Talk:Twi'lek

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should we talk about twi'lek's in other media, like games? twi'leks are pretty big in KotOR. Lockeownzj00 19:36, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

...and I'm a twi'lek in Star Wars Galaxies :p Barneyboo 11:29, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The article says that Twi'lek "served in the Galactic Empire;" what does that mean? How did they serve in the Empire? JorgeMacD 12:51 AM (PST), 23 May 2005

Nola Tarkona?
Who's this one, previously listed in "See also"? 4 strange Google links and no Wikipedia article. Bleh.

copyright violation
A big chunk of information in the culture section is copied and pasted from here. Someone needs to either reword it or it has to be removed.--Kross 16:02, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * That's true, but you shouldn't replace the "copy-violating" text with the message. Either keep it intact, or remove it. - Sikon 06:39, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Aayla Secura's "survival"
To stop revert wars, we should discuss this issue. I suggest deleting it, since it's unconfirmed speculation. - Sikon 06:43, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Griff Vao
Too minor. We hardly have enough info to fill Mission's article, let alone her brother. The KOTOR side quest with Griff should probably be described in Mission Vao.

Ears
Its a common misconception that both male and females have human-like ears. I will find the proper data shortly but recently its been retconned that females have conical shaped ears. Lucasfilm also went as far as ordering that female twi'leks in SW Galaxies even those without headdresses be given cone-shaped ears. Why places like wiki keep using the old pre-retcon data I will never know.

Probably because the original trilogy garners more respect than the prequels. Any retconning is post-prequels. And everyone knows Lucas tweaks everything. I pay little attention to anything Lucas changes, after the prequel films.

But, in ROTJ there are two Twi'leks portrayed. Oola in both the original and the extended edition. And Lyn Mei in the extended. And both of these characters easily discount the "cone-ears" which are hard to accept from an anthropological point of view. What purpose would the females having such radically different ears serve within the framework of the species environment that they would have evolved in ?

Oola wears what are clearly ivory-type coverings over her ears in a shape more comparable to a dome than a cone.

Lyn Mei wears a tight-fitting leather cap, under which there is no room for concealed ear-cones.

Retconning doesn't explain the appearances of these two characters, so Mr. Lucas is going to have to at least create some sort of back story to explain why these two characters didn't have the cones and the others do (as per Star Trek, and the head-ridges of the Klingons) or he is simply tweaking something because he thinks it "looks cool". And that doesn't really make his fictional universe very believable.

Part of the appeal of fantasy fiction is the ability for the world created within the fiction to to be as believable as possible despite how different it is from the real world we live in. --69.6.180.42 (talk) 01:14, 9 July 2008 (UTC)