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She could have wanked the mandos all she wanted as long as it made some sense. Same with the Jedi hate. There is room in Star Wars for that, and shit, it is even a logical response to all the devastation the Sith, which come from the Jedi, have caused. It is just that she made it a universal. In her world, everyone thought the same way; Jedi=Evil. Even the fucking Jedi.Darth Yan wrote:and i thought that i would get yelled for posting. Im tempted to say good riddance on the sight as a fuck you to her fanwhores. It shows that Lucasfilm is starting to care. Either way good news. It's a shame because if she toned down the mando wanking and kept the jedi bashing and minimalism low then she might have been good.
I'm an old journo, as you almost certainly know by now, and like any good journo (there are such animals, honest) I prefer to be proactive, not reactive
Why the fuck does this woman always bring that up. A journalism degree is the laughing stock of most writers I know in university. I don't think it gives her any particular street cred, though apparently this is lost on her.Crossroads Inc. wrote:I love that she couldn't go the FIRST SENTENCE without mentioning here "beloved Journalism"I'm an old journo, as you almost certainly know by now, and like any good journo (there are such animals, honest) I prefer to be proactive, not reactive
Not to my knowledge. Of course, its also become a lot rarer, in favour of badly-written, populist, cult-of-celebrity crap.Darth Yan wrote:Isn't journalism is now viewed with disdain in recent years?
Woah... someone actually asked her to write more SW books?3. No, I can't reconsider. It's sweet of you to keep asking, but I had to make my decision nearly a year ago.
I wonder what other franchise she has set her eyes on?That's the reality of work-for-hire, and writing in general; you have to cast your net wide, and across all media. As much as I've enjoyed writing for all you Star Wars fans, and you've been terrific to me, it wasn't my whole career and neither could it have been, even if I'd wanted it to be.
Gears of War, apparently, although we might be lucky and she's decided to write her own series. In that case she might be able to redeem herself - everything I've heard suggests that she's a pretty good writer, simply that she has an obsession with inserting her own ideas into everything with scant regard for what's gone before.Grif wrote:I wonder what other franchise she has set her eyes on?
Actually given her Gears material? She's not a good writer. Maybe on her first Wars book she had an editor who told her where and what will happen, but her material goes southward very quickly. In fact her Gears material is far more grotesque then her SW material because she has more freedom on making the villains depraved and the Mand...Spart...I mean soldiers into more manly manly men.Captain Seafort wrote:Gears of War, apparently, although we might be lucky and she's decided to write her own series. In that case she might be able to redeem herself - everything I've heard suggests that she's a pretty good writer, simply that she has an obsession with inserting her own ideas into everything with scant regard for what's gone before.Grif wrote:I wonder what other franchise she has set her eyes on?
The reason I bring up the bad writer part, is as I said...her first was decent. I did read it and it was a good work of a clone trooper and a Jedi neophyte. Her second, wasn't as good, but wasn't bad. It was when she went full Mando Mode/Jedi Hate that she went to complete shit. I do believe the highlight of laughs is split either between her expository voice claiming that a Jedi needed training from Boba Fett on killing Jedi or that the Jedi were conspiring with Palpatine to continue the Clone Wars.Connor MacLeod wrote:Traviss may be trying to break into Halo. She's got a short story published in the jsut released Halo Evolutions. Havent heard anything about how it goes and nor have I read it. But her Gears of War stuff doesnt seem good (even though she's written two books) at least going by what people here say.
I dunno if I'd say she's a bad writer, just becaus she's proven to be an egotistical and vindicitve sort. She does write well I think, its just that she tends to write HER way and to hell with continuity. If her stories tend to coincide with the existing canon of the series, well thats just luck. Which is why an editor is probably important there.
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You mean it wasn't when she had one Jedi get bisected by another Jedi because she got in the way of a lightsaber trying to save a clone during Order 66?Ghost Rider wrote:The reason I bring up the bad writer part, is as I said...her first was decent. I did read it and it was a good work of a clone trooper and a Jedi neophyte. Her second, wasn't as good, but wasn't bad. It was when she went full Mando Mode/Jedi Hate that she went to complete shit. I do believe the highlight of laughs is split either between her expository voice claiming that a Jedi needed training from Boba Fett on killing Jedi or that the Jedi were conspiring with Palpatine to continue the Clone Wars.
Well as long as there is no SPARTAN 'culture' and Master Chief doesn't have some new language pulled out of his ass, it shouldn't be too bad. Hopefully.Ghost Rider wrote:As for HALO? Hell, she's in her element, given she can use her version of the Mandos and SPARTANS as interchangeable and then go from there
It's obvious that the mighty Mando spunk juice is what made that Jedi use it's worthless hide as a shield.RogueIce wrote:You mean it wasn't when she had one Jedi get bisected by another Jedi because she got in the way of a lightsaber trying to save a clone during Order 66?Ghost Rider wrote:The reason I bring up the bad writer part, is as I said...her first was decent. I did read it and it was a good work of a clone trooper and a Jedi neophyte. Her second, wasn't as good, but wasn't bad. It was when she went full Mando Mode/Jedi Hate that she went to complete shit. I do believe the highlight of laughs is split either between her expository voice claiming that a Jedi needed training from Boba Fett on killing Jedi or that the Jedi were conspiring with Palpatine to continue the Clone Wars.
LOL...you hope for that. Obviously one of the large breasted female Spartans will become a newly undiscovered special Spartan and intergrate her mind with Cortana so that they can have sweaty Spartoa Sex with MC, who'll lead his mighty SPARTANs to defeat the newly born Gravemind, that was secretly conspiring with the USN to destroy the last of the noble race of SPARTANs.RogueIce wrote:Well as long as there is no SPARTAN 'culture' and Master Chief doesn't have some new language pulled out of his ass, it shouldn't be too bad. Hopefully.Ghost Rider wrote:As for HALO? Hell, she's in her element, given she can use her version of the Mandos and SPARTANS as interchangeable and then go from there
Most idiots I've met who want people to think they're part of a group (that they're not in) will come up with stupid nicknames, abbreviations, or acronyms to sound "in", despite being the only person on the planet to talk like that.CaptainChewbacca wrote:Does ANYONE ever use the term 'Journo' in common speech besides her? She's the only place I've ever heard the term.
On that note, has Traviss ever actually used the word 'journalist'?CaptainChewbacca wrote:Does ANYONE ever use the term 'Journo' in common speech besides her? She's the only place I've ever heard the term.
Well, she was just about to run that no doubt unimpeachable arithmetic when the book moved on. Convenient.Darth Hoth wrote:God damn is that hilarious.
I still think her low point in the EU was when she let her Mary Sue accountant/analyst/whatever "debunk" Saxton's numbers in-universe. She ran some arithmetics to "prove" that there was not enough iron on a single terrestrial planet to build a quintillion battle droids.
It's an Aussie/Brit colloquialism.CaptainChewbacca wrote:Does ANYONE ever use the term 'Journo' in common speech besides her? She's the only place I've ever heard the term.
