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Anyone else reading Last Shot? I’m about 70 pages in, and so far, this feels the most like a Legends book out of all the canon stuff I’ve read. I think it’s probably because it’s so unabashedly about two OT main characters in their prime, which we haven’t really had yet in canon (Heir to the Jedi was Luke on his own [and lousy], and the two Leia-centric books had her alone too, as well as significantly younger and older than the OT time frame). Anyway, I’m having a lot of fun with it.

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I just started it so I’m not very far in. So far I’ve really enjoyed the character writing but have been annoyed by the movie planet shoutouts. The section they’re in takes place like three years after ROTJ but they reference gourmet Endorian beans harvested by Ewoks and crop farming on Yavin IV. You could get away with that maybe 10 years after ROTJ but just three? No. Stuff like that makes me wonder how much the Story Group even vets these things.

That aside though, the story so far has been pretty good. Loved the opening.

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Tobar said:

The section they’re in takes place like three years after ROTJ but they reference gourmet Endorian beans harvested by Ewoks and crop farming on Yavin IV. You could get away with that maybe 10 years after ROTJ but just three? No.

I don’t get it. What’s keeping them from harvesting crops? Why do they have to wait 10 years?

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The Yavin one is slightly more forgivable. But if it’s anything like the Yavin from the old EU, there have to be thousands of safer worlds they’d turn to first before resorting to using Yavin like that. And I still maintain the 10 year limit on exploiting Endor to the point of having gourmet Endorian coffee. But that’s just the tip of that iceberg as I know later on in the book there’s a freaking Ewok that is an expert computer hacker. 😐

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joefavs said:

[…] and the two Leia-centric books had her alone too, as well as significantly younger and older than the OT time frame).

You forgot Moving Target.

It was forgetable.

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Think about the logistics of this. The battle of Endor just happened three years ago. But somehow in that time a coffee magnate has traveled out to Endor, found their local variety of bean, negotiated with the local Ewoks to harvest them for him, ramped up production to a galactic scale and successfully marketed it? That’s ridiculously improbable and silly. The Star Wars galaxy is made up of billions of planets, referencing the same handful over and over shrinks the galaxy.

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Tobar said:

Think about the logistics of this. The battle of Endor just happened three years ago. But somehow in that time a coffee magnate has traveled out to Endor, found their local variety of bean, negotiated with the local Ewoks to harvest them for him, ramped up production to a galactic scale and successfully marketed it? That’s ridiculously improbable and silly. The Star Wars galaxy is made up of billions of planets, referencing the same handful over and over shrinks the galaxy.

Same as it ever was, then.

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Why do they have to be producing on a galactic scale? It could be a weird little niche brand.

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Tobar said:

Think about the logistics of this. The battle of Endor just happened three years ago. But somehow in that time a coffee magnate has traveled out to Endor, found their local variety of bean, negotiated with the local Ewoks to harvest them for him, ramped up production to a galactic scale and successfully marketed it? That’s ridiculously improbable and silly. The Star Wars galaxy is made up of billions of planets, referencing the same handful over and over shrinks the galaxy.

ray_afraid said:

Yeah. Still don’t get it at all.

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It takes years to brew coffee, especially in star wars. Ray this is so obvious how are you not getting it.

Just kidding I have no idea what angle this is supposed to be going in but the level of thought put into it is hilarious.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

Tobar said:

Think about the logistics of this. The battle of Endor just happened three years ago. But somehow in that time a coffee magnate has traveled out to Endor, found their local variety of bean, negotiated with the local Ewoks to harvest them for him, ramped up production to a galactic scale and successfully marketed it? That’s ridiculously improbable and silly. The Star Wars galaxy is made up of billions of planets, referencing the same handful over and over shrinks the galaxy.

Same as it ever was, then.

Sadly. I really thought they were going to take the canon reset as an opportunity to dump the chaff and focus on quality. But the early Marvel revival and the Aftermath series proved otherwise.

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Tobar said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Tobar said:

Think about the logistics of this. The battle of Endor just happened three years ago. But somehow in that time a coffee magnate has traveled out to Endor, found their local variety of bean, negotiated with the local Ewoks to harvest them for him, ramped up production to a galactic scale and successfully marketed it? That’s ridiculously improbable and silly. The Star Wars galaxy is made up of billions of planets, referencing the same handful over and over shrinks the galaxy.

Same as it ever was, then.

Sadly. I really thought they were going to take the canon reset as an opportunity to dump the chaff and focus on quality. But the early Marvel revival and the Aftermath series proved otherwise.

Um, no, they’re both pretty good.

Not enough people read the EU.

