Invincible review, part 3 - now featuring spoilers

[gabri_jade]

Here we go, folks. Sadly, I had so much to say that I broke LJ. This'll be split into two posts. My condolences to anyone who actually plows through it, though I did try to lay on the snark to make it worthwhile. :p

Comments

[gabri_jade]

1 - I'm awfully glad, because if I didn't manage to insert some decent snark here, I'd feel very guilty subjecting anyone to reading a recap of this book.

2 - Amen.

3 - Heaven knows there's little enough worth reading these days. In the last four years, the only books I've truly enjoyed were all Zahn's.

[uscathena]

I want a Megador. Maybe it can transform into a mighty sword-wielding robot.

[gabri_jade]

Why stop there? It should be a zombie Megador. :p

[lunajadebaggins]

Denning seems obsessed with making Luke's Jedi order as similar to the PT Jedi as he can. That's not a good idea.

"He's magnitudes stronger than me in the Force. All I've got on him is five weeks of Mandalorian commando training."

Because Mandos are TEH AWESOME.

What happened to Zekk was horrible. I know it's necessary to get Jaina/Jag off the ground, which is necessary for the Legacy comics, but to have him vanish, without a trace is about the worst solution I could think of. I mean, of:

1. Zekk gave up on Jaina (about time; we've had hints that that was already the case in Tempest, but Inferno--from the same author!--took it back to square one);
2. Zekk unmistakably dies;
3. Zekk leaves on a long mission (hey, the series' conclusion leaves so much room for those things);
4. Zekk turns out to be gay;

which one did they pick? Oh, yeah. None of the above. Because we want Jaina/Jag, but Zekk can show up later and we can have a love triangle. Zekk is Callista 2.0.

[gabri_jade]

Denning seems obsessed with making Luke's Jedi order as similar to the PT Jedi as he can. That's not a good idea.

For oh-so-many reasons . . .

Because Mandos are TEH AWESOME.

I never minded Mandos or Boba Fett before reading Traviss's LotF novels. They did nothing for me, but I had no active dislike for them at all. Now I cannot stand them.

What happened to Zekk was horrible. I know it's necessary to get Jaina/Jag off the ground, which is necessary for the Legacy comics, but to have him vanish, without a trace is about the worst solution I could think of. I mean, of

[lunajadebaggins]

Forgot to note something in my above post:

I love Jag, but I don't think any non-Force sensitive is really capable of that.

General Grievous?

[gabri_jade]

The point is well taken, but Grievous was vastly more suited to such a thing than Jag. Grievous had a duranium alloy cybernetic body reminiscent of a war droid; Jag has much more easily wounded flesh. Grievous's brain had been tampered with to sharpen his eyesight and his equilibruim. Grievous also had four arms to Jag's two, lightsabers for all four, and had been trained by Dooku in all forms of lightsaber combat. Jag has none of those advantages.

Granted, Jag wasn't in a genuine combat situation, but he's still vastly less suited to take on even one Jedi than was Grievous, let alone four.

[gabri_jade]

*giggles* LotF is done, I flatly refuse to read anything else in the LotF era, and any other books I choose to read won't have the same "it's part of a series involving Luke and Mara and Ben; must finish" sense of obligation to them. Masochism's over, at least for now. But I still wouldn't recommend reading my comments. Snark or no snark, it was a horrible book.