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The Big Picture While it seems impossible to imagine now, there was a time when Star Wars wasn’t one of the biggest franchises in entertainment. The ballooning budget, complex special effects, and fears that it was nothing more than a silly kid's film caused 20th Century Fox to worry that the original film, directed by a New Hollywood maverick named George Lucas, would flop.
The novel became Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, but by the time it hit shelves in March 1978, any plans for an adaptation had long been abandoned, leading it to become just a fun distraction to tide fans over between films. The book became the first in a long line of Star Wars novels that formed the now discarded Expanded Universe, and its origins as the potential second film is now nothing more than a piece of amusing trivia.
Along the way, they encounter various predicaments, such as bumping into a particularly aggressive Wandrella and a brief detour into the planet’s cave system where they must improvise their way across an underground lake. Eventually, they arrive at the Temple of Pomojema, but their victory is cut short by the arrival of Darth Vader and a group of stormtroopers. A battle erupts, culminating in Luke slicing off Vader’s arm.
'Splinter of the Mind's Eye' Is More of a Detour Than a Sequel Close This necessity to remove core elements of the original film to keep costs down for a potential adaptation affected more than just the main characters, but the narrative as a whole. If Star Wars was a galaxy-spanning epic that set the stage for a decades-long franchise, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye feels like nothing more than a detour that exists solely to fill time between films.
Not that such stories are inherently bad, of course. Shows like The X-Files and Star Trek have proven that monster-of-the-week episodes can work perfectly fine in the right context, giving writers an excuse to play around with the possibilities of the universe without the requirement of tying everything back to the same ongoing narrative.
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