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jivjov posted:Zahn's continued insistence that all of his books, regardless of which continuity they were released into, all all canonical to each other bemuses me. You go, bud Yeah, I find it funny too, but it handcuffs him. It's the reason he has to keep making prequels, because he can never move forward in his story, otherwise he'd step on his holy trilogy.
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thrawn527 posted:Yeah, I find it funny too, but it handcuffs him. It's the reason he has to keep making prequels, because he can never move forward in his story, otherwise he'd step on his holy trilogy.
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Casimir Radon posted:At some point I’d like them to let some select authors write Legends material once in a while.
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Nov 30, 2022 00:14
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There was the continuation of the original 1980s Marvel comics a few years ago, too. Even included a few of the artists from the original Marvel run.
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Casimir Radon posted:At some point I’d like them to let some select authors write Legends material once in a while. You mean as in add to the Star Wars Legend canon currently? Maintain two lines of canon for Disney Star Wars? I mean, Marvel already manages two separate canons all the time with their Prime vs. 616 Universes in the comics. I think a "Star Wars: What if" or "Star Wars Legends" cartoon series would be a big hit and get Disney back a whole lot of goodwill the sequel trilogy poo-pooed away, but I think Disney would never go for it as it would be admitting maybe they made some missteps in handling the property. Continuing to read Allegiance. It's not bad, I like seeing an author handle the early relationships between the OT trio, where they are still rough around the edges and wary of each other, rather than old friends and married. Lolled at the part where Mara Jade runs into Darth Vader in a library though, just doesn't seem like something Darth Vader would due, surely he has his own computers in his own castles to do all the google searching he needs?
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 quote:Cal Kestis has built a new life for himself with the crew of the Stinger Mantis. Together, Cal’s crew has brought down bounty hunters, defeated Inquisitors, and even evaded Darth Vader himself. More importantly, Merrin, Cere, Greez, and faithful droid BD-1 are the closest thing Cal has had to a family since the fall of the Jedi Order. Even as the galaxy’s future grows more uncertain by the day, with each blow struck against the Empire, the Mantis crew grows more daring.
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I need to get around to finish playing Fallen Order sometime.
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He's going to go to Cloud City and turn on the emergency fallen guy sucker upper so that Luke can fulfill his destiny.
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I feel like when you've killed one Inquisitor, "redeemed" another, and survived a fight with Vader then really the rest of the Inquisitors shouldn't bother you all that much 
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Where do Fallen Order and Andor line up on the timeline? Obviously Andor's not the kind of show where Cal can just pop in and start slicing up stormtroopers, but it would have been funny if (Andor spoilers) when Luthen was telling Saw he needed to burn his source, Saw was like gently caress that, I'll call up my ginger Jedi friend and that Imperial ambush is gonna get murdered
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ninjahedgehog posted:Where do Fallen Order and Andor line up on the timeline?
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ninjahedgehog posted:Where do Fallen Order and Andor line up on the timeline? Andor is 5 BBY, Fallen Order is 14 BBY (with the sequel set 9 BBY, around the time of Kenobi and just after Solo).
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Speaking of Outbound Flight earlier here, it and Survivor's Quest (along with Republic Commando: Triple Zero and Old Republic: Fatal Alliance) were announced as being part of the next Essential Legends line. Gives credence to the rumors Thrawn will be a major figure in the Ahsoka show.
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drat, no wraith squadron. I wonder if the first four rouge books were greenlit when Jenkins' film was still in active development
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I recently read the second nuThrawn book and I kinda liked the parts where it's just a Thrawn/Darth Vader buddy cop movie. Also that Anakin was always a dumbass and that Padme shot a guy in the nuts with a grappling hook.
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jivjov posted:drat, no wraith squadron. I wonder if the first four rouge books were greenlit when Jenkins' film was still in active development I hadn’t thought of that, but it makes a lot of sense.
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Chairman Capone posted:Speaking of Outbound Flight earlier here, it and Survivor's Quest (along with Republic Commando: Triple Zero and Old Republic: Fatal Alliance) were announced as being part of the next Essential Legends line. Gives credence to the rumors Thrawn will be a major figure in the Ahsoka show. What's "Essential Legends"? Stories that they are going to adapt?
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Essential Legends are just the current reprints of popular EU books to differentiate them from Disney Canon.
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They're specifically reprinted in trade paperback format, wider and taller than standard mass market, and feature fancy new cover art. Kinda a curated collection of iconic or particularly "important" stories like the Thrawn trilogy
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They’re also going back and recording unabridged audiobooks for them. Typically the old audiobooks would be seriously cut down to fit on a couple cassettes, so 3 hours long. Uncut these stories can run 10+ hours.
