Rogue1-and-a-half posted:And my all time favorite is when Tarkin makes a muttered remark about Vader while sipping coffee. He suddenly gasps, grasps his throat, his tongue protruding. The coffee cup shatters on the floor. VADER! Palpatine bellows. I’m not doing anything, Vader says, hilariously spreading his hands in the gesture of innocence. Sorry, Tarkin gasps, pounding the table, coffee went down the wrong pipe.
Rogue1-and-a-half posted:I said immediately after reading this book, and I stand by the statement, that this is the single most significant fall to the Dark Side of the entire EU. You finally realize, not how serious a step, or how dangerous, but how EASY it would be. No meandering philosophizing about what the Dark Side is. No pretend falling to the Dark Side and then crossing back over. No slow progress from Light to Dark. No. Here, grief and fear strike and instantly BANG! You’re there. Never has a fall to the Dark Side been as terrifying or disturbing as it was here. A sharp pain in our hearts, grief, anger, bitterness and without even a moment to think, we're gone, a mile down the Dark Path without ever remembering stepping onto it. Tom Veitch, take note. This is how someone falls to the Dark Side. Kevin Anderson, take note. Everyone, really . . . this is the Dark Side. Dangerous, yes. Powerful, yes. But only here does it really show us those most frightening aspects of itself: the ease of the Dark Side, like slipping into an old pair of jeans, and the incredible swiftness, like blinking an eye.
Rogue1-and-a-half posted:And now another Worst Pick: 3. Maybe you should be a Jedi Racer, instead of a Knight – I, Jedi, Michael Stackpole. This will forever be the great memory, the moment when I decided once and for all that the EU and the movies were different universes. I eventually refined that to a personal canon, but this ugly moment still stands. It’s the retconn of all retconns: the pretentious Mary Sue author goes back to fix the cheesy and lazy writer. It was, as I could have predicted, the train wreck to end all train wrecks. It climaxed here when Corran Horn and Luke begin a brawl. The first stupidity comes when you realize that Stackpole actually thinks Corran is a BETTER SABER ARTIST THAN LUKE SKYWALKER! LUKE FREAKING SKYWALKER. THE GUY WHO BESTED VADER! And then the fight turns into a hilarious slapstick effort that put me in stitches. How idiotic. And then, just to end the chapter nicely, Corran decides to lecture Luke about how he doesn’t understand the Force, how to train people or anything and is, as pointed out above, not even qualified to be a Jedi Knight. Again, this is the same Luke Skywalker who trained with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. Being lectured by the Corran Horn who trained himself via a mail order program with his astromech or something. Stackpole: eat a bag of hell. Kthxbye.