Lit Ignorance is Bias: The Diversity Manifesto

Ah. I suppose those should have been obvious, though 'Koon' just makes me think of Thomas Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) or maybe a coonskin cap.

 

No I did not[/quote]


Brian Daley created them for the Han Solo Adventures, the old ones, pre-EU...or pre-Zahn EU, however one refers to that period.

I sometimes wonder if he originally wanted to call the other droid Blue Peter (that's not actually as dirty as it sounds, google "Blue Peter Badge"...errmmm...with safe search on) but that was just too obvious.

 

*cough*

 

A discusion of silly Star Wars names, and no mention of Elan Sleezebageno? For shame.

Let's not forget Whorm Loathsome either.

 

Or it could mean having to do with wind. I think that one is a real stretch.

 

Well, once you start bringing different variants of English into it (or other languages altogether), there's no real point. Almost anything is silly-or-offensive-sounding if you go cross-culture enough.

 

That's it.

I'm going to make it my life's work to make "Thrawn" into a cuss word.

 

The Thrawn you say !

 

You Thrawning traitor!

 

Get the Thrawn out!

 

What the Thrawn did you say about me you little Thrawn??

 

I'll see you in Thrawn!

 

Wasn't "Xendor!" a curse in the AC Crispin books?

 

You Thrawn-faced Xendor-sucker!

 

Minions of Xendor!

 

I don't curse so I'll just say "Oh Thrass".

 

Alright, I'm reading TOR: Annihilation (completism is a disease, folks), and this is the most racially confusing thing ever. Theron Shan's mother is Satele Shan. His father is Jace Malcom.

Now, Satele's design in the CGI trailer was sort of racially ambiguous.



So was Jace Malcom, who kinda hovers halfway between "white guy" and "the clones were Maori, and we're trying to make these guys look like the clones, right?"



But, hey, the game models kind of clarified things. Satele looks pretty East Asian, and Jace Malcom, who's voiced by a black guy, appears to be a black guy who's a lot darker than he looks in that trailer, but whatever. Cool shoulderpad, dude.





So when their son appeared in a comic, what did he look like?



A white guy. And on the cover of Annihilation, he's a mildly more ambiguous white guy, maybe Iranian kinda looking or something? I don't know.



Oh, and here's some concept art for his I think yet-to-appear in-game model.



So he's kinda ambiguous there, like maybe they finally figured out that Satele is his mother. But . . . did everyone just, like, miss the memo that his dad is black? Did the game programmers for Malcom miss the memo that Malcom isn't supposed to be black? Is that just terrible lighting on that Malcom screenshot and someone with the game can tell me that I'm being needlessly confused by a dark screenshot? What the hell is going on here?

 

Theron has appeared in-game in a recent addition, though I don't know what his model looks like because I haven't seen any playthroughs of that addition yet (I don't actually play TOR myself).

 

Am I alone in thinking that his loose concept face look a bit like Sylvester Stallone?