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I did some Googling and decided that even though I'm not bookmarking these pages, I should keep them.
Echo Station's article on Wedge's popularity. "He's the sort of guy," Allston says, "who has most or all of the skills of the main hero, and does his job with similar resiliency, but just doesn't get all the attention (or particularly want it), and often takes a #2 role when the flashier heroes are around."
And its response. Wedge is so interesting because he is mysterious and yet we know there is no mystery about him. He is always there, the face at every party that no one ever introduces you to. Wedge, one can’t help but feel, is always doing the work behind the scenes, simply getting his head down and getting on with ensuring the job is done. While Luke and Leia take time out from the Rebellion to rescue Han from Jabba, have a few beers with the Ewoks, or try to turn Darth Vader back to the path of righteousness, Wedge is the one making sure that the Death Star gets taken out. Again.
Comics overview. Even as the noble 181st TIE squadron leader sworn to protect Brentaal IV's ill-fated Imperial base, (Fel) perfectly embodies the whole notion of the peripheral Star Wars hero: an unknown warrior, gifted and determined, but wrapped so tightly into the fabric of his cause that he stands for every nameless, faceless soldier that ever fought or died.
Echo Station's article on Wedge's popularity. "He's the sort of guy," Allston says, "who has most or all of the skills of the main hero, and does his job with similar resiliency, but just doesn't get all the attention (or particularly want it), and often takes a #2 role when the flashier heroes are around."
And its response. Wedge is so interesting because he is mysterious and yet we know there is no mystery about him. He is always there, the face at every party that no one ever introduces you to. Wedge, one can’t help but feel, is always doing the work behind the scenes, simply getting his head down and getting on with ensuring the job is done. While Luke and Leia take time out from the Rebellion to rescue Han from Jabba, have a few beers with the Ewoks, or try to turn Darth Vader back to the path of righteousness, Wedge is the one making sure that the Death Star gets taken out. Again.
Comics overview. Even as the noble 181st TIE squadron leader sworn to protect Brentaal IV's ill-fated Imperial base, (Fel) perfectly embodies the whole notion of the peripheral Star Wars hero: an unknown warrior, gifted and determined, but wrapped so tightly into the fabric of his cause that he stands for every nameless, faceless soldier that ever fought or died.