No, they really didn't. The prequels will forever remain terrible films IMO. A couple of years ago the sci-fi channel was running a SW marathon and I watched them for the first time in forever, and all three of them were just as god-awful as I remembered. The only redeeming qualities of those flicks are Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor.
I still really like ROTS, I think its gets a bad name. Ewan and Liam and Ian were exceptional performances.
Still love the battle of Coruscant at the start of ROTS, but like I mentioned it should have been two movies instead of one.
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It really seems that it lends itself to a TV series more then a movie. At least to me. Also Disney has ordered a Maul series.
I love that they're exploring these topics. But what made Mandalorian special was what we talked about here. He wasn't an established character. Just like Bad Batch was great because it went against the uniformity of the Clones.
I still think that they should do an Old Republic trilogy of movies. A time when Jedi had a huge battery backpack connected to their lightsabers by a cord and the Sith were actually not the true bad guys. The Jedi were.
They have hovered over this story line sooooo many times without actually delving into it. I am hopeful that there is a future ark for Ahsoka in this vein in the legendarium.
The jedi, are at the core, a fascist hegemony. They're just a "peaceful" one. But disparate thought is extremely discouraged, there's a fanatical level of pride (and all the negatives associated with that) about the non-dark side of the force (never referred to as a side, but clearly it is...), they are absolutely intolerant of other (non-aligned) beings accessing their source of power, and they crush resistance to their order mercilessly.
I think saying the Jedi are peaceful isn't quite right, and their whole peaceful contemplation of the Force really only happened recently in terms of galactic history.
I know its Legends, but basically
The first Jedi Schism happened when some Jedi said, hey we're not studying all aspects of the force and we found a way to increase personal power, we'd like to start a school and study it peacefully while still living up to the Jedi ideas. The Jedi response . . . That's hearsay and started a war and wiped out the Dark Jedi.
The second schism was pretty much the same, Jedi that were didn't feel that they were studying all aspects of the Force. So the Jedi declared holy war wiped out most of them, then banished a few who eventually found Korriban and conquored the Sith species. They focused on Empire building and forgot about the Republic and Jedi, and the way back to the Republic. Eventually they recovered that and invaded. Were beaten back by the Republic and the Jedi convinced the Republic to declare a war of genocide and killed every Sith Man, woman and child that they could find and bombed Korriban and its great temples and Sith history out of existence.
A few Sith escaped and settled on Droumand Kaas, this is where the Sith made it a core tenant that they would wipe out the Jedi in the name of Revenge.
Revan and Malik were Jedi who got involved in the Mandalorian War lead a almost religious war as Jedi against the Mandalorians and lured them into a trap and used a planet killing weapon to kill them all.
The Sith came back from that and tried to exterminate the Jedi, and failed.
The whole Sith Empire Republic War happened. Even though the Sith declared a cease fire when they sacked Corsucant and bombed the Jedi Temple. The Jedi broke the cease fire leading to a greater war.
We later had a war between the brother hood of darkness and the Jedi. The Jedi decided to recruit and arm child soldiers to fight in the war. The war lead to trillions of innocent civilian deaths as the Jedi and Sith were fighting their religious war and didn't care about non force users.
The Ruusan reformation came along. The Jedi lost their standing in the Republic Military and the Republic Military vanished.
Bane created the rule of two with Darth Zannah. He was patient and cunning and content to hide in the shadows. The Jedi learned that a Sith survived, and instead of trying to redeem Bane or capture him, they went after him with murder in their eyes. They thought they killed him, instead they unknowingly murdered a clearly wounded innocent man (Zannah's brother). Declare victory.
However the Jedi continued to conscript Children, and in their arrogance continued to go out on campaigns to basically reform the galaxy as they wanted it to be.
When Anakin said in his mind the Jedi were evil . . . from a certain point of view (see what I did there) he was right. The Jedi were the cause of it all, promoted genocide, murdered, recruited child soldiers, caused mass casualties among non force users and didn't care because they continually hide behind prophecy and the will of the force that they interpret themselves.
