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Chewies death all in vain?
Posted: 2002-07-09 03:41am
by Darth Garden Gnome
In a recent NJO book Anakin died doing some dang thing (no doubt fighting the ridiculous biologic weapons crap)and if you remember in Vector Prime, Chewie dies to save Anakins midgety rear and gets squished sadly. So does that mean Chewies death was in vain? He could have as easily hopped on the Falcon and left him behind....
Posted: 2002-07-09 03:47am
by Darth Cuba
It means that the NJO writers have no respect, NONE WHATSOEVER, for the heroic hoo-haa what makes SW great. And, as an aside, they have no respect for the characters of the OT AT ALL. Chewie choked, Leia legless, I'm sure lots of bad stuff will happen to Artoo, it's all a bunch of shameless attempts by tired hacks to hammer out plotlines. There's no such thing as character development anymore. "Oh, uh, this character is hard to write for, I think I'll just kill them, people seem to like that." People like that like they like a FACE ROCKING. And yeah, people don't like a FACE ROCKING.
<--- Kevin J. Anderson's Face, Post FACE ROCKING
Posted: 2002-07-09 04:14am
by Cpt_Frank
Although I usually don't care
that much for the other characters (if they don't die it's okay for me), if they touch artoo I'm seriously going to teach them how to treat main characters!!!
Posted: 2002-07-09 04:16am
by master_yoda
Darth Cuba wrote:It means that the NJO writers have no respect, NONE WHATSOEVER, for the heroic hoo-haa what makes SW great. And, as an aside, they have no respect for the characters of the OT AT ALL. Chewie choked, Leia legless, I'm sure lots of bad stuff will happen to Artoo, it's all a bunch of shameless attempts by tired hacks to hammer out plotlines. There's no such thing as character development anymore. "Oh, uh, this character is hard to write for, I think I'll just kill them, people seem to like that." People like that like they like a FACE ROCKING. And yeah, people don't like a FACE ROCKING.
<--- Kevin J. Anderson's Face, Post FACE ROCKING
yeah
Posted: 2002-07-09 09:42am
by His Divine Shadow
Yeaaaah RIGHT! You think it was the NJO writers idea to kill the characters?
GET REAL!
They are told to do that by their employers.
Posted: 2002-07-09 12:26pm
by Soontir C'boath
Cpt_Frank wrote:Although I usually don't care
that much for the other characters (if they don't die it's okay for me), if they touch artoo I'm seriously going to teach them how to treat main characters!!!
Amen Artoo is my all time fav. char.
Cyaround,
Jason
Posted: 2002-07-09 01:02pm
by David
The scene for Anakin's death was pretty good, but I'd rather that the newest Fel had died so Jaina could get back with Zekk.
Posted: 2002-07-09 01:45pm
by His Divine Shadow
David wrote:The scene for Anakin's death was pretty good, but I'd rather that the newest Fel had died so Jaina could get back with Zekk.
I dunno that much about Zekk but Jagged Fel seems alot more interesting, he reminds me of Thrawn, probably because he was raised by Chiss, and thats cool.
Posted: 2002-07-09 01:53pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
His Divine Shadow wrote:David wrote:The scene for Anakin's death was pretty good, but I'd rather that the newest Fel had died so Jaina could get back with Zekk.
I dunno that much about Zekk but Jagged Fel seems alot more interesting, he reminds me of Thrawn, probably because he was raised by Chiss, and thats cool.
Imagine what kind of pilot their son/daughter would be if they got married! Fel, Antilles, Solo and Skywalker blood all in one!
Posted: 2002-07-09 01:54pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
Posted: 2002-07-09 02:08pm
by Captain Cyran
Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:His Divine Shadow wrote:David wrote:The scene for Anakin's death was pretty good, but I'd rather that the newest Fel had died so Jaina could get back with Zekk.
I dunno that much about Zekk but Jagged Fel seems alot more interesting, he reminds me of Thrawn, probably because he was raised by Chiss, and thats cool.
Imagine what kind of pilot their son/daughter would be if they got married! Fel, Antilles, Solo and Skywalker blood all in one!
*twitch twitch* so.....COOL....*twitch drool*
Posted: 2002-07-09 03:28pm
by His Divine Shadow
Anyhow Chewies death wasn't in vain, by saving Anakin he allowed anakin to save the other Jedi and end the Voxyn threat.
Posted: 2002-07-09 04:35pm
by David
Just so Anakin could die to.
Posted: 2002-07-09 05:22pm
by His Divine Shadow
Oh well easy come easy go, this way atleast we'll never know whats next, always knowing that some character might die again...
It helps the reading that way anyway.
Reminder
Posted: 2002-07-09 05:40pm
by Lord HuMan
If Anakin had died on Serpindal, Mara could be dead right now too...
Posted: 2002-07-09 05:46pm
by David
YAY!!! and thnen Luke could get back with Callista.
Posted: 2002-07-09 05:59pm
by His Divine Shadow
David wrote:YAY!!! and thnen Luke could get back with Callista.
No way, Callista sucked.
Posted: 2002-07-09 06:03pm
by David
Callista was hot, even if she had issues.
Posted: 2002-07-09 06:46pm
by His Divine Shadow
Nah, I didn't like Callista, not compared to Mara, wich is one of the best chars in the EU, GL even helped on creating her I hear.
Posted: 2002-07-09 07:46pm
by Captain Cyran
Timothy Zahn had an amazing trilogy, just look at how many characters, ships, planets, ideas, that he introduced that people STILL talk about to this day. Not to mention most people have Thrawn at least on their top ten list of Imperial Commanders.
Posted: 2002-07-09 07:52pm
by Mr Bean
Top Ten List?
He IS the List Buddy
Penellon is around number 7(1-6 being Thrawn) because he studyied under him
Posted: 2002-07-09 07:56pm
by Captain Cyran
He's the list on Commanders period.
Posted: 2002-07-09 08:00pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
I wonder, do you think Jacen is dead? I hear he and that Vong servant Vegere or something come back.
Posted: 2002-07-09 08:04pm
by Captain Cyran
If he is dead then the NJO people are getting really annoying, they've killed way to many characters if Jacen is dead too. (I am not really up to date with it but haven't they mamed Leia as well?)
Posted: 2002-07-09 10:00pm
by David
I'd rather that whiner dead than poor little Ani.