dp4m posted:Windy -- this is actually the best Luke and Ben you've seen in quite some time so, since you dislike Jaina anyways, the Luke / Ben stuff is good.
ChildOfWinds posted:dp4m Windy -- this is actually the best Luke and Ben you've seen in quite some time so, since you dislike Jaina anyways, the Luke / Ben stuff is good. So I'm supposed to buy a book to read a couple of good Luke/Ben scenes? And it's not Jaina I dislike. I dislike the Jaina that we've been given since Dark Nest and the goddess days of the NJO.
dp4m posted:ChildOfWinds posted:dp4m Windy -- this is actually the best Luke and Ben you've seen in quite some time so, since you dislike Jaina anyways, the Luke / Ben stuff is good. So I'm supposed to buy a book to read a couple of good Luke/Ben scenes? And it's not Jaina I dislike. I dislike the Jaina that we've been given since Dark Nest and the goddess days of the NJO. Yeah, but you don't like anything else anyways, so why NOT buy it for the fifteen pages you care about?
ChildOfWinds posted: Everyone in the book seems to denigrade the Jedi. While it makes sense for Boba Fett to do this, it doesn't make sense for Niathal, Pellean, Jaina, or Luke to do so. And NO ONE seems to defend the Jedi. There is NO BALANCE given.
Robimus posted:Can you point me to the quotes/page numbers where Pellaeon, Jaina and Luke put down the Jedi?
Rouge77 posted:But where's the balance: Characters who criticize the Mandalorians and the Empire, bring up Fett and Daala's past and challenge their claims?
Robimus posted: Who is going to challenge Fett and Daala's claims when they were talking amoungst themselves?
Robimus posted:Now, I would have liked Jaina to have a bit more fire, but I write it off because of her, "Your not here to ask to many questions. Your here to learn from Fett", attitude. She went to him to be trained, not antagonize him.
Robimus posted:Who is going to challenge Fett and Daala's claims when they were talking amoungst themselves?
Charlemagne19 posted:Apparently, she got her personality from her Paternal Grandmother.
Rouge77 posted:Robimus posted:Who is going to challenge Fett and Daala's claims when they were talking amoungst themselves? The author. It's the author's job to create balance. To insert characters, situations and comments so that we don't end up with just biased Mandalorian and Imperial propaganda.
Rouge77 posted:Robimus posted:Now, I would have liked Jaina to have a bit more fire, but I write it off because of her, "Your not here to ask to many questions. Your here to learn from Fett", attitude. She went to him to be trained, not antagonize him. Yet he antagonizes her. And Jaina really isn't a character who tends to be meek when she is antagonized. She tends to respond aggressively. We saw that both in Bloodlines - by the same author - and in Fury.
Darth_Lex posted: Yet when she goes to Mandalore, requests Boba Fett's help, and then acts deferential and respectful while being given the training she asked for, it's claimed that this is a sign of weakness. When in fact it's a sign of just how strong Jaina's personality is! Like her mother, she's able to be the consummate diplomat when she needs to be. She's able to turn off her usual snarky aggressiveness and become a respectful pupil. That's not weakness, that's incredible force of personality.