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Oh crap, please don’t tell me that even Star Wars is going all vampire, too.
Dear God, no.
‘From Ben.’ ‘Another letter filled with teenage talk, I assume. Girls, speeders, allowance woes-‘”
While it would be nice to hear of such things from Ben and under other circumstances this would be a nice touch, I think it's rather OOC at this point. Ben's been through way too much way too recently for this to sound believable, even as banter.
-Crap, now Allston is using “barvy”.
ARGH.
Luke is now giving a brief tutorial on the planet, and I realize that it might be necessary since we haven’t really been here since the YJK series or Courtship of Princess Leia, but would Ben of all people really need to know this?
Info dump. I'm generally inclined to give Allston the benefit of the doubt, but this sort of information can be inserted far more subtly if it needs to be. Far too many people reading these books know all about Dathomir.
-And speaking of rancors, it only took us till the
( ... )
So we still hate non-humans, but chicks are cool. Yay, progress!
Indeed. And it only took-what, sixty years or so? Sigh.
-Due to some loop holes the Kuati Senator put into place with the latest rounds of Emergency Executive Privileges, her senatorial committee would take control of the budget if those powers were enacted. So her big plan is to dispose of Jag, have Lecersen become Imperial Head of State, spin Daala to look bad in the media and make her resign, use her power over the budget and influence with the military to become Alliance Chief of State, marry Lecersen and become the first Empress of the “reforged Empire”.
Unless they can write political maneuvering in a truly interesting way, like Blank did with Son of Suns, authors should just stay away from it. This is, IMHO, boring even for the length of a single paragraph.
-More short jokes for Luke.
Sigh.
-And, naturally, these witches found Vestara first and adopted her into their clan. They’re already protective of her and don’t want Luke near her.Well, that's
( ... )
A pox on Traviss for bringing Mandos into the picture at all.
But Raynar shows up to send the apprentice back to his post and take on the Mandos himself. Dear Allston, why must you be combining Denning and Traviss’s prize characters in your books?
Raynar? Raynar Thul? I've tried hard to banish the DN books from my memory, I admit, but wasn't he, like, totally incapacitated and imprisoned by the Jedi? What's he doing beating up Mandos? Does he actually have an apprentice of his own? Was his recovery covered at all anywhere between DN and now, or is he just popping in out of nowhere?
-She starts a fire outside the mechanic’s shop and sneaks inside.
Oy, a wee Jedi arsonist. Just what we needed.
-R2 wakes up and saves them all. If he hadn’t, Zekk and his Hapan chick were hiding in the hangar ready to attack, but still wanting to obey R2’s order of stay hidden from 3PO and Allana.
Unless they can write political maneuvering in a truly interesting way, like Blank did with Son of Suns, authors should just stay away from it. This is, IMHO, boring even for the length of a single paragraph.
Agreed. But so far this is the only mention. We haven't seen anything from the Moffs since, and the book is halfway over. Can Blank just be in charge of rewriting the whole EU? I'd pay top dollar for those books and wouldn't ever gripe if they were all published in hardback like the current crap.
Pardon my apparently dirty mind, but "Broken Columns" does not seem to be a good symbolic choice of name for an all-male tribe. Ouch.
Never thought of that, but an incredibly valid point. Maybe that's why there's such a fearsome debate to change their names.
Ben and Vestara? Did I predict that? I can't keep track of my own profic snark these days.
I'm pretty sure it was you. Although I'm sure this won't be something you'd be excited about calling.
I want a new round of wacky YJK-type adventures, and one of the volumes needs
( ... )
Hmmm... I think you're smelling a plot bunny all yer own... And what's wrong with admitting it? (Aside from the fact that this is fandom and then we'll all want to see you do it, that is...)
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Oh crap, please don’t tell me that even Star Wars is going all vampire, too.
Dear God, no.
‘From Ben.’
‘Another letter filled with teenage talk, I assume. Girls, speeders, allowance woes-‘”
While it would be nice to hear of such things from Ben and under other circumstances this would be a nice touch, I think it's rather OOC at this point. Ben's been through way too much way too recently for this to sound believable, even as banter.
-Crap, now Allston is using “barvy”.
ARGH.
Luke is now giving a brief tutorial on the planet, and I realize that it might be necessary since we haven’t really been here since the YJK series or Courtship of Princess Leia, but would Ben of all people really need to know this?
Info dump. I'm generally inclined to give Allston the benefit of the doubt, but this sort of information can be inserted far more subtly if it needs to be. Far too many people reading these books know all about Dathomir.
-And speaking of rancors, it only took us till the ( ... )
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Indeed. And it only took-what, sixty years or so? Sigh.
-Due to some loop holes the Kuati Senator put into place with the latest rounds of Emergency Executive Privileges, her senatorial committee would take control of the budget if those powers were enacted. So her big plan is to dispose of Jag, have Lecersen become Imperial Head of State, spin Daala to look bad in the media and make her resign, use her power over the budget and influence with the military to become Alliance Chief of State, marry Lecersen and become the first Empress of the “reforged Empire”.
Unless they can write political maneuvering in a truly interesting way, like Blank did with Son of Suns, authors should just stay away from it. This is, IMHO, boring even for the length of a single paragraph.
-More short jokes for Luke.
Sigh.
-And, naturally, these witches found Vestara first and adopted her into their clan. They’re already protective of her and don’t want Luke near her.Well, that's ( ... )
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Yay! :D
-Yep, Mandos are attacking the Temple. Fabulous.
A pox on Traviss for bringing Mandos into the picture at all.
But Raynar shows up to send the apprentice back to his post and take on the Mandos himself. Dear Allston, why must you be combining Denning and Traviss’s prize characters in your books?
Raynar? Raynar Thul? I've tried hard to banish the DN books from my memory, I admit, but wasn't he, like, totally incapacitated and imprisoned by the Jedi? What's he doing beating up Mandos? Does he actually have an apprentice of his own? Was his recovery covered at all anywhere between DN and now, or is he just popping in out of nowhere?
-She starts a fire outside the mechanic’s shop and sneaks inside.
Oy, a wee Jedi arsonist. Just what we needed.
-R2 wakes up and saves them all. If he hadn’t, Zekk and his Hapan chick were hiding in the hangar ready to attack, but still wanting to obey R2’s order of stay hidden from 3PO and Allana.
Wait, when did they come into the picture?
-Back with the ( ... )
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Agreed. But so far this is the only mention. We haven't seen anything from the Moffs since, and the book is halfway over. Can Blank just be in charge of rewriting the whole EU? I'd pay top dollar for those books and wouldn't ever gripe if they were all published in hardback like the current crap.
Pardon my apparently dirty mind, but "Broken Columns" does not seem to be a good symbolic choice of name for an all-male tribe. Ouch.
Never thought of that, but an incredibly valid point. Maybe that's why there's such a fearsome debate to change their names.
Ben and Vestara? Did I predict that? I can't keep track of my own profic snark these days.
I'm pretty sure it was you. Although I'm sure this won't be something you'd be excited about calling.
I want a new round of wacky YJK-type adventures, and one of the volumes needs ( ... )
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