Lit Books FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

Damn I need to stay healthy... 2059 I'd be 76!!! Well still better than others here I guess

Now I wish we could get Indiana Jones FACPOV and Expanded Universe going again... so much good stuff and with no new movies it always breaks down quickly... but Indy 5 is coming, soooo?

 

If your looking forward to new Star Wars films, the next confirmed movie is coming out 2023. At least that was the case the last I checked.

 

Maybe they should keep releasing them on anniversaries, but not necessarily fortieth anniversaries? Like the twenty-fifth anniversaries for the Prequels, the tenth or fifteenth for the Sequels? Just to keep the line going consistently?

Though part of me wonders whether the short stories wouldn't be the same without forty years of hindsight. I'm not sure.

 

I'd have to be gifted with long life to see that entire list.

 

Yer startin' trouble, younglin'!

 

We have to consider though if they make a Episode 10-12 in the future though too.

 

Ah jeez. Thanks @jasonfry for finding me funny.

(btw, don't mean to nerd out on you but I'm a big fan of your work.)

 

If Darth Maul can survive getting sliced in half and dropped down a thousand meter shaft, I'm sure Hobbie can survive a smash into the snow. So there!

 

If I'm still part of the teams working on these FACPOVs when we get to 2059, something will have gone seriously wrong, lol.

That being said, I love seeing the enthusiasm for this project and others like it. The teams put a tremendous amount of effort/time into them and its a privilege to be among them.

 

Having a hell of a lot of Star Wars movies and tv shows coming out is already outliving me and I am still loving it.

We would have a lot more out sooner if Covid was not a pandemic.

 

I'd be 74 if they got to TROS. Possible, I suppose. I doubt I'd give a #### about SW by then, though.

 

I'm only 29, but I can't think of any work of fiction I've enjoyed that I've totally stopped caring about, so I'm pretty sure I'd still be on board for 2059 FACPOV TROS.

 

I'm sure I'll have completely given up on Star Wars by 2059. They'll probably be on their fourth or fifth continuity reboot by then. (Just like how I finally gave up on DC with Infinite Crisis)

 

If so I guarantee there will be a thread here, or beamed right into your brain from the equivalent of here, in which someone insists there's a way to make all five timelines work together, if you just accept the following 284 retcons....

I also guarantee I will get weekly emails in my nutrient vat asking pointed questions about the lengths of starships seen a century before in the background of a comics panel. And that I'll see the occasional social-media flare demanding the long-lost Sword of the Jedi MS be surrendered by TeslaGoogleRandomHouse.

Star Wars is forever, y'all!

 

I know I'd chip in for the fund to digitally upload your consciousness for indefinite preservation.

 

Which short story are most looking for to?

I'm looking forward to "Rendezvous Point" by Jason Fry and "The Final Order" by Seth Dickinson.

The former because Jason Fry (@jasonfry) has a habit in his writing to bring back Legends names for characters And he's a battle junkie (I want him to get a Battle of Endor story for ROTJ's inevitable version ) and the later because I look forward to getting to know who was the captain that lost the bridge of his Star Destroyer to an asteroid or two and after forty years he will finally be named!

 

I'm looking forward to all of them, but if I had to pick a few...
"Due on Batuu" by Rob Hart cause of my main man Willrow, but also "This is No Cave" by Catherynne M. Valente cause Exogorths are of a special interest to me.

 

The Art of the Retcon is a power, not many have achieved.

Palpatine:
Did you ever hear the Tragedy Continuity-wise?

Anakin:
No.

Palpatine:
I thought not. It's not a story Disney would tell you. It's an Expanded Universe legend. Darth Disney was a Dark Lord of Canon so powerful and so wise, he could use the Force to influence the Storygroup to create...continuities. He had such a knowledge of the Canon, he could even keep the fans he cared about...from leaving.

Anakin:
He could actually...save people from despair?

Palpatine:
The dark side of Canon is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

Anakin:
What happened to him?

Palpatine:
He became so powerful, the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power...which, eventually of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his fans everything he knew. Then his fans killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from leaving Star Wars...but not himself.

Anakin:
Is it possible to learn this power?

Palpatine:
Not from someone who isn't a Fan!

 

I'm looking forward to being surprised by a story about a character I don't care about which then does its job and makes me see them... from a different point of view.

 

Sounds like an impossible standard to maintain. That's why I went into the new Star Wars with no expectations in mind and I was not disappointed.

 

At this point I wonder who got more metal in his body... Hobbie or Valance?

I mean, given his previous crashs and replacement body parts... how can he even die so easily from fricking SNOW? Nobody can convince me he can die then and there ever!

Besides, I still ship Hobbie/Janson as the Expanded Universes unadmitted bi-gay couple!

 

How is "wanting to let yourself be surprised" an impossible standard?

Heck, how is it even a standard at all?