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Re: next year
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Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:43:32 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
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> Ah, I see what you mean. :D
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> I can't remember which book it was in, but when I got to the one with the Sun
> Crusher, I pretty much stopped. In the middle of the book. That was the last
> one I read.
Yeah, the Sun Crusher was kind of cheesy... an ultimate weapon more powerful
than the Death Star? Wasn't the Death Star the "ultimate weapon?" The
ability to destroy a star, what's next? Whole galaxies?
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> I read the Hier to the Empire trilogy, and I enjoyed it immensely. I never
> read the Jedi Academy books.
The Jedi Academy books were pretty good, but not nearly as good as the Heir
to the Empire books.
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> Yeah. I've run the Star Wars Role-playing Game at various points, and I've
> never used one of the main characters, or even anything near them. The Star
> Wars universe is *huge*, and so full of cool stuff, I've never understood why
> writers feel like they have to make their book focus on Luke, Leia, Han, etc.
> Why not write about other folks in the rebellion? Why not write about
> smugglers trying to avoid the Imperial troops? Gah.
There's the "Tales From..." books, I never really got into those though.
It's kind of cool to read what happened to obscure characters (like the
Rancor Keeper) after their appearance in the films, but the books just
couldn't hold my attention. There's also the X-Wing series of books and
others like that. The Star Wars Universe isn't just about the characters...
it's about the "religions," the vehicles, the technology, the locales, etc.
It's such a broad spectrum of topics that, like you, I can't understand why
writers focus on the main characters from the films.
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> The last thing I heard is that Lucas himself won't make a third trilogy, but
> would "leave it to someone else". I imagine that someone else would end up
> being Rick McCallum, who has essentially been alongside Lucas for most of the
> Star Wars movies... so I would trust him to do good things. Especially
> because I don't think Lucas would ever really not be hanging around giving the
> nod to stuff, at the very least.
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> eric
Heh, maybe they'll keep Lucas' head alive after he dies so he can oversee
the continuation of the Star Wars saga... like they did with Walt Disney... ;)
-Bryan
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| (...) That was my beef. The Death Star was bad enough, get over it. Come up with something more interesting that has to be defeated. There are other interesting conflicts besides Big Bad Technological Things. (...) That's why I never read them, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Ah, I see what you mean. :D (...) I can't remember which book it was in, but when I got to the one with the Sun Crusher, I pretty much stopped. In the middle of the book. That was the last one I read. (...) I read the Hier to the Empire (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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