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My only real complaint about the High Republic so far is how thickly they lay on “We are all the Republic”. This is the least screwed up the galaxy has ever been in a story, at least on the surface, but they overdid it a bit knocking the point home.
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I’ve never watched an episode. It looked like such a visual downgrade from TCW or Rebels, and aimed much more at kids. Now after the Sequel Trilogy has concluded I can’t really be made to care about poo poo that’s very tied into it.
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Apr 16, 2021 05:33
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Started it, haven’t gotten very far yet. I’m sure I’ll be happy with it. Alliances wasn’t that great, but otherwise Zahn has been doing pretty good lately.
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Apr 28, 2021 02:03
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From what I remember it was commissioned but then got bumped because another author was friends with someone in licensing. Then it just never came out and the guy quit writing. It was posted online by the author 5 or 6 years ago I think. I never actually read it. So what do we think of The Bad Batch?
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May 7, 2021 03:16
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I feel really dumb now because I somehow missed that it was young Kanan I liked it so far. Rebels never really came close to achieving the same greatness TCW did. I’m hoping this trends closer to that. If I had to guess about Omega, She looks like a young Satine. Not sure what benefit that would have unless it’s ultimately going to have something to do with the Mandalore succession issue that The Mandalorian season 2 was hinting at
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May 7, 2021 03:53
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Amazon themselves, not a third party seller, sold me a bootleg Blu-ray last year. They have fully stopped giving a poo poo.
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May 7, 2021 05:16
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I never got around to reading it when it was online. I’m kind of tempted to grab a copy just to have a weird bootleg that almost was part of the EU. Looks like it was supposed to be set right after ROTJ. So the likely candidate for bumping it is Kathy Tyler’s whistling dinosaurs.
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May 8, 2021 03:32
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Because of bad writing that decided everyone on the planet is a rugged cowboy, Texas. Better than half the population down there has delusions about being a cowboy.
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May 9, 2021 22:50
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Look like Amazon took down Heart of the Jedi. I was thinking $10 wasn’t a big deal for a silly little piece of Star Wars history, but I guess I waited too long.
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May 12, 2021 22:11
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I just noticed that Shatterpoint is getting an unabridged Audible release in July. It specifically mentions that it’s Legends in the title. Could be a good sign. Rogue/Wraith Squadron never had unabridged releases, so they were trimmed down to fit on a couple of cassettes. Choices of One got missed for some reason. Maybe they’re starting to see the value in the old material.
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May 16, 2021 04:22
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The point is they went to the trouble of producing an unabridged audio version of an 18 year old Legends book. Seeing how old it is I doubt it’s something they had done and were just sitting on. Might mean more is in the pipeline.
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May 16, 2021 16:25
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I really wish they’d do Rogue/Wraith. The cutting that went into jamming books onto a couple cassettes was really drastic.
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May 16, 2021 18:58
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They were supposed to resemble the Vong specifically to make them angry that their image had been replicated onto machines. loving Denning characters. I was so sick of Alema Rar, Vestara, and Ship by the time Disney finally poo poo things down. What’s funny is Crucible isn’t that bad as far as Denning books go. He just failed to wrap things up despite being told to do so. He did put some stuff in there about how the main three were going to pull back and let the younger generation handle things more. Which is hilarious because that was a big theme in the NJO, and then it didn’t actually happen until a book set 16 years after that conflict was over.
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Jun 3, 2021 22:04
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Zany was kind of inching towards a view of the proper way a Jedi ought to use the Force in the trilogy. Hand of Thrawn has it front and center as a theme.
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Jun 22, 2021 00:42
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His appearances were ok. Rukh wasn’t handled well. I’m kind of curious to see if Thrawn’s appearance in Galaxy of Fear is better than Rebels.
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thrawn527 posted:I agree Rukh wasn't handled well. Rebels’ writing was quite the downgrade from TCW. You didn’t get dumb filler droid episodes or anything, but the highs were just never as good. I think the best episode was the one where Kallus gets stranded on a moon with Zeb and they have to work together to survive. Kallus sees how Zeb’s crew is happy to get him back, and then nobody back in the Empire gives a poo poo that he’s alive.
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Jun 22, 2021 05:26
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It’s just the one reference now. But it’s probably going to get more in the next few projects.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:16
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Black Fleet Crisis’s mil sci-fi stuff is kind of cool, BUT… It’s a mess. The Luke and Lando storylines are both tacked on wet farts, and a lot of the other writing is pretty bad. There’s some stuff at the beginning of the second book where the alien guy who is the last of his kind wants to be a fighter pilot so Ackbar drops everything he’s doing and bullies the New Republic military until they let him do it. I read the NJO first and one of those books has a subplot about the Yevetha being wiped out by the Vong, and made the whole conflict sound a lot more interesting than it actually turned out to be.
