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Traviss finished with SW; Imperial Commando 2 her last SW book
Topic Started: Aug 17 2009, 10:11 PM (745 Views)
Jag'ara'nov
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"Ni cuyir Jag. Ni cuyir haar naast be uvete."
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Laam'inui
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Man, that's such an epic reply compared to mine. Then again, when I sent her an email years ago I only included about 3 sentences. Her reply was appropriately short. :P
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"You can't rule Mandalorians. You just make sensible suggestions they want to follow. And since when have Mandalorians needed to be told what makes sense?"
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I checked the turnaround time on her email vs mine. It was seriously seven hours. Brb fangirling.
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So, exactly what continuity errors were created by this "Clone Wars" show? I never liked it in the first place, and never hesitated to voice how much I didn't like it - but now I'm seething with rage. RAGE.
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"You can't rule Mandalorians. You just make sensible suggestions they want to follow. And since when have Mandalorians needed to be told what makes sense?"
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Sep 6 2009, 03:16 PM
So, exactly what continuity errors were created by this "Clone Wars" show? I never liked it in the first place, and never hesitated to voice how much I didn't like it - but now I'm seething with rage. RAGE.
With KT's stuff? Only thing I've heard definite is that Mandalore is spontaneously a desert planet and the capitol is no longer Keldabe for some unexplained reason. Oh, and we possibly have a Princess who is Obi-wan's love interest, but nobody's sure she's a Mando. It's a matter of everyone being told Mandos are going to be huge in the upcoming season, everyone being told Obi-wan meets a hot warrior princess, and knowing Lucas and his shit all too well.

Beyond that eveyone's keeping quiet on what bugged Traviss so much, but considering her Clone Wars books (and it was her Clone Wars continuity from what I hear, not Legacy of the Force) are limited to Republic Commando and ironically the Clone Wars novelization of the last season...common sense dictates something is about to be fundamentally altered about the Clone Army.

Oh, and the whole secret-not-Kaminoan-clones thing has probably been shot dead too, or so word of mouth on some of the bigger forums is.

Personally, I think Lucas went to make the Mandos season, realized that if he wanted Mandos to be the good guys, his precious Jedi weren't going to be worshipped as never being capable of doing wrong (rawr Kenobi left Vader to slowly and painfully burn to death rather than having a spine and putting him out of his misery, screw you Lucas), so he scrapped the whole HEY LOOK EVERYONE SAW IT COMING BUT THE JEDI WERE SO SELF-OBSESSED AND TUNNEL-VISIONED THEY WERE OBLIVIOUS storyline and has gone back to LOL VALIANT HEROS WHAT DO YOU MEAN SLAVE ARMY.

With stuff other than KT's? I haven't watched it personally (what the hell, since when does Anakin have a padawan and am I the only one not getting how he wouldn't be a Master in ROTS SINCE HE OBVIOUSLY DOESN'T HAVE A PADAWAN THEN?) but I've been told there's a good deal of arbitrary killing off of characters who survive for years longer in the books, a lot of timeline wasn't-he-on-that-planet-eight-billion-lightyears-away-during-that-battle, oh, and apparently it's huge on "Yeah, one jedi just took down an entire Sep fleet, without her lightsaber" type stuff.

You know. LUCAS stuff.

Ahh, and supposedly it makes Anakin a Knight a full two years before the other sources say so. Like, practically while the AOTC credits are rolling.
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I think you hit just about every point I wanted to bring up on that. And you said it almost as well as I would have. Cheerio, mate. Cheerio.

I sent KT an email too last week, or two weeks ago. I sent it at sometime between midnight and one in the morning and had a reply in my inbox by the time I got up. It was a hefty one too. That lady is amazing. I think that pretty much sums it up.
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My take on continuity has always been "I don't care, if something doesn't fit I'll read it anyway, don't be so annoying." Lucas and his damn retcons are annoying, you have to keep going back and saying "Waiiiit hold on gotta change my mental database." I'd rather everyone just write whatever the heck is interesting, no retcons needed, rather than one party writing something, a second writing something in the same slot, and the second then retconning the first so badly the first quits writing for Star Wars.

Seriously, is an Infinities/AU story less entertaining just because it doesn't fit in the storyline? Not really. And there are stories not getting written because no one can figure out where to put them, or Lucas called dibs on some particular time in the chronology. They need to focus on making the characters on character, realistic, and true to self, what situations they then toss those characters into should have no limitations whatsoever. Screw continuity, all it does is limit what I get to read.

Basically, they need to take the approach fanfiction does.


I've read the first book in her original series the Wess'har Wars. Excellent scifi. And yesterday I finally just bulk ordered the rest (it's a six book series) instead of waiting for my store to stock them. AND I spent the rest of the day buying coffee after coffee in order to have an excuse to stay in the bookstore cafe and read the first half of the first Gears of War novel. xD Didn't have enough room to carry it home, I'll have to go back and buy it some other trip. It was good, though. Not "excuse me, Fi, you've been replaced" good, but that was only because I'm not particularly interested in the characters. The game's fault, not KT's. The book itself was good, and I've heard nice things about the second. And I have to find time to burn through all the Halo books before hers gets published.

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I'm a huge Halo fan, and the ones by Eric Nylund are pretty good. Not the greatest-thing-I've-ever-read good, but good nonetheless. The second Halo book, The Flood, is a piece of crap. Don't know who wrote that one. I can't believe that a book with so many basic spelling and grammatical errors would get published in the first place, nevermind that the book contributes very little that isn't covered in the original game. You might as well not even read that one, come to think of it. But the rest are fun reads, even if the plots can be hard to follow at times. I haven't read the latest two yet, but I'm hoping to get on that soon. I ain't gots no moneys.

I've never played Gears, so I haven't found any interest to get the books. Gotta finish through SW and Halo before considering those.
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You should talk to Jett, he's become my pet Halo novels expert. "Read that one, read that one, don't read that one, don't even LOOK at that one, read that one..."

Gears (the books, not the game, which would be fantastic IF I COULD GET PAST THAT ONE LEVEL WITH THAT ONE MEAN GUY) are entertaining but not...engrossing. Let's just say, I read Gears the same day I reread Order 66, and during one of them I completely didn't notice the hours passing or that I had forgotten my coffee, and during the other I stopped repeatedly to get mail/eat/whatever. Figure out which was which.

Yesterday the second and fifth Wess'har books shipped in the mail, eeeee. I finished the second and now I'm in a state of "BOOKSTORE, DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND IT WILL BE THIRTY *HOURS* UNTIL THE THIRD ARRIVES? HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO ME?"

It occurred to me that one of the alien species is very Mando in some ways. Strongly community-based, strongly defensive of family, strongly geared towards raising children, and generally the guys in charge, physically. This series outdates that whole rewrite the Mandos got; I wonder if they influenced it at all.

EDIT: Actually...the species as a whole is more Vau-style mando, the human female lead is more Skirata-mando (despite basically being Rav Bralor with a 9mm, is it just me or does Traviss have that same character type in every series? There's even one in Gears...), and the male lead is...hm. Vaguely Ordo.

Or maybe I'm reading way too far between the lines.
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Yeah I'd like to read that series too. But this darn money problem keeps getting in the way. I can't really say I'm surprised to hear the similiarities though. If you're passionate enough about something, you'll sneak it into everything you do. So the same personalities, cultural characteristics, and scenarios are likely to come up in most things she writes, maybe because that's the kind of person that she thinks is best. You've probably read some of her short stories too, Star Wars and otherwise. I noticed some of the same themes popping up in those as in the full length novels.
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