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Post by Daniel on Jul 17, 2008 20:41:42 GMT -5
Haha! He's the one who killed him, I'm guessing?
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Post by Kal Skirata on Jul 18, 2008 14:33:42 GMT -5
Yes. He's the evil guy who killed Chewbacca
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Post by Daniel on Jul 18, 2008 15:10:14 GMT -5
I'd kick him in the groin if I met him.
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Post by Kal Skirata on Jul 18, 2008 15:13:48 GMT -5
I'll do worse than that *shotgun cocks*
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Post by Daniel on Jul 19, 2008 19:50:50 GMT -5
You'd shoot him in the groin?
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Post by samuel on Jul 19, 2008 21:28:02 GMT -5
Hahahaha! You crack me up Daniel. But yeah, that was pretty stupid. How could you kill Chewy? It almost destroyed Han. I guess it kind of laid the groundworks of his later strained relationship with his son.
But I also don't want to read the books because they go against the premise of Star Wars. Star Wars creates a world/society very similar to ours (yet infinitely more advanced), focuses on human conflicts (I know it's a lot more complicated than that, but...). Instead, NJO just does what every other Sci-fi does by having some unknown warlike alien race come to conquer everything and hence makes Star Wars a generic Sci-fi. Before Star Wars was a sand box type world where you could present theories and show different aspects of our own civilization without being too obvious. The premise alone of NJO just destroyed one of the things that made Star Wars so different from other Sci-fis. Why should I read NJO as apposed to any other Sci-fi novels. I'm sure there's novels of the same premise as NJO that are at least as good.
Honestly, it is so unoriginal. It's already been done so many times (foreign warlike aliens come to kill inhabitants of the planet/system/galaxy). Star Wars didn't need to go that route. Maybe a good number of the Star Wars authors just didn't have as powerful a mind as Lucas in order to stay within the original premise. They just had to jump on the bandwagon.
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Post by Kal Skirata on Jul 20, 2008 13:34:49 GMT -5
What a bout the Ssi-ruuk? They were trying to abosorb the entire galaxy's life energy to power battle droids
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Post by Daniel on Jul 20, 2008 16:12:49 GMT -5
What was that from?
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Post by Kal Skirata on Jul 20, 2008 16:21:38 GMT -5
Truce at Bakura
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Post by samuel on Jul 21, 2008 1:07:15 GMT -5
Yeah, that's another Star Wars book I haven't read and will probably never read (a lot of the older Star Wars books are pretty ridiculous and try to make up too much about Lucas's stuff. The Black Fleet Crisis basically lost all its credibility after Lucas told the truth about Luke's mom though it's still a fun series)
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Post by Kal Skirata on Jul 21, 2008 9:14:10 GMT -5
Yeah. but that was the only part I didn't like though. I liked how that guy managed to survive in that TIE and then became a New Repubilc pilot
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Post by samuel on Jul 21, 2008 9:57:37 GMT -5
Yeah, it was a well written story with a good political build up, some mystery, and Chewy was awesome in it. But the Luke's mom thing was pretty dumb. Otherwise it was pretty good and pretty epic.
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Post by Vrelt on Aug 4, 2008 22:51:33 GMT -5
Out of all the Star Wars books out there I like the ones by Timothy Zahn. Like Survivor's Quest, Outbound Flight, the Thrawn trilogy and the hand of Thrawn books. Like I've told Kal, my character Drask was based off the Chiss General Prard'ras'kleoni, one of Zahn's awesome people he wrote about in Survivor's Quest.
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Post by Kal Skirata on Aug 7, 2008 6:51:51 GMT -5
I finally read those, Vrelt!
I liked Outbound Flight a lot. Thrawn FTW!
You forgot Alliegence. I love that one much more than Outbound Flight
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Post by Calvin "Freckle" McMurray on Aug 10, 2008 18:03:13 GMT -5
I liked the beginning of the Yuuzhan Vong war books, but the comics of Rogue Squadron hooked me.
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