Chairman Capone posted:

Kind of sad that that character isn't singing Leia's drugged out version of the main theme from the Holiday Special.

Chairman Capone posted:

I actually thought the comic adaptation of the Thrawn novel was one of the rare occasions where a comic adaptation was better than the original. I don't think either one was great, but I think the adaptation's art added a lot, while also trimming out a lot of unnecessary stuff from the novel.

That being said, I've kind of dipped out of Star Wars comics after the Rise of Kylo Ren. I never read more than a few of the Darth Vader or Aphra comics but one of these days I could see myself buying some trades and going through those. I think I might just need a bit of a Star Wars detox, but getting back into a backlog of good Star Wars trades I could see being fun.

The Poe Dameron comic had a decent start, then a bit of a lull, and then its last two story arcs were really strong, on the level of the old X-wing comics. If it had kept up that quality from the start, I think it would be held up as a modern-era classic, instead of... kind of forgotten like it seems to be.

OhFunny posted:

Oh and I think this is the first portrayal of a trans character in Star Wars. One of the main characters is non-binary too.

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And in the wake of Vector Prime’s release, you would’ve been asked to do the novelization for Episode II?

R.A. Salvatore: Yes, they asked me, and my first response was actually no. There’d been controversy with Vector Prime and Chewbacca. Shortly after that, my brother passed away. It was a very tough time. I do want to say that the Star Wars fans were great, and even the ones who weren’t happy about Chewbacca, I understood why. So, I took a pass on Episode II, but then my friend Terry Brooks called me, and he’d written the novelization of The Phantom Menace. He said, “Are you crazy? You get to work with George Lucas!” He helped me get out of my dark place and told me that this was something I wanted to do.

Chairman Capone posted:

It's especially funny because in the new Disney canon, it was specifically stated somewhere that Vader blew up the Tantive IV after capturing it, but Abrams just disregarded it because he wanted to include it for symmetry. I think there were a few other things in TROS that also just ignored existing continuity from the books, but can't remember what by this point.

Not to say that movie makers shouldn't ignore stuff like that, but it's just funny because the argument for ditching the EU was "we can now build a totally-cohesive continuity where reference books and movies are equally valid" and... whoops!

Siivola posted:

"Adopted daughter of Space Hitler" doesn't really scan very well these days.

Chairman Capone posted:

I mean, I think we all know it's going to be something like Rey's mom's grandmother was the captain of the Disney Hotel Starship

Humerus posted:

Luke has his saber in the flashback(s) in TLJ, but he uses Anakin's in his force projection at the end of the movie (to gently caress with Kylo). I swear it's in that little hidey hole next to Leia's when he gives that to Rey in TRoS but I've only seen it once so I can't be 100% sure.

jivjov posted:

I'm actually right now trying to get caught up on a bunch of new releases that have come out and I've backburnered due to having something resembling a social life now. I've been prioritizing High Republic stuff but once I'm done with that, what should be my next read? The Ascendancy trilogy finale? Ronin? Brotherhood? Queen's Hope?

General Battuta posted:

I don't understand.

Zoran posted:

I appreciate Fey'lya for having a name that really follows the George Lucas tradition.

SirPhoebos posted:

That's not how you pronounce a 'y' or an 'a'.

Jazerus posted:

Star Wars: Traitor, Chapter 11 posted:

For the sake of argument, suppose the conquest of Coruscant has caused casualties on an unimaginable scale.

Suppose ten billion people died in the Yuuzhan Vong bombardment.

Suppose twenty billion more were killed in the ground-quakes that accompanied the alteration of the planet’s orbit.

Suppose another thirty billion have since starved to death, or been killed by Yuuzhan Vong search-and-destroy teams, or have been poisoned, or eaten, or otherwise died from contact with Vongformed life.

Suppose an additional forty billion have been enslaved, or interred, or otherwise held captive by the Yuuzhan Vong.

These supposed numbers are exactly that: pure supposition. Imaginary. Even when Coruscant’s planetary database had been intact, the global census had been mostly guesswork. In the wake of the conquest, there was no practical way to number the missing and the dead. One hundred billion is an unreasonably high figure—probably outrageously inflated—but even so.

Subtract these casualties from the preconquest population of Coruscant.

There are nine hundred billion people left over.

Nine.

Hundred.

Billion.

Robot Style posted:

I remember before Episode 9 came out, one of the more consistent fake leaks / fan theories was that the Resistance would bolster their army by reactivating an old droid factory. It could have been a nice way to bring things full circle and continue the "underdogs defeat a technologically superior enemy" theme by having the previously cutting edge droid army become the ragtag obsolete fighting force.

Coruscant is definitely a weird omission from the sequels, especially since it almost made it in a few times. Abrams originally wanted to blow it up in 7 before being told no and coming up with Hosnian instead. Then Trevorrow was going to include it in his version of 9 as the slum-ridden capitol of the First Order, and Abrams originally had it in his version of the movie as the site of Palaptine's resurrection before creating Exegol like two months before filming.

Arquinsiel posted:

Desert party planet gets named, but even after playing that level in Lego Star Wars like two hours ago I can't remember what it is.

Casimir Radon posted:

Did anyone ever read The Princess and the Scoundrel?

Casimir Radon posted:

It looked like Tales of the Jedi came out. Anyone watch it yet? Kind of disappointed that it looks like it’s prequel era rather than the KOTOR era of the 90s comics.

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Cal Kestis has built a new life for himself with the crew of the Stinger Mantis. Together, Cal’s crew has brought down bounty hunters, defeated Inquisitors, and even evaded Darth Vader himself. More importantly, Merrin, Cere, Greez, and faithful droid BD-1 are the closest thing Cal has had to a family since the fall of the Jedi Order. Even as the galaxy’s future grows more uncertain by the day, with each blow struck against the Empire, the Mantis crew grows more daring.

On what should be a routine mission, they meet a stormtrooper determined to chart her own course with the help of Cal and the crew. In exchange for help starting a new life, the Imperial deserter brings word of a powerful, potentially invaluable tool for their fight against the Empire. And even better, she can help them get to it. The only catch — pursuing it will bring them into the path of one of the Empire’s most dangerous servants, the Inquisitor known as the Fifth Brother.

Can the Imperial deserter truly be trusted? And while Cal and his friends have survived run-ins with the Inquisitors before, how many times can they evade the Empire before their luck runs out?

jivjov posted:

Also, the final "reveal" that Qui-Gon literally just overslept and missed Obi-Wan's call feels excessively juvenile.

jivjov posted:

And the author had to rewrite a scene or two cause he accidentally copied a plot point from TRoS (hidden storeroom in the wreckage of the DSII)

bunnyofdoom posted:

So basically, the Emperor knew about Ahch-To, and didn't send a star destroyer to just freaking purge it and all the Jedi stuff there? Or loot it?

bunnyofdoom posted:

But then in TLJ we see that, nope, the Tree Temple full of all the Jedi books is basically untouched?

Casimir Radon posted:

“World between worlds”? Some new thing they’re going with?

Chairman Capone posted:

People think that it's going to be a big part of the Ahsoka show. I think it was also part of the Treverrow version of Episode IX, if I'm remembering right.

bunnyofdoom posted:

lol if they use it to retcon the sequel trilogy.

Chairman Capone posted:

This is just rumored leaks so who knows if it's true but according to said alleged leaks the WBW will be used to show us an alternate ROTS where Ahsoka fights Vader on Mustafar, which might also have Hayden Christensen back as well