Palpatine did the galaxy a favor by wiping them out. to me though the whole bringing balance to the force should have been no Jedi and no Sith.
Palpatine also used the truth as a weapon, in the opera house scene he nailed the Jedi in every sense.
The Jedi and Sith have identical goals, peace and justice. The Sith just have the radical add on that the strong should rule the non force users to reach this goal. While the Jedi flounder around in a misguided series of campaigns that lead to nothing.
He was also right, as much as the Jedi talk about not having fear or anger. The Jedi were terrified of losing their power and wealth and sense of entitlement that they were the interpreters and defenders of what they thing the Republic should be.
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When are Star Wars fans going to accept that Star Wars was good in the 70s and 80s and just let that be that? I liked Rogue One, but with the quantity of films they've released since the late 90s, it makes sense they would accidentally make a decent one.
It's mediocre sci-fi. There are way better movies and stories. That's okay. I feel like some people are looking for a depth and quality that just isn't there and probably never was.
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When are Star Wars fans going to accept that Star Wars was good in the 70s and 80s and just let that be that? I liked Rogue One, but with the quantity of films they've released since the late 90s, it makes sense they would accidentally make a decent one.
It's mediocre sci-fi. There are way better movies and stories. That's okay. I feel like some people are looking for a depth and quality that just isn't there and probably never was.
Every so often you do get a treat though, like The Mandalorian. I've given up on trying to follow everything, there is so much mediocre content not worth consuming.
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There was a gap between The Empire Strikes back and The Mandalorian where nothing great was created under the brand. There were a few moments of 'very good' but never great.
When are Star Wars fans going to accept that Star Wars was good in the 70s and 80s and just let that be that? I liked Rogue One, but with the quantity of films they've released since the late 90s, it makes sense they would accidentally make a decent one.
That's what I want from Rogue Squadron, give me that Rogue One space combat goodness and flesh out characters we haven't really seen much of.
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I think that TFA was ok, it was a basic reboot of ANH, and they weren't even subtle about it.
I just don't understand how they wouldn't have laid out the whole trilogy, a work book that directors would get the story beat on. Instead we got a mess of a second movie that completely ignored the first movie, and just wrecked any chance of a coherant storyline.
For its warts, the PT, had a coherent story and if you look at the major beats. Obiwan's ascension, Skywalkers fall, Palpatines rise, the end of the Jedi, was a cool idea. There were a lot of poor choices. Having Anakin as a 9 year old was one, the clumsy love story in AOTC was another. I still think they should have Harry Potter'd ROTS and made it two movies.
I think they likely had a story for the whole trilogy, but Johnson chose to throw that out the window. Luke throwing the light sabre away was probably an inside joke about that.
My guess is that the overall storyline wasn't too far off from what we got. It was always the intention to have the Emperor return, after turning both Rey and Kylo to the dark side. When JJ Abrams talks about not having a plan, he means that the details weren't scripted yet on how to get to the end.
The original plan is actually not a horrible idea. It could have played out with Rey and Kylo joining forces and taking over the dark side by defeating Snoke together. Basically, giving into their anger and making the choice that Luke was unwilling to make. Then they find out they've been manipulated by the Emperor the whole time, and one of them turn back towards the light. This isn't all that much different than what we got, but it was all crammed into one movie.
It would have also been great if Kylo had to kill Rey at the end, who couldn't be convinced to make the right choice. That would have been a great plot twist.
Either way, I think it's likely that Abrahms would have botched the whole thing too. The way he portrayed the Emperor and the force powers in RoS made me think he didn't really understand Star Wars either.
There was a gap between The Empire Strikes back and The Mandalorian where nothing great was created under the brand. There were a few moments of 'very good' but never great.
