No, Neil Patrick Harris hasn't signed on to do Star Wars Episode VII...yet. But in the latest expansion pack for The Old Republic, players on the new planet Makeb will be able to flirt with same-gender characters.
Here's the catch - it's only with non-player characters so far, and it's only flirtation. Like a date in middle school. But it does make us wonder...since Hutts are supposedly hermaphrodites, didn't the whole Slave Leia thing in Return of the Jedi count as being at least 50% same-gender flirtation? And if Ziro the Hutt in the Clone Wars movie isn't into guy-on-guy action, then his inspiration Truman Capote wasn't either (yeah right).
The image chosen above suggests something we've always made jokes about, but what if Threepio were to flirt with his female-voiced prequel counterpart TC-14? Both have exactly the same body, so even though their voice-synthesizers simulate opposite genders - are they really?
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Maybe next Bioware can do something about the curious lack of female companions who don't exist solely to be romanced by male player characters.
Umm...same sex couples have been Star Wars canon since "Legacy of the Force". Medrit Vasur and Goran Beviin, homosexual Mandalorians.
It's funny you bring up Ziro... Hutts have the ability to switch their gender canonically (I think the novels established it).
So with that in mind, I don't know if the Hutts would really have a concept of guy-on-guy action being unacceptable, culturally.
(Granted, this also raises questions about who was the mother when it comes to Jabba's son.)
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weird.. I keep thinking he adopted those kids with her amd they'd been together over a decade. It hasnt been that long and he adopted two more kids himself after he divorced his first wife after Jedi.
I agree with the theory losing his wife is why the prequels suck.
@TheXenos I always thought he used the prequels' Jedi Code as a way of trying to turn his bitterness over getting soaked in divorce court into a virtue.
And then there's Temple of Doom, where Indiana Jones is captured by a bloodthirsty goddess cult that tears men's hearts out, and can only escape once he's recovered his stones.
I'm surprised that he's remarrying. Maybe anyone can evolve. I'd love to see the pre-nup in any event.
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I'm fine with that as long as it's an organic progression of the story and not, y'know, Jar Jar.
@EliasAlgorithm my experience was that once you're out of the second chapter the story becomes very generic
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This is not totally new to the Star Wars scene. Star Wars Galaxies, made by SOE and Lucasarts, allowed gay marriage among players as well as inter-species marriage
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@skrag2112 Well now I'm thinking of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=53DQgbj2mIc
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Having played SWTOR I can say that the number of potential romantic interests for a player ranges from one to two - having been unable to complete any of the romantic quest lines I can't speak for them except to say that the romances were the least fulfilling aspect of the plotlines, which tended to become very weak once you got past chapter 2
for the other thing *sigh* as with most things in our culture - the issue has nothing to do with the words involved
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Since they do not procreate, does the idea of gender or sexuality
even apply to a robot? Even if you have sexbots (and let's be honest,
you'd build those centuries before you got to protocol droids) I'm
pretty sure they'd be "sexless." I say that all droids are completely
genderless, so all robotic relationships are exactly as straight or as
gay as you'd like them to be.
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@ClancyDamon I remember the official canon - novels, maybe - being weirdly specific about EV-9D9 being female, despite having the deepest, croakiest voice of any droid.
