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callmelydia

Allies Review, Part 2

Jun 30, 2010 13:16

In case you missed it, the review of the first half of the book can be found here.

Welcome to the second half of the book, where things are just nine leves of awful.

( rant is behind here )

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Comments 3

archaeologist_d June 30 2010, 18:07:24 UTC

Sorry it wasn't a better book. Except for Aaron, I wouldn't even have the slightest regret of dropping out of SW fandom. Thanks for reminding me of why I did. :(

gabri_jade July 1 2010, 12:07:59 UTC

but the biggest part of me recognizes that this character isn’t really Jaina at all, so whatever.

Ha, that's what I thought throughout DN and LotF.

“I wish the Ancestors would send someone to kick Daala’s…”

I'm betting it was less about Jaina being too polite to swear and more trying to get around LFL censoring. But oh, what a clumsy, amateurish way to do it.

Knowing that with his death, that awful scent that was not a scent had ceased to permeate his soul.

In addition to the scent-but-not garbage, this makes no sense whatsoever. So upon Jacen's death, the evil he'd embraced ceased to have any hold on him? Since when? Did Palpatine's darkness "cease to permeate his soul" when Vader threw him down that shaft? Like LotF's musings on the Force before it, this reasoning is both spurious and insulting.

“’Protected?’ Jaina burst out. ‘You were supposed to prevent anything happening to the Fountain, according to the Treaty. Seems like you didn’t. Seems like it got violated pretty darn good.’”Seems like a certain author thinks she's ( ... )

gabri_jade July 1 2010, 12:08:21 UTC

“All the caranaks in a row?”

Somewhat ironically, ducks are canon. They were first mentioned in the ANH novelization, written by George Lucas himself.

‘Compassion is for those who deserve it.’ Luke said.”

What you said. It could actually be really interesting to watch the character development that could turn Luke into a person who could say this (in the hands of a talented author like Blank or Knight_Aragorn, anyway), but the profic hasn't done that, therefore he shouldn't say it.

“No one knew exactly what was contained in this vast cluster. It was large enough to contain Shelter, and Daala’s Maw colony, where she had hidden for many years rebuilding her fleet. Neither organization had had a breath of knowledge about the other.” (272) Are you for real right now? One happened over a decade before the other. Of course the two didn’t relate to each other, THEY DIDN’T HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME. Good Lord, was no one associated with Lucas reading this before print?Facepalm. Epic, epic facepalm. Oh, to watch the continuity monkeys in ( ... )