ESB and Mandalorian are very high standards IMO. Between those two, there was lots of high quality stuff, just not to the standard of those two, but what percentage of media is to that standard? Rogue One for example is great, but not as good as ESB.
We really needed to have things fall to the lows of the new trilogy to finally get something like the Mandalorian going. Without Kennedy falling on her face with TLJ, she would have mucked up all future SW projects. Without having TLJ horribly fail in the way it did, there's no way Disney would have given Favreau free reign to make the Mandalorian the way he wanted to.
Either way, I think it's likely that Abrahms would have botched the whole thing too. The way he portrayed the Emperor and the force powers in RoS made me think he didn't really understand Star Wars either.
Almost certainly. You get these well known directors who claim to be fans of a franchise but proceed to muck it up, so I just assume they were lying or they were so hands-off in the production that they lose the plot. M. Night Shymalan said he was a huge fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender (he even wrote the forward for the ATLA art books) and then he pumped out an absolutely terrible live action adaptation that any fan of the original show could realize was hot garbage. How does that happen?
I guess at this point I'll take any director or producer claiming they're a huge fan of the show they're working on as a big red flag.
Almost certainly. You get these well known directors who claim to be fans of a franchise but proceed to muck it up, so I just assume they were lying or they were so hands-off in the production that they lose the plot. M. Night Shymalan said he was a huge fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender (he even wrote the forward for the ATLA art books) and then he pumped out an absolutely terrible live action adaptation that any fan of the original show could realize was hot garbage. How does that happen?
I guess at this point I'll take any director or producer claiming they're a huge fan of the show they're working on as a big red flag.
I just don't get how someone who is a basic fan of film watches the Emperor in RotJ and thinks....wow do you know what would be missing from this....if the Emperor came back from the dead and had even more powerful lightning powers. The ROTJ had relatively simple force powers and relied on well crafted storylines to build tension in that final scene.
At the end of the day, Michael Bay could have directed RoS and had a similar result. I know...we'll just take everything from the original trilogy and make it louder....and more lens flare!
JJ Abrams is just not that good at what he does. He struck gold on MI3, due a great Philip Seymour Hoffman performance, and Star Trek had a bunch of things all come together that he was unable to recreate.
I mean how are Filoni and Favreau not in charge of everything SW yet? Everything they do is gold, loved by new fans and old fans.
Fixing Star Wars is actually a super easy, 2-step process:
1. Fire Kathleen Kennedy and everyone hired by Kathleen Kennedy
2. Cut Filoni and Favreau a blank cheque. You don't even have to tell them to make something good, they actually want to make something good.
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I just don't get how someone who is a basic fan of film watches the Emperor in RotJ and thinks....wow do you know what would be missing from this....if the Emperor came back from the dead and had even more powerful lightning powers. The ROTJ had relatively simple force powers and relied on well crafted storylines to build tension in that final scene.
This a million times. I love Ian and I loved the portrayal of Palpatine/Sidious in the first 6 movies.
But that portrayal in ROS was just awful and it wasn't Ian's fault. The whole premise of the sacrifice was absolutely dumb and made zero sense. The Sith don't sacrifice, the Sith fear death over everything else as the loss of power.
Then he shoots a mega lightning storm into space debilitating or destroying a massive fleet. Then his lightning can't get past Ray's lightsabre. Oh and who knew a crucifix duel lightsabre move would destroy the strongest force user in the Galaxy.
There's a reason why I firmly believe that Palpatine was not in the original trilogy as the big bad of the series. Because it was bat#### stupid, and it was a panicked response in massive fan service to Star Wars fans that crapped over TLJ.
And yeah to add on JJ took a serious shot at Rian with the whole "A Jedi weapon deserves more respect."
You can tell by the way in the novel TFA that Snoke was the long term villain in the series. When they describe his backstory, he was a individual force user from the unknown region who had crossed path's with Skywalker. He wasn't a strandcast puppet created in a vat.
