Spoiler Imperial Center: The Star Wars Megathread (Spoilers Permitted)

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Remind me to much of episode 4.

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About halfway through Twilight Company. Gets so much better towards the middle.


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About halfway through Twilight Company. Gets so much better towards the middle.

I'm reading Lost Stars.

Get your sex scenes outta my Star Wars Claudia Gray you fucking heathen.


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About halfway through Twilight Company. Gets so much better towards the middle.

I'm reading Lost Stars.

Get your sex scenes outta my Star Wars Claudia Gray you fucking heathen.

Sex scenes in a young adult book?
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About halfway through Twilight Company. Gets so much better towards the middle.

I'm reading Lost Stars.

Get your sex scenes outta my Star Wars Claudia Gray you fucking heathen.

Sex scenes in a young adult book?
For a young adult book it's fairly well written. A few too many colloquialisms used in our world ("badass" is used at one point for instance), but it's certainly a hell of a lot better written than Aftermath.

The scenes I mention take place in the... Ehm, immediate aftermath of such acts. To be frank I don't think strong sexual content, written or visual, has any place in Star Wars.


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The scenes I mention take place in the... Ehm, immediate aftermath of such acts. To be frank I don't think strong sexual content, written or visual, has any place in Star Wars.

I completely agree. I'll check the book out.


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Jacob Potila was actually a Jacob Flotilla of lies.- WarTurkey
Did anyone else hear this sound when the Rathar was chasing the guys? http://www.transformersmovie.thetfcog.com/sounds/transformer%20sound.mp3


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Ep VIII delayed until December 15th, 2017.

>tfw no more Star Wars on the 40th anniversary


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Ep VIII delayed until December 15th, 2017.

>tfw no more Star Wars on the 40th anniversary
At least it's not like 5 months after Rogue One anymore. Makes more sense to space them out evenly IMO (plus that's just what I'd prefer).

Although it'll now be competing with Avatar 2 at the box office, it's a smart move by Disney. Previously, they'd have been competing with themselves with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in May 2017.


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Reading Lost Stars and I'm pretty put-off by how generic it is so far. Random people fall in love and are the best at everything by the age of 16 and every aspect of the plot revolves around how they want to fuck...It's okay for what it is but it's weird they would choose to exhibit a lot of the post-RotJ stuff from such forgettable characters.


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Did anyone else hear this sound when the Rathar was chasing the guys? http://www.transformersmovie.thetfcog.com/sounds/transformer%20sound.mp3
Yeah I remember hearing that, thought it was odd


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Reading Lost Stars and I'm pretty put-off by how generic it is so far. Random people fall in love and are the best at everything by the age of 16 and every aspect of the plot revolves around how they want to fuck...It's okay for what it is but it's weird they would choose to exhibit a lot of the post-RotJ stuff from such forgettable characters.
Yeah, I'm glad I decided to read Twilight Company instead.


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Reading Lost Stars and I'm pretty put-off by how generic it is so far. Random people fall in love and are the best at everything by the age of 16 and every aspect of the plot revolves around how they want to fuck...It's okay for what it is but it's weird they would choose to exhibit a lot of the post-RotJ stuff from such forgettable characters.
Yeah, I'm glad I decided to read Twilight Company instead.

It's worth reading (one of the main characters commands the star destroyer that crashes on Jakku, and they witness basically every major event from the original trilogy), but it has a ton of teen drama shit in it.


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Reading Lost Stars and I'm pretty put-off by how generic it is so far. Random people fall in love and are the best at everything by the age of 16 and every aspect of the plot revolves around how they want to fuck...It's okay for what it is but it's weird they would choose to exhibit a lot of the post-RotJ stuff from such forgettable characters.
Yeah, I'm glad I decided to read Twilight Company instead.

It's worth reading (one of the main characters commands the star destroyer that crashes on Jakku, and they witness basically every major event from the original trilogy), but it has a ton of teen drama shit in it.
You summed up my thoughts on the book. I liked stuff such as seeing the average grunts perspective of OT events (Executor chasing the Falcon through the asteroid field, etc.) but I hated the love story, especially because of the high amount of sexual content. The love story in the OT is good because it's romantic, but innocent. The love story in Lost Stars isn't; it feels dirty and out of place in a Star Wars novel.

I disliked the use of real-world phrases and slang in a Star Wars novel ("get your ass off my bridge", "badass", etc.).

