Why Everyone Thought Aurra Sing was Going to be in Attack of the Clones
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- There were a TON of rumors surrounding Aurra Sing and Attack of the Clones back in the late 90s and early 2000s. I look back on those days very fondly. But why and how do Star Wars fans convince themselves certain things will happen in future stories? Today we explore exactly that.
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I was too young to be reading messages boards at the time, but I remember seeing her in art and comics and games like Star Wars Demolition or mods for Jedi Knight and wondering why she was so popular. Then rewatching Phantom Menace I spotted her shot in the podrace. That's probably when I realized the true power of the "if they're on screen they have an action figure and backstory" joke.
To be fair, George Lucas specifically called her “an Emerging Character” at the time, and one of the fancy SW reference books included a doll of her. (The other one came with a Sebastian Shaw Jedi Anakin…) So it certainly seemed like there WERE bigger plans for her, but those got changed.
I had no idea Aurra was speculated to appear in Attack of the Clones, this is new information to me. And yeah it really shows that not much has changed in Star Wars in 20 years since the prequels, we all love to think everything is building up to something hahaha. Like I get it with Jango, a bounty hunter, being a part the film, it's not unreasonable that more would be as well and Aurra was a prime candidate. I wonder of all the speculation is what prompted her appearance in The Clone Wars which made clear she had history with Jango and all that. I doubt it tbh but at the same time, it would be pretty cool and interesting.
I completely agree with all of this! Especially about what Alex said with episode 3 too.
Interesting for Aurra to die as she lived - a cameo in another film. She came into existence as a cameo in The Phantom Menace and her death was first reported in a one-off line in Solo.
Interesting observation!
I still hate that line so much
The two movies that cameo Aurra Sing are the two movies that feature Darth Maul and the only two movies where a planet destroyer weapon is not mentioned.
@@sansfi Interesting connection!
@@sansfi great catch!
Heck, there were people who thought Snoke's obsidian ring was going to be a major plot point simply because it showed up in the visual dictionary. Some people will just latch onto anything.
On a related note to this video: I fear the same is happening with Qi’ra in the comics. The fact their doing a comic trilogy with her sadly means we she probably won’t appear in Book of Boba Fett.
Would love to see Qi'ra in BoBF.
While I have no expectations of her being in BoBF, I think this is a bit of a different thing since Qi'ra had a significant role in Solo, she wasn't just an extra like Sing or a cool looking side character like Phasma.
Totally agree.
This isn’t exactly the same thing, but I love how they brought Cobb Vanth back
I always forget how he didn’t first appear in mando and was in the aftermath books I think
Funny enough I just got her Black Series action figure today. Convenient.
Same, although ngl her articulation is very limited
Lit
I got mine a few days ago
0:06 Holy cow the format of those kind of pages back in the 2000s and early 2010s like the old Battlefront 2 mods website pre-shutdown, with the small pictures of characters with text like that R2 and 3PO one, or the top banners of 2 or more shots from the films spliced together, was a Nostalgia blast I was not expecting this morning.
the early net was such a treasure!
I heard George Lucas did consider using Aurra Sing in Attack of the Clones, but realized this was another Boba Fett and he didn't want it to end the same way, so Zam Wessell was born. Zam was created to prevent killing a character unceremoniously that fans had grown attached to at random.
This. I remember at the time that Aurra's popularity grew so much after TPM that George decided not to kill her off so soon in Ep. II. So Aurra got to live on for a long time (before being quickly killed off in passing mention in 'Solo'!)
Kind of reminds me of when Durge showed up in the 2D Clone Wars series. Apparently Lucas had intended him to be an antagonist for Ep III, but then went for Grievous instead.
I doesn't even know that Aurra Sing was in Episode 1, well she did appeared really briefly so you can't really blame me
Aurra's a good bounty hunter.
