Lmao, it's hilarious you had to scuttle off to another thread after
you got exposed on the Main Star Wars Thread for not reading the books you spend so much time sperging about.
A little hard to offer critique about how a book series should have gone when you yourself have admitted you didn't even finish reading the series in the first place, and have only ever relied on Wiki articles, Essential Guides and secondhand information to opine on events you claim to be an authority on.
Wow, I'm flattered that you'd stalk me all the way here. Can't get enough of showing how brazenly uneducated you are in the main thread? I know you have a stalker crush on me, but come on, this is way too funny.
Again, I already proved that these books were written by people who barely understood the movies, let alone gave a crap about the story. The fact that your "proof" for the Empire losing to the Vong was clearly written by someone who barely watched the first film. And again, NJO is a story that only lasts so long because the good guys, who are supposed to be smarter than the Empire, lost brain cells.
As in, if the New Republic was actually united behind the Jedi and fought the Vong 100% from the start, there'd be no story. Even the oh-so-magical Dovin Basals that can strip energy shields from ships and absorb attacks with mini black holes can get overwhelmed by mass-firing low-power shots, so from the start, the NR had the tech to beat them. The Vong lose to tattered remnants of the New Republic and the Empire; the Empire itself, despite being so pathetic that it barely has 200 ISDs to its name, managed to give the Vong a black eye and force them to retreat, meaning that if the New Republic, which was far more powerful than the Imperial Remnant, devoted itself to fighting the Vong fully from the start, the Vong would've been an Outer Rim conflict; a border skirmish that at most, might have gotten to the Mid Rim before the Jedi put them down for good.
Instead, the series goes on over a dozen novels, because the New Republic hides like cowards and keeps letting the Vong take more and more of the galaxy while alienating the Jedi, which of course means that the NR grew weaker and weaker while trying to negotiate with the kind of people who were killing an approximate of 250 billion people a day (the Vong war lasts 4 years and kills 365 trillion people, which means that by average, every day means that a quarter of a trillion lives are lost to the invaders) which goes to show that the New Republic killed more people with its incompetence than the Empire did with its sheer malice.
The fact that the New Republic were shunning the Jedi while trying to talk diplomacy with the Vong makes just about as much sense as say, the English selling out Alfred the Great to the Vikings. Or the Americans selling out George Washington to the British. Except, things like that didn't happen, because most nations with working brain cells won't abandon the people who helped defend or found their nation to some outside weirdos they don't fully understand. The New Republic was literally founded thanks to the acts of the Jedi. Luke convincing Vader to turn against the Emperor. Leia convincing the Nohgri to kill Thrawn. Empatojayos Brand sending Palpatine's soul to the Force afterlife. The Jedi are literally the founding myths of the New Republic, and for them to turn against the Jedi while trying to talk shop with the Vong makes no fucking sense to anyone with a working grasp of history. As in, these books only make sense for people whose historical knowledge is about as deep as someone who thinks that America's first president was George Washington Carver.
That is basically the whole story of the New Jedi Order books; the idea that your democracy will fail you and you'll need the help of tinfoil dictators to hold back an evil that was way worse than the one you freed the galaxy from. Truly, it's a story that respects Star Wars' movies and the narrative that the OT stood for, am I right? The New Republic that the heroes fight so hard to establish, through countless novels, comics, games, and the OT films, all that pain, all that drama, all that blood shed to bring the New Republic as a continuation of the Old, and it basically fails them at the hour of need, to the point where it's the fucking Empire that stood with the heroes from the start against the Vong.
Then we get to Legacy of the Force, where once again, Space Democracy fails to stop a completely avoidable war between soldiers of a democracy, showing once again that Palpatine was right about these local powers being untrustworthy to have such autonomy-which again, goes against the very narrative of the OT.
Then you have the Legacy comics, where Space Democracy dies its final death as even the Galactic Alliance, or what's left of it, becomes a military space junta that no longer holds elections and just takes orders from some Duros admiral. So basically, the Alliance ends the story in the same way the Empire does; as a military autocracy that no longer takes heed from what the people want. No elections, no senate, no nothing. Just an Empire and an Alliance, both of whom are military dictatorships, and some unelected Jedi making all the decisions for the galaxy.
Shit, no wonder Lucas keeps flip-flopping on the books. One moment he recognizes them as canon, the next, he doesn't. One moment he says that he's entrusting all these stories to Kathleen Kennedy for safekeeping, the next, he says that Star Wars to him ends in ROTJ and Luke doesn't get married. NJO and everything that came after it practically shat all over the happy ending he set up in ROTJ. At least with the KOTOR comics and games, they wait several centuries between the Jedi/Sith wars.
And of course, you can't refute a single point I've said, because each and every one of them is fucking true. The last time you tried to refute me, you got humiliated and switched the topic, because you're a whiny bitch who can't argue for shit.
Go back to the main thread where people pat you on the ass for being a book sperg who can't even tell how each book has contrasting themes and how they utterly fuck with Star Wars' central narrative. (Democracy good, Fasicsm bad)
