From a Certain Point of View: The Original Trilogy

Hello there!

So I recently wrote about how much I enjoyed the book From a Certain Point of View, a novel celebrating the 40^th anniversary of the release of A New Hope, containing 40 short stories showing the events of the movie from the point of view of other characters. I really enjoyed the book and hope that we get these for the other movies as we reach their anniversaries, but who could feature in those stories?

I thought that it would be fun to look back through the other Original Trilogy movies and select some of the characters that I think could be featured (or would like to be featured) if similar books are done for those movies.

The Empire Strikes Back

• The Wampa
• The Probe Droid – this could be done in a similar way to “Of MSE-6 and Men”, showing how everything is being processed by the droid
• Captain Micha Evon – we know from Battlefront: Twilight Company that Howl was involved in commanding the ground defence during the Battle of Yavin but suffered a wound that he later died from
• General Veers
• Derek Klivian – Hobbie was one of the pilots who fought in the Battle of Hoth. Shown in the movie (“Two fighters against a Star Destroyer?”), Hobbie was Luke’s wingman during the battle. A scene involving Hobbie crashing his speeder into General Veers’ AT-AT was cut from the film but is still considered canon
• Wedge Antilles
• Dak Ralter
• Zev Senesca
• Wes Janson
• Lobot
• Boba Fett
• Bossk
• IG-88
• Willrow Hood – I’m sure we all want to know why that ice cream maker was so important
• Admiral Piett
• Captain Needa
• Admiral Ozzel
• Palpatine – to find out what Palpatine was thinking when Vader suggested turning Luke to the dark side could be interesting
• General Rieekan
• Unidentified Rebel – “Imperial troops have entered the base! Imperial troops have ent—”

Return of the Jedi

• Hera Syndulla – the finale of Rebels confirmed she was at the Battle of Endor
• Captain Rex – the suggestion that Rex is the old, bearded Rebel in Han’s team of Pathfinders has been around for a while and was certainly hinted towards with his outfit in the final season of Rebels
• Malakili
• Moff Jerjerrod
• Nien Nunb
• Arvel Crynyd – Green Leader in the Battle of Endor, he is the A-wing pilot who crashes into the bridge of the Executor
• Admiral Piett
• One of Palpatine’s Royal Guard
• Chirpa
• Logray
• Paploo
• Teebo
• The Ewok who uses a glider during the Battle of Endor
• The Ewok who we see mourning when its friend is killed in the Battle of Endor – one of the saddest scenes in the movie, this could be the most emotional story in the book

  

• Max Rebo
• Oola
• Sy Snootles
• Bib Fortuna
• Salacious B. Crumb
• Admiral Ackbar
• General Madine
• Mon Mothma
• Yoda – this could be in a similar vein to that of “Time of Death”, showing Yoda’s first moments after becoming one with the Force
• Anakin Skywalker – a story immediately following his death could explain how he can come back as a Force ghost and why his ghost appears young when Yoda and Obi-Wan still appear old

Who would you like to see? Thanks for reading and May the Force be with you…