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General Schatten wrote:

Abacus wrote:What is your beef with Karen Traviss? I personally liked her commando books.

Let's make a list of things she did:

Wrote a story about how the Yuuhzan Vong view the Mandalorians as on equal terms with the Jedi and the Sith.

Made the Mandalorians into peaceful farmer Soldiers, all self-sufficient and manly to a one.

Gave said Mandalorians a magic metal that only they could forge despite not even a fraction of a percent of the resources the galactic governments (Republic and Empire) put into their chemical and metallurgical science divisions.

Made Ben Skywalker wish he was a Mandalorian.

Wrote that Jaina Solo, ace pilot of the legendary Rogue Squadron, needed instructions from Mandalorian trained Ben Skywalker in how to use a helmet commsystem.

Wrote that Boba Fett was the greatest Jedi Hunter in the galaxy despite Luke having fought and killed more Jedi than Boba had ever seen.

Wrote that Jaina Skywalker, Sword of the Jedi, could not comprehend how to deal with an opponent (Mirta Gev, Boba's granddaughter) who had lightsaber resistant armor. Despite having made her reputation as a war hero fighting Yuuhzan Vong.

Writing the Imperial Commando 501st Book, which was only tangentially related to the Imperial Commandos and the 501st.

Wrote that Luke Skywalker didn't know what made a Sith different from a Jedi.

Wrote that Jaina Solo needed to learn a completely new style of fighting to beat Jacen from Boba Fett. At the insistence of her uncle who had refrained from killing Jacen because he foresaw that it would cause his son to turn to the darkside.

Pellaeon saying that Daala would make a good first female Moff. Daala was an incompetent and there's already been a female Moff, said Moff was also the youngest one ever.

Wrote the retarded 3 million clone army bullshit and tried to, ineptly, defend it in her novels.

Wrote in her blog that anyone who like a Jedi was akin to a neo-nazi.

Shit all over Abel G. Pena's previously written canon and then whined about her canon being overwritten by Lucas.

Gloats about how she's never read a Star Wars novel in her life.

Thinks there's some underlying story that only her journo skills will let her get at.

Writes the most retarded characterization of Soldiers I've ever heard.

Thanas wrote:Actually, it was an opinion by Pellaeon first in HttE when he opinioned that unlike Vader, Thrawn would not callously throw his men away or give in to emotion. Then in TLC we have Thrawn saying that he was not the Lord Vader and would not sacrifice two squads of troopers for the sake of framing somebody.

Neither is Vader-bashing, I think, but actually pretty fair criticism given the command styles of both Pellaeon and Thrawn, who are very hesitant to throw away their man.

Galvatron wrote:I also seem to recall a remark by Thrawn saying that he doesn't summarily reject an idea simply because it wasn't his own, as Vader supposedly did.

Havok wrote:I didn't think that Thrawn had any real contact with Vader?

Vympel wrote:Pfft, fuck Thrawn. It's easy to pish posh and belittle the achievements, temperament and skill of the supreme commander of the Imperial military when he's dead and can't defend himself from your scurrilous, jealous attacks.

Vympel wrote:Pfft, fuck Thrawn.

Vympel wrote:Pfft, fuck Thrawn. It's easy to pish posh and belittle the achievements, temperament and skill of the supreme commander of the Imperial military when he's dead and can't defend himself from your scurrilous, jealous attacks.

Azron_Stoma wrote:Call it a Character Flaw on Thrawn's part.

TZ also needs to do away with the minimalism, unless he has already in some of his more recent work (haven't read anything he had done since the original Thrawn Trilogy)

The Romulan Republic wrote:Not really a flaw in my opinion. Vader did kill his men for rather little reason.

Havok wrote:

The Romulan Republic wrote:Not really a flaw in my opinion. Vader did kill his men for rather little reason.

I call bullshit on this. Not only for the fact that we only see Vader kill TWO guys, but that, based on what Vader said, Ozzel had repeatedly failed Vader. And Needa lost the Falcon when it flew RIGHT AT THEM. Neither of those are hardly 'no reason'

Formless wrote:Its not like those scenes of Vader killing his own subordinates was supposed to make him look menacing and evil or something.

Or...

They were, and to say that the EU is smearing Vader is like trying to burn a turd.

Thanas wrote:He kills a lot more people in the Eu for little reason, his reputation is well-earned.

Azron_Stoma wrote:TZ also needs to do away with the minimalism