what character is this?

you scrub

lol

Why is OT.com attracting all the lonely 8 year olds all of a sudden?

what chracter is that?? What?? ::: ears begin to bleed ::::

That's Associate Chief Fnelthr Plux of the Kalkmaar tribe. He and a faction loyal to him broke away from Chief Onf over the mistreatment of a captured Tusken from another tribe. The whole story was told in a SW short story collection, Tales of the Dune Sea, for everyone who wondered what Tuskens, Jawas, Krayt Dragons, and womp rats really did. Another pearl of modern EU, naturally.

Maybe its a trophy in Anakins home,lol.

Just Kidding.  You know he massacred all those sandpeople in episode II.  " They're like animals.  and I slaughtered them like animals.  Not just the men.  But the women and the children too. I HATE THEM!"

While reading that quote imagine a whiny Hayden voice.  Sullen.  Like a child denied a cookie and sent to time out.

vote_for_palpatine said:

That's Associate Chief Fnelthr Plux of the Kalkmaar tribe. He and a faction loyal to him broke away from Chief Onf over the mistreatment of a captured Tusken from another tribe. The whole story was told in a SW short story collection, Tales of the Dune Sea, for everyone who wondered what Tuskens, Jawas, Krayt Dragons, and womp rats really did. Another pearl of modern EU, naturally.

Man, I really wanted to make something like that up last night and post it, but I wasn't feeling very creative. You hit on the the exact same kind of contrived and over explained post I invisioned. Great minds think alike. Excellent post!

Indeed, C3PX - every side character, no matter how obscure or unimportant, now deserves an entire backstory in the post-SE world of SW. Sure I made all that up, but does that sound implausible to anyone here?

Thanks for your compliments. I'd compliment your posts, but most of them are top shelf and you'd get tired of the barrage of flattery. I love this forum - so many thoughful people here.

Yeah, at first I thought you were joking, as I intended too. Then it dawned on me that you might be serious. Then I reread it and felt confident that if Tales of the Dun Sea was real, you wouldn't be calling it a gem of the EU.

Thank goodnes, at first I thought this is some costume from a sicko German fetish pr0n movie...

Oops, did I say that aloud?

OMG will you people chill out. You turn every single post no matter what its about into an opportunity to complain about the PT and EU. It's exhausting.

Some people like the EU and if they do why not write a story about that obscure little character in the background. It makes the movie more alive. At least for me it does.

AxiaEuxine said:

OMG will you people chill out. You turn every single post no matter what its about into an opportunity to complain about the PT and EU. It's exhausting.

Some people like the EU and if they do why not write a story about that obscure little character in the background. It makes the movie more alive. At least for me it does.

 You don't understand - I'm not militant about the PT/SE; I'm poking fun at it. I had fun writing that post, and at least one person here enjoyed that effort.

And honestly, I have read many of those backstories - several of them are well done. I can't wait to find out the the asteroid creature from ESB is a former Jedi, and that his attempt to devour the Falcon was a well intended attempt to save Han, Leia, and company from capture at Vader's hands. The light side can work in mysterious ways.

I am also not a EU hater. I have often come on here and talked about bits of it I have liked.

You're telling me to chill out? I promise you, I am as chill as they come. If I were any more chill, you'd have to thaw me out.

I think you need to chill out, Axia. You seem to take this stuff rather personally. I reassure you, it isn't personal. No one here thinks less of you for liking the PT/EU. We were not even really bashing the EU in this thread, we were just making a few jokes about it.

I submit to you that they are nether reductive or stupid. I enjoy them.

vote_for_palpatine said:

And honestly, I have read many of those backstories - several of them are well done. I can't wait to find out the the asteroid creature from ESB is a former Jedi, and that his attempt to devour the Falcon was a well intended attempt to save Han, Leia, and company from capture at Vader's hands. The light side can work in mysterious ways.

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Vaderisnothayden said:

AxiaEuxine said:

I submit to you that they are nether reductive or stupid. I enjoy them.

