Books A/V DARK DISCIPLE (Ventress/Vos novel) (spoilers)

We don't know. It doesn't change the fact that they see TCW as canon. Something stupid that a member of the story group said once doesn't outweigh the fact that they've said multiple times that the movies and TCW are canon because they're the only things that Lucas worked on directly.

 

How did I not know you hated ROTS before now? You can't just stop being awesome can you?

 

I thought Lucas worked directly on the Ewok movies too? I could be mistaken about that. But they're no longer part of canon.

TCW is definitely canon now. It might stay canon for another 50 years. Will it stay canon forever? Who knows? Nothing is that sacred.

 

Mortis is my favourite TCW arc, tied with the season five finale. Why don't people like it, out of curiosity? I have seen many people with the opinion that it is bad, and I am curious why. .-.

*runs and hides in corner.*

 

I get the feeling that there will be a rant soon.

 

I didn't like Mortis because, after the first episode was a decent little adventure with more ethereal overtones, the second and third drag the plot way too far out. "Twists" that get reset at the end and heavy-handed foreshadowing aren't enough to save a one-episode premise stretched out over three episodes. I didn't hate it, but I certainly wasn't a fan.

 

The best part about Mortis was getting to see Qui-Gon Jinn again.

 

Mortis is interesting because it has a lot of symbolism at work in it.

What was done with it by the EU was terrible though.

 

Yeah. It was the EU treatment in the novels that I disliked too.

I enjoyed the episodes themselves (although, like Cynical_Ben I feel it worked better as a standalone episode, rather than being dragged out over three).

 

The first one was fine by itself or they could have gone another episode and have Ashoka and Obi-Wan try to bring Anakin back. The Father bringing him back felt like a cop out imo.

 

I just hate the idea of the Ones.

 

The first episode is kind of misleading on its own. The interesting symbolism comes into play in the latter two IMO.

Plus, the apparently Troy Denning only watched the first episode, which is why the EU butchered it.

 

From what I have heard, the Ones are supposed to be something along the lines of the personification of the Balance of the Force, or at least come across as such.

 

The Father personifies the Unifying/Cosmic Force and the children personify the two sides of the Living Force.

But what they really are, literal personifications or simply powerful beings that happen to represent these things, is wholly ambiguous.

 

Which is an idea I hate and believe to be unnecessary.

 

My view has always been that none of them were real people any more than the Vader that Luke fights in the cave on Dagobagh was real. It was all just weird Force-stuff.

Whenever I watch it, I watch it for Liam Neeson and for Ahsoka acting like Harley Quinn. Everything else is OK in my opinion, unless you pull a Denning and make all of it real. Then I want to bash my head against a wall.

 

I actually don't mind the Mortis arc, it was actually the Ventress episodes before this that got me watching TCW again (I gave up with the show initially in season 1) and I find this trilogy to be a nice follow up that made me decide I was a idiot for giving up on the show in the first place. But I can see the problems people would have with it, but don't see how some have labeled it the best episodes of the show. I think I love it just because Sam Witwer, Qui-Gon, and Original Trilogy foreshadowing...stuff.

 

So, in that case, who's Puddin'?

 

...sorry, that one went over my head.

 

It's Harley's pet name for Mr J aka Joker.

 

I always find it fascinating when people who like Star Wars hate a lot of things that make up Star Wars.