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Spoilers Star Wars: Solo - Grading and Discussion Thread

What would you rate it?

  • A+

    Votes: 7 4.5%

  • A

    Votes: 25 16.1%

  • A-

    Votes: 28 18.1%

  • B+

    Votes: 38 24.5%

  • B

    Votes: 24 15.5%

  • C

    Votes: 18 11.6%

  • D

    Votes: 12 7.7%

  • F

    Votes: 3 1.9%
  • Total voters
    155
I enjoyed the first few books in the old EU as well as the first few Dark Horse comics series. Then with so much material being released, the whole thing became overwhelming. I felt like I couldn't pick and choose novels that may look interesting, because I wasn't up to speed on everything that had happened in the last several novels that I hadn't read. And the comics started to feel kind of generic, too. None of it felt special anymore. I heard third-hand that Chewie even died in one of the novels. And I didn't really care. :shrug:

Kor
 
Kor said:
I enjoyed the first few books in the old EU as well as the first few Dark Horse comics series. Then with so much material being released, the whole thing became overwhelming. I felt like I couldn't pick and choose novels that may look interesting, because I wasn't up to speed on everything that had happened in the last several novels that I hadn't read. And the comics started to feel kind of generic, too. None of it felt special anymore. I heard third-hand that Chewie even died in one of the novels. And I didn't really care. :shrug:

Kor
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The Vong is where it became a chore to get through a book for me. Just wasn't intrested, or maybe I was just burned out.

Still enjoy going back to the old Marvel comics, pretty funny to see all the wild things they would come up with between movies.
 
General_Phoenix said:
The Vong is where it became a chore to get through a book for me. Just wasn't intrested, or maybe I was just burned out.

Still enjoy going back to the old Marvel comics, pretty funny to see all the wild things they would come up with between movies.
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Oh yes, the Marvel run was lots of wacky fun.

Kor
 
General_Phoenix said:
The Vong is where it became a chore to get through a book for me. Just wasn't intrested, or maybe I was just burned out.

Still enjoy going back to the old Marvel comics, pretty funny to see all the wild things they would come up with between movies.
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Good times. Crimson Jack, The Wheel, Simon Greyshade, and the Tagge family trying to play both ends against the middle. There was some good storytelling going on back in the day!!
 
I think the Vong arc just went on for too long. I get what they were going for but nineteen books...yikes.
 
Galaxy spanning and nearly destroying war...it sort of needed the space to be told, but it was too long. I stopped buying the novels regularly after 'Star by Star" there was just too much coming out at once.
 
Star Wars is about internal conflict and struggle, both on the macro and micro levels. The material and the spiritual intertwined and echoing off each other. So for me, the Vong War just felt like a very shallow concept.

With the OT & PT the war was only "good vs. evil" on the surface, there were many layers of meaning threaded through the whole thing. An alien invasion is about the most lazy concept one could possibly go with and there's a reason they the few times they've tried it, it just doesn't feel like Star Wars.

Indeed, what happened after the series was over showed just how pointless the whole thing was since they really didn't go anywhere with it. Sure, some pieces got moved around the board, but it was only cosmetic, not substantive change.
 
Reverend said:
Indeed, what happened after the series was over showed just how pointless the whole thing was since they really didn't go anywhere with it. Sure, some pieces got moved around the board, but it was only cosmetic, not substantive change.
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The aftermath of it really bothered me. "It's fine, we've rebuilt Coruscant, everything's just the way it used to be!" Like, the whole damn planet's orbit got changed and tons of its planetwide city got destroyed, that's not something that you can just fix in five years.
 
Skywalker said:
The aftermath of it really bothered me. "It's fine, we've rebuilt Coruscant, everything's just the way it used to be!" Like, the whole damn planet's orbit got changed and tons of its planetwide city got destroyed, that's not something that you can just fix in five years.
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Details.
 
From what I recall there were lingering ramifications for the Vong War, namely Jacen eventually becoming Darth Caedus. I also think that that parts of Coruscant remained Vongformed after the NJO series concluded. And the novels tied into the Legacy comics, and the Vong were tied into Darth Krayt's history. I don't think there was a reset button at all for the Vong War. IMO, NJO was bolder than Legacy of the Force or Fate of the Jedi. NJO upset things to a greater extent than either of those succeeding series. NJO also delivered on its promise more so than those other series. Caedus would up being a half-realized villain and the Fate of the Jedi couldn't decide what to do with the interesting ideas it just threw out to the audience (Force psychosis, diverse Force users, the late push to abolish slavery across the galaxy that felt like left field and could've been the key focus of that series instead of tossed in there toward the end).

I was a big fan of the NJO, though I read about half of the series. I still think it was pretty ambitious and I liked that they created a different kind of enemy than what we had seen before. The Vong idea felt like they had put some thought into their culture and technology. I still hope we see them in the new canon at some point.
 
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The Vong-series was a decent idea that, IMHO, needed a little more work. I didn't like the Vong themselves, for starters, and the galaxy was big enough as it was that it didn't need to be some sort of extra-galactic invasion. Tim Zahn was already hinting in his novels that the unknown regions held some sort of existential threat to the world of our heroes- I think they should have expanded on that and gotten him more involved in creating the template for the series. It also needed to be about half as long.
 
Campe98 said:
To be fair, that's not the line:

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However, according to Wookiepedia apparently somewhere a canon references it as a spice shipment, so I'll give you that one.
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^^^
To be fair - that whole sequence WASN'T IN the original Star Wars either. ;) (And I'll take the original version over Lucas remastered garbage any day...YMMV> ;))
 
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