The third movie had a panicked "I can fix this vibe" with a ending that was more "Thank god this is over" as opposed to "what a great way to end the Skywalker saga".
I still think that if they had guts, the shadow behind the throne occupied by Snoke and the real big bad in the series should have been Luke who realized that the Galaxy had become a crappy place and he wanted to fix it so badly that he decided the only way to do that was to rule. Now you have a logical reason for Ben's fall, You have a really strong villain pair, and in the end you can redeem Ben of kill him off as you choose and it makes sense.
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When are Star Wars fans going to accept that Star Wars was good in the 70s and 80s and just let that be that? I liked Rogue One, but with the quantity of films they've released since the late 90s, it makes sense they would accidentally make a decent one.
It's mediocre sci-fi. There are way better movies and stories. That's okay. I feel like some people are looking for a depth and quality that just isn't there and probably never was.
Rots, decent.
The Force Awakens, decent.
Rogue one, good.
Solo, fun.
Mandalorian, great.
Honestly, the start of these new live action series has the seeds to become something truly great and build off the best parts of the originals and prequels while capturing the essence of them, which is what they're clearly aimed at doing.
The franchise is ultimately being watered down with these recent features, yes. And that's sad. But mando has shown me that there is still magic in this universe that can be brought to the screen.
When you can make middle aged guys everywhere sob like babies, you're doing something right.
I do think the ten or so projects planned is too many, but exploring Obi Wan and Vader between the trilogies and the Mando timeline feel well worth while and I am more intrigued by those projects than most anything else coming out.
Fandom took a hit after eps 7-9, but it is slowly being re-discovered through the live action series.
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I thought I would do a review as I read through some of my old Star Wars Legacy stuff, I'll put it in Spoiler tags so those that don't want to see a wall of text. But I want to cover the good, the bad and ugly of the Star Wars Legacy series.
Spoiler!
Star Wars Dark Empire Trilogy.
Now I’ve read the hardcover trilogy which was published in 2010. But this is just a reprint of the 12 part comic book series by Dark Horse Comics published in 1991-1992.
Now I will state here, I haven’t been a comic book guy since I was a kid, but I bought this in 2010 because it was pointed to as a major piece of Star Wars Lore. The series takes place 6 ABY and shortly after the rise and fall of Thrawn in the Heir to the Empire Series.
Story Line
The story starts with the Rebellion on the run. A massive Imperial fleet surges from the deep core and quickly conquers Coruscant. But shortly after that victory the Imperials fall on each other in a civil war. Meanwhile Luke Skywalker who is rebuilding the Jedi Knights is captured by a massive force storm and taken to the core world of Byss, where he is confronted by Emperor Palpatine who has survived his death by pouring his essence into clone bodies. Luke is confronted and dominated and turns to the Dark Side of the Force as he believes he can only defeat Palpatine by learning the secrets of the Dark Side.
Meanwhile the Empire unleashes its next super weapon, the World Devestators which are huge automated factories that can destroy worlds and convert the debris to weapons of War.
The Rebellion gets a fortunate break as they go to rescue Luke on Byss, Leia steals the great holocron from Palpatine and Luke betrays his master and gives the control codes to the Devestators to R2D2 who then destroys the Empires super weapon. Luke refuses to leave and again is crushed by Palpatine.
Luke shrugs off Palpatines influence and attacks the lab that makes Palpatines clone bodies and smashes all but one, but he isn’t in time as Palpatine occupies the last young clone and beats Luke into submission.
Because its his last clone, and the clones can’t contain his power, Palpatine intends to occupy a strong young Jedi body, like Leia’s unborn son who later becomes Anakin Solo a major piece of the Legends EU.
With Luke in tow Palpatine arrives at the Rebel base and demands Leia in exchange for a truce. Leia boards the Superstar Destroyer Eclipse and redeems Luke and they both confront the Emperor who in a fit of rage unleashes a force storm to destroy the Rebels but Luke and Leia turn it on him and the Eclipse is destroyed with Palpatine on board.
