A disfigured Luke clone instead of Snoke would have been better. Hamil could have played him like the Joker
It really wasn’t though. There was just a hand in a jar that could have been used in any a number of projects. And I believe the story group debunked that anyways.
Well to me, Skeev saying "the scalpel of creation, I used it to create all these things", then we see Luke's hand, in a roomful of Snoke clones, is certainly implying that at the very least Luke's hand was used in some way to grow Snoke, if not that Snoke is a clone of Luke. I'm perfectly fine with it, Snoke's a pretty silly character anyway. Why not make him a weirdo clone of Luke.
No it’s just implying it was used in experiments, not smoke himself. The experiments may have helped the R&D for the Snoke project.
@Tuskin38 Smoke lol...Burrito Supreme Leader Smoke would have a great Taco Bell tie in for this marijuana trainwreck of a Trilogy. I can’t wait for Kevin Smith to make Clerks 3 and have Jay say “Snoke, Smoke whatever” like Pizza the Hut saying “Barf, Puke... whatever”. LOL. All that aside, man people gave Timothy Zahn hell for Luuke Skywalker the clone, and yet here we are with old Snokey Snoke being similarly the same. Look say what you will about the EU (yes a good majority of it wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on); but honestly there were some excellent novels that really lived up to Star Wars. Some of the really great authors that all we have of their legacies, was their offerings to Lucas’s universe. Primarily for me: Zahn’s trilogy James Luceno’s books A.C. Crispin’s Solo Trilogy Brian Daley’s Solo Trilogy and the Radio Dramas L. Neil Smith’s Lando trilogy Darth Bane Trilogy The Novelizations for 1-6 The Jedi Academy trilogy Just to name a few. The Bad and the Ugly: The Crystal Star The Corellian Trilogy The Black Fleet Crisis Planet of Twilight Children of the Jedi Honestly, the Trek writers were incredible Trek authors, but whomever put them up to writing Star Wars in the 1990’s it was incredibly misguided. I am glad that today’s authors like John Jackson Miller can navigate and be tremendously successful in both universes. I guess what I am trying to say is giving those older authors the short end of the stick while using or reusing, certain ideas was and is wrong. Meanwhile, the newer batch of writers haven’t been as successful as most would have liked or hoped, Hopefully people in general haven’t been leery of investing in a good Star Wars story only to come away burned. Here is to hoping to see more future Star Wars books from the likes of James Luceno, or Matt Stover, or even Terry Brooks, (less of that Supreme Screwball Chuck Wendig) that they haven’t turned away from Star Wars completely. -Koric
Zahn did apologize for the whole Luuke thing. Whether he actually had remorse over the idea or just wanted to get them off his back, who knows.
Wendig got fired for saying something rude on Twitter. Knowing Disney, what he said was probably very minor.
Here’s the article from The Hollywood Reporter about Wendig https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...-fires-star-wars-writer-chuck-wendig-1151966/
@thribs In actuality Wendig ATTACKED anyone on his blog, online period. It wasn’t just Disney. His mouth, and his hatred for anyone who dare criticize him in general. The guy is just venomous and vicious in general. Politics aside from all that. I am actually liberal and not conservative, and I refused to support him in any way. Rather than be glad or grateful or gracious to be writing in the Star Wars universe, and embracing the fandom, and appreciating the fandom. He did the opposite. Good riddance to that SOB I say. I only wished George Lucas had publicly castigated him. Normally, I would support writers, good writers, good people who struggle and appreciate success, and appreciate the support and the fans of their work in general. But honestly, who the hell talks, writes and acts like this? Just in case you are wondering, I refused to support him and purchased his first ebook on sale when it went on sale once on Amazon for $2.99. I only hope MORE of that money went to Amazon and the publisher than HiM. I felt sorry for the rest of Star Wars fans that got RIPPED OFF buying his books and ebooks at $15 or higher. To this day the rest of his SERIES (Scam) never has been on sale having dropped from $15 to $10. Thanks for the link @Enterprise is Great Just a horrible person, and a bad prose, and style writer in general. I think it was hard lesson to learn that Star Wars or any major franchise SHOULD NOT be handed to just anyone. That care, and consideration are necessary when given a chance to write in situations like this, As I said GOOD RIDDANCE, and I’m being kind here. -Koric
Wow, I didn't realize he was that bad. I just saw in a story on IGN the surprising character who's return sets off the events of War of the Bounty Hunters, and now I definitely need to work on getting caught up on the comics. I've been really curious what happened to this character since we last saw them on screen, and I'm glad we're finally seeing more of them.
Cancelled. The author is going to be writing another Star Wars novel as compensation, but no details about that are available. Meanwhile, the third Thrawn Ascendancy novel has taken its November release date.
I saw on Amazon that Light of the Jedi is coming to trade paperback on June 29. So they’re going to trade paperbacks like the Star Trek novels.
I saw the change too. Just so you know it will be interesting to see if the change from MMPB to Trade Paperback has the same effect on ebook prices as the change over did for Star Trek novels. Typically Star Wars ebooks debut at $14.99 then 6 to 12 months later, the mass market paperback hits and the ebook price drops from $15 to $10. The last ebook this happened with was SW Master and Apprentice. So, now with Star Trek this change over DOES NOT drop the ebook price ever so the price literally stays at $12. I am letting everyone know because that is what the publishers are doing now with ebooks. As I type this I know the minute @fireproof78 or @JD see this the response is going to be “This literally does not bother me at all” which is like the equivalent of Kane and Parker from Alien going “Right”. JD gets his ebooks from the library etc etc etc. That’s great that everyone can adjust if you can afford it, right on. I just see it as damn man, it’s a digital product. But, with a physical format change there is a physical reason for the price hike. A few dollars either way may not mean much to some, but I don’t have that much scratch to go around, not that anyone cares. I think it just more to do with if I save a few, the more ebooks I can read and buy. Either way I am not knocking anyone. This is just a heads up and for your information kind of post to changes that @Enterprise is Great brought up. -Koric
Trade Paperbacks are more profitable for the retailers, given that after a certain point of time they have the option of marking the price down and ensuring they make money off it regardless. With MMPBs meanwhile, they can't mark the price down and after a certain point of time, they have to return them to the distributor to get destroyed. Of course, I buy all my Star Wars novels as hardcovers, so it really doesn't impact me either way of their paperback reprints are trade or MMPB.