NaNo again!
Alright. So it's NaNo time again. And I'm rewriting the first book of the TtRotS trio to try to incorporate more elements from the second Clone Wars animated show (not the micro-series, but the other one. The one that was on for years), starting with the baby Jedi from "The Gathering" and related episodes (because I adore Katooni and Petro and the others), Senator Riyo Chuchi of Pantora and famous Pantorans in general (since apparently George Lucas' blue character in the background at the opera house in RotS is Pantoran now and not Wroonian), my idea of what really happened between Padmé and Senator (and Baron) Rush Clovis, more of Mon Mothma, and probably more things/people, too, depending on what strikes me as I go along! *Lol!* And more Ahsoka Tano, to be sure!!! She is, after all, the Golden Child of the Golden Team!!!!!!
I might have to write an Ahsoka-centric story one of these days. I really hated the Clone Wars movie when I first saw it and was not at all impressed with the idea of the series that followed it or all the retcons responsible for shoe-horning her into the SW canon, but I've had a good long while to think about ways to make her existence actually make sense within the context of the film canon (and it's not all that hard. All one has to do is make her an all but orphaned Padawan who's been assigned to the Golden Team, emphasis on Anakin, while her Master - badly wounded at Geonosis - convalesces. Et voilà! No retcons necessary regarding when the rule about when a Padawan can be taken on or when Anakin is Knighted or any number of other things necessary to make her presence make any kind of sense at all) and she's really grown on me as she's grown in the course of the series. SW needs all the kickarse female characters it can get and Ahsoka is actually pretty darn worthy as a role-model. Plus, I have plans for her and other characters, now, having read more of the tie-in novels meant to accompany the newer Clone Wars TV series. I honestly don't care what DISNEY SW might have to say about her or anyone else at this point. The wonderful thing about being an AU writer is that one gets to pick and choose what to use, what to keep, what to completely ignore and/or make sure never, ever happens, and etc. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, right now, the vast majority of SW DISNEY is mediocre to flat out awful (Rogue One would have been great if not for the awful lazy-arse let's tie everything up by killing everyone and then claim we did it to be brave instead of because we were too stupid and lazy to be able to think of ways to explain where those characters might've been in the OT ending of the film, though I wasn't much impressed by the novelization. The less said about the so-called sequel films the better, in my opinion. Urgh. I think I've read three whole readable SW books that have been published since the DISNEY buyout, including Catalyst, Lost Stars, and Ahsoka. There may be others, but I'm not holding my breath, giving how awful other DISNEY SW books I've tried to read have been, though I do plan to read Tarkin at some point since it's a Luceno book and he's usually pretty good and apparently Tim Zahn is going to write new books with Thrawn to go along with Rebels at some point now???) and is going straight out the nearest airlock. I care about only the bits that are actually intriguing/engaging to me and that means I side more with the old EU than the new!canon of DISNEY SW, right now, and honestly, I tend to think of most of the materials about the war, including the second TV series (and its various book tie-ins), as being Lucas productions, not DISNEY, no matter what DISNEY says about the TV show at least being part of its new!SW DISNEY canon.
I might have to write an Ahsoka-centric story one of these days. I really hated the Clone Wars movie when I first saw it and was not at all impressed with the idea of the series that followed it or all the retcons responsible for shoe-horning her into the SW canon, but I've had a good long while to think about ways to make her existence actually make sense within the context of the film canon (and it's not all that hard. All one has to do is make her an all but orphaned Padawan who's been assigned to the Golden Team, emphasis on Anakin, while her Master - badly wounded at Geonosis - convalesces. Et voilà! No retcons necessary regarding when the rule about when a Padawan can be taken on or when Anakin is Knighted or any number of other things necessary to make her presence make any kind of sense at all) and she's really grown on me as she's grown in the course of the series. SW needs all the kickarse female characters it can get and Ahsoka is actually pretty darn worthy as a role-model. Plus, I have plans for her and other characters, now, having read more of the tie-in novels meant to accompany the newer Clone Wars TV series. I honestly don't care what DISNEY SW might have to say about her or anyone else at this point. The wonderful thing about being an AU writer is that one gets to pick and choose what to use, what to keep, what to completely ignore and/or make sure never, ever happens, and etc. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, right now, the vast majority of SW DISNEY is mediocre to flat out awful (Rogue One would have been great if not for the awful lazy-arse let's tie everything up by killing everyone and then claim we did it to be brave instead of because we were too stupid and lazy to be able to think of ways to explain where those characters might've been in the OT ending of the film, though I wasn't much impressed by the novelization. The less said about the so-called sequel films the better, in my opinion. Urgh. I think I've read three whole readable SW books that have been published since the DISNEY buyout, including Catalyst, Lost Stars, and Ahsoka. There may be others, but I'm not holding my breath, giving how awful other DISNEY SW books I've tried to read have been, though I do plan to read Tarkin at some point since it's a Luceno book and he's usually pretty good and apparently Tim Zahn is going to write new books with Thrawn to go along with Rebels at some point now???) and is going straight out the nearest airlock. I care about only the bits that are actually intriguing/engaging to me and that means I side more with the old EU than the new!canon of DISNEY SW, right now, and honestly, I tend to think of most of the materials about the war, including the second TV series (and its various book tie-ins), as being Lucas productions, not DISNEY, no matter what DISNEY says about the TV show at least being part of its new!SW DISNEY canon.