Lit Books Cynically Reliving the X-Wing Series

The end scene in Krytos Trap were Rogue Squadron quits is awesome.

 

I started to suspect Erisi was the spy after the aforementioned seduction scene in WG. I was very glad to have been vindicated. Borsk was such a jerk in those scenes and I loved the Rogues quitting–and Luke practically giving his seal of approval, too.

 

Was good seeing Borsk again though. Complete pain in the neck as usual but still a breath of fresh air after the Post NJO mess.
I don't even remember what I thought about who the spy was the first time I read the series. Probably was after other stuff so I knew it couldn't be him.
Asyr and Gavin rock!

 

I didn't really, as getting into the heads of the psychotic Jedi, there were still more Jedi than psychotic, and Jedi don't kill if they don't have to.

As for who came up with it, it does sound like an Allston thing. But it really could have been anyone in the create process, as it's based on a real mental illness (Capgras delusion).

 

From what I understand, Fate of the Jedi was fairly unstructured like Legacy of the Force, so if something first appears in an author's novel, that author likely created it, e.g. Allston with the Imperial conspiracy (he was pretty much the only one that used it). Christie Golden created Vestara and the idea of her being a love interest for Ben, for instance.

It really wouldn't surprise me if there was no series outline at all, and when an author is outlining a particular book, that is when the ideas in that book are created. I doubt they even had any idea Abeloth was responsible for the psychosis -- and Luceno's Millennium Falcon definitely implies that he thought it was something completely different -- and even after introducing Abeloth they had no clue what she was. I know for a fact that the Mortis connection wasn't made until Denning was writing Apocalypse.

 

In the lead up to FOTJ I remember them saying that FOTJ was supposed to be low-key and nothing galaxy-shaking as LOTF was and see how that turned out at the end. Am I remembering this wrong?

 

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Millennium Falcon heavily implied that the Force psychosis would tie into Jacen Solo, and frankly that wouldn't surprise me if that was the intent when Allston (or rather, Luceno, though I'm sure he was going off of what Allston had planned) introduced it. Allana thought that Seff was actually Jacen when she sensed him through the Force, and all he did was throw a bunch of blaster rifles into a wall or something so it's not like he was doing some esoteric technique that only Jacen knew.

Then in Outcast and Omen, the Horns did two techniques that only Jacen knew although I forget what Valin did.

Then Denning had Bazel do the phase technique which I guess Jacen didn't know and that immediately proved that the connection to Jacen was a red herring!

I'm pretty sure that both series were done in the same vein as Chinese Whispers or whatever the PC and non-offensive name of it is, where the authors just ad libbed based on what the prior author did, and given what Luceno, Allston, and Golden wrote, it wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that the Force psychosis was some sort of horcrux/essence transfer for Jacen and then Denning changed it and the authors were bound by what Denning did. It's not like that hasn't happened before.

 

Just read Darksaber. It shows you Daala in all her glory .... and what happens when you use cheap labor to build a Death Star knock off.

 

JAT is YA fiction marketed as a regular novel trilogy.

 

I think that's quite unfair to actually good YA.

 

To give the devil his due, JAT actually has some good basic outline ideas such as:
Luke re-building the Jedi order
Seeing Kessel for the first time
Female villain and a Sith Ghost as opposed to a Jedi Ghost.

It's just you need somone with a bit more skill than KJA to work on them

 

Wait till you read book 4 the Bacta War and the worship of Talon Karrade by Stackpole.

 

I hardly think Stackpole evinces "worship" of Karrde. If anything, he uses Karrde to show how much more awesome Booster Terrik is.

 

Indeed. I want Booster to be in more stuff. I want him to take Hondo's place in Rebels as the arrogant and charming pirate/mercenary leader, only his arrogance is actually justified because Booster is legitimately that awesome.

 

Should say that if you do ever read IJedi, there is actually a really good Booster scene in that.

You haven't read Isards Revenge yet then I see

 

See the end of Isard's Revenge for a refutation of this.