Lit The LSG Lit Crossover Watch Thread

Not a plot spoiler in any way, but putting a Bloodline spoiler tag anyway:

Spoiler

Bloodline briefly mentions the events on Vrogas Vas from Marvel's Vader Down as part of Leia's recollections of her encounters with Vader.

 

Yes! That same issue also has an explicit call-out box inviting you to see 'Before The Awakening' to read up on some of Poe's adventures alluded to by Phasma in this issue.

 

speaking of BTA and Poe Dameron comic. i noticed there is a discrepancy in PD #1 of Poe not knowing who Lor San Tekka is but in Before the Awakening, he finds out who he is.

 

Here's our first Animation - Live Action crossover. Saw Gerrera. A character picked from TCW because he fit the character needed for the Rogue One story. This is pretty huge.

 

Are they going to give the actor green contact lenses for the movie?

 

Well I dunno, I might quibble with the extent to which he was "created" for Underworld. IIRC the concept could have been nothing more than "Rebel extremist" who then became Saw specifically when they decided to use him in TCW.

 

The concept of Saw was developed as part of the ongoing Underworld story, but he was first fully designed, cast, and given a voice as the backstory for that element. IE, the backstory in TCW become more developed and concrete than the planned end result. We meet Saw in TCW as the first fully-formed version of that character. And then, with Rogue One, LSG picked this already-existing character who fit plans for the movie. He wasn't seeded in TCW because of Rogue One - he was picked for Rogue One because of his characterization and appearance and realization in TCW.

 

I'm saying that them having a rough sense of the type of character Saw would be isn't the same as having already developed him into Saw. If he was an actual named character in the scripts they wrote, different story--but I don't know if that's the case.

 

Hairs are being split. Point is, when a new movie went into production without GL, and the plot called for an extreme revolutionary, they drew from a character who had only been previously realized in Animation. The character was first presented as someone not in live action, and that character was not created specifically for this new film. An animated character is given a live action actor for the first time. That's the point, technicalities aside.

 

FIGHT ME

 

Halfway through Life Debt, and oh my goodness, so many connections from everywhere. Clone Wars. Rebels. Servants of the Empire. Star Wars and Darth Vader and Princess Leia comics. TFA. Just keeps coming. All solid.

 

Yeah, Life Debt is a gold mine of references to other material. Wendig knits them in so well!

 

How much is too much? In your opinion.

 

This amount is certainly not too much, and definitely not in the way it's presented. It all ... makes perfect sense in the context. It doesn't seem like Chuck was like, "Hey, where can I make a random connection?" - it seems like an organic flowing of the world, references that WOULD naturally be there, and would have been stranger if they hadn't IN those contexts. There's nothing there, so far that I've read, that doesn't belong. I've read overindulgent stuff easily labeled "continuity porn" - but this seems to be the perfect execution of the ideal - exciting for those who notice them without seeming to be too much of OOC wink-wink-nudge-nudges.

This is continuity executed superbly.

 

Ooh. Just came across a great bridge in LD between Lost Stars and Bloodline.

 

We see Yendor going from where we first met him in Lost Stars to preparing to be in the role we see him in during Bloodline

 

I was about halfway through that chapter when the Bloodline connection clicked, my mind was then blown.