Star War: The Crystal Star
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- 14 de Ago, 2022
Read this, along with most of the other star wars books, back in high school. Thread immediately caught my attention for how much this book stands out from the rest. I wish that was more praise for the novel than for the bizarre ideas that never get fully fleshed out. Will look forward to others' recollections and first impressions.
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- 27 de Jul, 2022
I fucking swear Waru, Hethrir, The Empire Reborn, the anti-force, Waru's home dimension, a duel between Hethrir vs. Luke, Rillao, and Kyle Katarn, the medieval/vampire esque theming of the firrerreo, etc. should have been at least a trilogy given the sheer scale of what they tried to introduce.
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- 3 de Oct, 2022
it's all well and good to look back and say "maybe it wasn't so bad" but yeah it took the mouse to make some of the old EU look "maybe it wasn't so bad"
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- 27 de Jul, 2022
It was funny bad in my book, at least Waru and Trioculus weren't saying political shit to me, just run of the mill cheese or underthought concepts.
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- 3 de Oct, 2022
yeah that's what I'm saying, back in the day the worst you could argue was "maybe the green space rabbit wasn't so great an idea" or "does Star Wars _need_ Aztec Hellraiser Islams From Beyond?"
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- 27 de Jul, 2022
Explain those two concepts, what the actual fuck.
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- 3 de Oct, 2022
the Yuuzan Vong, main bad guys from the New Jedi Order books, were a warrior/religious culture heavy on torture and sacrifice and invade from outside The Galaxy many years after the events of the OT, it was a very big deal around the 00s, and for a long time was THE time Hamill did Luke one more time
Jaxxon was a green space rabbit in the Marvel comics
Jaxxon was a green space rabbit in the Marvel comics
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- 31 de Mar, 2021
I think I gave up reading the EU stuff after the trilogy that had the Suncrusher in it.
Holy shit, sounds like I got out at the right time.
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- 3 de Oct, 2022
it works better than it sounds at first blush, but it probably could have been better paced around 10-15 books instead of 19
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- 14 de Ago, 2022
I real quickly soured on the Yuuzhan Vong series. They came in, had all kinds of magical protection to everything, and. despite the ending being very bold with it's anticlimactic direction, never really seemed to have a sense of resolution. That their living weapons could have allergic reactions to things and there was an actual cost to being so anti-technology made for somewhat of a cool middle section of books, but I didn't care for their introduction, and last few books seemed to whimper out.
All that aside, I'll agree Crystal Star could have made for a better trilogy. Many of the Batham era trilogies ended up kind of forgettable; I do not believe that would have been.
All that aside, I'll agree Crystal Star could have made for a better trilogy. Many of the Batham era trilogies ended up kind of forgettable; I do not believe that would have been.
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- 22 de Ago, 2020
Crystal Star is the closest we got to a Star Trek episode in the EU imo
TOS episode of course
Kirk and Spock I mean Han and Luke go to weird ass space station and find weird alien god thing
The twins getting kidnapped and Leia searching for them was a boring slog imo. My main problem with it was both storylines felt like they were presented as B storylines, Luke and Han should have been the clear A story. Linking them up in the end felt like a contrivance. Well Hethrir and Waru have to be allies because they have to
Waru and the crystal star are weird ideas for Star Wars so they seemed fresh but they could have been fleshed out way better
TOS episode of course
Kirk and Spock I mean Han and Luke go to weird ass space station and find weird alien god thing
The twins getting kidnapped and Leia searching for them was a boring slog imo. My main problem with it was both storylines felt like they were presented as B storylines, Luke and Han should have been the clear A story. Linking them up in the end felt like a contrivance. Well Hethrir and Waru have to be allies because they have to
Waru and the crystal star are weird ideas for Star Wars so they seemed fresh but they could have been fleshed out way better
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- 27 de Jul, 2022
I just finished it and it felt like Star Trek: The Final Frontier with elements of Ghostbusters 2 thrown in. To be honest I actually found myself almost enjoying it by the end, as compared to the inane shit Disney made and still makes, at least it treats me like an adult.
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- 18 de Dic, 2019
Ugh the Kevin Anderson books were some of the worst imo. The exception is darksaber, that was actually decent, especially with the hilarious aspects of the Hutts trying to build a budget death star.
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- 31 de Mar, 2021
They were a real step down after Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire trilogy, that's for sure. I think the worst Star Wars book I read was The Courtship of Princess Leia though. Just...yeah, there wasn't a reason for that book to exist.
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- 18 de Dic, 2019
I'd rate Children of the Jedi as the worst. Especially after the prequels came out, the book made zero sense.