I'm intensely curiously. Recently, I've put my foot in my mouth decided that the NJO may not be so bad. But I've heard so much and there is so many books.
So, what is the current state of the Galaxy? The Vong gone? What's with this "living" Force and the "No Light or Dark Side" stuff? OtakuPenguin fucked around with this message on 09-16-2004 at 02:06 AM.
Zonama Sekot is basically a fragment of the Vong Home-world and finding it fulfilled the prophecy and shut them the hell up. The reason they were unable to be seen by the force is because they committed such atrocities that the force essentially shut them off. They are beginning the process of returning from that but it will take time, it appears that they will integrate slowly into the Galaxy. The whole old order is dead. Empire and New Republic forces are working together and are forming a new unified government.
The Jedi are discovering that they don't know jack squat about the force and that many of their ideas were wrong or at least misguided. Yes You can still become evil through the force. But you can also become an avatar of good. It isn't the power that makes the choice. It is the being, and the way they choose to use that power. Remember from episode 4. The force flows through everything. It is everything. Does that sound like something that is evil or good? No. It just is. The way a person chooses to use that power is what determines good or evil. Use it to murder or for personal gain and you are going to go bad. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. However use it in a just cause and you will remain "pure"
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
They let the guy who created Drzzt write Star Wars.
Anakin Solo....Dead, after being made out to be something EXTREMELY important. Why? Author felt they should write him out. Oops.
Chewbacca....Dead, saving Anakin, who later died for no reason other than the one listed above.
While I'm sure the story continues interestingly, it still smacks to me of a small literary circle with authors who don't talk to one another about the direction they want to take things, and therefore go willy-nilly with whatever sounds good at the time.
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This one time, at Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael camp:
While I'm sure the story continues interestingly, it still smacks to me of a small literary circle with authors who don't talk to one another about the direction they want to take things, and therefore go willy-nilly with whatever sounds good at the time.
It's mostly Lucas' fault. He has veto power over the books and, in fact, it was his idea to kill off Chewbacca and Anakin because only bit characters that no one cared about had died after Chewbacca's death(which was intended to show that the Vong meant business). Poor Salvatore was terrified of writing Chewbacca's death scene. I read an interview where he said it took him nearly a month just to write the four pages that Chewbacca died in.
And President Borsk Fey'lya had the coolest death. I absolutely hated his character until he died. 
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael was all like:
Midichlorians.They let the guy who created Drzzt write Star Wars.
Anakin Solo....Dead, after being made out to be something EXTREMELY important. Why? Author felt they should write him out. Oops.
Chewbacca....Dead, saving Anakin, who later died for no reason other than the one listed above.
While I'm sure the story continues interestingly, it still smacks to me of a small literary circle with authors who don't talk to one another about the direction they want to take things, and therefore go willy-nilly with whatever sounds good at the time.
I hate to break this to you Deth but the writers were not the one who made the choice to kill off those characters. It was Lucas and he has said it before, I have told you thins but you keep chanting the same mantra despite the facts.
Also Anakin did more through his death than he ever could have in life. It set a whole chain of events in place.
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I have told you thins but you keep chanting the same mantra despite the facts.
Snoota fucked around with this message on 09-16-2004 at 02:35 PM.
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Azizza Model 2000 was programmed to say:
I hate to break this to you Deth but the writers were not the one who made the choice to kill off those characters. It was Lucas and he has said it before, I have told you thins but you keep chanting the same mantra despite the facts.Also Anakin did more through his death than he ever could have in life. It set a whole chain of events in place.
Blah blah blah "more in his death than he ever could have in life" my EYE. And hiding behind Lucas doesn't work because he's the dickhead who, despite kicking things off, then turned around and wrote in star wars mitochondria as the thingers that let people feel the Force, which seems to contradict the vaunted story about why the Vong can't feel the Force.
For that matter, if the Force is a sentient energy that surrounds and binds all living things together, how is it that the Vong got disconnected? They're alive, right? Even the fucking BORG from Star Trek, who've replaced much of their bodies with unliving metal, are still living creatures. Sounds like more inconsistencies to me.
And I don't want to hear how Salvatore was so scared to write Chewbacca's death. He did it. Like it or not. Lucas or not (don't get me wrong, I respect the guy for creating the setting and the movies, but jebus...). The excuse is that they needed a "serious" death? That's because they filled the author pool with shitty writers who made the EU a joke, and they scrambled and overcompensated to fix it.
I will even buy into the idea that the Force in and of itself is an energy field that can be turned Light or Dark. But don't try to sell me on the idea that the EU is heading anywhere but into the crapper.
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And the force cut the Vong off due to their past. Think Karma
It seems to me the people who dont' like the books are the ones who see it as "their Universe" It isnt' Lucas created it. If he decides that the whole damn thing implodes in the next book then that is what happens. Azizza fucked around with this message on 09-16-2004 at 03:19 PM.
*edited because i seemed too odd for my own tastes* Trahyrn fucked around with this message on 09-16-2004 at 03:29 PM.
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If he decides that the whole damn thing implodes in the next book then that is what happens.
That doesn't mean we have to like it. Get over yourself.
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Densetsu enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
That doesn't mean we have to like it. Get over yourself.
I am not the one claiming that I should have the say in how the books are written and what should happen in them. Azizza fucked around with this message on 09-16-2004 at 04:41 PM.
Lucas doesn't go to the authors and say, "Hey, I want you to write this book, and it must contain this and this and this."
The writers offer a proposal of the book and its summary of events to Lucas, and he either says yes or no to it.
The deaths of Chewie and Anakin WERE the writer's faults, Lucas just said it was okay after they proposed it, because he doesn't really care where the universe goes as long as it remains Star Wars.
Don't condemn the whole fucking series because you're some douche who plays favorites with horrible characters.
my Imperials =(
