwars.fandom.comCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoI thought Sheev was named for the prequels. I could’ve sworn they even made light of his name in the Robot Chicken specials.
minus-squareMaultasche@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoThe name was created for a book that came out in late 2014 after the reset. In the original EU no one knew his first name.
minus-squarePlasticExistence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoI could be mistaken because I haven’t read the book in a couple years now, but I believe the Darth Plagueis novel from 2012 gave us Palpatine’s first name.
minus-squareMaultasche@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIt first appeared in Tarkin by the same author. The Darth Plague is novel just mentions why he doesn’t use his first name but but what it is.
minus-squarePlasticExistence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 months agoTarkin was 2014, Plagueis was 2012 according to Wookiepedia
minus-squareMaultasche@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoPlagueis is pre-continuity reboot and has no first name, Tarkin is post-reboot and has the name.
I thought Sheev was named for the prequels. I could’ve sworn they even made light of his name in the Robot Chicken specials.
The name was created for a book that came out in late 2014 after the reset. In the original EU no one knew his first name.
I could be mistaken because I haven’t read the book in a couple years now, but I believe the Darth Plagueis novel from 2012 gave us Palpatine’s first name.
It first appeared in Tarkin by the same author. The Darth Plague is novel just mentions why he doesn’t use his first name but but what it is.
Tarkin was 2014, Plagueis was 2012 according to Wookiepedia
Plagueis is pre-continuity reboot and has no first name, Tarkin is post-reboot and has the name.