Books Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy

Female and non-binary artists, to be exact.

 

Though it does feature art of male characters too, if that mention of Jacen Syndulla is accurate (and Ezra, Kanan and Zeb are in Sabine's image).

 

I've never heard of this. The only gray Ewok I remember from the movie is Nicki.

 

You can hear the exact quote here around 35'30'':

 

Some new artwork was featured two days ago on the official Star Wars website, including the artists' thoughts on their respective characters.

Kneesaa by Jenny Parks


Mon Mothma by Sara Alfageeh


Oola by Christina Chung


Rose Tico by Karen Hallion


https://www.starwars.com/news/4-artists-star-wars-women-of-the-galaxy

 

Are there any notable comments on the Daughter’s entry?

I’ve recently been interested in how the Force’s duality reflects a non-sexualized version of the male/female duality explored by multiple real word cultures. Mortis did technically sexualize the Force aspects, but they inverted the more common association of female with darkness. And even while they sexualized it, it remains as asexual as Star Wars has always been, so their alignments are not really symbolically tied to their gender or sex.

But, considering the topic or overarching theme of the book, I wonder if they explored further the Daughter and her symbolic meanings?

I know it’s unlikely, but I think inverting the more common symbolism could be a great way for Star Wars to tell a new story on a metaphysical level. I know GL always intended SW spirituality to be “merely” an intro to real-world spirituality, but that’s not a reason for artists and writers to limit themselves.

 

Spoiler

No. It just retells what we know. This isn't really a book concerned with introducing new information -- though I think there are a couple of confirmations of assumed details, like Aunt Z being Gilliand.[/spoilers]

 

Oh? To when?

 

"Five years later" in reference to the events of "World Between Worlds", so 4 ABY. That said, I think there are a few iffy dates/ages throughout the book, and the Rebels epilogue would make more sense after Jakku, so who knows.

 

Sort of a bummer they didn't include new info. I guess they don't want to step on any future toes, but most sourcebooks have something new to add character to the uh, characters.

I do like a lot of the art though -- at least there are images of characters doing things from the books that we hadn't seen, visually, before.

 

Well, there are a few new things, but this isn't really a sourcebook in the way, say, The Essential Guide to Characters is. What this one's doing is framing the characters by their accomplishments and their impact with the fandom; it's not a list of facts and figures.

But yes, it's great to get pictures of certain characters, particularly the likes of Jas Emari and Agate.

 

I still would have preferred a real sourcebook. I guess they're trying to do the whole Me Too/Star Wars Has Women thing, but it's like...

...this woman would have preferred a sourcebook?

 

It's funny that you mentioned that passage on Ahsoka. I'm currently reading WOTG, and I had to do a brief Google timeline search to confirm that it is indeed only five years after Ezra rescues her in the time portal that she meets up with Sabine on Lothal. She just seems so much older than just 5 years since her duel with Vader, doesn't she?

 

It's the Gandalf outfit. Makes everyone look old and sagely.

 

I don't think it's just that, though. Her face, and especially her head-tails look more distinguished.

 

Togruta might mature at a different rate than humans.

 

Yeah, I've heard that somewhere before. In the years between the last episode of Season Five when she leaves the Council and when she's revealed as Fulcrum in Rebels, she's certainly matured quite a lot and looks as if she's aged to adulthood. Ashley even gave her a more distinguished voice in some part. But that was what, like 15 or so years?

 

That wasn't the first season, so a little more than that.

Plus, 15 would be the low ball estimate for her age in Clone Wars, so she should be in her thirties at the youngest.

 

Ahsoka Tano was born 36 BBY. Clone Wars 22-19 BBY (age 14-17). Rebels [from her first appearance] 4-3 BBY (age 32-33). Final appearance, c. 4 ABY (age 40). Not all species age the same way as humans (not all humans age the same way either, I'm 28 and I still get asked if I'm in High School *shivers*).

 

It'd be interesting if Togruta have a slightly but not radically shorter lifespan than humans. In SW it always seems like most species end up having longer than human lifespans because someone always wants to have the same alien characters in stories from every era and the lifespan thing is an easy excuse.

 

Ahsoka definitely doesn't look anything older than 40 in the Rebels epilogue. Especially with the stress of an entire galactic government wanting her dead, she's aged pretty well.

 

That sometimes annoys me as well. They want K'Kruhk in Legacy? So let's just say Whiphids also have very long lifespans! It sometimes seems like every species apart from the Devlikks(who live only nine or ten years) have longer life spans than humans. I know I'm exaggerating, but... I also never much liked that during the Prequel Era, there were Jedi much older than Yoda in the Order(Fay and T'ra Saa).

 

Just recently finished reading the book. It was a relatively short, quick read for the most part. Some of the better known characters got a few pages of description while others got only a few paragraphs. There were certainly characters that I had never heard of; mostly those minor characters from the novels I have yet to read.