I finished Courtship of Princess Leia. It was terrible, the worst portrayal of Leia I have ever read. She alternates between sobbing and swooning, and in a story filled with Amazons, is constantly in need of rescue. About the only thing interesting about it is that it was the first time Zsinj appears in the EU, as pretty much a throw-away character. I was really impressed with how other authors took such bare bones and built up the character into such a wily genius in the X-Wing books.

I also read Cobalt Squadron. It was good. It takes place just before events of the The Last Jedi. It concentrates on Rose her sister Paige, who are both crew in a StarFortress bomber. There is some nice character development with Rose, and in the end she leaves the bomber to serve on one of the bigger ships.

It also gave a more in-depth view of the new bombers we saw in The Last Jedi. I got a definite vibe of WWII bombers from the movie, and it is heavily reinforced in the book. Some things about them that looked like plot holes in the movie also got filled in. For example, their bombs don't fall out of their holds. Rather they are catapulted out by a magnetic rail system. Likewise, the standard bombs magnetically lock on target. So it makes sense that they would have all gone straight into that Dreadnaught they were dropped onto in the movie.

I have been watching Rebels again since seeing Last Jedi. I just watched the episode where Maul kidnapped the crew of the Ghost and forced Kanann and Ezra to give him the Sith Holocron. The asteroid base where they met at looked awfully familiar, since it was shaped like a semi-circle, with a hanger built into the side. I looked back at my copy of the Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir comics, and the same asteroid was in there! That was a really cool touch.

If that's what the writers where aiming for that's a good attention to detail.

The only Star Wars movies that will live past our time are the Originals. Prequels and sequels will be seen with merely a facepalm.





... Oh, this isn't the Unpopular opinion thread? My bad...

Becoming stale, mirocu. You’re like a parrot saying the same things over and over again. Get over yourself, buddy.

I know I keep repeating myself


But it has nothing to do with overcoming me, myself or I.

I finished the old X-Wing: Rogue Squadron comics by Dark Horse today. They have all be collected into 3 omnibus editions. It was ok, but nothing great. The writing was pretty bland. But it was far better than the Empire's End comics that Dark Horse did. Those had bland writing and horrible artwork. At least the artwork in Rogue Squadron was ok (though still not stellar either).

It was fun seeing the old squadron from the months immediately after Endor - Wedge, Janson, Hobbie, and Tycho. There were also some cameos by characters from the X-Wing novels, such as Corran Horn and Mirax Terrik. We also see Ysard's rise to power. I checked the publishing dates, and the comics were done two years after the first of the novels. Plus they were all written by Mike Stackpole. So that all makes sense.

I started the first of the Rogue Squadron novels, and so far so good. I seem to recall being annoyed by Corran Horn the last time I read them (about 20 years ago). But he is not bothering me so much anymore. So far so good.

I did love how the book started with the mission to save the Korolev. I vaguely recall flying that mission in the X-Wing game. That was tough! But then so were all the X-Wing missions.

I think I once played an X-Wing game. You saw the fighter from behind and you flew around blasting Imperial walkers etc. It was actually pretty easy to maneuvre and aim. Don't remember the name of the game though..

That sounds like one of the Rogue Squadron games.

Yeah, I think that's it now when you mentioned it.

Rogue Squadron is a fun game fo’sho!

The one on the Game Cube was the best. I wish they bring it back.

Khajiit didn’t have a GameCube so missed the Rogue game’s on there (Rogue Leader, Khajiit thinks it was called?).

There were two: Rogue Leader and Rebel Strike

Rogue Leader is an excellent game, Rebel Strike made the baffling decision to add on-foot sections, which were just a mess

Khajiit vaguely remembers playing a space level in a demo version of Rogue Leader at Electronic Boutique, way back in the day.

I've actually still got a Gamecube, with some great games on it, Rogue Leader included

Khajiit wishes he still had his N64.

They'll have to pry my N64 and Gamecube from my cold, dead fingers.

I still play Shadows of the Empire at least twice a year.

Loved that game back in the day! Had a third party controller with auto fire and just mowed those Imperial dogs down! Bet it hasn’t aged well though.

The controls and animation is wonky as hell, but dammit if it isn't fun!

