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Arcsquad12 posted:Meetra Surik. Vaner. Wasn't there a TOR character called "Jet Nebula"? That would be a bad name for Buzz Lightyear's new sidekick. Moruth Doole is a retroactively bad name because it sounds like a Spoonerism for Darth Maul.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Wasn't there a TOR character called "Jet Nebula"? That would be a bad name for Buzz Lightyear's new sidekick. Doole is the limp dick frog picture made into a Star Wars character. They're called Rybets for god's sake.
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Jul 27, 2016 06:56
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Arcsquad12 posted:Doole is the limp dick frog picture made into a Star Wars character. They're called Rybets for god's sake. Ye gods. I mean, I haven't read the Anderson trilogy since I was a teenager, but I didn't get that gently caress-awful joke species name until just now when you pointed it out. That's just the turd cherry on top of that poo poo sundae of a trilogy. Years later, it can still make me realize it's even worse than I thought. God drat. EDIT: God drat.
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Jul 27, 2016 07:17
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Anderson is still better than Denning.
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Jul 27, 2016 07:20
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I still enjoy the Jedi Academy trilogy. It's just lunatic nonsense, but it's entertainingly bad. Let's take the solo twins to the holographic museum!
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Jul 27, 2016 09:02
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I have to admit, I'd rather have the stuff like Waru and the Shell Hutts and Bowie Palpatine and Luke falling in love with a computer than Star Wars 40K. What's the weirdest, most "Huh?"-inducing thing in a Bantam era novel? For me it's always been the Wampa that Luke dismembered in ESB returning to take his revenge in Darksaber.
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Jul 27, 2016 09:13
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Arcsquad12 posted:I still enjoy the Jedi Academy trilogy. It's just lunatic nonsense, but it's entertainingly bad. Let's take the solo twins to the holographic museum! Doesn't that have the "Lost Little Bantha" chapter? And if so that is the best chapter in the EU.
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Jul 27, 2016 11:05
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Arcsquad12 posted:Meetra Surik. Vaner.
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Jul 27, 2016 11:17
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To be fair to Anderson, "Rybet" might have been one of those things that came from the West End Games stuff in the 80s and that Zahn and Anderson and the other early Bantam era drew from. (In which case, it might actually have been a Denning creation since he did some of the WEG stuff before later being brought into NJO novels.) The weirdest Bantam-era thing for me is definitely Planet of Twilight, with Leia meeting Daala's ex-boyfriend who produces holographic Hutt porn.
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Jul 27, 2016 15:20
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don't kinkshame
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Jul 27, 2016 15:25
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No idea if this is accurate, because I don't know if they'd even know yet, but the number is very specific. https://www.amazon.com/Thrawn-Star-Wars-Timothy-Zahn/dp/0345511271/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1469632400&sr=1-2 This says length is 256 pages. Seems pretty short.
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Jul 27, 2016 16:15
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thrawn527 posted:No idea if this is accurate, because I don't know if they'd even know yet, but the number is very specific.
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Jul 27, 2016 16:19
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Casimir Radon posted:Yeah, that sounds like it will be his shortest book. Almost fitting since he's also written the longest SW book. I thought the longest was Star by Star?
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Jul 27, 2016 16:20
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It certainly felt like the longest book I've ever read! 
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Jul 27, 2016 16:33
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The funny thing about Vision of the Future being so long is that originally it and Specter were supposed to be just one book, but he was allowed to make it two books, and then Vision ended up being literally twice as long as Specter because he realized he had a lot more stuff to cover than he originally was planning.
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Jul 27, 2016 16:37
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Chairman Capone posted:The funny thing about Vision of the Future being so long is that originally it and Specter were supposed to be just one book, but he was allowed to make it two books, and then Vision ended up being literally twice as long as Specter because he realized he had a lot more stuff to cover than he originally was planning.
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Jul 27, 2016 16:59
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I've been rereading the Let's Read thread, does anyone still have the final Bounty Hunter Backstab flowchart?
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Jul 27, 2016 20:12
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Jul 27, 2016 20:34
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The True Guild betrayed itself?
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Jul 28, 2016 03:28
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Canemacar posted:The True Guild betrayed itself? You have hardly even begun to plumb the depths of that chart's madness.
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Thanks! dublish posted:You have hardly even begun to plumb the depths of that chart's madness. I've tried to pick favorites between Bossk simultaneously betraying himself, Boba Fett, and a homeless man, which ends up with Bossk as the target of another betrayal, or the Kuat of Kuat quadrant of the chart, but they're both too good. The real madness is trying to trace how many betrayals ultimately start at Xizor.