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And while they're probably not going to be adapted straight, a lot of them do seem to tie in (even just thematically) to canon stuff that's getting released, like re-releasing Kenobi a month before the Obi-Wan show, or reprinting a lot of Old Republic era stuff to go along with the High Republic era they've established and the KOTOR remake. They've also avoided publishing anything that specifically steps on the toes of the new canon. Nothing they've announced has been set any later in the timeline than the Thrawn Trilogy, and the rest is stuff that doesn't really contradict the canon in a meaningful way. So we probably won't see anything from the New Jedi Order onwards, despite those books being pretty Essential in terms of creating the Legends timeline.
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Casimir Radon posted:They’re also going back and recording unabridged audiobooks for them. Typically the old audiobooks would be seriously cut down to fit on a couple cassettes, so 3 hours long. Uncut these stories can run 10+ hours. Wait, which books are getting this treatment? I remember those lovely abridgements from back in the day and the fact they might be doing unabridged Legends audio in the 2020s is something I never even dreamed of. If you wanted unabridged SW books back in the day, you had to get them from Library for the Blind. Which I fortunately did 'cuz, ya know, blind. Although the Darth Bane Trilogy was an "official" audiobook and the narrator was absolutely perfect. He's probably part of why people such as myself liked teh books so much.
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Man I do not think these new covers are an upgrade. Yeah, the old ones are cheesy as hell, but so are the books.
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Bantam Era had some amazing cover art that oozed genre fiction. Early Del Rey had some decent ones too, Dark Tide Onslaught and Dark Tide Ruin wouldn't be out of place among several modern Sci fi cover artwork collections.
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NikkolasKing posted:Wait, which books are getting this treatment? I remember those lovely abridgements from back in the day and the fact they might be doing unabridged Legends audio in the 2020s is something I never even dreamed of. The Essential Legends line started with unabridged audiobooks of all of them, but unfortunately starting with the prior wave they seemed to have stopped with the audiobooks.
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Pretty sure they’ve upgraded the audiobooks on all of them unless there was already an unabridged one. The Bacta War just got one. I hope they continue with the Wraith books.
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Wait are Krytos Trap and Bacta already out re-released? gently caress I need to get them
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thrawn527 posted:My god. It's perfect. Right down to having the wrong star destroyers. Those are post-Yavin Imperial II destroyers, dammit.
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Just hire this guy to make book covers now that they’re either too cheap for Struzen or he lost interest.
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Casimir Radon posted:Just hire this guy to make book covers now that they’re either too cheap for Struzen or he lost interest. He retired after Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. They gave him a ton of money to do one of the posters for Force Awakens, though (one which I think was maybe only available at Celebration?). I'm not 100% certain but around the time he did the TFA poster I feel like he had some health issue, maybe. I did recently see a quote from him about enjoying getting hired to do the covers for the Bantam books. According to him, Lucas was the one who personally suggested to Bantam that he be hired to do the covers.
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Chairman Capone posted:He retired after Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. They gave him a ton of money to do one of the posters for Force Awakens, though (one which I think was maybe only available at Celebration?). I'm not 100% certain but around the time he did the TFA poster I feel like he had some health issue, maybe.
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My one annoyance with the 90s EU covers is that they only had the rights to Mark Hamill etc.'s appearances as of 1983, so they weren't allowed to age them up or even alter their outfits too much even if the book took place decades after RotJ. It's pretty lol, but kinda heartwarming, that Leia still wears the dress the Ewoks made her 30+ years later
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ninjahedgehog posted:My one annoyance with the 90s EU covers is that they only had the rights to Mark Hamill etc.'s appearances as of 1983, so they weren't allowed to age them up or even alter their outfits too much even if the book took place decades after RotJ. It's pretty lol, but kinda heartwarming, that Leia still wears the dress the Ewoks made her 30+ years later In the 90's, it mostly worked, I think. The problems came later, as the timeline got further along and they got older, and all they could really do was make them look waxier and like their faces were melting off their heads. Like here, in Crucible. How this was ever approved, I'll never know.  This is criminal. All three of them look awful in their own, unique ways.
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I guess the artist looked around them for old people and concluded that "botox gone wrong" was the one shared feature.
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Some of the development ideas for what Luke would look like in TFA are really wild after so many years of EU covers with Luke as "Mark Hamill but older." Obviously they ended up with just "OT Luke with beard" but the Art of TFA and TLJ books has stuff like Luke with a topknot, or Luke with tattoos.
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