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LuckyGungan2001 said:

Tobar said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Tobar said:

Think about the logistics of this. The battle of Endor just happened three years ago. But somehow in that time a coffee magnate has traveled out to Endor, found their local variety of bean, negotiated with the local Ewoks to harvest them for him, ramped up production to a galactic scale and successfully marketed it? That’s ridiculously improbable and silly. The Star Wars galaxy is made up of billions of planets, referencing the same handful over and over shrinks the galaxy.

Same as it ever was, then.

Sadly. I really thought they were going to take the canon reset as an opportunity to dump the chaff and focus on quality. But the early Marvel revival and the Aftermath series proved otherwise.

Um, no, they’re both pretty good.

Truly exceptional work:

The TIE wibbles and wobbles in the air, careening drunkenly across the Myrran rooftops-it zigzags herkily-jerkily out of sight. - Excerpt from Aftermath

The ki-a-ki bushes tremble in the warm wind, dark thorny scrubs whose gentle tremors call to mind an animal trying very hard not to be seen. The thirstgrass conspires with the breeze: whispers and shushes and hissed hushes. - Excerpt from Aftermath: Life Debt

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I haven’t read them but it’s pretty annoying when they just reference the same handful of planets from the movies. I mean you could come up with a thousand original planets with gourmet coffee, but it seemingly has to be one from the movies. It’s like if Han told Luke he looked like he was strong enough to pull the ears off a Tusken Raider or something; instead of an interesting new thing, we just get an old thing again. Make a moon called Kona IX or something, it’s automatically better.

Also it’s pretty clear to me (at least) that the Story Group isn’t really vetting stuff and is just signing off on broad strokes, so it’s literally just the old EU rubber stamp strategy applied to what is mostly garbage again. Sure, we had some good stuff, but for every Thrawn Trilogy, there was a Children of the Jedi and a New Jedi Order and a Courtship of Princess Leia. Yuck. I felt like they were saying they’d be really closely looking at stuff to ensure it all jived and made sense and that would mean there would be a quality control element and we’d have a new EU that was mostly good with some bad, but I suppose not.

Keep Circulating the Tapes.

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Tobar said:

LuckyGungan2001 said:

Tobar said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Tobar said:

Think about the logistics of this. The battle of Endor just happened three years ago. But somehow in that time a coffee magnate has traveled out to Endor, found their local variety of bean, negotiated with the local Ewoks to harvest them for him, ramped up production to a galactic scale and successfully marketed it? That’s ridiculously improbable and silly. The Star Wars galaxy is made up of billions of planets, referencing the same handful over and over shrinks the galaxy.

Same as it ever was, then.

Sadly. I really thought they were going to take the canon reset as an opportunity to dump the chaff and focus on quality. But the early Marvel revival and the Aftermath series proved otherwise.

Um, no, they’re both pretty good.

Truly exceptional work:

The TIE wibbles and wobbles in the air, careening drunkenly across the Myrran rooftops-it zigzags herkily-jerkily out of sight. - Excerpt from Aftermath

The ki-a-ki bushes tremble in the warm wind, dark thorny scrubs whose gentle tremors call to mind an animal trying very hard not to be seen. The thirstgrass conspires with the breeze: whispers and shushes and hissed hushes. - Excerpt from Aftermath: Life Debt

“Pretty good” not exceptionally perfect. Although I don’t see what’s so bad about that Life Debt excerpt.

Not enough people read the EU.

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Tyrphanax said:

Also it’s pretty clear to me (at least) that the Story Group isn’t really vetting stuff and is just signing off on broad strokes, so it’s literally just the old EU rubber stamp strategy applied to what is mostly garbage again. Sure, we had some good stuff, but for every Thrawn Trilogy, there was a Children of the Jedi and a New Jedi Order and a Courtship of Princess Leia. Yuck. I felt like they were saying they’d be really closely looking at stuff to ensure it all jived and made sense and that would mean there would be a quality control element and we’d have a new EU that was mostly good with some bad, but I suppose not.

Is Last Shot bad though? This just seems like a really nitpicky complaint to me. Doing a quick Google search, it seems like the reviews for the book are largely positive.

I haven’t read a bad book or comic from the new canon that I thought was bad. Well, I guess Heir to the Jedi was forgettable, and Shattered Empire and the Leia miniseries felt rushed. But on the whole I think it’s been pretty good. Even with the one or two goofy aspects, the Vader series was great. The Aftermath books were really good too and actually better than most of the old EU books I’ve read. I don’t know. Seems like the complaints are a little off base. The story group seems to give the creatives a lot of independence and freedom, and only step in when they need to or the creatives want them too.

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As I said in my original post, I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read so far. Minus the reductive nonsense.

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