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Books Thrawn Alliances Book - Summer 2018

Discussion in 'Literature' started by Diego Lucas, Oct 6, 2017.

  1. sidv88

    sidv88 Force Ghost star 5

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    They aren't interested in characters that open the doors to potential stories (or even movies). The following characters have hit the execution block so far in new canon, one who was even a major character in the X-Wing subfranchise of the EU (so they don't even care about resurrecting that):

    Hobbie
    Ventress
    Panaka
     
  2. SyndicThrass

    SyndicThrass Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    This very book is a refutation of that.
     
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  3. The Positive Fan

    The Positive Fan Force Ghost star 4

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    But over in the Solo thread, you just said this:
    By that logic, Panaka, Ventress, and Hobbie are fine - can't they always just be whisked away to the WBW if and when the creators wish to exploit their storytelling potential?

    EDIT: On further reflection, it occurs to me that in a franchise like Star Wars, death doesn't diminish a character's "storytelling potential" one iota anyway. We're a month away from seeing a film about a character who died three movies ago. Vader's on his second ongoing comic series. Death is irrelevant to a character's story potential when it's possible to simply go back and tell stories that happened before they died.
     
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  4. sidv88

    sidv88 Force Ghost star 5

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    Well, yes I suppose time travel could save all of them... ventress had a body through.

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  5. Xander Vos

    Xander Vos Jedi Master star 4

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    It does reduce my level of interest in a character's story if I know how it ends.
     
  6. Vthuil

    Vthuil Force Ghost star 5

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    How many appearances have we had of Obi-Wan, a character who died in the first Star Wars thing ever released?
     
  7. sidv88

    sidv88 Force Ghost star 5

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    A fair argument could be made that, subconsciously, many were impatient with the prequels because they already knew how it ended... I honestly find many of the Marvel movies (Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2, Age of Ultron, Avengers) much worse than the prequels, but people rave about the Marvel films like Avengers (which had the exact same Chitauri shutdown after a ship destruction like TPM did, minus TPM's logic) and treat the prequels like the worse thing ever.
     
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  8. EmperorHorus

    EmperorHorus Jedi Master star 4

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    In a franchise where Darth Maul came back to life after TPM (I mean seriously guys . . .) do you even need a sensible explanation like WBW? If you want to bring someone back then just do it and who cares if it makes sense. It can't be worse than Spider Legs + Kept Alive By Dark Side Hatred

    Probably because the relative quality of the 2 films isn't based solely on that 1 plot line
     
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  9. sidv88

    sidv88 Force Ghost star 5

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    I didn't say it was. I find TPM much more enjoyable than Avengers as a whole honestly. Jar Jar doesn't seem so bad next to cringy Whedon jokes...
     
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  10. EmperorHorus

    EmperorHorus Jedi Master star 4

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    That's cool. There's nothing wrong with having a minority opinion. I have them all the time.
     
  11. fett 4

    fett 4 Chosen One star 5

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    Have you ever seen the Movie Day of the Jackal ?
    It’s about an Assassin hired to kill the French President Charles DeGaulle. Now we know how it ends ie he fails but the build up and tension is still really great. While the Jackal As the main character (we don’t even know his real name) despite being a cold ruthless murderer is still a compelling person to watch. That’s a long winded way of saying that type of movie is possible.
     
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  12. fett 4

    fett 4 Chosen One star 5

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    I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels the same about the Avengers movie. A rather boring CGI fest that seemed to miss B in a ABC plot. Yet TPM gets ripped apart while that gets praised.
     
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  13. Xander Vos

    Xander Vos Jedi Master star 4

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    There's a difference between being interested in a movie despite knowing how the story ends - because it's about the journey (e.g. ROTS) - but when you put characters in dangerous situations despite knowing when and where they die (e.g. Han in Solo knowing what we know) there is zero tension.
     
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  14. fett 4

    fett 4 Chosen One star 5

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    Don’t get me started on Solo it’s a movie that should not have been made.

