Yeah, I meant the name "Wexley", but even then I could be wrong. Point is, it's easy to miss. I don't think I'd even be aware of the name at all if I hadn't been paying attention to all of the supplementary media.
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Yeah, I think it was just designed to be a little bonus for the more attentive fans.
Nooooo, Luceno must write a book about Dooku.
It certainly sounds a lot more connected to the movie than any of the TFA tie-ins were last year. I'm not too surprised Jyn isn't focused on too heavily, presumably they want to save her proper introduction for the movie itself. Also, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a Jyn-centred novel within a year. Even if the movie ends with her, umm, indisposed there's always the possibility of a novel set a few years prior to the movie.
Well, there was Before the Awakening, a short story anthology which provided Finn and Poe's backstory in prose form as well as giving Rey a pre-movie adventure that let us get into head and gave some of the moments in the movie more meaning (it's a really good read, so consider it recommended). Rey's Survival Guide, a sort-of autobiography/field guide to Jakku by Rey, also delivered a lot of world-building and gave Rey a good deal of backstory -- no, we don't learn about her parents or how she got to Jakku, but there is quite a deal on her early childhood and present (I'd say also recommended, but bear in mind that it's not that much of a narrative, more of a "non-fiction" guide filtered through a character -- and the amazing thing is that the author captured Rey's voice really well despite it being written before the movie came out.)
Ironically, those two were excluded from the "Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens" series, despite being the only two that really bridged the gap (not that the other "Journey..." stuff was bad -- a lot was good -- it just didn't tie in to the big stuff or bridge the gap the way it sounded like it would). For the record, the Catalyst novel seems to be doing a better job, as it looks like we seeing early stages for the heist as well as Jyn's father playing a key role, which could inform stuff in the movie
Could be, although the aforementioned Before the Awakening book did introduce the TFA characters before the movie. I was really hoping that Jyn would be the star, given that she's the R1 character I'm most curious about (esp. given that the first trailer seems to paint her as a wild card being press-ganged into the heist, while the second one presents her as a heroic character, so I'm really curious how that all works, if she starts as the untrustworthy one who matures into the heroine, or if she has elements of both throughout the movie, or what).
If she proves to be as interesting as in the trailer, I'd go for that. (I'm deeply suspicious that Jyn and her team die in the movie, but I'm hoping not).
I downloaded a sample of the A New Hope novelization and read through the prolouge yesterday. It is interesting to see how much Lucas's ideas did and didn't change between that and the rest of the movies. We got the same idea of Senator Palpatine taking over, but then it goes into him going into isolation and being manipulated by other high ranking officials, instead of him the pure evil, master manipulator. I wonder what his ideas for the sequels and prequels were like at that point, because it sounds like things would have played out pretty differently.
The Star Wars.com story about the Star Wars stuff at Dragon Con mentioned that they are going to releasing new editions of the original Thrawn trilogy. It just say they are upcoming new paperback editions, so I'm not sure when they're coming out.
I'm surprised they're actually releasing new versions of Legends books, but it does make sense that they'd want to promote them with Thrawn appearing in Rebels Season 3.
I'm surprised they're actually releasing new versions of Legends books, but it does make sense that they'd want to promote them with Thrawn appearing in Rebels Season 3.
Its weird that they're reprinting the books in connection to Rebels. You'd think they wouldn't want to connect the new character to the old version too much, it just makes it more obvious that the reboot is a half-assed cash grab by people who don't understand why the character was popular, and just want to sell nostalgia to fans.
Plus, those books have been printed so much they're very, very easy to come by. I guess some people only want to buy completely new copies of books, but its still weird to see such a popular set of SW books getting another printing.
Plus, those books have been printed so much they're very, very easy to come by. I guess some people only want to buy completely new copies of books, but its still weird to see such a popular set of SW books getting another printing.
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As I understand, the Thrawn trilogy is still among the top selling of Star Wars novels. Even after the Legends re-branding the Thrawn trilogy's sales still surpass the new Disney novels. So it's not really all that surprising we're getting new editions of them to coincide with Thrawn's appearance on Rebels. If anything this certainly proves that canon is just a word and doesn't mean a damn thing as far as book sales are concerned.
Or it means good books from a good version of the canon outsell more corporate guided stuff (and I say that as someone who has enjoyed most of the New Canon stuff I've read).
Also, like I said, selling someone the Thrawn trilogy of books is just going to make their saturday morning cartoon version of Thrawn seem worse. If you're going for a pointless cash grab reboot of a character, you shouldn't be reminding people of the good version of the character. That makes them less likely to buy stuff with the cash grab version. Once you've experienced the version of Thrawn who was awesome, why would you bother with the one made by writers who make the Captain Planet writers seem like Joss Whedon in comparison? It just seems like poor planning.
Why not? Say you see Rebels and really like the Thrawn character. You might be curious to check out other stories about him, even if they're not on the same timeline. Besides, given that Legends has provided a lot of material to canon, I can see some people being curious to see how those things were originally used.
I don't know about that. The reboot is being managed by many of the same people who were working on the tie-ins prior to the Disney buyout, and, for the most part, I think they know what makes Star Wars tick. The new materials are better than most of the stuff being made at the end of the pre-Disney era (IMHO), and most of the new books are easily as good as the good pre-Disney stuff. (Besides, the total reboot was arguably the most logical and simplest way to handle canon once the new movies were in the pipe hole.)
Considering that the new covers are a lot better than the old ones, I could see some people preferring them. At any rate, what's wrong with a little variety?
Yeah, canon is a useful way to organize which stories fit together into a greater whole. Good stories transcend organization.
Considering that most of the Disney canon stuff has been really good, I'm thinking that it's probably just an indication of the Thrawn Trilogy's quality and the long time it's been around more than anything else.
Since Rebels hasn't aired yet, we don't know how good or bad their Thrawn is going to be yet, so we can't say whether the book version will be the superior version or not. And on top of that, Rebels has an excellent track record (and looks like it'll be going into some dark places), so the odds of canon Thrawn being a good character are high.
Yesterday, they released a new Force Awakens novelization, Finn's Story, by Jesse J. Holland. It retells the movie entirely from Finn's perspective (and is sort of a companion piece to the Rey's Story novelization that did the same for Rey). There aren't a lot of new details (although the opening chapter retells a section of Before the Awakening).
It's pretty good for what it is.
It's pretty good for what it is.
In my opinion, Rebels is written by people who seem to think that the Ewoks and Droids cartoons were too dark and complex. There is no reality where book Thrawn is inferior to the version made by the "writers" of Rebels. That's like saying the writers of Superfriends wrote the Justice League characters better then comic book writers. Rebels is mostly just stuff that would have been considered too simple and childish back when most cartoons were more like Captain Planet. With Rebels track record I'm pretty sure their Thrawn will make the average Captain Planet bad guy look complex and well written by comparison.
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Have you ever even watched Rebels?
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