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Jun 22, 2021 15:24
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I think it might be the series where she refuses to learn the Noghri guard’s names because they’re just going to die anyway.
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Jun 22, 2021 17:48
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One thing that really annoyed me when I moved from young adult novels to adult ones was how much of a non-character Brakiss is. YJK built him up to be some huge bad guy, and his only real appearance is in The New Rebellion. It’s only really a cameo, and of course the book isn’t very good. Stackpole had him as a background character in I, Jedi, to help flesh out the academy portions of the book. But that was more of an afterthought.
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Jun 24, 2021 03:22
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Comes back and is made president because of her track record of incompetence and also gently caress you.
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Jun 24, 2021 14:20
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Just the first book getting unabridged? I’d love to see the whole series since abridgment is a crime.
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Jun 24, 2021 17:07
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Someone should ask him if he’d be willing to put a list of annotations out online.
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Jun 24, 2021 17:21
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 The one true answer.
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Jun 25, 2021 16:51
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I’ve listened to a bit of The Rising Storm, it’s been good so far. Picks up about a year after Light of the Jedi.
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Jun 29, 2021 22:39
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Worth it for a scene of Anakin getting increasingly angry that Thrawn insists he isn’t pronouncing Mitth'raw'nuruodo correctly, and to just call him Thrawn. The Ascendancy Trilogy seems very much like Zahn is getting to write what he wants without any sort of mandate from Lucasfilm.
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Jun 30, 2021 04:20
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I think the novel the Drenghir get introduced in is a YA novel too. So that could be confusing. I accidentally bought one of the kids’ novels on Audible and listened to it. At this rate they’ll probably introduce important stuff in one of those.
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Jul 9, 2021 21:02
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The thing that nags at me after the most recent 5 Zahn books, is whether Thrawn is really this bad at politics, or just wants people to think he is. It just keeps getting brought up. Feels like a nod to the list of things Sherlock Holmes is supposedly incompetent at, which included not knowing about heliocentricism.
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Jul 11, 2021 00:54
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He has a cameo in the don’t do drugs trilogy in YJK. He mentions he made some mistakes without elaborating, but it s better now.
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Jul 14, 2021 18:23
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I think that only really happens in The Truce at Bakura.
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Jul 14, 2021 18:40
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Don’t know that I’ll ever revisit the NJO. It was often overly dark, what followed was dumb as poo poo, and 20 books is a huge commitment. Besides which I originally read them as a depressed high school student, and don’t feel like dredging that period up.
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Jul 15, 2021 01:07
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So back when I was a kid I read through all of Galaxy of Fear except a couple that I didn’t see at the bookstore. They were #9Spore and #12The Hunger. The latter of which was the final book in the series. So for shits and giggles I picked up a copy of Spore and read it. The first 6 books involve the Imperials’ Project Starscream. Which is mostly an excuse for the main characters, the Arranda siblings and their shapeshifting uncle, Hoole, to stumble into Goosebumps in space scenarios. How any of it was ultimately supposed to fit together is never explained, and the guy running it gets killed by one of his creations in book #6. But the horror scenarios don’t cease for 6 more books, they’re just unconnected. In Spore the Arranda sibling, Tash(Girl with some force potential) and Zak(Boy-Does machines) touch down on Ithor to resupply. But one of the items they require is mineral to repair their engines, and Ithorians aren’t big on mining because it’s bad for the environment. So Fandomar, an Ithorian they met, volunteers to shuttle them out to a nearby asteroid mine. The supply ship gets attacked and damaged by Space Slugs as seen in ESB, and they’re rescued by the miners. The miners offer to trade the mineral to them if Hoole provides his anthropological insight into something they recently dig up. So everyone takes a spacewalk into vacant slug hole where they find a door carved into a rock and a statue of an Ithorian that’s clearly indicating that they should not open the door. Of course this is a horror story so the head miner opens it anyway and sets off a booby trap that temporarily traps them in the hole. When they get out and make it back to the mining station who else but Jerec has shown up, and is demanding to be taken to the hole. Cameos from movie and EU characters were pretty common in this series. Like, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, and Boba Fett show up multiple times. Thrawn, and Dash Rendar also get cameos. Fandomar and her mentioned but unseen