Han Solo is a d**k
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Here is what is considered canon in Star Wars and that really wasn't the point of EJA's post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Canon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Canon
He put Threepio's head on backwards. And he kept screwing up the repairs. Remember? "This one goes here, that one goes there!"
That quote was the first thing I thought of re. the "Chewie-as-dog" theory.
And apparently it doesn't take much skill to repair Threepio. Chewie literally just jammed his head in place, with no mechanical connections of any kind (and yes, backwards). He then fiddled with exactly one switch, and Threepio powered up. With normal range of motion in his head, I might add. No wonder Anakin could build him so easily!
Maybe Chewie's lack of skill is why the Falcon looks the way it does.
^ I agree with that statement.
Nardpuncher
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Well said.
Whoa, whoa, WHOAH!!!! Both Han and Leia were baying for their own child's blood?!!! Ok, that is seriously screwed up. It makes me wonder why anyone would root for these characters. They should at least show a bit of remorse for their offspring.
And why exactly weren't Han and Anakin on very good terms at the time of Chewie's death?
As every good Jedi knows, trying to save your loved ones is always a purely evil act.
If Leia wasn't willing to have her son murdered at the drop of a hat then morally she would have been just as bad as the Emperor.
Han has less excuse, because he isn't a Jedi.
If Leia wasn't willing to have her son murdered at the drop of a hat then morally she would have been just as bad as the Emperor.
Han has less excuse, because he isn't a Jedi.
Yeah that.
Could be worse. They could be badly written by legions of nonprofessional writers. Han's mourning probably would've been explained by his being intimate with Chewie. Graphically.
I'm shut most of the LotF series out of my mind (it was my first EU series after stopping after Vector Prime), and I only read in bits and pieces, but didn't Han wig out the worse after Jacen torched Kyshkkk (sp?)
Of course this is the same series that had Jacen dressing in Armor, tooling around in a black star destroyer named after his dead brother, ordering assassinations, and using the force to torture prisoners.
Wish I had. I stopped with Vector Prime and then hit and missed LotF (usually whenever someone was OMG, you got to read this, do you know what they did! Which was rare)
Which he seems to be doing a lot lately
Works for me though.I always figured that Owen was a total a-hole and Beru just let him treat Luke like garbage. If Obi-Wan hadn't come along, Luke would have snapped and kill them himself.
And the reason I agree when Lucas says the Star Wars saga ends with Return of the Jedi and the books are a their own little world.
A better topic for this thread would have been 'The Star Wars EU novels are a load of c*ck.'
Well, then you missed some good books. Vector Prime, Agents of Chaos, and Dark Tide were all just so-so, but from Edge of Victory onwards the NJO got very good.
It's a bit let down in retrospect since the editing team didn't really have the guts to make some of the more extreme changes stick, like the transformation of Coruscant. And the Vong themselves really ought to be a bigger part of the post-NJO galaxy then they are.
I read the Hand of Thrawn two-parter a long time ago, and remember liking them pretty well, but while I'm re-reading the Thrawn trilogy for the first time in over a decade, see no reason to revisit it.
Bottom line is, if you keep asking for more stories about certain characters, you're basically asking for them to suffer more. Can't the Big Three ever enjoy a peaceful retirement? I say give them happy and mostly boring lives after "The Last Command". No major unknown invaders, no cloned emperors, no "centuries later" crap... let 'em go!
('Course, I wouldn't have a problem with exploring the pre-OT era... if Lucas hadn't screwed the pooch so hard with the PT.)
They don't have to suffer. How about a lighthearted erotic comedy about Luke Leia and Han taking a vacation on a swinger's resort planet?
Star Wars writers are too obsessed with gigantic galaxy-spanning conflicts. There is plenty of room for smaller and less violent stories. The Star Wars galaxy is big enough to express all sorts of genres that have so far remained unexplored.
You could, for example, have a story about Chewie starting a rock band. Or you could have had one if they hadn't killed off Chewie. That's interesting. You could have Jacen Solo staring in a novel based loosly on the movie Tootsie. Instead of falling to the Dark Side and starting another war, he decides to become an actor and dresses as a woman in order to get a part.
What did they DO to my beloved "Young Jedi Knights"?*sigh*
I think I only got through the first three or so novels of NJO. Haven't read anything beyond those. Right now I'm re-reading the Thrawn Trilogy after several years and thoroughly enjoying it. Now THAT is how to expand the SW universe.
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