Growing up during the original clone wars era, I remember seeing her on comics or as an action figure a lot. Since the Phantom Menace was the last movie I watched in the franchise ( I went 4-6 then 3-1) so I didn’t know she was even in a movie for the longest time lol
Hate to be that guy, but I don’t think both cases are comparable. Aurra was just an extra. Phasma was literally on the poster for both of her movies and heavily promoted. I think they should have truly continued her story outside of the movies instead of bringing her back just to die.
Agreed. Unlike Aurra Sing, Phasma was listed as part of the main cast, played by a well known actress, and was referred to by name in the films.
@@OceanicSix2342 so was auraa, in solo
To be fair, a number of characters are brought back just to die without doing much in their second movie: Boba Fett, Count Dooku, even Yoda!
The real problem was that Phasma wasn't a very good character in TFA despite having a decently prominent role, and then after they fleshed out her character in other media, they killed her off TLJ without capitalizing on any of it. The worst part of it is that they actually made a mostly completed alternate death scene for her that actually did tie into her character, but then they didn't use it and went with the inferior scene instead!
@@Compucles true, but in those cases the characters hadn’t already “died” for the average spectator who doesn’t read/watch EU. Yeah fr, that alternate death scene was so much better and would have connected with the character presented in the Phasma novel.
Yeah, I think if there's anything we as a fandom have come to learn these past few years, it's that film/tv is developed mostly separately from comics, novels, and games.
Or rather SHOULD learn. Pretty sure there are some who still haven't gotten the memo yet.
the problem is we were promised this wouldn't be the case in new canon
What a great video. Very insightful Alex.
Aurra Sing is my #1 FAV obscure Star Wars Character. THUMBS UP for this vid!
It’s like poetry, it rhymes
I really thought Aurra Sing was just a Clone Wars show character until this video. I'm born in 97 so I was probably too young to pick any of that up. My parents didn't even have internet around that time, we used to go to library to browse on the internet (even though a lot of websites were blocked there.).
I wish her Legends story could be translated to Canon, its the one thing that I think could be cool and bring in Ayna Kuro "The Dark Woman" as well.
"It's like poetry, it rhymes"
Another amazing video
It took me quite a long time, but the last time I watched The Phantom Menace I realized she looked familiar, and then I realized that it was Aurra Sing.
Thanks, Alex! ✴️
This is why I treat the EU as an alt canon. The books and video games are of a lessor canon that the movies ignore and contradict, while the TV shows might acknowledge them without going into much else on those subjects.
Hey Alex since you are arguably the biggest Indiana Jones fan I’ve seen what are your thoughts on the latest Indiana Jones 5 set pictures and the rumored artifact I think it sounds like a really fun movie I don’t really know anything about the film other then this I saw the stuff on a TH-cam channel called Indiana Jones Nerd
Aurra Sing from the republic comics is one of my favorite characters and really liked her portrayal on TCW, I was really bummed when we knew that Becket killed her in that way
I’m not sure you and Pablo have got this right actually. The reason we all expected Aurra to be in EpII is because we were officially told she would be! I used to read and listen to every single official quote back then. And I know we were told that! Believe me I knew everything about the production of the prequels.
When EpII came out is was clear that Zam took her role, fans were not given a reason. But why would there be. Just a logistics or artistic choice.
Would you happen to have any proof of this?
Are you saying Pablo is lying?
@@TylerCharlesFisher I’m saying he’s mistaken. He wasn’t involved in the films. So he wasn’t a part of it. The quotes on Aurra came from GL or McCallum I believe.
@@Warrior8bit And your proof?
@@TylerCharlesFisher this is not a court of law mate. I don’t have proof and TBH I don’t really care about finding quotes. I’m just saying.
0:16 Foreshadowing,Lucasfilm literally threw her off a cliff in Canon.
0:15 Top comment predicted the future.
“he can see things before they happen it's a jedi trait”
I don't think Phasma and Aura Sing are a good comparison. Sure Aura was in some comics but Phasma was literally marketed like she was gonna be a big deal.
