The High Republic: A more civilized age...

[Reverend]

So I attempted Light Of The Jedi. I only read two chapters and barely started the third then I realized it was ANOTHER character’s POV. My biggest book pet peeve is multiple POV. I’m okay with two different people having chapters throughout but anymore than that and I lose focus.

The writing seemed weird too. I decided to just watch a review of it on YouTube and I’m glad I did. Knowing that part 1 is the longest (and most boring) of the 3 is disappointing. I don’t want to put up with it just to get to the potential good bits.

I’m holding out hope for Into The Dark because it’s written by Claudia Gray and I love her SW novels.

I'm at around the 70% mark and yeah the POV does shift...a LOT. I rather expected it to though since it was said to have been about the "great disaster" that's going to be the inciting incident for this era. Pretty much every disaster movie I've ever seen depends on that convention of multiple POVs to tell the story, since it's more about the event itself than the characters.

While I am enjoying it, I do wish it'd stay focused on one story a bit more.
Even after the halfway mark when the momentum shifts from the immediate response to the long term fallout, there's still so much going on that's only barely connected that it takes a while to cycle back to the POV I find the most interesting.
I almost wish the second half was split up more like an anthology with one story thread being told (more or less) to completion before starting the next one until they all (presumably?) come back together at the end.
I'm told there's a rather vital revelation/twist towards the end, so I'm resisting the urge to skim.

 

[JD]

StarWars.com has posted a preview of The High Republic Adventures #1. I wonder if Yoda is a darker green as part of the coloring for the comic, or if that's one of the way's they're showing he's younger? He also looks like he has less wrinkles, but that could also just be the art style.

 

[JD]

They posted the first episode of The High Republic last week. I haven't gotten around to watching it yet.

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They've also released a character video for Bell Zettifar

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[JD]

Chancellor Lina Soh character video

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[JD]

Dregir character video.

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[JD]

There've been a whole bunch of new character videos, but since the others didn't get much of a response I decided not to post them so I wouldn't end up with a million back to back posts. Here's the official Star Wars Youtube channel's The High Republic playlist.
Today Star Wars.com posted an announcement for Phase I Wave II of THR.
We'll be getting:

• New story arcs for the core THR comic and THR Adventures.
• A new manga series, The Edge of Balance, written by Justina Ireland and Shima Shinya
• Star Wars Insider #203 will feature a short story, Hidden Danger Pt. 1, also by Ireland
• The Rising Storm, a new adult novel by Cavan Scott
• Race to Crashpoint Tower, a new middle grade novel by Daniel Jose Older
• Out of The Shadows, a YA novel by Justina Ireland
• Tempest Runner, a "audio original novel", by Cavan Scott.
• Showdown at The Fair, a storybook by George Mann.

Tempest Runner will be the first THR story told from the perspective of one of the villains, Laurna Dee, an allie of the Nihil leader Marchion Ro.
It sounds like the big unifying event for this wave will be the Republic Fair on Valo, which ends up being attacked by the Nihil. The descriptions for Hidden Danger, The Rising Storm, Race to Crashpoint Tower, THR Adventures #6, Edge of Balance #1, and Showdown at the Fair all specifically mention the Fair and the Nihil attack.

 

[fireproof78]

There've been a whole bunch of new character videos, but since the others didn't get much of a response I decided not to post them so I wouldn't end up with a million back to back posts. Here's the official Star Wars Youtube channel's The High Republic playlist.
Today Star Wars.com posted an announcement for Phase I Wave II of THR.
We'll be getting:

• New story arcs for the core THR comic and THR Adventures.
• A new manga series, The Edge of Balance, written by Justina Ireland and Shima Shinya
• Star Wars Insider #203 will feature a short story, Hidden Danger Pt. 1, also by Ireland
• The Rising Storm, a new adult novel by Cavan Scott
• Race to Crashpoint Tower, a new middle grade novel by Daniel Jose Older
• Out of The Shadows, a YA novel by Justina Ireland
• Tempest Runner, a "audio original novel", by Cavan Scott.
• Showdown at The Fair, a storybook by George Mann.

Tempest Runner will be the first THR story told from the perspective of one of the villains, Laurna Dee, an allie of the Nihil leader Marchion Ro.
It sounds like the big unifying event for this wave will be the Republic Fair on Valo, which ends up being attacked by the Nihil. The descriptions for Hidden Danger, The Rising Storm, Race to Crashpoint Tower, THR Adventures #6, Edge of Balance #1, and Showdown at the Fair all specifically mention the Fair and the Nihil attack.

Thanks for compilling it all together. I've got to catch up on this.

 

[JD]

 

[thribs]

It took me a while but I finished the first novel, Light of the Jedi. Very enjoyable book. Easily one of the better Disney timeline novels. This new villain, Ro mentions his family escaped something. Could he and his family been Sith worshippers from Exegol? He seems to know more about the Jedi than he lets on. It could explain why he hides in this void as maybe the Sith are also after him.
Is it me or is there more to the relationship of Avar and Elzar? I expected them to kiss at the end.

 

[JD]

I doubt we'll see the Sith at any point in The High Republic, this is way to close to the prequels for them to have any kind of role.

 

[thribs]

I doubt we'll see the Sith at any point in The High Republic, this is way to close to the prequels for them to have any kind of role.

I’m sure the characters won’t see any Sith but I bet the reader will get some big reveal that some Sith was behind it all later down the line. I’m sure it won’t be for many books yet.
I still think Ro’s family has a connection to them.

 

[Ithekro]

The Sith could do their manipulation of things to set events in motion that favor them much later on. But no Jedi will find out about it. Whispers at most in the underworld. And any Jedi that does come across them....that one will die that novel before anyone hears about it in the Republic.

 

[JD]

OK, you guys brought up some good points.
Is this threat definitely separate from the Nihil and The Drengir?

 

[fireproof78]

The Sith could do their manipulation of things to set events in motion that favor them much later on.

Pretty much all they do.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Is it me or is there more to the relationship of Avar and Elzar? I expected them to kiss at the end.

They are -- or were -- "Jedi with benefits."

 

[Tuskin38]

I doubt we'll see the Sith at any point in The High Republic, this is way to close to the prequels for them to have any kind of role.

Well the 'Acolyte' D+ series they're making is set in the final days of the High Republic era, and is 100 to 50 years (not clear on this) before TPM. Though the description never mentions The Sith by name, just the Dark Side.

 

[JD]

Oh OK, maybe they could show up then.

 

[Reverend]

Technically the Sith can appear at any time prior to TPM so long as no one that can inform the Jedi Council they're still around survives the encounter.

 

[JD]

Yeah, you're right. I was thinking they weren't around, but they were, it's just that no one knew about them til TMP.

 

[USS Firefly]

Like when Darth Maul met a couple of Jedi and killed them before the they could report It to the council. There is even a good book about it