Books The Official TARKIN by James Luceno Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

Is it used throughout, in all the places we would normally have seen "Emperor Palpatine," or is it just dropped in one or two scenes and not commonly known IU?

 

Nope. Just referenced only once, I believe.

 

Correct.

 

I don't even think the name is that bad, it's just that nothing could ever have lived up to everyone's expectations so they shouldn't have bothered.

I saw it and was just kind of "meh, whatever"--and I think the only two possible reactions are that and disfavor, so I fail to see the benefit in revealing it. No one's gonna be like, "yeah!! *********!!! Awesome!!!"

 

You nailed down the problem, I guess. I think it sounds like... I don't know, a prison name or something like that.

 

Where I can I find the leak that contains his first name? You can put the link in a spoiler tag if you'd like.

 

Breaking: Jello likes Rome thing

 

they need badly to canonize pleguis

 

I hate the name the more I think about it. It IS a bad choice, especially with so many better ones ripe for the picking (yeah, would Augustus, also a synonym for "Emperor", have hurt that much?) -- leaving aside the fact that one name is more than enough. Supershadow thought of a better name for Palpatine than Lucas. Jeeeee-ee-sus.

I think, after consistently defending George Lucas for years, this is reason enough to finally jump on the "Lucas sucks" bandwagon.

 

Augie's Great Municipal Band? Of course young Palpatine would have tried his skills in music, it has always been dear to him. But he could have come up with a better name for the band.

Like "Augie and the Peculiar Hat Crew", with Ars Dangor as the one who left before they became famous.

 

I found it through using my mad Twitterfu. And you know what? I actually like it. It somehow fits, I think. Especially if it has the intentional connection to a particular deity in a particular pantheon that has a dual nature, with one of its attributes as 'destroyer' , and another as 'benefactor' - a deity which Lucas has visited before in another franchise (then emphasizing the deity's name that portrays its benevolent part). I think it's pretty cool, actually, having this going forward. And it makes it VERY Lucas.

It's also cool that because Luceno is revealing it, it's himself contradicting his own prior Legendsverse novel. Makes it to it doesn't appear to be one author shooting down someone else's material. If Story Group is going to canonize something that has a significant or well known counterpart in the Legendsverse, it's fun when the original author of the obsolete reference is allowed to be the one to do the damage.

 

It could certainly be worse, but forty years and this is the best Lucas could come up with?

I wasn't a fan of Cosinga at first--it felt clunky--but it definitely grew on me as unique-sounding for a unique character. Dantius is cheesy (is that the SuperShadow one?) but it's royalty-sounding and sounds like a Flash Gordon character so I would have been OK with that.

Being latter-day Lucas I was legitimately afraid it was along the lines of "Savage Oppress" or "Whorm Loathsom" or "General Grievous", so at least it's a fabricated word instead of "Eevul Palpatine."

 

Wile E. Palpatine, genius.

 

I have no want to go search for the name, but I know that I will get to know it here before I get the book in my hands and after the NDA has been lifted. Likely I'll accidentally open a spoiler tag.

It's Mickey, isn't it?

 

Remember, folks: Lucas opted to omit the name; it was the Story Group that exhumed it. The fault's theirs, as far as I'm concerned.

 

If you don't want to spoil Palpatines first name don't go to Wookieepedia , you have been warned

 

Now I'm REEEAAALLY pissed.

 

So my super-secret contact, AKA my Facebook newsfeed, has informed me that it's up now in the Amazon preview, page 93.



EDIT: Jeez, Wookieepedia doesn't dick around.

 

If it's in the Amazon preview, then it's there for everyone to see anyway...

 

Yuck. That's just awful.

 

And... it's canon! No more "it's EU tie-in stuff" excuses.


How does that feel?


Ouch.

 

So we can talk about the name in the open now since it's on Amazon ?

 

No. It is too terrible for words.