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Someone lent me the Thrawn trilogy, and I read them, and I was like "hey these aren't bad" and then I stopped before it had the chance to get ugly.
Well, considering the whole "if this thing gets you, you're dead" claim was made by Jabba, while he was trying to indimidate his prisoners, I think he had reasonable motivation to overstate the situation.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
As long as Matthew Stover writes the occasional book it's all worth it.
ill admit that wasn't a bad book
Well, right, but he was using it as a means of execution, which implies that it does actually work. I mean, you intend to put these guys to death, right? So maybe you overstate how long and painful it's gonna be. Clearly, "digested over thousands of years" doesn't really matter because you weren't going to live that long in the first place. So OK, there's a little of that. But Jabba obviously believed that what he was doing would be a sure-fire way to kill them, or he wouldn't have done it. Obviously, he didn't just shoot them on the spot because he wanted to gain the extra advantage of intimidating anyone else who might think of pissing him off in the future, but he had to be sure that they would not survive or else he undermines himself.
So in short, it makes no sense to assume that there was any real chance of survival for anyone who gets pulled into the pit.
But you see, this, this right here, this way of thinking, this borderline-retcon bullshit used in the name of fanservice (bringing back a popular villain), this is why the EU sucks so bad. Plot-wise, there's no good reason to believe that he survived. The film showed him meeting his end. But it's just like every comic book where the bad guy is buried under 4000 tons of nuclear explosives and they go off and there's a giant fucking mushroom cloud and the land is irradiated for centuries, but SOMEHOW the fucker shows up to mess with the heroes again, and he's got a few facial scars. It's that "we didn't get a clinical close-up shot rivaling hardcore pornography of the guy dying, so there's a chance that maybe he survived." It was pretty clear that the character died at that scene in the film.
Seriously, imagine the emperor being alive again. Oh, well, he fell down the reactor shaft, but you never SAW him die. What you saw was an explosion, which was just his BODY hitting the reactor energy core thing, but he used a Sith power that he never told anyone else about, even Vader, and that power saved him from the fall by allowing him to switch souls/bodies with some Joe Blow storm trooper or something, and after that, he escaped in the evacuation in a younger body with all his powers intact.
See, now that's fucking stupid. It's bad writing. It's a retcon in the name of fanservice, because clearly the emperor died in that scene.
HIGH SCORE
Dark Empire
Framling put his balls on your little toy things.
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What?
Wait, are you serious?
I just made that up. I was trying to make up something that was as terrible as I could come up with. Are you serious?
How close is Dark Empire to what I just described?
To be fair it was a new clone body, not a stormtroopers.
I never managed to read Empires End, because it's the one comic they never reprint. I want to find out how it ended.
Framling put his balls on you, though.
but close enough I guess
EDIT: beat'd
and no one realized it was a joke
most of all defender who saw an opportunity to go through a keyboard and rank to yell at something
I had to read "go through a keyboard and Rank" like four times to get it to parse right.
Wiki describes it better than I could.
I read the comic, it wasn't too bad.
no, no, we have like a special thing
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Yeah, that excuse didn't work out so well for me at the Catholic school, you might wanna work on it.
Is he, like, one of the really bad EU writers or something? I don't recognize that name. Actually, I feel like I have heard it before. But I don't know who that is.
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plastic bag and a rubber band?
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the first one was alright, and then Lightsabers was like reading Goosebumps or some shit
He turned out a lot of material in a very short period of time, and it shows.
But it's not like he was throwing people in there with jet packs, guns, grenades, rocket launchers and full suits of armor. He's throwing in unarmed dudes, probably tied up or shackled sometimes.
I don't know, I read the story, and I was like "okay, I guess that makes sense."
I can agree that, on the face, the Emperor coming back in a clone body sounds pretty dumb. I haven't actually sat down and read through Dark Empire I and II, since I can't stand the coloring work, so I can't say it's any better in actual execution.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
Darksaber wasn't that good, and Lightsabers I'm pretty sure was for kids. Was that Young Jedi Knights? That was for kids.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
Oh, okay, fair enough.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
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This is true. Kevin J. Anderson is awful. However, he did manage to write one, exactly one, good thing in Star Wars. And here it is!
Anderson wrote Darksaber. Now, that's not the good thing. Darksaber was, in fact, one of the worst books in Star Wars EU outside of one event. Now, in Darksaber, the man who designed the Death Star is a primary character. His name is Bevel Lemelisk. Lemelisk was basically the Emperor's pet scientist, designing all sorts of crap for him over a period of years. Now, every time Lemelisk screwed something up, the Emperor would kill him, and use the Force to move his spirit to a new body. Once, the Emperor killed Lemelisk by submerging him in a pool of molten copper.
Lemelisk agonzied for years over this. "Why copper?" Bugged the hell out of him. So one day, he gets up the guts to go and ask the Emperor.
The Emperor's reply is, "It's what the smelters happened to have that day."
any major dude will tell you