Allies Review, Part 2
In case you missed it, the review of the first half of the book can be found here.
Welcome to the second half of the book, where things are just nine leves of awful.
( rant is behind here )
Welcome to the second half of the book, where things are just nine leves of awful.
( rant is behind here )
Somewhat ironically, ducks are canon. They were first mentioned in the ANH novelization, written by George Lucas himself.
‘Compassion is for those who deserve it.’ Luke said.”
What you said. It could actually be really interesting to watch the character development that could turn Luke into a person who could say this (in the hands of a talented author like Blank or Knight_Aragorn, anyway), but the profic hasn't done that, therefore he shouldn't say it.
“No one knew exactly what was contained in this vast cluster. It was large enough to contain Shelter, and Daala’s Maw colony, where she had hidden for many years rebuilding her fleet. Neither organization had had a breath of knowledge about the other.” (272) Are you for real right now? One happened over a decade before the other. Of course the two didn’t relate to each other, THEY DIDN’T HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME. Good Lord, was no one associated with Lucas reading this before print?
Facepalm. Epic, epic facepalm. Oh, to watch the continuity monkeys in Lit try to shoehorn all this crap together.
She searched his eyes for a moment, then the specter of Mara Jade Skywalker said quietly, “Whoever you were with on the Jade Shadow… it wasn’t me.”
Ha, I love the heavy-handedness of saying "the specter of Mara Jade Skywalker" instead of "she." Dun dun dun DUN! Thanks for the dramatic reveal, Golden.
“Tears stung his eyes and his heart swelled with a bittersweet aching. Oh, it was her, it was his Callie, and the love he had once felt for her was still there, still sweet and warm and true.” (310) If you listen very carefully, you can hear gabri_jade at the very least gagging all the way in Arizona (possibly even swearing and screaming).
Giggling hysterically, actually. I'd probably have gone the swearing and screaming route if this had happened back around Sacrifice or before, but at this point, it's like you said: these aren't the characters we knew. This is a badfic AU and little more. And I have got to find a way to write this. Think my earlier guess was right and Luke and Callista will get married after all?
Apparently when Callista was searching for a way to use the Force again (without touching the Dark Side) she came to the Maw where she encountered Abeloth and now the two are some hybrid thing.
Would that make a such a marriage polygamous?
“[Luke] needed to take her away from here, find a way to separate that part of her that was warm, stubborn, brave, humorous Callista” (311) Funny, that’s not how I remember her.
Me either. And not in a rabid Mara fangirl way, either. I recall Callista as being rather aloof and somber, myself.
But essentially Luke realizes that Callista is long gone and refuses Abeloth, so Abeloth goes on the offense.
Aw, shucks.
All of chapters 34 and 35 have me very confused. And how was there any audio recording of Tahiri killing Pelleaon? What, were his quarters and offices under 24 hour surveillance or something? What a ridiculous reverse deus ex machina.
Especially if you’re one of the few left who hasn’t drank the Denning Kool-Aid.
Isn't that the sad truth? Most everyone seems to think he's the Zahn or Stover all over again. I truly don't understand why this is. He's a total hack, if you ask me.
Edit: Whoopsie, html.
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