Official: STAR WARS THREAD. These are the droids you're looking for. **WARNING MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

[Jr Mouse]

Darth Maul was a walking Ed Hardy tee. Big 90’s tattoo energy

 

[brokencycle]

I think they have oversold the whole Jedi thing in the prequels and in the Acolyte. When Sol was telling Osha that there were "thousands" of younglings at the Jedi temple just like her, my first thought was "how special could they really be, then?" It seems to me that the whole Jedi mystique gets diluted a lot when they're everywhere.

A few thousand in a galaxy with trillions of sentient lifeforms. According to Wookipedia there were over 1 trillion people living on Coruscant alone.

 

[VaderDave]

A few thousand in a galaxy with trillions of sentient lifeforms. According to Wookipedia there were over 1 trillion people living on Coruscant alone.

I get that, but Star Wars never seems like it's taking place on that scale (which I think is a good thing). But I get what you're saying and it makes sense.

A trillion people on Coruscant? Dang.

 

[brokencycle]

I get that, but Star Wars never seems like it's taking place on that scale (which I think is a good thing). But I get what you're saying and it makes sense.

A trillion people on Coruscant? Dang.

It really feels unbelievable. I know it is one giant city, so if Earth was the density of Manilla, it would be 6.4T people or 1.7T if the density of NYC.

 

[Jr Mouse]

Look at @brokencycle nerding out with the rest of us scruffy looking nerf herders.

 

[imatlas]

An entire planet of dense city sounds hellish.

 

[Jr Mouse]

An entire planet of dense city sounds hellish.

Could be cool if they have hyperloops. /musk

 

[smittycl]

Do you mean the 90s Thrawn novels? Or the new canon ones from 2017? I thought all six since 2017 were good.

Also KOTR and KOTR 2 were amazing games.

I like both Qui Gon and Darth Maul.

Just the first three Thrawn novels. First new Star Wars in quite a while for me. Tried some of the later Zahn stuff but found them dull.

Also, as soon as they got popular every hack Sci-Fi writer that normally cranked out Star Trek novels turned to Star Wars.

 

[mhip]

I gotta say...

The QC during the High Republic era was awful.
There are a ton of crappy unreliable light sabers being issued.

Also the show just got way better, Yord is dead

 

[venividivicibj]

Are any of the SW books other than Thrawn series worth reading?

 

[imatlas]

Are any of the SW books other than Thrawn series worth reading?

I tried to read the first Zahn novel, didn't get into it.

But this was pretty fu<king great. Zombie wookies!

 

[smittycl]

I tried to read the first Zahn novel, didn't get into it.

But this was pretty fu<king great. Zombie wookies!

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So, no, almost none of the SW books are worth reading. The first one was Alan Dean Foster’s Splinter of the Mind’s Eye that came out right after the first movie. He also ghost wrote the movie novelization for Lucas.

I remember liking it but was also in Junior High.

 

[brokencycle]

I tried to read the first Zahn novel, didn't get into it.

But this was pretty fu<king great. Zombie wookies!

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That book was soooooooo bad. There was another one where there were Zombie Sith.

 

[VaderDave]

So, no, almost none of the SW books are worth reading. The first one was Alan Dean Foster’s Splinter of the Mind’s Eye that came out right after the first movie. He also ghost wrote the movie novelization for Lucas.

I remember liking it but was also in Junior High.

I remember reading that when it came out and then having to recalibrate my understanding of things when ESB came out. I think it was my first time dealing with trying to reconcile canon/non-canon in a storyline. I would have been nine or ten years old when I read it.

 

[otc]

Are any of the SW books other than Thrawn series worth reading?

13 year old me would say yes.

Not sure that opinion really holds up though.