James Luceno's Darth Plageuis Cover Revealed!
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There's not a whole lot of discussion that can be had over just the cover alone (It's cool! It sucks!). Let the conversation flow through the thread, my young apprentice. I actually found the whole Luceno discussion pretty interesting.
Anyway, the artwork on the cover looks good, I just wish they had chosen a less shitty looking alien to play such a key Sith Lord than a Muun. I mean, they're built like Aladdin Sane-era Bowie but with a giant eraser on their heads.
I might forgive them if they used Olivia Munn as a Sith Lord, though.
^ Any thread that leads to pics of Olivia Munn in her Slave Leia outfit equals EPIC WIN! 
But, just curious, what species would you have preferred Plageuis to be?
But, just curious, what species would you have preferred Plageuis to be?
^ Any thread that leads to pics of Olivia Munn in her Slave Leia outfit equals EPIC WIN!
But, just curious, what species would you have preferred Plageuis to be?
If it had to be an alien, the Chiss would be a good choice, because they look human but badass (blue skin, black hair, red eyes) so they're relatable but intimidating. They had an ancient grudge against the Republic, they've allied with the Sith before, they're great strategists who play the long game like Plageuis and Palpatine, and it would provide a further means of connection between Palpatine and Thrawn besides their collaboration in the Outbound Flight incident. One of Dooku's acolytes was even Chiss.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Chiss
R.A. Salvatore wrote Vector Prime, Admiral Young. The only NJO book Stover wrote was Traitor.
I'm personally happy they made him an alien, another Human would have been boring, IMO. A Chiss would have been excellent.
Ugh. I really wish that the Chiss had been ignore pre-Thrawn - his story doesn't work when there's a bunch of Chiss around and Parck should've been able to just look up his species in the library computer!
My first choice for dramatic irony would be a member of Yoda's race, actually. Assuming that's verboten... probably Mon Cal or Sullustan. Something less humanoid and typically associated with the Rebels rather than Empire.
A Hutt would have been sweet. Especially since there was like only one EU instance of a Force-sensitive Hutt and they're expected to be incapable of Jedi/Sith antics.
"Yah tay so Dark Side! Oo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Or something completely fucked up and alien-looking, some unique, Cthulhu-like monstrosity, something that could stand next to OT Yoda as a one-shot mystery species. Then you tell the story completely from Palpatine's perspective, never getting into Plageuis' head.
I'm kind of meh on Luceno (His prequel stuff is decent, but his post OT stuff: Hero's Trial, Jedi Eclipse, Unifying Force & Millennium Falcon all blew to one degree or another). I'll check this out cause its on the PT side of things.
Cover is fair. The Munn looks interesting, I guess, but Palps is off. Kind of reminds me of some of those OT EU covers where none of the Heroes of Yavin look like the artist had a picture of the actors in costume to go from or, you know, any idea how to accurately draw the human form. He's not that bad, but close.
"Yah tay so Dark Side! Oo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Or something completely fucked up and alien-looking, some unique, Cthulhu-like monstrosity, something that could stand next to OT Yoda as a one-shot mystery species. Then you tell the story completely from Palpatine's perspective, never getting into Plageuis' head.
I'm kind of meh on Luceno (His prequel stuff is decent, but his post OT stuff: Hero's Trial, Jedi Eclipse, Unifying Force & Millennium Falcon all blew to one degree or another). I'll check this out cause its on the PT side of things.
Cover is fair. The Munn looks interesting, I guess, but Palps is off. Kind of reminds me of some of those OT EU covers where none of the Heroes of Yavin look like the artist had a picture of the actors in costume to go from or, you know, any idea how to accurately draw the human form. He's not that bad, but close.
Exactly. Chiss were supposed to be a more or less unknown species. In this sense, Sev'rance Tann was kind of an oversight.
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Well, that ship has kinda sailed and there's nothing that can be done to prevent their use in other EU stories now. However, I don't think that effects the viability of one of them being a dark lord of the Sith who is operating in secret from the Jedi and the Republic before Palpatine reveals their return anyway.
Good to know the story is canon even though some fans will probably still continue to dispute that claim.
That's not big a deal. They could have well been known three thousand years in the past and just not known in the Republic/Empire time. Lots of things could have happened to make them not have contact with the galaxy at large...like isolation due to political reasons, etc.
Now THAT is how you do cover art.
Young Palpatine looks a little like TPM Obi-Wan.
I have the answer. About four or five months prior to the release of ROTS, Lucas decided to make Grievous a slimy, cowardly villain. That's why he's portrayed differently in the original Clone Wars cartoon and in the ROTS prequel book, the name of which currently escapes me. In the cartoon and the book, Grievous is portrayed as more of a scary badass while in ROTS and everything afterward, he's portrayed as a slimy villain who runs the first chance he gets. I think I read this in The Making of Revenge of the Sith book. But that is why Grievous's personality changed from his EU debut to Revenge of the Sith.
So it wasn't Luceno's fault. He worked with the portrayel of Grievous that was given to him. It was Lucas that changed it at the last minute. He can do that since he owns everything. Though I think I would have kept the early Grievous personality.
Indeed. We know Lucas changes his mind about stuff all the time.
Funny that you mentioned Cthulhu, because that's what the SW writers are aiming for with the big bad of the Fate of the Jedi series.
As if the whole thing about Chiss being relatively unknown in Thrawn's trilogy wasn't already screwed up enough, players can play a Chiss character in the upcoming The Old Republic MMO, set three thousand years before the Thrawn trilogy.
There's also a Chiss Jedi Padawan active during the Clone Wars.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kung'urama'nuruodo
Yeah. It kind of came out of no where their attacks and reaction. That character is beloved but that's no way to treat an author. I read R.A. received death threats in some cases. Not sure if that is true or not.
