Damn. Centerpoint was an awesome threat. Way better than that stupid Sun Crusher. What's the point of creating a weapon that's impossible to defeat?
Yeah, all in all I was unimpressed with the JA trilogy as a whole, and the Sun Crusher made it worse...at least the ******** thing is in a black hole now. As for Centerpoint - well, at least lots more stuff happened there this time around. It was pretty important in the Legacy series for most of the time.
Sharwood said:
And I happened to like the NJO, although they made some big mistakes. Killing off Chewbacca let people know right off the bat that this wasn't just another bs throwaway series, and Nom Anor is one of the best villians in Star Wars history - although none can approach Thrawn. Then again, Thrawn wasn't really a villian. My main problem was they took a pretty unique enemy, got off to a great start, even having Mark Hamill star in the TV commercials, then they pissed it away out of stupidity. Onimi should have been focused on more, and Zonama Sekot was a frigging stupid idea. Living planet. Now that needed a damn Death Star.
I was fine with the NJO until
Star by Star. Then it turned ********. Anakin started acting
completely unlike his normal self, got sacrificed to save his idiot, indecisive brother and emo sister, and totally ruined who I thought was the coolest of the Solo family. And then Stover made me happy with
Traitor, which made up for part of it, because Jacen stopped sucking. Finally, with the Dark Nest trilogy, Denning pissed me off again because he was throwing away the interesting Jacen in favor of poor foreshadowing of what happens in the Legacy series. Zonama Sekot was a bonus bit of foolishness when you add it on to losing Anakin.
I liked the Legacy of the Foce books. Some of the better SW fiction for the last decade anyway.
...eh wot? What happened at the end of the Legacy of the Force was, not to put too fine a point on it, dumb. And to be entirely honest, the Gordian knot that they had to take nine books to solve wasn't all that tough; the bad guy (no spoilers?) kept getting thrashed, even by people who couldn't use the Force, and was so obviously outclassed that I was incredulous that the Good Guys still thought him a target worth pursuing by the end of the books. Even Kueller was a better bad guy than this dude, and he only lasted
one book. Probably the high points were the bits where you got to see Boba Fett and his screwed up family life, and the way the Mandalorian situation was resolved was actually pretty classy and sort of inventive, even.
Zardnaar said:
Some of the EU is really good, some of it so bad it makes the Phantom Menace look good.
That's true. What is unambiguous is how bad the current
Clone Wars show is. Lucas needs to stop ruining his own canon.
...but yeah, read them, it wasn't worth it whatsoever. Mostly these days I confine myself to reading about Zayne Carrick's latest escapades.
