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I have just learned the terrible truth: The Young Jedi Knights series of young adult Star War fiction books by inflamed writer Kevin Orenthal James Anderson + wife has better plotting, story and characterizations than any of the movies produced under Disney corporation. In fact it has many of the same ideas but instead of being loving dumb as balls, it's only regular EU-level stupid. for instance: Instead of the Emperor coming back and literally making Snokes, some of his Emperor guards have been piecing together old video clips of the Emperor to make people think he is alive but he actually isn't. (just like Disney is doing with Carrie Fisher ) Also the new Empire is kidnapping children to be soldiers and evil Jedi, but some of them have moral qualms over doing bad things and one of them is a childhood friend of Jaina Solo, Han Solo's daughter who likes flying (he also has a son, Jacen, who likes animals). So there is a lot of conflict going on there that flows naturally instead of being "I woke up one day and felt shooting civilians is bad and shooting my old colleagues is hilarious". There is also a girl called Tenel Ka that needs to be the best at everything but she does a real poo poo job at building a lightsaber and during a sparring session it blows up and her whole arm gets cut off. Holy poo poo there's some Hogwarts level safety hazards going on at Luke's school! But then she decides she doesn't want a robot arm like Luke and prefers a stump and she does okay anyway. Chewbacca's nephew Lowbacca is also there.
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# ? Jan 22, 2020 14:13 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 04:45 |
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Don't forget that the solo kids go to alderaan to get leia a hunk of dead planet for mother's day in these books
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# ? Jan 22, 2020 16:54 |
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That's a beautiful gift.
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# ? Jan 22, 2020 16:56 |
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Is this the same Kevin J Anderson that wrote Darksaber and the Dune EU
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# ? Jan 22, 2020 16:58 |
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zoux posted:Is this the same Kevin J Anderson that wrote Darksaber and the Dune EU It's the same one but from a different camera angle.
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# ? Jan 22, 2020 16:59 |
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Is darksaber the one were a hutt dude builds a death star but only the laser and then it runs into an asteroid?
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# ? Jan 22, 2020 17:02 |
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Mooey Cow posted:It's the same one but from a different camera angle. Same guy that came up with the Sun Crusher?
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# ? Jan 22, 2020 17:03 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 04:45 |
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Yes. It is a mystery why there are no super Death Stars in the Young Jedi Knights books except for that disease some organization is inventing that only kills humans or something. But it is possible it was in fact his wife that was doing most of the writing.
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# ? Jan 22, 2020 17:06 |