tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755770.post111681788617839400..comments2024-01-25T22:55:04.308+00:00Comments on Silence Without: Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523122977323033271noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755770.post-1117103985445850582005-05-26T10:39:00.000+00:002005-05-26T10:39:00.000+00:00PS Matthew, I still have your stuff. Don't worry, ...PS Matthew, I still have your stuff. Don't worry, I haven't stolen them, nor have I forgotten them. Email me your snail address, I lost it, sorry! :-)Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03228372691176270447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755770.post-1117103906293073572005-05-26T10:38:00.000+00:002005-05-26T10:38:00.000+00:00Da Vinci Code. I'm a Templar historian, don't even...<I>Da Vinci Code</I>. I'm a Templar historian, don't even GET me started on that piece of unmitigated naff.<BR/><BR/>As for the other. I'm sorry, but all I have to say is: "Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww." *shudders*<BR/><BR/>I don't care when it was set. Still.... "Ewwwwwwwwwwwww."<BR/><BR/>See this is why you should never separate twins at birth. There's just too many ewky possibilities there.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03228372691176270447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755770.post-1116830147608729242005-05-23T06:35:00.000+00:002005-05-23T06:35:00.000+00:00I know the crap you're talking about. A little bir...I know the crap you're talking about. A little birdie told me it was called "The DaVinci Code". All that I could tell myself reading the book was, "I hate this book, I can't stand it, why am I still reading it at 3 pages a minute?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755770.post-1116823887918596192005-05-23T04:51:00.000+00:002005-05-23T04:51:00.000+00:00I only did the one read up on the history of the b...I only did the one read up on the history of the book, and it didn't tell me much, other than that mild excuse for all the not-quite-believable URST between Luke and Leia. For me, I'm going to pretend that the book has nothing to do with the actual Star Wars universe, because the universe is better off without it.<BR/><BR/>And I agree about Vader's portrayal. Did you see the Star Wars fan films at Conflux? They got Vader wrong as well. He doesn't gloat, or threaten, or go on about how kick arse he is, because he doesn't need to. Vader, as a bad guy, has a fair amount of dignity when standing over his enemies.<BR/><BR/>You're right about the Coway and Ewoks. I never believed the Ewok's victory, especially when it came to the rock throwing. The stormtroopers were wearing helmets, after all. <BR/><BR/>They never did say exactly how they were going to get off Mimban either...<BR/><BR/>Still, for all that I tear it apart, I did have fun with the book. May I be forgiven for my sins. :PTessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07523122977323033271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755770.post-1116823398220070522005-05-23T04:43:00.000+00:002005-05-23T04:43:00.000+00:00Biggest moment of dodginess, for me? Vader gettin...Biggest moment of dodginess, for me? Vader getting ready to torture Leia in the ruined temple. There's a moment where he's walking forward, playfully slicing at bits of stonework with his sabre, and saying something to Leia like "I'm sorry I don't have the equipment I had when we last met, but you can do some very interesting things with a sabre, you know, if you'll oblige me by not fainting". That is NOT Vader talking. Even with just the first film to go on, he was focused and businesslike: even with lines like "I find your lack of faith disturbing" he was working to cow the other person, not amuse himself. He wasn't <I>gleeful</I>.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, something that Lucas should have paid attention to: the Coway. The scene where the Coway, whose tech is about on a level with the Ewoks', ambush and trash an Imperial taskforce, works where the Ewoks just don't, because Foster has convincingly built up the Coway as capable fighters. They may only have stone axes and sticks, but they're fighting on their own turf and they're tough as fucking nails. They scared me, and I was only reading about them. The Coway were what the Ewoks should have been.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755770.post-1116822876216622222005-05-23T04:34:00.000+00:002005-05-23T04:34:00.000+00:00Was this even meant to be in the official SW conti...Was this even meant to be in the official SW continuity, though? I always thought it was meant to be a sort of alternative sequel to "Empire", written in isolation from the story arc Lucas was developing, so I've always regarded it as just an interesting little experimental aside to the main series, like Marvel's various what-ifs and parallel continuities. I remember reading an article that Foster wrote on Return of the Jedi that seemed to reinforce that impression.<BR/><BR/>I know what you mean about some of the writing and the storyline - it reads like Foster came up with a generic sci-fi adventure and shoehorned a few Star Wars references into it. <BR/><BR/>(In fact, if they'd taken out Luke, Leia, Vader and the droids out, and written it as a story about two newly-introduced Rebel officers on a new mission of their own, it would still have worked at the time and be a lot more readable now.)<BR/><BR/>I have to say that for all the dodginess in it, though, there are some images that stay with me: the alien being made to lick the miner's boot clean, Grammel gouging out the prisoner's eye, the Yuzzem...<BR/><BR/>(Continued)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com