@infinata.bsky.social Sorry to bother you but In the Collapse of the Republic FFG sourcebook it says the Spire was guarded by Cortosis battle droids,. Was this something that would've been specified in the Clone Wars scripts the Son of Dathomir comic was based on?

Obviously there's the famous "A Sunny Day in the Void" Clone Wars episode that Lucas even compared to THX's white void prison, but the THX influence is everywhere in Star Wars.

There's also Lucas' interest in depicting societies that have sealed themselves off from nature and become more technological. This appears first with the underground post-apocalypse civilization in THX but continues in Star Wars with Kamino, Mandalore and the Empire in general.

Another connection in THX-1138 is this cut scene from an early draft where THX and SRT discuss the idea of a "force" or fundamental reality underpinning all religion, something that'd be very influential to Star Wars.

Fives meets a bleaker end than THX who's fate at the end of film is left more ambiguous. But both of them are framed by circles in their final shots and are free in different ways.

It's kind of poetic that one of the last Star Wars stories made under George Lucas paid homage to his very first feature film.

If they hated Canto they'd have a heart attack over Xibariz (pleasure palace space station inspired by Venice and the World's fair with a giant disco ball in the sky) that would've appeared in Amy Hennig's Star Wars game.

Star Wars owls>>

"The Jedi live in a dream" reminded me of this scene from the Mace Windu comic.