User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/ASWS and TOR connection/@comment-20644-20100615162302

I never thought much of how all the Star Wars films open up in space and on a ship until Ataru's fan fiction commandments said that. I'll follow that when it comes to Chapter 1 of my novels, but the prologue tends to be something else since it's before the main story.

One thing I'm really picky about for some reason, and it's one of those precepts, is the titles. There's a pattern to the film titles, with The Phantom Menace/A New Hope, Attack of the Clones/The Empire Strikes Back, and Revenge of the Sith/Return of the Jedi.


 * The first film of each trilogy has the adjective and the noun. There's the phantom menace and then there's the new hope. That's carried over into The Chosen One and will be used in future episode titles, such as Episode IV.
 * The second film has a noun and a verb, the verb having something to do with conflict. The clones attack and the Empire strikes back. My Episode II, called Dawn of an Empire, continues that; the Empire dawns, and the "dawn" will also relate to conflict though it's more metaphorical and symbolic than the two canon ones.
 * The third film also has a noun and a noun. There's the revenge of the Sith and the return of the Jedi. Those could also be considered verbs too.

So yeah, a little rant there.