husband are from a Dave Wolverton story printed in Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina. Though I didn’t remember that. The head miner bullshits Jerec into waiting a while to go back, and when they do they encounter a dead miner who has had his oxygen line cut. Whatever was behind the door has been stolen. Hoole finds markings alluding to something called “Spore”, but this is a kids’ book so he gets dumb and can’t make an educated guess as to what that means. Jerec is pissed and orders everyone back to the mining complex to figure out who stole it. But on the way back in an explosion depressurizes the station. Jerec and his men escape in their ship, and the Arrandas and miners board Fandomar’s ship. During the escape Fandomar shoves one of the miners out the airlock, albeit in a pressure suit, and tries to introduce sleep gas into the head miner’s oxygen supply. In the confusion they crash into the surface of Ithor. As it turns out the head miner attempted to go back and steal Spore, and was infected by what turned out to be a failed Ithorian gene splicing project. Being a bunch of space hippies they didn’t want to just kill a deadly space parasite they takes over your brain and makes you infect everyone else you come in contact with. So they stuck it out on an asteroid and hoped nobody would stumble on it. Fandomar admits to having told an Imperial officer of its existence to get them to stop torturing her husband. Which is where Jerec heard about it. Spore infects Zak, Hoole, and an Ithorian medical team responding to the crash. Jerec shows back up and informs Spore that he has a totally brilliant plan to overthrow the emperor. He just needs Spore to infect his crew, and then a sizable enough portion of the Imperial military so he can challenge Palpatine. Jerec demonstrates that Spore can’t directly infect him by swatting back an assimilation attempt with the force, but this is still clearly a really stupid plan. So Spore, and his infected followers, join Jerec aboard his Star Destroyer, the Vengeance. Tash and Fandomar sneak aboard and kidnap Zak and Hoole. Then steal ships and get Jerec to chase them into the asteroid field. Which is full of slugs who destroy the Star destroyer and everyone on it except Jerec. With the primary host dead everyone else who was infected goes back to normal. You’re not told exactly how Jerec explained his way out of losing his entire ship and crew while doing something insane. Despite a gently caress up of this magnitude, while trying to do treason no less, he is given another Star Destroyer, and later the unique SSD he has in Jedi Knight. Because this series is Goosebumps but in space it has to end on a stinger. Which is that Spore is once again dormant, and floating around waiting for the next dumbass to infect. Given the allowance that this is a grade school level book I can’t be too harsh on it. It does exactly what it sets out to do just fine. I read the two YJK books I missed a few years ago, and despite those ostensibly being more for middle school age kids the writing is incredibly dumbed down, to the point they were painful to read. These elementary level books are honestly written more competently than the couple of YJK books I read as an adult. While it’s easy to poke holes in the plot now, I definitely would have enjoyed this as a kid. I’ll probably grab a copy of The Hunger a little later.
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SW and the 90s kids horror craze were a huge part of my childhood so I can’t be overly harsh on them. Despite the silliness of the book I was still relatively entertained. YJK on the other hand was just a slog to get through two books as an adult. KJA dumbed the reading level on them way down to the point I don’t think JJK could possibly be at a lower reading level.
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Jul 19, 2021 17:09
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I read most of JA, and a few of the JQ books but was aging out of them by that point. Jude Watson carved out a nice little niche for herself. She also co-wrote the two Star Wars Science Adventures books. In which a kid gets stuck in an escape pod with R2 and Threepio, and then treks across an unknown world with them. All while learning scientific principles. It ends on a cliffhanger that is never resolved.
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Jul 19, 2021 19:52
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I’ve got to wonder if some of that wasn’t a mandate to slim down the number of Jedi going forward? I heard Marvel did some thing where they had an arc where they de powered a ton of mutants characters because they had too many. Supposedly Lowbacca’s banishment at the end of Bug Nest Orgy was because George didn’t want Wookie Jedi anymore.
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Jul 20, 2021 21:45
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Just because it’s navigable doesn’t mean there’s facilities or as much reason to go there.
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Jul 21, 2021 16:49
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Leaks suggest that Lars Mikkelsen will be live action Thrawn. He was already the voice actor in Rebels. Mena Massoud will be the live action Ezra Bridger.
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For what it’s worth it was on multiple sites, though they could very well just all be sourcing each other.
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Jul 26, 2021 15:04
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Lusa, Raynar’s horse girlfriend, is killed off-screen in Star by Star. She was introduced in The Crystal Star, and was later brought back for YJK. Lyric, a mermaid girl from JJK, got killed off-screen in some other book. I’m sure there are a lot more examples.
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The Ascendancy ones have very little baggage, I like them.
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