Another thing that has not changed is Stars Wars ability to effectively generate interest in back round characters, and not developing them later. Aurora Sing, all of hanger on`s of the Emperor from Revenge and Return, The Knights of Ren. I can go on....
lol only canon doesn't develop anyone later
She later became Asajj Ventress 😂
This is new to me.
Would have been interesting.
Contrary to Aurra Sing (a background character that had an expanded role after the fact), Phasma was positioned through marketing as a significant character. They even made a big deal out of the significance of casting Gwendolyn Christie in the role only to have her play a window dressing character that basically amounted to nothing. The general expectation was that something interesting would happen to her in The Last Jedi but instead of character development, all we got was a lot of disappointment. 🤷🏻♂️
The marketing for Phasma was the same for Mace Windu. Do you feel dissappointed Mace didn't do anything?
There were people who refused to believe Palpatine and Sideous were the same person. Making up reasons like, Palptine was a close of Sideous.
Now that was just silly, since the EU had been referring to him as Emperor Palpatine for many years by that point. Sure, the casual fan might not have been aware due to how he was never called by name in the original trilogy, but anyone hardcore enough to be arguing about the lore on message boards should've been aware of that or at least had someone tell them about it.
Hey Alex of star wars explained how old old are you
Cool
Boba Fett had the same problem as far as remember
Wait what?
She was a jedi? Does she use the force in any of these books?
She was a Padawan but never finished her training. Partly because she had a low force-sensitivity that slowed her progress, partly because she didn't get along with her Master, and partly because she was kidnapped and raised by pirates who played on her deep-seated fears of abandonment and betrayal to shake her trust in the Jedi. She was eventually captured by the Hutts, who in turn lent her to a group of assassins who trained her to be a remorseless killer.
Rarely.
But she does collect lightsabers of jedi she kills. Sound familiar
@@Mal-sg6zc haha true. Thanks! I am familiar with her in clone wars episodes, just not books.
she demonstrated telekinesis, force-lightning and incredible speed
To be perfectly fair. Aurra sing, a random back ground character suddenly having force abilities is really wild. One would easily assume that this could mean something down the line.
Soooo, is Aurra Sing still a Jedi turned Bounty Hunter in canon? That's wild!
nah she's just a normal person in canon. it's a shame I wouldn't mind bring back her jedi roots tbh.
I disagree. Why hire Gwendoline Christie then?
hype and publicity from using a popular actress from got at the time
Disagree with what? The books not building Phasma up for the movies? They hired her because they wanted her in TFA as a villain.
Eh they love using big names as extras and cameos. Plus Game of Thrones was huge at the time.
Maybe you guys are right. What a waste of a cool character though
It's so lame that They killed Aurra sing off offscreen with a stupid line in solo
I totally missed that in Solo. Though to be fair, if she fell off a cliff, does it even count? This is Star Wars we're talking about
I don’t think that is the nail in her coffin. For all we know, Beckett could have just been talking a big game to build up his reputation, or he actually thinks he killed her but maybe she survived her fall.
@@OceanicSix2342 Now that I think about it, it seems right up Aurra's alley to want to fake her death. Perhaps Becket is even in on it? "I'll make you a deal: help me fake my death, and you get a major rep boost for having 'killed' me."
Point is, while I won't be surprised if nothing comes of it, there's avenues to bring her back if they want to. One line about an off-screen fall is basically begging for the character to still be alive
@@GeneralAceTheAwesome I’ve always found it odd how she pretty much just disappeared from Clone Wars way before the series was over. With her close connection to Boba, I’d love to see her return to live action in TBoBF.
@@GeneralAceTheAwesome "I'm pretty sure it was the fall that killed her" doesn't sound like he actually saw her hit the ground.
Considering Jango fett and Zam weasel sucked, I feel like aura sing appearing wouldn’t have been bad
Pablo hidalgo is the prime example of the kind of guy who can't handle the job he has. He doesn't have the guts to ignore toxic bullshit, so hides behind tweets. Smh