rumsmuggler posted:I was kinda hoping that she died, so Luke would stop being so lame and actually start fighting, but instead she got pregnant and not only lived, she destroyed it and gave birth to Ben. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Coomb_spore
BobaMatt posted:There's nothing wrong with starting in medias res. The problem is that the story of her infection is a bit muddled and unsatisfying.
Divia posted:Well, it would have been easy for Luke to go on some drunken escapade and knock up a few chicks like my bro did when my other bro killed himself. Grief does crazy things to people. Mara didn't have to be the only one to have Ben.
Carnage04 posted:That and Force Ghost Mara would have probably screamed at him when he started to get frisky, and dole out beatings in the netherworld.
Divia posted:rumsmuggler posted:I was kinda hoping that she died, so Luke would stop being so lame and actually start fighting, but instead she got pregnant and not only lived, she destroyed it and gave birth to Ben. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Coomb_spore Come now. did you think she would actually die. Though, that would have been nice.
nom_anor_no_more posted: Well, how does anyone pick up a disease? You just get it. And then in BP, we learn how she got it, along with the big reveal that the Vong gave it to her. We start the series and Mara has come down with something. It's not exactly like starting with Chewie dead or Han missing a leg. We're simply jumping in in the middle of something -- like we did with the Galactic Civil War, the Empire, Warlord Zsinj, the decline of the Remnant (we leave off Darksaber with the Remnant under Pellaeon and every single book after that talks about the Remnant like it's already dead up until HOT), Palpatine's DE resurgence, the Separatist crisis, Quinlan Vos's glitterryll investigation, whatever. Star Wars, and storytelling in general, has a long history of beginning in media res and filling you in as it becomes necessary to do so. From Vector Prime: "Not like him," Mara replied, somewhat softly, and the sudden weakness in her voice reminded Leia and Jaina that Mara, despite her nearly constant bravado and overabundance of energy, was seriously ill, with a strange and thankfully rare disease that had killed dozens of others and against which the best doctors in the New Republic had proven completely helpless. Of those who had contracted the molecular disorder, only Mara and one other remained alive, and that other person, being studied intently on Coruscant, was fast dying. Okay, great... but c'mon, this paragraph has an entire novel in it. This is supposed to be the first trickle of a plot point that would not come to be explained until Balance Point, a novel that would not be published for nearly two years? Lame.
Carnage04 posted: The planet did not have breathable air due to a recent cataclysmic event? This would make me think even harder about me not bringing my own source of Oxygen. Either someone designed this "Disaster" and could not be trusted or the populace was fairly incompetent and was not worthy of being trusted to have suitable environmental containment suits available. Carnage