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Metal Loaf posted:Have to admit, the more I hear about him the more he comes off like, "Gotta have sex and violence, or they won't realise how mature it is!" Supposedly he managed to convince them that it would go interesting places so they allowed it. Spoiler: didn't go interesting places.
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api call girl posted:Reminder that he also pushed LFL for the trade-sex/impregnation-for-fleet thing with Tenel Ka. What I did like about this is how, after that scene in Dark Nest I (where Tenel Ka says that the price of the fleet is Jacen "spending the night with me") all the conservative Christian members of TheForce.Net kept insisting that didn't mean sex, it just meant she wanted to hang out with Jacen and chat with him...And then the next book happened and somehow those claims all mysteriously disappeared. For a similar reason, one of my non-ironically favorite things Traviss did was introduce the gay Mandalorian couple. It was only hinted on for the first few books and all those same conservative Christians posters kept insisting that everyone who thought they were gay were just liberal gay-agenda pushers and their hero Traviss would never desecrate a holy institution like that. Strange how none of them seemed to raise that point after the reveal...
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I'm rereading the Thrawn trilogy for the first since in...15 years? The writing is pretty hokey, and they shoehorn a lot of references to the films in (which I can forgive since it's the first major EU work and they probably needed some bridging language), but I think the reason why it's remembered so fondly is that it feels way more like Star Wars film than pretty much any other EU book. Also, if you don't see Thrawn as a blue Stephen Colbert I don't know what to tell you.
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Silver Brushes posted:I'm rereading the Thrawn trilogy for the first since in...15 years? The writing is pretty hokey, and they shoehorn a lot of references to the films in (which I can forgive since it's the first major EU work and they probably needed some bridging language), but I think the reason why it's remembered so fondly is that it feels way more like Star Wars film than pretty much any other EU book. Well poo poo, now I need to reread the series with that image in my head.
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Yeah upon my reread (technically, re-listen) I noticed the same thing about all the references to the OT. It really stands out if you've been reading later EU for awhile. I think each chapter has a like from the OT verbatim in it.
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It's important to remember that the OT might not have been readily available on VHS in 1991, I don't know I was 3. Installed KOTOR II and restored content mod, maybe I'll like it this time.
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Dick Trauma posted:Treat Williams was in Empire? Echo Base Trooper (uncredited) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001852/
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WhyteRyce posted:It took my forever to figure out how to assign someone as a decoy. I was mad when I figured it out I just had to click another tab My "main" game had me (As the republic) holding a blockade over Corescant for YEARS and eventually I had Vader and Palpatine in prison, but Han and Chewie were imprisoned on Corescant. Why was I having so much trouble breaking people out of prison? loving Admrial Ozzel was force sensitive on the planet, and catching EVERYTHING. That game was an impressive time sync. You'd look up four hours later and realize you did practically nothing.
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May 18, 2013 02:42
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On the plus side you get hilarious stories like a force sensitive Admiral Ozzel foiling your plans
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Conquistador posted:On the plus side you get hilarious stories like a force sensitive Admiral Ozzel foiling your plans Seriously. That makes a really hilarious mental image.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Seriously. That makes a really hilarious mental image. Thousands of Bothan spies died to bring us this information.
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May 18, 2013 16:06
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When Vader told the Emperor that Luke was on the shuttle going to Endor, the Emperor said that he could not sense him and questioned Vader's sense. Why couldn't the Emperor sense him, and was there some plot meaning behind it?
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There is a Vader/Luke incest fanfic that explains that
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api call girl posted:Thousands of Bothan spies died to bring us this information. I thought that was Manny Both-Hanz.
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Ok, so I've read the han solo books and then I wanted to go ahead and attempt to read all the important books in chronological order. I tried reading lost tribe of the sith, but I can't get into it and scrapped that idea. I was wondering if there are any worthwhile Boba Fett books out there? Also should I still read thrawn even though the new movie is going to be different supposedly?
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If you care about the new movies effect on EU you might as well stop reading entirely man. I personally like the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy by KW Jeter, but most people here do not.
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May 19, 2013 14:11
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Well, we sort of ironically liked it after that Lets Read where it turned out to one of the more utterly insane Star Wars books.
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Conquistador posted:If you care about the new movies effect on EU you might as well stop reading entirely man. I personally like the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy by KW Jeter, but most people here do not. Is that the only "noteworthy" fett books? I guess the new movies don't matter really, I think I'll read them still.
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It's not a novel, but if you can find Tales of the Bounty Hunters, check out Daniel Moran's short story "The Last One Standing," which is the best Boba Fett story bar none. And it's a different medium and a different Fett, but the comic "Jango Fett: Open Seasons" is also excellent, and also ties in with the above short story. I highly recommend both of those works as a guy who normally doesn't like either Fett at all.
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Healy posted:Is that the only "noteworthy" fett books? I guess the new movies don't matter really, I think I'll read them still. Dark Horse has an omnibus of Boba Fett comics, which collected popular miniseries such as Enemy Of the Empire, Death, Lies and Treachery and Twin Engines Of Destruction.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Well, we sort of ironically liked it after that Lets Read where it turned out to one of the more utterly insane Star Wars books. Involved flowcharts.
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Calax posted:Involved flowcharts. Anyone still have those? They were amazing.
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cptn_dr posted:Anyone still have those? They were amazing. I'd worry that this is a spoiler and link it, but it doesn't make any sense to those of us who read it, there's no way it'll make any sense to someone who hasn't. 
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thrawn527 posted:I'd worry that this is a spoiler and link it, but it doesn't make any sense to those of us who read it, there's no way it'll make any sense to someone who hasn't. It's rendered even more incomprehensible because it can't possibly factor in the flashbacks (which the author always seemed to forget were flashbacks).
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May 20, 2013 16:32
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Then there was the dude with a frigging blaster cannon for a head.
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It involves Cradossk saying one of the weirder things uttered in the EU, which now has a Wookiepedia entry.
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Casimir Radon posted:It involves Cradossk saying one of the weirder things uttered in the EU, which now has a Wookiepedia entry. Of course it does.
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Casimir Radon posted:It involves Cradossk saying one of the weirder things uttered in the EU, which now has a Wookiepedia entry. And yet the food pirates from The Glove of Darth Vader are sadly not represented yet. What kind of an encyclopedia is that!?
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Chairman Capone posted:And yet the food pirates from The Glove of Darth Vader are sadly not represented yet. What kind of an encyclopedia is that!? 
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Yeah, I was gonna say...
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I've read that book series probably 5 times and I have no loving idea what that chart is trying to tell me besides I probably read it 5 too many times. I still really enjoy it though.
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Anyone hear any more about this? http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/new-star-wars-animated-series-set-for-2014-debut/ yronic heroism fucked around with this message at 09:27 on May 21, 2013 |
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May 21, 2013 09:17
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If it is animated, It might not be too bad.
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SeanBeansShako posted:If it is animated, It might not be too bad. Considering the creative team is a guy from Clone Wars and the creator of Gargoyles/producer of Spectacular Spider-Man, it might actually be really good.
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Having just gotten into Clone Wars recently, I am excited about this.
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thatguyclint posted:Considering the creative team is a guy from Clone Wars and the creator of Gargoyles/producer of Spectacular Spider-Man, it might actually be really good. I give it two seasons. Three at most.
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I remember Gargoyles being good, or was I just too young to notice it was crap. Then again, I'm probably not their target audience so maybe thats a moot point.
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