Star Wars Books Thread
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Oh I don't know, most movies manage to stick to just one planet and not be boring.
Seriously though, it really depends on the kind of story you're telling. Given the setting it seems like the logical choice for a Ben Kenobi film would be to pattern it more directly after John Ford's westerns and Akira Kurosawa's samurai movies.
Think 'The Searchers' meets 'Yojimbo'.
From a character study point of view, we've still yet to see how the Kenobi from RotS became the Kenobi of ANH. There's the potential for an inner spiritual journey there. A crucible. You don't need a spaceship ride for that.
I finished Rebel Rising. It was very heavy but a great read. I was white-knuckled the whole time. The fact that Jyn had such a hard life made her death in the movie all the more sad.
Finished Dark Disciple
It was a pretty good book, although it had some flaws. Ventress was written very well, and I liked her and Vos together. But, once Vos was captured and turned the book just wasn't as good as it was for about the 3/4ths before that point. It wasn't bad at all, but Vos being evil and the stuff around it wasn't as interesting as Ventress and Vos working together. Vos was the weaker of the two main characters the whole time. I liked him well enough, but Ventress is the character I was invested in the most.
Ventress's death was done well. It felt like the appropriate end to her story, and I like that she actually got respect from the jedi in the end (even Mace Windu, who was a gigantic asshole in the book). Overall, A solid book with a bit of a weak last section but still enjoyable despite that, and a good end to a SW character I like a good deal.
Slight aside, but I've realized that between TCW cartoon and this book that Mace Windu sucks. He's just a arrogant jerk. I think Samuel L Jackson playing him in the movies is the only reason Windu isn't one of the worst prequel jedi.
Ventress's death was done well. It felt like the appropriate end to her story, and I like that she actually got respect from the jedi in the end (even Mace Windu, who was a gigantic asshole in the book). Overall, A solid book with a bit of a weak last section but still enjoyable despite that, and a good end to a SW character I like a good deal.
Slight aside, but I've realized that between TCW cartoon and this book that Mace Windu sucks. He's just a arrogant jerk. I think Samuel L Jackson playing him in the movies is the only reason Windu isn't one of the worst prequel jedi.
Yeah, I agree with you overall, esp. in regards to the 3/4ths point part.
Funny thing, apparently that gap is supposed to be where the Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir comic miniseries takes place (both it and the novel were adapted from un-produced episodes, so I guess that Dark Disciple would've been a single chunk story in TV form?).
The Maul comic is also apparently getting a graphic novel reprint from Marvel, which should be nice for new fans, given that copies of the original paperback are in the hundreds now for price tag.
Hopefully they'll do a digital version this time. They did eventually release the individual issues digitally, but not the collection.
I was three chapters away from finishing Lost Stars but I just couldn't make it. Though I did look up the ending. It was enjoyable to read about the events of the original trilogy through other characters' pov.
I found Thane's pov much more interesting than Ciena's but maybe it's because Ciena got on my nerves. Her unwavering honor to the Empire and justifications for all it's evil made me want to shake her senseless!
I would have preferred it to have been Thane's story rather than "Romeo and Juliet in Space."
I found Thane's pov much more interesting than Ciena's but maybe it's because Ciena got on my nerves. Her unwavering honor to the Empire and justifications for all it's evil made me want to shake her senseless!
I would have preferred it to have been Thane's story rather than "Romeo and Juliet in Space."
Ciena's attitude was one of the things I liked most in the book. I thought it was really interesting to see the ways a decent person could justify working for the Empire, and in general I thought it was nice to get some Imperial characters who weren't bad guys. I'm not pro-Empire, but I do like it when stories can give us new insights into the bad guys.
That's what bothered me. She was a good person. I can somewhat understand her reasoning early on but when she finally realizes the Empire is not what she thought, she still stays because she still thinks that good things can be achieved.
Like I said, I did enjoy it. I really only stopped because it seemed to drag on.
Like I said, I did enjoy it. I really only stopped because it seemed to drag on.
It's worth keeping in mind that for the most part, Ciena was fairly well insulated from the reality of what the Empire was really like as for most of her service she was essentially shipbound.
By the time the full horror of hat she'd been a part of became clear, she felt like there was no honourable way out. That may seem silly, but for someone brought up in that kind of culture, it's a very real, almost tangible thing. To act against it would feel downright repulsive, even if not in an altogether rational way. So, rock and a hard place basically.
By the time the full horror of hat she'd been a part of became clear, she felt like there was no honourable way out. That may seem silly, but for someone brought up in that kind of culture, it's a very real, almost tangible thing. To act against it would feel downright repulsive, even if not in an altogether rational way. So, rock and a hard place basically.
Preview of the next Darth Vader issue
https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2017/06/preview-of-marvels-star-wars-darth-vader-2-2/
https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2017/06/preview-of-marvels-star-wars-darth-vader-2-2/
They've revealed a ton of new book covers and descriptions at Comic-Con today.
I always like backstory stuff so Cobalt Squadron could be interesting, and The Visual Dictionaries are usually pretty cool.
I always like backstory stuff so Cobalt Squadron could be interesting, and The Visual Dictionaries are usually pretty cool.
I'm really looking forward to Leia: Princess Of Alderaan.
Likewise. Claudia Gray is two-for-two so far.
I'm curious to see how The Legends of Luke Skywalker will be presented. My guess is that they'll be a collection of tall tales and highly fictionalized accounts ("Luke Skywalker? I thought he was a myth!") but presented from an in-universe perspective.
Yeah, the Leia book certainly has my attention too.
Both because Claudia Gray's been great so far and because for some bizarre reason it's such a rarely touched upon part of the backstory, even in the old EU.
I mean I assume it's about her life between RotS & ANH. Unless I missed something obvious?
Bonus points if some of those stories are straight out of Legends material.
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