I mean, I, Jedi is a book that literally exists to insert Corran into the Jedi Academy Trilogy, so it doesn’t surprise me that he did the same thing later on down the line with another series.
I haven’t read any of the X-Wing books yet, but I’m starting to wonder if Corran Horn’s “flaws” as a Jedi might have been Stackpole reacting to criticism about his abilities in his early SW books. As mentioned, a lot of things do not work out for Horn in the Dark Tide bduology, and even his Force powers were pretty ‘nerfed’ overall (most notably his inability to use telekinesis).
So I just finished reading the book Dark Tide II: Ruin and I’m very confused by the space-station pictured on the cover (both the American and the Japanese version).
What is it? As far as I could tell it never appeared in the story. When I first bought the book I figured it was a reference to TPM which had just been released a year before the book, because it kinda looks like one of the Trade Federation command ships, but none of those were ever mentioned.
It was gonna be in the unreleased middle book of the Dark Tide trilogy that was cut down to two books. I guess they were too lazy to remove it from the cover.
Interesting. Do you have some source for that? Now I’m curious as to what was planned for the middle book.
I’m having a hard time to figure out what they could have squeezed in between the two Dark Tide books.
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I haven’t read any of the X-Wing books yet, but I’m starting to wonder if Corran Horn’s “flaws” as a Jedi might have been Stackpole reacting to criticism about his abilities in his early SW books. As mentioned, a lot of things do not work out for Horn in the Dark Tide bduology, and even his Force powers were pretty ‘nerfed’ overall (most notably his inability to use telekinesis).
So I just finished reading the book Dark Tide II: Ruin and I’m very confused by the space-station pictured on the cover (both the American and the Japanese version).
What is it? As far as I could tell it never appeared in the story. When I first bought the book I figured it was a reference to TPM which had just been released a year before the book, because it kinda looks like one of the Trade Federation command ships, but none of those were ever mentioned.
It was gonna be in the unreleased middle book of the Dark Tide trilogy that was cut down to two books. I guess they were too lazy to remove it from the cover.
Interesting. Do you have some source for that? Now I’m curious as to what was planned for the middle book.
I’m having a hard time to figure out what they could have squeezed in between the two Dark Tide books.
I saw it on Wookieepedia, it was called Dark Tide: Siege.
Not enough people read the EU.
New information has come to light suggesting that Lucas never approved Dark Empire for publication:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsEU/comments/vso18w/lucy_autrey_wilson_creator_director_of_the/
Lucy Wilson, who was in charge of the EU in its early days, says that she approved Dark Empire without talking to Lucas and Lucas wasn’t happy when he found out that a comic with Palpatine surviving in clones was published.
Just when I thought my appreciation for Dark Empire couldn’t rise any higher, the universe gives me this belated birthday present.
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A lot of fans hate the old EU, and go out of their way to trash it as much as possible and to rub in that “It was never canon.” And it makes me wonder, why do they care so much?
They’ve gotten what they wanted. The EU was ended and declared as definitely non-canon. But they seem to hate the fact that a lot of people prefer it over the current canon. That’s unacceptable to them, for some reason.
And a lot of them use the argument that, since George didn’t recognize it as part of his own canon, it should be disregarded in discussions. But going by that logic, everything George didn’t work on should be disregarded.
All I can say is that a big chunk of my own antipathy towards the EU back in the day was fueled by supercilious EUphiles* who were adamant that the Expanded Universe was incontrovertibly canon. And I won’t deny that I experienced schadenfreude when those same people were forced to eat crow.
*They also tended to be diehard PT/SE apologists, which also fanned the flames of contempt.
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*They also tended to be diehard PT/SE apologists, which also fanned the flames of contempt.
This has kind of flipped around now. Fans who are the most ardent defenders of “George’s vision” usually hold disdain for the EU.
I get the disdain for a lot of larger EU projects though. Especially the entire Shadows of the Empire project, the disdain for that one I totally get. Prince Sex Pest and the Han Solo replacement don’t have much lasting appeal.
As far as the dumbest EU stuff I can remember, it’s Death Troopers. Star Wars but a zombie movie! Han and Chewie showing up laughably kills all tension it ever had.
I get the disdain for a lot of larger EU projects though. Especially the entire Shadows of the Empire project, the disdain for that one I totally get. Prince Sex Pest and the Han Solo replacement don’t have much lasting appeal.
It’a funny you mention that, cause I’m actually rereading Shadows of the Empire right now. I read it over a decade ago, and the writing is a lot cornier than I remembered. The writing style is clearly oriented toward a younger reader, which makes the creepy Xizor scenes feel even more out-of-place and weird.
The best thing we got out of that whole MMP was all the cool artwork the Hildebrandt brothers did depicting scenes from the book. I love those.
I still don’t get why’d people get vitriolic about it, though. It’s non-canon and has no bearing on current Star Wars. It’s just something harmless that’s there for people to look back on and enjoy, if they want to.
As far as the dumbest EU stuff I can remember, it’s Death Troopers. Star Wars but a zombie movie! Han and Chewie showing up laughably kills all tension it ever had.
As far as zombies in SW go, Galaxy of Fear did it first and did it better.
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I get the disdain for a lot of larger EU projects though. Especially the entire Shadows of the Empire project, the disdain for that one I totally get. Prince Sex Pest and the Han Solo replacement don’t have much lasting appeal.
It’a funny you mention that, cause I’m actually rereading Shadows of the Empire right now. I read it over a decade ago, and the writing is a lot cornier than I remembered. The writing style is clearly oriented toward a younger reader, which makes the creepy Xizor scenes feel even more out-of-place and weird.
The best thing we got out of that whole MMP was all the cool artwork the Hildebrandt brothers did depicting scenes from the book. I love those.
I still don’t get why’d people get vitriolic about it, though. It’s non-canon and has no bearing on current Star Wars. It’s just something harmless that’s there for people to look back on and enjoy, if they want to.
I loved Shadows of the Empire when I read it in high school. All the SW material I’d consumed up to that point had been pretty chaste, so I was … interested … by the plot’s relatively heavy involvement of sex. I also really liked the insight into Vader’s character. But when I revisited the novel in my twenties, none of that wowed me anymore. I find it meh nowadays.
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*They also tended to be diehard PT/SE apologists, which also fanned the flames of contempt.
This has kind of flipped around now. Fans who are the most ardent defenders of “George’s vision” usually hold disdain for the EU.
So I’m not the only one who noticed this…
“I know that all of you like to dream about space and are a little bit of envious of us. But you know what? We’re also envious of you. We are exploring space, but it’s only the beginning. Planets and unknown worlds are awaiting you. You will continue to storm the Universe.”
— Yuri Gagarin
