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[jade_sabre]

I have now seen it! so you can discuss it with me. or with each other. Whatever.









also this week I reread Allegiance and it made me so happy inside that now I am rereading the original Thrawn Trilogy. And, unlike the novelization of Empire Strikes Back, the prose has held up to its sturdy, quick and entertaining memories, while even containing a downright good line or two. (Stylistically. Character-wise, I hear the actors' voices in my head and just start squeeing while reading.) This may or may not be connected to the Star Wars exhibit that rolled into town (pictures maybe forthcoming? There are not many good ones, which was a point of contention for the night, also Daddy kept taking pictures of things instead of me looking at things, which was clearly more interesting), and YOU GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUYS I RODE IN THE MILLENIUM FALCON IT WAS AAAAWESOOOOOOOOOOOOME and things like ZOMG ALEC GUINNESS SAT THERE and

oh right I remember what I was going to say here, once I started off with that little Tim Zaaaaaaaaaaaahn I love you and Mike Stackpoole so muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch thing

so once upon a time lily_handmaiden wrote this post talking about how she loves Star Wars, including the prequels? And, like, I mean, don't get me wrong, the prequels aren't too good, and even ROTJ has some seriously lacking moments, and sure I have my own little what-could-have-been canon in my head with the prequels (which has lots of room for Obi-Wan/Padme, mostly because I wasn't remotely interested by Anakin at all) (ugh passive sentence) (anyway), and sure I think Darths and Droids has many more coherent explanations for the plot, and sure George Lucas has made some seriously bad decisions, but you know what?

at the end of the day, I don't care. I will never not have that feeling, when I sit down to watch the movie, that this is a whole UNIVERSE I would love to be a part of in any way. I will always giggle to myself when references are made to it, I will probably always get excited when we see Alderaan at the end of ROTS (IT'S ALDERAAN! LOOK! LOOK! IT'S NOT ALL BLOWN UP!) and somewhere in my mind Luke and Leia's long-lost little sister still lives, sneakin' around the Millennium Falcon just beyond the camera's sight.

I love Star Wars, I love the prequels too, I love the space ships, I love the whole EU, I love the galaxy, and all its silly quirks,




boom de yada boom de yada boom de yada boom de yada

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[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Willow! I just cannot stop grinning when I read it! It's like, Luke Leia Han! Chewie! (Side note: can the Wookie actually say his own name? Like, really, is that just name someone came up with? 'cause I've heard a lot of Wookie growls and I've never heard anything that sounds remotely like "Chewbacca." All the other Wookies get growly names. I'm a little concerned.) TALON KARRDE! (I remember studying Romanticism in, like, tenth grade, and seeing the phrase "Sturm und Drang" and going wait, wait, I know I've--OH TALON KARRDE, ILU.) MARA. Mara Mara Mara.

you have got to go find Allegiance. It is just such a fun little book.

ALSO there were switches and everything (http://www.spacecamp.com/landing/starwars/falcon.php). No dice, though. Also it was like two in the morning when we got on. It was rockin'.

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah boom de yada.

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

<3 Talon Karrde!!!!!!!

It made me squee with mad shipping squee when there were finally hints of a relationship for him.

Also <3 Mara!

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

SHADA! Man I have that "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina" book and I used to be able to identify like every character in the movie from those stories. Shada's the only one who still sticks with me. (The Hand of Thrawn duology is next on my reading list. Oh and I might try to read Liar. I didn't much like How to Ditch Your Fairy, though, so we'll see.)

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[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

I totally forgot she was in the Cantina! Yeah, I used to have that one, "Tales from the Empire," "Tales from Jabba's Palace," and "Tales of the Bounty Hunters."

I have the scene where the Idiot's Array blows up, and Karrde thinks she's dead and then finds out she's not, saved on my hard drive.

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[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

WHAT'S THE MATTER BOSS? ARE--ARE THOSE TEARS?

NO NO JUST--JUST DUST IN THE AIR DUCTS. YEAH. DUST.

(though I can't really hear Shada saying "boss" but oh well. It's better than putting Mara in a sparkly silver jumpsuit, Kevin J. Anderson.)

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[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

Hey did you ever read Wraith Squadron?

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

I started it! And was going man, Aaron Allston, you have improved from these beginning days so much, and also man, I wish he had picked a different POV, like that one chick that Kman thinks he's all in love with but is not because it would be really cool to have it from her POV (tell me not to pull a Mike Stackpoole and, uh, write that novel), but I was enjoying it, and then it ended up packed in a box and now I do not know where it is. Once I actually open my boxes (mostly so I can pack them up again), I will finish it. Actually I might just go get it from the library. I feel a general Good Star Wars Books reread coming due, and the X-Wing books are next chronologically.

(d'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaw in Dark Force Rising Mara's started having the YOU WILL KILL LUKE SKYWALKER dreams and I'm like noooooooo Mara it'll be okay I promise!)