Try this on for size: WRITE FRESH STORIES!

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Let's see some of the Zahn book action, or some of that thousand-year reign of the Jedi. Enough with the f'ing Clone Wars.

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10) Choose one media tie-in and only one. I like added content just like anyone else, but I'm not interested in screen time being wasted on politics when there could be light saber duels. Novels are perfect for this, but when you add comics, cartoons, webisodes, etc. you're bringing in way too much. Also, control the content.

11) Leave some room for mystery. I don't need everything spelled out for me. Boba Fett WAS awesome, partially because we didn't know too much about him - he was a badass that we know had a story, but it's much better to leave that story in darkness, and let us fill in the gaps on our own.

12) Honor the completeness of the source material, and don't throw in your own massive twists just to prove you "own" it now. Moore could get away with what he did in Galactica because the source material was quite incomplete, but you can't throw in shocking twists and turns into Star Wars.

13) Use digital effects tastefully. One of the things that killed Eps 1-3 is that the actors rarely had another actor there, and there was no environment for the characters to relate to. Characters are far more plausible when the actors are on a real set with real people, not talking to tennis balls on a blue sound stage.

14) No cameos.

15) Go to the ends of the Earth to find actors that aren't familiar with the source material, and stick with no-Names for the leads.

16) Darth Vader's voice is important. If you can't get Michael Clarke Duncan or someone with an equally menacing deep voice, just copy-paste James Earl Jones's voice and work around it.

17) As someone else pointed out recently, make the Jedi & Sith fight each OTHER, not each other's SABERS. There's a fine line between battle choreography and dancing.

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I'd argue the opposite - that this is what happens when you refuse to expand on a hopelessly simplistic universe. I mean, sure, Lucas added a few life forms and subplots over the series to explain throw-away lines from the initial movie. China Mieville creates far more complex critters and histories in the course of a single paragraph. This "universe" is one composed of five or six flat and formulaic characters.

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I'd like to see that idea applied to the Harry Potter films as well.

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Mine's solid as a rock.

Maybe it was trying to kill this idea.

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Otherwise, if this means that the prequels never happened in the Alternate Universe and that the Prime Universe destroys itself before the events of Episode IV, I'm all for it. Incidentally, I find it odd that SW never explored parallel universes.

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The feature is "Ten Dispatches From The Near Future" (which, come to think of it, could very well be the title of an io9 post...). Colson Whitehead wrote a piece about how in late 2009 (writing from the near future), the world deteriorated so dramatically that it began to look more and more like the 70s. But, thankfully for humanity, when the universe reaches the exact conditions of April 1977... Star Wars is spontaneously generated. And the world is saved.

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