I wish more time had been spent in the post-RoTJ era, because as a big history and politics buff I love the sound of what was mentioned, such as the Empire splitting up into a bunh of factions, battles over succession to the Imperial Throne, and so forth. All of that sounds awesome to me. I wish we had just gotten to see it


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Reading Lost Stars and I'm pretty put-off by how generic it is so far. Random people fall in love and are the best at everything by the age of 16 and every aspect of the plot revolves around how they want to fuck
but it has a ton of teen drama shit in it.
especially because of the high amount of sexual content
what

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FUCK


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Reading Lost Stars and I'm pretty put-off by how generic it is so far. Random people fall in love and are the best at everything by the age of 16 and every aspect of the plot revolves around how they want to fuck
but it has a ton of teen drama shit in it.
especially because of the high amount of sexual content
what

the

FUCK

Yeah I was very upset by it. They have sex twice, the book doesn't go into detail and we only "see" the immediate aftermath of such conduct, but it shouldn't be in a Star Wars book period. Pretty sure at one point there's something like "he had explored every inch of her body" or some trash at one point. I was pretty upset, and regretted buying an online version that I couldn't return or sell to Half Price books.
Last Edit: January 22, 2016, 11:01:20 PM by Mmmmm Napalm


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Actually I was able to get a refund on Lost Stars. Google let's you refund a book purchase for any reason as long as it's within seven days of the order.

Time to read more SW novels I guess, then.


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Reading Lost Stars and I'm pretty put-off by how generic it is so far. Random people fall in love and are the best at everything by the age of 16 and every aspect of the plot revolves around how they want to fuck
but it has a ton of teen drama shit in it.
especially because of the high amount of sexual content
what

the

FUCK

Yeah I was very upset by it. They have sex twice, the book doesn't go into detail and we only "see" the immediate aftermath of such conduct, but it shouldn't be in a Star Wars book period. Pretty sure at one point there's something like "he had explored every inch of her body" or some trash at one point. I was pretty upset, and regretted buying an online version that I couldn't return or sell to Half Price books.
I was in such disbelief about it that I had to research it just to be sure.

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There they have a heated exchange and then have sex a second time.
I'm mostly shocked that it's in a Star Wars novel of all things, and generally of the opinion that there's plenty of other ways for Star Wars to be mature. SW and sex just seem really, um, bad in my mind. And yet... I'm also a bit morbidly curious about it, too. A SW canon for like, grown-ups isn't an idea that's been entertained for... a long time, and sparingly at best.

But I'm also just yearning for more SW in general. At work today, out of the blue I was thinking back to the old prequel EU and how I gobbled up all of it that I could up to ROTS. I especially liked Jango's backstory and how it played into the larger narrative, and more recently the Darth Plagueis novel also tying a bunch of stuff together brilliantly. And then there's the ill-fated Republic Commando novels; poor Karen Traviss ragequit when the Clone Wars CG series kept retconning just about everything (it puts her Halo novels into context).

God, the Clone Wars ruined everything.


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>.> I had the most boring day at work today, so I had plenty of time to think about it.


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fuck Karen Traviss tho.


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Reading Lost Stars and I'm pretty put-off by how generic it is so far. Random people fall in love and are the best at everything by the age of 16 and every aspect of the plot revolves around how they want to fuck
but it has a ton of teen drama shit in it.
especially because of the high amount of sexual content
what

the

FUCK

Yeah I was very upset by it. They have sex twice, the book doesn't go into detail and we only "see" the immediate aftermath of such conduct, but it shouldn't be in a Star Wars book period. Pretty sure at one point there's something like "he had explored every inch of her body" or some trash at one point. I was pretty upset, and regretted buying an online version that I couldn't return or sell to Half Price books.
I was in such disbelief about it that I had to research it just to be sure.

Wookieepedia:
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There they have a heated exchange and then have sex a second time.
I'm mostly shocked that it's in a Star Wars novel of all things, and generally of the opinion that there's plenty of other ways for Star Wars to be mature. SW and sex just seem really, um, bad in my mind. And yet... I'm also a bit morbidly curious about it, too. A SW canon for like, grown-ups isn't an idea that's been entertained for... a long time, and sparingly at best.

But I'm also just yearning for more SW in general. At work today, out of the blue I was thinking back to the old prequel EU and how I gobbled up all of it that I could up to ROTS. I especially liked Jango's backstory and how it played into the larger narrative, and more recently the Darth Plagueis novel also tying a bunch of stuff together brilliantly. And then there's the ill-fated Republic Commando novels; poor Karen Traviss ragequit when the Clone Wars CG series kept retconning just about everything (it puts her Halo novels into context).

God, the Clone Wars ruined everything.
TCW has it's merits. The show, in hindsight, was basically damage control for the prequels. It managed to make Anakin a likeable character, and Maul a salvageable one.

Earlier today I realized that I was actually excited about seeing Darth Maul in Rebels. TCW managed to make him a somewhat interesting character.