In the second part of the Trilogy. It covers Luke trying to rebuild the Jedi order and travelling to worlds like Ossus. Meanwhile the Emperor is betrayed by his advisors who destroy more of his clone bodies but Palpatine manages to occupy a flawed clone. At the same time, the Rebellion tries to go on the offensive with the assumption that the Emperor is dead. The second chapter ends with the birth of Anakin Solo.
The third part of the Trilogy is called Empire’s End. Palpatine now controls a new weapon, a Galaxy Gun. A weapon that can fire projectiles through hyperspace that can destroy planets and fleets. The Rebellion barely escapes a attack and the Rebel fleet scatters to the far corners of the Universe.
Meanwhile Palpatine is now desperate as his clone body begins to rapidly age and he focuses on Anakin Skywalker as his next and most powerful receptacle. The Rebels attempt to capture Palpatine on Byss and fail and Palpatine tracks down Leia in his new Star Destroyer the Eclipse 2. In a final confrontation Han shoots the Emperor in the back and the Emperors spirit is trapped by one of Lukes Jedi and is banished to eternal death forever. Meanwhile R2D2 reprograms the Eclipse 2 and it collides with the galaxy gun which spasmodically fires a projector that collides and destroys Byss.
Thoughts on the Lore
This comic series was released far before the Lore was established on lots of things. However there was some interesting things bought into being. The Jedi Holocron was introduced here, as well a lot of the old worlds like Ossus and Nar Shadda and Byss. At the same time Palpatine was never titled as a Lord of the Sith, nor was Vader, instead Dark Side users were Dark Jedi. There was no rule of two and Palpatine could just grant his people dark side powers and call them adepts. In other words he made instant Dark Siders. At the same time the Jedi perspective was different. Jedi from the Old Republic felt they had a right to rule as benevolent rulers. Luke was no longer the young enthusiastic Jedi, instead he was at time defeatist, and bitter and became scared by guilt over his actions as Palpatines Jedi. Boba Fett played a prominent role in this series for a while, but while he was the most fearsome Bounty Hunter in the Galaxy, he was more a prat falling buffoon. The story introduced a love interest for Luke who Palpatine killed, we saw Hans old girl friend. The story also fleshed out the history of the ancient Sith War, introduced us to Korriban the birthplace of the Sith in current lore, but again there was no connection between Palpatine and the Sith except as a source of knowledge and power.
Thoughts on the story
Because everyone was kind of acting a bit out of character, it was a bit jarring. The Emperor kept rolling out super weapons and super ships, and the Rebel leaders kept running around screaming that the Rebellion was doomed. The normal heros didn’t do the victorious heroic acts. Instead R2D2 destroyed the World Devestators and the second Eclipse. Han shot the Emperor in the back and a newly introduced Jedi sacrificed himself to banish the Emperor.
At the same time, victory felt assured because for the most part the villains were bumbling mustache twirling villains who were merely there to screw up to be killed by the Emperor or easily dispatched by the Hero.
There were some nice elements in the story, It was certainly galaxy wide in its execution as all of the heroes were on a hero’s quest. We also got a nice blend of new characters and worlds that made the GFFA seem larger.
Links to current Lore
Mostly on the Palpatine clone with his surviving his death and occupying clone bodies. In both ROS and in Dark Empire Palpatine admits that he’s died many times. As well we see the rapid aging of the Clone bodies due to Palpatines power. We also see Palpatines desire to occupy a young powerful force users body. In the case of DE its Anakin Solo, in ROS it Rey.
Illustration Style.
I have to admit, I didn’t really like it all that much. The frames were tiny and busy and every shot felt overly tight and constrained. There just felt like there was too much happening. At the same time most shapes in the comic felt square and blunt as well.
The characters.