You may enjoy them, but that doesn't mean they're not reductive and stupid. There's so much stupid shit in the EU that really brings the SW universe down.

 

That's true, overall the EU is a worthless pile of bunk, especially since the PT came along and everyone felt compelled to try and incorporate it. (Although, for me, the EU was ruined as soon as Vector Prime came along and started the NJO series. What a pretentious piece of garbage that was!)

Although I still contend that, for all the pomposity and stupidity of the overwhelming majority of SW EU, there are still a few treasures that are, lamentably, all-too-often thrown out with the bathwater, so to speak. The Rogue Squadron books (including "I, Jedi") are superb; that series is really the cream of the crop as far as I'm concerned (excepting Starfighters of Adumar; it was a complete let-down). The Thrawn Trilogy is, of course, quite masterful, though Zahn's other SW work is pretty unremarkable. I also recommend the Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson: it's a good series overall, even though there are occasional moments of sheer stupidity. A lot of the old "Tales of the Jedi" comics are superb as well.

vote_for_palpatine said:

That's Associate Chief Fnelthr Plux of the Kalkmaar tribe. He and a faction loyal to him broke away from Chief Onf over the mistreatment of a captured Tusken from another tribe. The whole story was told in a SW short story collection, Tales of the Dune Sea, for everyone who wondered what Tuskens, Jawas, Krayt Dragons, and womp rats really did. Another pearl of modern EU, naturally.

At first glance I thought-are you kidding me? They actually wrote about that? Great joke. I thought it might've been the weird Tusken/Jedi dude in some of the comics. (I did not make it up!) I am a fan of the EU when it doesn't go too overboard. Most of the stuff nowadays is just so off the deep end that it isn't even enjoyable anymore. The Thrawn Trilogy, Shatterpoint, and of course the adventures of Han Solo are still my defining EU moments. Can we persuade Lucasbooks to get back to "classic SW"? (hate that term) The only good thing I've read recently has been the Last of the Jedi young reader series. I know that they're for kids, but the stories are actually well defined. Reading all 10 is about the equivalent of a full EU novel.

captainsolo said:

vote_for_palpatine said:

That's Associate Chief Fnelthr Plux of the Kalkmaar tribe. He and a faction loyal to him broke away from Chief Onf over the mistreatment of a captured Tusken from another tribe. The whole story was told in a SW short story collection, Tales of the Dune Sea, for everyone who wondered what Tuskens, Jawas, Krayt Dragons, and womp rats really did. Another pearl of modern EU, naturally.

 

At first glance I thought-are you kidding me? They actually wrote about that? Great joke. I thought it might've been the weird Tusken/Jedi dude in some of the comics. (I did not make it up!) I am a fan of the EU when it doesn't go too overboard. Most of the stuff nowadays is just so off the deep end that it isn't even enjoyable anymore. The Thrawn Trilogy, Shatterpoint, and of course the adventures of Han Solo are still my defining EU moments. Can we persuade Lucasbooks to get back to "classic SW"? (hate that term) The only good thing I've read recently has been the Last of the Jedi young reader series. I know that they're for kids, but the stories are actually well defined. Reading all 10 is about the equivalent of a full EU novel.

In this day and age where book sales are everything why would they go back to doing classic star wars?  When just about every single new jedi order book and legacy of the force book has been a new york times bestseller.

All that matters is sales.  Not the stories and not creative authorship.  In fact a lot of the novels are almost produced like an addendum to a role playing supplement.  Or by following the galactic databank at lucasfilm starwars site.  Continuity has strangled the life out of the stories now that they have to be rewriitten backwords to conform to the prequels.

Authors in the Bantam Era even if they had strictures on some things did not have to worry about the stupid prequels.  All they had to do was make the characters like they were in the original trilogy and extrapolate the future series from that Lucas refused to do.  The stories are now trying to be more dark and edgy and forgetting their escapist space fantasy roots.