    What you say is/was the big issue I had with the Rebels show. There was no tension in it.
     
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  15. Xander Vos

    Xander Vos Jedi Master star 4

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    Yeah agreed. Even when people thought characters might be killed off, they never were. And then the one time it did happen it was telegraphed.
     
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  16. Jedi Ben

    Jedi Ben Chosen One star 9

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    I was thinking of something a bit different - in that, so far, the new material has veered towards a very tidy continuity - R1? They all die so that avoids the Q of where was so-and-so?

    Bring in a character like Karrde and it becomes more ludicrous that Starkiller Base was kept totally secret, as someone like Karrde would have heard some whisper of it, right?

    Now, personally, I'd be quite happy for the new continuity to be a bit less tidy!
     
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  17. nancipants

    nancipants Jedi Knight star 2

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    I don’t think that’s why the characters in Rogue One died. They died because they wanted to show that stealing the Death Star plans was basically a suicide mission.
     
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  18. Noash_Retrac

    Noash_Retrac Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    I'm going to stop following this thread. You aren't discussing Thrawn: Alliances so its clear it has been hijacked. Later.
     
  19. SyndicThrass

    SyndicThrass Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Uhh, huh?

    Look at the title of this thread. In a couple of months we're going to be reading a book featuring Grand Admiral Thrawn. That very character and his continued existence in the franchise kind of goes against what you're saying.

    Hell, look at Dave Filoni's comments on why he brought back Captain Pellaeon; he said he included it purely so that the character could be in play and picked up for future stories by himself and other creatives. Doesn't seem that they're opposed to bringing in characters and concepts that aren't "tidy".
     
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  20. sidv88

    sidv88 Force Ghost star 5

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    Karrde doesn't give info away for free though, and I doubt the NR would have paid his prices.

    Karrde's probably one of the Canto Bight crowd profiting from the war...
     
  21. Rennzwerg

    Rennzwerg Jedi Knight star 2

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    IF they brought Karrde back he would definitely not be 100% like the Legends version. He would be recognisable but it is by no means certain that all his traits / history make it to new canon. Similar to Thrawn, the main frame is the same but some stuff just no longer applies.

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  22. Coherent Axe

    Coherent Axe Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Would he? Because he's... a smuggler? And why would that equate to the secret getting out? Karrde knows the value of information as leverage. Terex knows about Starkiller too, even though he isn't supposed to, and uses that knowledge as a boast of his abilities to Phasma, but he doesn't go revealing it willy-nilly.
     
  23. Xander Vos

    Xander Vos Jedi Master star 4

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    You mean that book that hasn't come out yet?
     
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  24. Jedi Ben

    Jedi Ben Chosen One star 9

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    Yay, back to doing pointless fun stuff! (Don't misread that, after the last 48 hours, this is exactly what I need!)

    For all that I would love the Further Adventures of Chirrut and Baze, yeah - R1's take does work for me.

    The case where I'm certain I saw posts to the effect of 'she had to die so she wouldn't put up later' were with regard to Heir to the Jedi's Nakari.

    True, it is evidence of change and I hope it continues. My comment was based more on their past record of way back when. Seems to be they are far warier around OT-ST transitions. Now there is reason for that, but SW is a big galaxy - we don't know what Evaan went on to do, do we?

    Come to think of it, the Aftermath trilogy chucked in a bundle of hanging threads, including a Pirate SSD no less, that remain untouched.

    Line 1 I certainly agree with, line 2 I'm nowhere near so certain on - there'd be changes sure, but that seems a bit too drastic to me.

    Oho? Interesting, that gives me a potential angle of interest on the Dameron book, thanks.
     
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  25. Yunzabit

    Yunzabit Jedi Master star 4

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    Hobbie- Maybe,
    Ventress- Definitely
    Panaka- NO

    What I REALLY want is an Agent Kallus or Dr Cylo novel.