For the most part there wasn’t any real growth or development for the characters. Luke was a little more Jaded, but Han was Han, Leia was Leia etc. Palpatine just felt like a cackling mustache twirling villain who called everyone my friends, he also felt less like the cagey Emperor that was developed in the PT and more like a homicidal maniac who continually talked about entering the child. The new characters were fairly forgettable as well. I finished this about a week ago and I can’t remember any standout new characters unlike the Crimson Empire Saga that I’ll cover later.
Final Thoughts
Where this is a must read is that it really does fill in a lot of lore that was used in later novels like the Jedi Academy novels and even the Legacy of the Force Saga. But that’s really the only reason to read this as a lot of the lore that was introduced would later be forgotten. Is it a fun read? Sure, its so action compressed that you can’t help but turning the page, but it does come across as a bit cookie cutter and 2 dimensional.
Next up: The Crimson Empire Saga
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I thought I would do a review as I read through some of my old Star Wars Legacy stuff, I'll put it in Spoiler tags so those that don't want to see a wall of text. But I want to cover the good, the bad and ugly of the Star Wars Legacy series.
Spoiler!
Star Wars Dark Empire Trilogy.
Now I’ve read the hardcover trilogy which was published in 2010. But this is just a reprint of the 12 part comic book series by Dark Horse Comics published in 1991-1992.
Now I will state here, I haven’t been a comic book guy since I was a kid, but I bought this in 2010 because it was pointed to as a major piece of Star Wars Lore. The series takes place 6 ABY and shortly after the rise and fall of Thrawn in the Heir to the Empire Series.
Story Line
The story starts with the Rebellion on the run. A massive Imperial fleet surges from the deep core and quickly conquers Coruscant. But shortly after that victory the Imperials fall on each other in a civil war. Meanwhile Luke Skywalker who is rebuilding the Jedi Knights is captured by a massive force storm and taken to the core world of Byss, where he is confronted by Emperor Palpatine who has survived his death by pouring his essence into clone bodies. Luke is confronted and dominated and turns to the Dark Side of the Force as he believes he can only defeat Palpatine by learning the secrets of the Dark Side.
Meanwhile the Empire unleashes its next super weapon, the World Devestators which are huge automated factories that can destroy worlds and convert the debris to weapons of War.
The Rebellion gets a fortunate break as they go to rescue Luke on Byss, Leia steals the great holocron from Palpatine and Luke betrays his master and gives the control codes to the Devestators to R2D2 who then destroys the Empires super weapon. Luke refuses to leave and again is crushed by Palpatine.
Luke shrugs off Palpatines influence and attacks the lab that makes Palpatines clone bodies and smashes all but one, but he isn’t in time as Palpatine occupies the last young clone and beats Luke into submission.
Because its his last clone, and the clones can’t contain his power, Palpatine intends to occupy a strong young Jedi body, like Leia’s unborn son who later becomes Anakin Solo a major piece of the Legends EU.
With Luke in tow Palpatine arrives at the Rebel base and demands Leia in exchange for a truce. Leia boards the Superstar Destroyer Eclipse and redeems Luke and they both confront the Emperor who in a fit of rage unleashes a force storm to destroy the Rebels but Luke and Leia turn it on him and the Eclipse is destroyed with Palpatine on board.
In the second part of the Trilogy. It covers Luke trying to rebuild the Jedi order and travelling to worlds like Ossus. Meanwhile the Emperor is betrayed by his advisors who destroy more of his clone bodies but Palpatine manages to occupy a flawed clone. At the same time, the Rebellion tries to go on the offensive with the assumption that the Emperor is dead. The second chapter ends with the birth of Anakin Solo.
The third part of the Trilogy is called Empire’s End. Palpatine now controls a new weapon, a Galaxy Gun. A weapon that can fire projectiles through hyperspace that can destroy planets and fleets. The Rebellion barely escapes a attack and the Rebel fleet scatters to the far corners of the Universe.
