Lit Books Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith Novel by Adam Christopher

Wait, ROS lost the Sinny? It's stuffed.

 

I kinda like the fact it's stuffed. Something about stuffed movies are more interesting to me. At least in big franchises like this. Means more stuff to expand upon later.

Is that good filmmaking...debtable but it makes for good EU building.

 

Stuffed in this respect Jid isn't a positive indicator. Not even Apocalypse lost the Sinny.

 

Finn smelling where the signal comes from after the ground Tower went down sure was a sign of his emerging FORCE sensitivity but I found that for example far less making sense than the Dagger. Outside Finn fans who wanted him to be a Jedi for ages, who would have recognised that?

Also how did Luke know where to land on Dagobah to find Yoda? THE FORCE

How did Leia suddendly feel where to find Luke below Cloud City? THE FORCE

So how is how does Rey know where to stand with the Dagger any different? THE FORCE!

Besides.. a dagger revealing a Wayfinder to Exegol for anybody that knows a Droidsmith is a huge risk... it makes sense to limit it to Forceusers only being able to find it by lacking some intel only the Force can reveal to those attuned to it.

I mean, no wonder Ochi never used or found it! He got played by some SIth Cultist with promises he never would achieve as he was not Forcesensitive!

 

I mean, the issue is exactly what Sinre pointed out, you can stretch credulity about one silly map doodad (c.r. Indiana Jones). Two draws attention to the artifice.

 

That's a bit dark.

I always assumed he just tripped and fell and had a whoopsie moment.

 

Uicide? Noo.. clumsy Ochi is a thing of the past (waves angry first at Marvel).

Besides... his speeder was down there.

 

marvel Ochi is best Ochi

 

Currently, the only Ochi.

 

As clunky plot devices go, the Sith dagger is neither the best nor the worst of its breed. Star Wars itself has offered clunkier stuff in its day. The worst thing I can say about it is that the "blade looks just like the wreckage" stuff really isn't necessary, as once Rey is on Kef Bir it's easy enough to just say she uses the Force to sense the location of the second Wayfinder. Ultimately it falls into the "doesn't help anything, doesn't hurt anything" column for me.

 

I can make this happen.

 

Welcome to TFN, Adam!

I'm eagerly anticipating your book more than perhaps any SW novel in the last decade, including the Darth Plagueis novel. You had me hooked when you said you take inspiration from Matt Stover's ROTS novelization. For so many fans, Shadow of the Sith will be an opportunity to help mend and course-correct and reinforce the various plot threads of the sequel trilogy. It's a big deal and I'm excited for your opportunity!

I'd also recommend reading Sean Stewart's Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, if you haven't already, as it's the present gold standard for prose, dialogue, and characterization.

 

Oh, please please please!

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And Snoke stuff, hope the book has lots of Snoke related content

Also welcome to these lovely forums.

 

If anyone in the UK is interested, I'm a guest at MCM ComicCon Birmingham on Saturday 13th November, and will be talking about writing tie-in stuff including Star Wars.

 

Sadly I'm not in the UK but that sounds like a fun and fascinating discussion.

 

make sure someone records it for those not on site

 

And those of us in other time zones.

Also welcome Adam.

 

honestly the dragger points to where the wayfinder is

 

In the UK but I'm in the London area, not Birmingham.

 

Right in the bottom of Cornwall for me.

 

I know there hasn’t been more news regarding this book, but I was reading the TROS visual dictionary and wondering how long they’ve been planning out at least the skeleton of this story. There’s references there to Luke and Lando’s search for the new hidden darkness, of course. But there’s also additional hints at the First Order encountering reinforcements out in the Unknown (possibly Snoke and some of his people?). While I know Luke and Lando are the core, I do hope we get to see some of the First Order during this period. Or the Sith Eternal.

 

Seeing more of the SE would be really good, expand them and show how they function. Since according to the comics there were well active pre-endor.