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LUKE: It's not that I like the Empire, I hate it.
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Whoa, settle down there Luke! Few too many Stormtroopers check your ID at the Cantina?

Now this has come up before: Was there really a big difference between the dying days of the Republic and the Empire?

Well surely there had to be! Tatooine goes from having a slave (Shmi) simply say
"The Republic doesn't exist out here...we must survive on our own."
To Luke and buddies (Biggs most notably) wanting to join the Rebellion because they HATE it. This is on Tatooine, the backwater world of the galaxy. If they don't like, nay hate, the Empire out here what about back on worlds where the Empire has more influence?

This is a perfectly fine and dandy view throughout the rest of the trilogy, what with the whole blowing up Alderann thing. What did the Empire really do before that though?

This has been answered throughout the Expanded Universe of course, but what about the TV Show that will be taking place in this time period? Can the Empire really be portrayed as something to be hated on a network such as FOX, or (as suggested by others) only on something like HBO with more freedom?

Personally I think it can, though some things will have to be left to the imagination (Think: The door closing when Princess Leia is about to be interrogated by Vader with the mind probe, on HBO there would have been a short scene with Vader attempting to get information out of the drugged princess). This is in keeping with the rest of the Saga's mood, but the Show should have a darker mood as Rick McCallum suggested it would, the senate holds virtually no power, worlds have been enslaved to the Empire, and the Jedi are nearly extinct; forced into the shadows.

For me it really comes down to how the show is formatted as I've stated before. If it's done as a Star Trek/Flash Gordoneque adventure setup, FOX is fine. HBO would be much more keeping with the Star Wars feel however, especially if it has on ongoing plotline.
No Commercials = Cinematic.

The other drawback of course being that fewer people would have access to the show.
Thus, In a perfect world I think it would work like this:

Star Wars TV is presented on HBO with all the bells and whistles. No commercials, opening crawls, full credits, 1 hour each week to take you back to our favorite universe. Then the following week (or month, or even year depending how much they want to draw it out. Piracy would surely make a week or two ideal though) the same episode would premiere on FOX, the opening crawl omitted and the credits sped up and scrunched to the side as most shows are these days, a scene or two perhaps being needed to be omitted from each episode to fit into a 1 hour timeslot with commercials (or due to it being too violent or such as mentioned above, unlikely for Star Wars though even with it being "Darker"). Everyone gets to see Star Wars; HBO viewers get to see it as more of a presentation than a show.
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