Wherein I catch up on months-old links: the EU & female characters

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Ben Skywalker’s Ascension into Domestic Violence - Why the Fate of the Jedi Hurts So Much is an interesting read. (Warning, though, some discussion of violence & possible rape - ditto under the cut here). Although I'd personally qualify this suggestion:

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Force Heretic was awful, wasn't it? So incredibly dull. I can't remember a thing about it, which is sort of bad, considering it was the penultimate part. And Traitor was a great piece of writing. I still can't get over what a waste Jacen's character arc was.

Mm, she has said that. Oddly, I wasn't all that impressed with her Ben, from memory (that said, I've only read the first book she wrote in FotJ). Allston's take on Ben is the only one that stood out for me. Really, Ben should be a whole lot more screwed up than anyone is writing him, but that's hardly new for Star Wars.

I guess what I'm most frustrated by is the Sithiness of EU right now. And I don't just mean the utterly unnecessary descent of Jacen into Darth Doofus, but the...Sith mythology, I guess? I have absolutely no interest in Sith lore and the One Sith and these FotJ Sith. I really wish they'd all died out with Palpatine.

True! The Sith mythology thing is a lot like the Mando obsession, and both are better off in side novels for the fans into that sort of thing than as major plot arcs in the core EU. (Both have a weird sort of fanservice vibe to me, as well.)