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Jul 28, 2016 03:56
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We could convert it to an SVG with tooltips to explain the insanity.
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Jul 28, 2016 03:58
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The web of betrayals is confusing enough as it is but it really isn't helped by how the trilogy seemed to jump back and forth between present day and flashback, but it a) wasn't always clear when it had jumped back; and b) Jeter sometimes seemed like he'd forgotten when he was writing a flashback and ended up with flashback scenes looking like they were taking place in the present. Basically, the problem was that there was just way too much going on in the framing story.
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Jul 28, 2016 04:56
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I don't have time to reread the trilogy right now, but if someone gave me notes on the various nodes of the flowchart I could build something in my spare time.
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Jul 28, 2016 05:01
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Link to the first Let's Read thread?
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Jul 28, 2016 06:18
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i81icu812 posted:Link to the first Let's Read thread? It's in the OP, but here. You'll need archives to view it. As the OP of the Let's Read thread, this chart was the thread's greatest achievement, and I had nothing to do with it. And I'm totally fine with that.
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Jul 28, 2016 12:26
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I don't remember look being in the bounty hunter trilogy?
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Jul 29, 2016 19:30
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KildarX posted:I don't remember look being in the bounty hunter trilogy? Kuat of Kuat betrays Luke with the stupidest scheme ever: plant fake evidence that Xizor killed Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.
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Jul 29, 2016 20:20
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KildarX posted:I don't remember look being in the bounty hunter trilogy? It really doesn't matter. Luke is tertiary to the story, kuat planting fake evidence was just part of yet another plot to pit xizor against Vader and also destroy the bounty hunter guild so the empire could hire them without paying union dues and other madness.
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Jul 29, 2016 21:04
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Fomenting a bounty hunter civil war to make it easier to hire the best of the best without guild rules getting in the way while simultaneously eliminating them as an underworld rival is a good one for Xizor to have but roping in Vader and Palpatine stretched its credibility a bit.
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Jul 30, 2016 02:09
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So was Xizor really written to be that much of a Mary Sue type character?
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Canemacar posted:So was Xizor really written to be that much of a Mary Sue type character?
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Canemacar posted:So was Xizor really written to be that much of a Mary Sue type character? A bit, sure. He'd be okay if they'd stopped at making him the most powerful criminal mastermind other than Jabba but they included this whole thing where he's treated as a serious rival to Vader's status as the Emperor's favourite (the EU had quite a few political rivals for Vader who wanted to usurp his position as Palpatine's number tw, all the way back to Baron Tagge in he original Marvel comics). However, in the Shaoldows of the Empire novel, it's toned down a fair bit and it's clear Palpatine is basically humouring him to make sure Vader isn't losing his edge (and also because he's a giant prick). It's sort of like in Empire at War where Tyber Zann is a crime boss who's meant to be able to fight both the Empire and the Rebels on even terms at the same time. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Jul 30, 2016 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:However, in the Shaoldows of the Empire novel, it's toned down a fair bit and it's clear Palpatine is basically humouring him to make sure Vader isn't losing his edge (and also because he's a giant prick). That whacky Sheev!
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Jul 30, 2016 03:19
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I believe he prefers to be called Sheev "The Senate" Palpatine.
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Jul 30, 2016 04:01
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Wheat Loaf posted:Sheev "I Threw The Senate at him" Palpatine.
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I finished reading Life Debt on Saturday, and I thought it was pretty good, as far as these things go. But what really stood out to me (though probably only because I'm in the middle of reading the X-Wing books for the first time) was the similarities for Wedge. Spoilers for Life Debt ahead: In The Krytos Trap, Wedge decides to ask Iella out on a date, only for her husband to reappear and then turn out to be a brainwashed Imperial Spy/Assassin. In Life Debt, he hooks up with Norra, only to have her husband reappear. Who then turns out to be a brainwashed Imperial Spy/Assassin It's like poetry, it rhymes.
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cptn_dr posted:I finished reading Life Debt on Saturday, and I thought it was pretty good, as far as these things go. I'm surprisingly okay with Wedge being Greg Grunberg's step-dad.
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Was there a book, Legends and/or current canon, that dealt with how Leia dealt with her biological father's identity? I think I remember reading that she wasn't as quick to accept it as Luke was but that was so long ago I could have just imagined it.
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Trojan Kaiju posted:Was there a book, Legends and/or current canon, that dealt with how Leia dealt with her biological father's identity? I think I remember reading that she wasn't as quick to accept it as Luke was but that was so long ago I could have just imagined it. I can't think of anything other than a bit in the Thrawn trilogy that just barely touched on it. Oh, and his Force Ghost visited her in Truce at Bakura but she told him to go pound sand. Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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