Moore was hired by Lucas specifically because of his success with Battlestar Galactica, so I would presume the latter.
Well, that would be...
interesting, if nothing else, simply to read about the sort of battles that he'd inevitably have with Lucas over storytelling (after all, if even a craven brown-noser like Dave Filoni would fight George over certain things, it seems pretty certain that Moore would also).
Those scenes in Enemy Lines between Czulkang and his son were fantastic, and easily my favorite parts of the book. Stuff like that, the bitter spat between Vua Rapung and Mazan Kwaad in Edge of Victory, Nom Anor's plotting, and Nen Yim's redemptive journey is the reason why I love the Vong so much. They didn't feel like the monster-of-the-week villains from the Bantam Era...they were people. Characters steeped in the vile religion and culture, certainly, but with different personal motives and even personal loyalties. There was legit drama going on between them, far away from the heroes, and often being resolved without the need for major characters like Luke Skywalker or Jacen Solo.
It's one of the reasons why I was so disinterested in the Killiks when I got around to Dark Nest, because there was no cast of memorable villains among the bugs, with their bland and woefully uninteresting hive mind.
Exactly. I think the moment that really hooked me on the NJO was when Shedao Shai presents Corran Horn with the jeweled skeleton of Horn's old friend, Elegos A'Kla, after ritually torturing and executing him, and, from Shai's perspective, this is all well and good because he's granted A'Kla a very high degree of honor in Yuuzhan Vong culture. That was what made the Vong such great villains, the way that they were portrayed as acting in accordance with a consistent set of ideals and principals that just happened to be complete and utter anathema to the heroes, and vice-versa. It's like the Aztecs invading Spain, to borrow one of my old history teachers' favorite hypothetical scenarios.
I'm pleased to say that FOTJ so far appears to be a return to form, with the Lost Tribe of the Sith providing some more interesting culture and characters like Vestara Khai. And from their designs alone, I feel like I'm going to be equally enamored with the Members of the One Sith in the Legacy comics.
It's a fucking shame that we used to have a literal cast of characters making up the villains in Star Wars, whereas nowadays Disney/LFL can barely muster one.
SJW dogma seems to demand that the enemy be at once inhuman and incompetent, all-powerful and yet easily defeated by diverse coalitions of dangerhair stand-ins suddenly "standing together." It doesn't make for very effective storytelling.
The ironic part of this is because they misunderstand society and people. They end up recreating their version of oppression and false consciousness they are meant to be against. The progress of gender and race rights of the last few centuries shows their assumption on society was wrong. Yet as they think that is how the world works, they're wanting to create it for their own agenda.
The street-level drones may exist at that level of awareness, but I suspect that the upper-echelons of the Left (for lack of a better term) are fully conscious that their ideology runs contrary to human nature and human history and simply don't care, because it's a means to acquire more power. "Equality," "trans-LGBBQ rights" and the like are just a pretty lie sold to impressionable, mentally and emotionally-damaged idiots to manipulate them into enthroning elitist psychopaths.
If you're going to post the sexiest character in the entire franchise at least use her bikini shots
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Reminds me that that series was running with the implication of future half-human, half-alien Skywalker babies.
Wild times, eh?
Specifically I'm refering to anything non-main film release, in a humorous manner by referencing the infamous holiday special.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification.
Haha, that's a good point. When I was a kid I had about 6 or 7 different Luke action figures, maybe more.
ANH Tatooine luke
Hoth Luke
Bespin Luke (with detachable hand)
Cool yellow jacket Luke
ROTJ Luke
Stormtrooper Luke (helmet removable)
Shadows of the Empire Luke
X-Wing flight suit Luke
And that's just one character. Apparently there was also a Dark Empire Luke Skywalker figure. That would have been badass to have
Dark Empire Luke Skywalker
was indeed pretty badass. He was also arguably the most 90s-looking Star Wars figure ever made.
*edit*
Sorry, I apparently got
Dark Empire
Luke confused with
Shadows of the Empire Luke (to be fair,
both are very badass, although
Dark hews a bit more towards the late 80s, aesthetically).
I remember you had to send away for the Stormrooper Han toy, but it didn't come in Kenner packaging.
The vintage SW mail-away figures didn't come carded either though, did they?
Rey's only real costume change over the entire sequel trilogy was the color of her robes (which made no sense to continue wearing after leaving not!Tatooine, it would be like Luke spending the entire original trilogy in his farmboy outfit) and a progressively growing forehead
You didn't like "The Captain's Hand"?
The whole concept of people squabbling over
abortion, in a situation where mankind has apparently been reduced to a few thousand desperate refugees who even then are getting gradually whittled away by continuous enemy attacks, is completely ridiculous.
This isnt even slightly clever, ironic, humorous and doesnt even make sense, this is just mentally ill trash. What is it with these freaks.
Brainwashing, basically. Reinforced by the endorphin rush of feeling like they're defending some kind of moral high-ground and laying the law down on us heathens and sinners (note how aggressively the cartoonist's chosen stand-in is accosting Luke Skywalker). It's not wrong to say that they're addicted to huffing their own farts, in essence.
Yeah a lot of them really hate Luke. I suspect they always hated Luke and their real fandom is politics. Tbh he’s my litmus test for if someone is a real fan or not. It’s possible to have a different favorite character say Leia or Han but it’s really hard to like the OT and hate Luke. I’m sure there’s some autist out there that does but it’s extremely unlikely. Luke was the OT.
That's a great point. What sort of psycho would hate
Luke Skywalker, of all characters (yes, we know exactly what kind, it's a hypothetical question).
I liked the Vong, their culture, their aesthetic, etc., but the one thing I disliked about them was how everything pointed to them and how it retroactively shifted the “climax” of Star Wars offscreen. I didn’t mind references to them in Kotor and what not but I disliked how many claimed the Death Star was achskually to fight the Vong and #PalpatineDidNothingWrong. Tbh that’s also why I’m ambivalent about The High Republic because I expect many of the authors, some are new but a surprising number worked for Lucasfilm pre-Disney, to try to shift the focus of Star Wars to their pet projects and characters. I expect the worst authors to constantly play up the importance of their self inserts and how space weed was the greatest threat EVAH in books that take place after ROTJ and at that point it’s irrelevant.
I don't think that that's a fair comparison. The narrative weight of Star Wars had to shift
somewhere after the last, lingering embers of conflict between the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant died down, and the idea that Palpatine may have been preparing the Empire to fend off the Vong invasion doesn't change the fact that his first and primary goal for the Empire was to cement Sith rule over the Galaxy forever (and in fact, the #PalpatineDidNothingWrong idea was used as an in-universe plot-point for Imperial die-hards to harp on, only to be quickly dismissed by Han Solo).
If anything, I'd say that KOTOR/TOR are much worse about "shifting the climax" because of how Palpatine is diminished by the introduction of Vitiate/Valkorion.
I had other complaints about the EU but generally they apply to the Disney Wars x 10. For example, I didn’t like the idea that Palpatine came back but at least in the comics it built up to it, it was more organic, and everybody flipped out. It was more entertaining too even though I would’ve preferred that he stayed dead. In the ST it’s like “oh, he’s back suddenly, I guess we’re even more doomed now. Oh no.”