Meanwhile Palpatine is now desperate as his clone body begins to rapidly age and he focuses on Anakin Skywalker as his next and most powerful receptacle. The Rebels attempt to capture Palpatine on Byss and fail and Palpatine tracks down Leia in his new Star Destroyer the Eclipse 2. In a final confrontation Han shoots the Emperor in the back and the Emperors spirit is trapped by one of Lukes Jedi and is banished to eternal death forever. Meanwhile R2D2 reprograms the Eclipse 2 and it collides with the galaxy gun which spasmodically fires a projector that collides and destroys Byss.
Thoughts on the Lore
This comic series was released far before the Lore was established on lots of things. However there was some interesting things bought into being. The Jedi Holocron was introduced here, as well a lot of the old worlds like Ossus and Nar Shadda and Byss. At the same time Palpatine was never titled as a Lord of the Sith, nor was Vader, instead Dark Side users were Dark Jedi. There was no rule of two and Palpatine could just grant his people dark side powers and call them adepts. In other words he made instant Dark Siders. At the same time the Jedi perspective was different. Jedi from the Old Republic felt they had a right to rule as benevolent rulers. Luke was no longer the young enthusiastic Jedi, instead he was at time defeatist, and bitter and became scared by guilt over his actions as Palpatines Jedi. Boba Fett played a prominent role in this series for a while, but while he was the most fearsome Bounty Hunter in the Galaxy, he was more a prat falling buffoon. The story introduced a love interest for Luke who Palpatine killed, we saw Hans old girl friend. The story also fleshed out the history of the ancient Sith War, introduced us to Korriban the birthplace of the Sith in current lore, but again there was no connection between Palpatine and the Sith except as a source of knowledge and power.
Thoughts on the story
Because everyone was kind of acting a bit out of character, it was a bit jarring. The Emperor kept rolling out super weapons and super ships, and the Rebel leaders kept running around screaming that the Rebellion was doomed. The normal heros didn’t do the victorious heroic acts. Instead R2D2 destroyed the World Devestators and the second Eclipse. Han shot the Emperor in the back and a newly introduced Jedi sacrificed himself to banish the Emperor.
At the same time, victory felt assured because for the most part the villains were bumbling mustache twirling villains who were merely there to screw up to be killed by the Emperor or easily dispatched by the Hero.
There were some nice elements in the story, It was certainly galaxy wide in its execution as all of the heroes were on a hero’s quest. We also got a nice blend of new characters and worlds that made the GFFA seem larger.
Links to current Lore
Mostly on the Palpatine clone with his surviving his death and occupying clone bodies. In both ROS and in Dark Empire Palpatine admits that he’s died many times. As well we see the rapid aging of the Clone bodies due to Palpatines power. We also see Palpatines desire to occupy a young powerful force users body. In the case of DE its Anakin Solo, in ROS it Rey.
Illustration Style.
I have to admit, I didn’t really like it all that much. The frames were tiny and busy and every shot felt overly tight and constrained. There just felt like there was too much happening. At the same time most shapes in the comic felt square and blunt as well.
The characters.
For the most part there wasn’t any real growth or development for the characters. Luke was a little more Jaded, but Han was Han, Leia was Leia etc. Palpatine just felt like a cackling mustache twirling villain who called everyone my friends, he also felt less like the cagey Emperor that was developed in the PT and more like a homicidal maniac who continually talked about entering the child. The new characters were fairly forgettable as well. I finished this about a week ago and I can’t remember any standout new characters unlike the Crimson Empire Saga that I’ll cover later.
Final Thoughts
Where this is a must read is that it really does fill in a lot of lore that was used in later novels like the Jedi Academy novels and even the Legacy of the Force Saga. But that’s really the only reason to read this as a lot of the lore that was introduced would later be forgotten. Is it a fun read? Sure, its so action compressed that you can’t help but turning the page, but it does come across as a bit cookie cutter and 2 dimensional.
Next up: The Crimson Empire Saga
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