Khajiit remembers being terrified during the battle with IG-88 on Ord Mantell, lol

That is a rough one, but it's got nothing on the battle with Boba Fett at Gall Spaceport.

I have Shadows of the Empire on Steam, it was such a joy to play again.

Say what now. It's on STEAM‽

Yep its on Steam and you can use a gamepad though you might need to customize it.

Khajiit thought the Solo trailer was interesting.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNW0B0HsvVs

Anyone else with thoughts?

I thought the Millennium Falcon looked really nice, before Han got ahold of it!

Haha totally! Too many Kessel Runs!

At least I don't have to wait till Christmas to see it. Although Han isn't my all time favorite SW character the film did look fun.

This is almost exactly what Khajiit thought. This one can’t say that Han was a favorite, but this film seems that it might have a lightness to it that will make it a bit more fun than the others.

Oh I can’t wait!! Two Star Wars movies in such short timefrom each other! What a time to be a Star Wars fan!

I’ve heard plenty of rumors that Boba Fett is in the movie! And other sources say he had a scene in this movie that was also going to be in his spinoff but from his point of view. That would be pretty amazing!

I just hope they bring back Temuera to voice him. Temuera IS Fett!

HEY!!!
SOLO IS MY FAV SW CHARACTER!!

Aw man! Khajiit hopes Boba Fett is in this movie! It would be good to see him do more after his poor treatment in the OT and dumb role in AotC.


Lol, you don’t have to yell!

I don’t watch Rebels but



Lots of people say Boba Fett is overrated and that is true to an extent. Giving him more development to become a better character. Maul has had a better treatment too. Characters like Luke, Han, Ahsoka and Rex and many others have earned whatever plaudits or criticism they've got on the basis of their characterization. Boba Fett was reckoned an awesome dude when his entire character was that he had a cool costume, a couple lines of dialogue, and, then, he fell into a sarlaac. Doesn’t do him much justice.

Exactly. This one always liked the EU idea that he managed to get out of that Sarlaac.

The Sarlaac found me somewhat indigestible.

I enjoyed the young Boba Fett books. They are only young adult novels, but they portrayed Boba as a real, multi-dimensional character. They start right after the Battle of Geonosis, and are all about him coming of age and finding his place in the galaxy. So they are not the classic Boba. But because he is not yet the uber super-badass that grown up Boba tends to be made out to be, there is room for him to still be a real person.

I did too! I loved the Bounty Hunter game where you play as Jango. He’s shown to be ruthless and intelligent but at the same time we see a very good side to all that drive; his friendship with Zam and Ross the Toydarian and his sense of humor. I literally sat and watched the entire cutscenes on YouTube.

I recall seeing somewhere Jango’s guilt or empathy after he killed Zam and Boba asking where she was. I’ve always liked Jango. Shame his background isn’t canon anymore.

I have two falcons (and one Outrider) I guess I can add a third Falcon.

Slave 1! Slave 1!

Slave 1---Slave 1 .

Huzzah!!

Jango Fett: “She's a Firespray Pursuit Special…one of six prototypes manufactured for the prison. She's the last of her kind now.”

Ros: “Hey, did you name that new ship of yours yet?

Jango Fett: “She's called Slave I.”

Lando doesn't think the name is PC .

Just watched the first two episodes of Rebels - Season Four - The Heroes of Mandalore. Wow! It is very cool to see Bo-Katan again.

Man of all the scenes they either cut or edited this should have stayed in the film.

Wow, that was outstanding. It was obviously cut for running time, as that movie was insanely long as it was. Too bad. That scene really fit in well as the Phasma that we saw in her novel.

This is on level of George Lucas cutting out Mon Mothma, Senator Organa and Padme coming up with a plan to kickstart the rebellion in Attack of the Clones. They could have kept that scene with Finn and Phasma and cutted out the scenes at the casino.

New Star Wars live-action tv show announced! In production under Jon Favreau!!

I have been hearing about a live action star wars tv show for a while now. TBH, I am a little uncertain about it. Star Wars seems better suited to animation. You can do anything in that format. But doing it live action, and making it look good, is going to be a very expensive and time-consuming process.

Do we know what era they are doing it for? Probably just be the Empire era since it’s “safe”, but Khajiit would love Old Republic!