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BedeHistory731

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#1645216
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What are you reading?
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I just finished Me by Elton John and it was a fantastic retrospective on his life and career. He nails the surreality of a famous life and details his shortcomings more than most would. It’s somewhat more elaborate than Rob Halford’s memoirs, but not as much of an overly-emotional mess as Peter Criss and Paul Stanley’s literary tirades books.

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What do you HATE about the EU?
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Superweapon VII said:

darklordoftech said:

Spartacus01 said:

darklordoftech said:

The BBY/ABY calendar existing in-universe.

Why do you hate it? I do not mind it.

Why would the New Republic establish a new year 0? Isn’t that something totalitarian regimes do? Why not use whatever year 0 the Valorum-era Republic used?

My problem is that the Battle of Endor makes a more logical start for a Year 0 than the Battle of Yavin.

Yeah, that actually makes a lot more sense. The battle saw the Emperor and Vader die, the destruction of a substantial part of the Imperial Navy, and the Empire was left without a centralized power. It makes more sense to declare that the start of the “new era.” IIRC, there’s been some new canon books that talk about an in-universe debate over BBY/ABY dates.

It still makes more sense than Stardates.

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What are you reading?
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I just finished Tarzan Alive by Philip José Farmer. It’s an engaging thought experiment to derive a biographical narrative through the Burroughs books (with real world context and scientific explanations), but the addendums are somewhat boring. I get why Farmer used them to ground the book in the Wold Newton Universe/establish the Greystoke lineage and titles, but it’s a slog to read.

Would it be good to follow up with Doc Savage or the Opar books Farmer also wrote?

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Before The Prequels were made, what the Jedi were supposed to be like?
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Superweapon VII said:

JadedSkywalker said:

Warriors that can put down rebellions and can end conflicts but don’t seek them out because they are peacekeepers. And negotiators. Their entire bodies and minds are sharp and honed like a weapon, but they only use a lightsaber in defense, never for violence as its own end. The Sith use violence and intimidation to rule.

One thing I would’ve like to have seen in the prequels is the Jedi relying on martial arts to non-lethally dispatch their foes, utilizing their lightsabers only in kill-or-be-killed situations.

That’s entirely reasonable. Perhaps their later deviations from non-lethal force is what signified their decline.