Lit The New Jedi Order: Summary

I think it's a (fairly) realistic portrayal of a fall to the Dark side and some much-needed screentime for Jaina. That plus Jag Fel.

 

Yeah but its not the book you want at the time. I remember bring upset at the time with no Jacen or like in the novel

 

Yeah...well, I read the NJO for the first time in the most ridiculously topsy-turvy way, so that kind of passed me by.

 

We're never going to agree on much about NJO JM, but yeah, DJ is not what people were wanting in the immediate aftermath of SBS!

 

I was cool with Jacen not being in DJ. Annoying yes but I could handle the mystery of it. Plus I wanted to see how Jaina would handle it all. Character study for her like Traitor was for Jacen even though DJ was nowhere near as good as Traitor was.

 

A character study is fine in principle but the placement for it was utterly off! SbS, due to its cataclysmic events, pretty much demanded an equally wide-scale pick-up then character studies.

 

*pouty* Traitor is.

 

yeah Traitor should have been next, then maybe DJ

 

What EU/LEU needed/needs was/is Jaina's Traitor.
Tbh, I enjoyed DJ. Would have worked the best if there was perhaps another book between it and SBS. It's a decent character study and it isn't an unreasonable description of dealing with the inner Dark Side in dark times. But it should have been more Traitor-esque.

Late to the DNT party

It was supposed to add to the "tragedy" of RotS and give closure to Luke and Leia on their family tree (once PT was out), so I can see why they went for that plot point. But it just turned out very poor. Guess we can only thank Lucas for those lines in the first place. I was reading DNT as it came out and considering the events of LotF, I'm not sure how to feel about Jacen's flow-walking now.

 

I never liked Jacen's flow-walking ability but that's because I don't like time travel (or things time manipulation) outside of stories designed for it. Dr.Who is about a Time Lord so of course it's fine there, and I'll make an exception for when it happens in 40k because it's not even a blip on the radar considering the insanity of that setting. But it feels out of place in the Star Wars.

 

Well, that is part of the probem. The Jedi act, as if they learned nothing during the events that make up the NJO and worse, they appear like and behave more and more like the Jedi of the Prequel-era (which was supposed to be their low-point, but Denning missed this particular memo).

 

I'd say Enemy Lines should have followed SbS, as Traitor needs time to have gone by to work - ie. Vong terraforming of Coruscant and moon-smashing.