In regards to the Mandalorian stuff, I don't mind the new lore but I can understand why people don't like it. Personally I found Traviss' novels to be, well, masturbatory in regards to the Mandalorians.
And aspects of the old Mando lore have been recanonized. It's mentioned that when Kenobi was an apprentice the "Mandalorian Civil War" was an ongoing conflict. Sounds like a pretty similar scenario to the old Mando lore.
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Reading Lost Stars and I'm pretty put-off by how generic it is so far. Random people fall in love and are the best at everything by the age of 16 and every aspect of the plot revolves around how they want to fuck...It's okay for what it is but it's weird they would choose to exhibit a lot of the post-RotJ stuff from such forgettable characters.

Why is the latest material from everything so shitty lately? Star Wars, Halo, what's next?


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Reading Lost Stars and I'm pretty put-off by how generic it is so far. Random people fall in love and are the best at everything by the age of 16 and every aspect of the plot revolves around how they want to fuck...It's okay for what it is but it's weird they would choose to exhibit a lot of the post-RotJ stuff from such forgettable characters.

Why is the latest material from everything so shitty lately? Star Wars, Halo, what's next?
There's been a lot of great SW stuff lately, though.


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I neither fear, nor despise.
Reading Lost Stars and I'm pretty put-off by how generic it is so far. Random people fall in love and are the best at everything by the age of 16 and every aspect of the plot revolves around how they want to fuck...It's okay for what it is but it's weird they would choose to exhibit a lot of the post-RotJ stuff from such forgettable characters.

Why is the latest material from everything so shitty lately? Star Wars, Halo, what's next?
There's been a lot of great SW stuff lately, though.

More good than bad?


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fuck Karen Traviss tho.
TBH Star Wars was probably what burnt her out on this licensed YA fiction stuff.

She wrote the Republic/Imperial Commando novels that kinda sorta continued the games. But by the time of the later novels, the second Clone Wars TV series aired and just fucked shit up. Compared to the elaborate EU that had been established for years, it was basically a G-canon fan fiction. Things got retconned left and right without any regard for, like, anything. For several reasons, between contractual ones and some impossible to follow EU changes, Traviss ragequit and never finished the series.

This was roughly around the time that Battlefront 3 got canceled too, so it just wasn't a good time to be making anything Star Wars that wasn't the TV series.

Reading Lost Stars and I'm pretty put-off by how generic it is so far. Random people fall in love and are the best at everything by the age of 16 and every aspect of the plot revolves around how they want to fuck
but it has a ton of teen drama shit in it.
especially because of the high amount of sexual content
what

the

FUCK

Yeah I was very upset by it. They have sex twice, the book doesn't go into detail and we only "see" the immediate aftermath of such conduct, but it shouldn't be in a Star Wars book period. Pretty sure at one point there's something like "he had explored every inch of her body" or some trash at one point. I was pretty upset, and regretted buying an online version that I couldn't return or sell to Half Price books.
I was in such disbelief about it that I had to research it just to be sure.

Wookieepedia:
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There they have a heated exchange and then have sex a second time.
I'm mostly shocked that it's in a Star Wars novel of all things, and generally of the opinion that there's plenty of other ways for Star Wars to be mature. SW and sex just seem really, um, bad in my mind. And yet... I'm also a bit morbidly curious about it, too. A SW canon for like, grown-ups isn't an idea that's been entertained for... a long time, and sparingly at best.

But I'm also just yearning for more SW in general. At work today, out of the blue I was thinking back to the old prequel EU and how I gobbled up all of it that I could up to ROTS. I especially liked Jango's backstory and how it played into the larger narrative, and more recently the Darth Plagueis novel also tying a bunch of stuff together brilliantly. And then there's the ill-fated Republic Commando novels; poor Karen Traviss ragequit when the Clone Wars CG series kept retconning just about everything (it puts her Halo novels into context).

God, the Clone Wars ruined everything.
TCW has it's merits. The show, in hindsight, was basically damage control for the prequels. It managed to make Anakin a likeable character, and Maul a salvageable one.

Earlier today I realized that I was actually excited about seeing Darth Maul in Rebels. TCW managed to make him a somewhat interesting character.

In regards to the Mandalorian stuff, I don't mind the new lore but I can understand why people don't like it. Personally I found Traviss' novels to be, well, masturbatory in regards to the Mandalorians.
And aspects of the old Mando lore have been recanonized. It's mentioned that when Kenobi was an apprentice the "Mandalorian Civil War" was an ongoing conflict. Sounds like a pretty similar scenario to the old Mando lore.
>.> I'll write up a reply tomorrow, I'm sleepy


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yo, she killed Mara Jade fuck her.
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yo, she killed Mara Jade fuck her.
Ms. Every-Jedi-but-ones-of-my-own-creation-are-trash.
Yeah, her novels consist of Mando-fellating and Jedi bashing.