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In Topic: Star Wars Expanded Universe Thread (ALL)
Today, 05:32 PM
QuickTidal, on 13 May 2026 - 02:38 PM, said:Abyss, on 13 May 2026 - 02:15 PM, said:QuickTidal, on 13 May 2026 - 11:57 AM, said:DARK APPRENTICE (Book 2 Jedi Academy Trilogy) by KJA is really good. Again, I love how much you can mostly align this stuff with Prequel era stuff...but subtle things are different like how before The Clone Wars TV show force users could use any crystal available to craft their lightsaber and focus the beam...Kyber Crystals didn't really become the defacto (type) of crystal for lightsabers till the Clone Wars made it so...I prefer the old way as it doesn't confine things. That said, it still aligns with new canon as places like Illum where the padawans go to find their crystals just has a mountain that is filled with crystals so it still kinda jives.
Or Kirana Ti (one of Luke's first students) being a Dathomiri witch (Nightsister) she's wearing (in the old art) a sort of helmet thing....which looks kinda weird....but if you change that material to various types of cloth hoods, she DOES align with the eventual Nightsisters look.
One thing I love is that Luke's Jedi academy (Praxeum) is on Yavin 4 utilizing the old Rebel base there from ANH, and old Massasi temples make a REALLY good spot to train his students (some canon reasons exists too, in that one of his students [Streen] is an older man who hears everyones thoughts too loud and Coruscant would have driven him insane, but I think it's Leia who points out that Luke can train Jedi far from the prying eyes of the main hub of the New Republic...It's not until the Yuzaan Vong destroy the temple on Yavin 4 that Luke moves the Jedi to the Temple on Coruscant proper.
There are little dashes of things that also align with post-prequel info, like Ackbar is sitting outside the main council chambers for the New Republic and the doors and walls are still decorated in the bas relief's the Emperor had installed that were subtle nods to Sith history and hieroglyphs...and if you watch the prequels Darth Sidious actually did this, with the Four Sages of Dwartii statues, The Great Hyperspace War Bas-Relief, and Sith chalice and spirit urns in his office. So that jives too, and it makes me wonder how much of the prequels is informed by stuff the old Expanded universe authors came up with.
Anyways, great book and I'm blasting through it so I'll probably dive into the 3rd right after.
Does this bk have one of Luke's apprentices get possessed by Exar Kun and whip out a double-lightsaber decades before Darth Maul ever did?
Yep. Gantoris...and it's interesting to read because he's trying to gainsay the speed at which Luke is teaching them, thinking he can make a lightsaber and all that before Luke is ready to teach it and that's how he gets into it.
And yeah, the one downside about using Yavin 4 is that Exar Kun's grave is literally there AND the Holocron that Luke has from an Old Republic Master talks about him, but never mentions him by name, so none of them realize till it's too late and Gantoris is already caught in the shit.
I remember reading that and then a few years later Dark Horse does Exar Kun and company's story and my brain starts making all kinds of wild connections.
...unfortunately then the DH SW comics started to suck and i bailed yet again. -
In Topic: Star Wars Expanded Universe Thread (ALL)
Today, 02:15 PM
QuickTidal, on 13 May 2026 - 11:57 AM, said:DARK APPRENTICE (Book 2 Jedi Academy Trilogy) by KJA is really good. Again, I love how much you can mostly align this stuff with Prequel era stuff...but subtle things are different like how before The Clone Wars TV show force users could use any crystal available to craft their lightsaber and focus the beam...Kyber Crystals didn't really become the defacto (type) of crystal for lightsabers till the Clone Wars made it so...I prefer the old way as it doesn't confine things. That said, it still aligns with new canon as places like Illum where the padawans go to find their crystals just has a mountain that is filled with crystals so it still kinda jives.
Or Kirana Ti (one of Luke's first students) being a Dathomiri witch (Nightsister) she's wearing (in the old art) a sort of helmet thing....which looks kinda weird....but if you change that material to various types of cloth hoods, she DOES align with the eventual Nightsisters look.
One thing I love is that Luke's Jedi academy (Praxeum) is on Yavin 4 utilizing the old Rebel base there from ANH, and old Massasi temples make a REALLY good spot to train his students (some canon reasons exists too, in that one of his students [Streen] is an older man who hears everyones thoughts too loud and Coruscant would have driven him insane, but I think it's Leia who points out that Luke can train Jedi far from the prying eyes of the main hub of the New Republic...It's not until the Yuzaan Vong destroy the temple on Yavin 4 that Luke moves the Jedi to the Temple on Coruscant proper.
There are little dashes of things that also align with post-prequel info, like Ackbar is sitting outside the main council chambers for the New Republic and the doors and walls are still decorated in the bas relief's the Emperor had installed that were subtle nods to Sith history and hieroglyphs...and if you watch the prequels Darth Sidious actually did this, with the Four Sages of Dwartii statues, The Great Hyperspace War Bas-Relief, and Sith chalice and spirit urns in his office. So that jives too, and it makes me wonder how much of the prequels is informed by stuff the old Expanded universe authors came up with.
Anyways, great book and I'm blasting through it so I'll probably dive into the 3rd right after.
Does this bk have one of Luke's apprentices get possessed by Exar Kun and whip out a double-lightsaber decades before Darth Maul ever did? -
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In Topic: Ye Big Movie thread
Yesterday, 03:14 PM
Slow Ben, on 12 May 2026 - 02:13 AM, said:Abyss, on 11 May 2026 - 01:54 PM, said:Saw SHEEP DETECTIVES.
I regret nothing.
I'm excited for this one. The trailer looked hilarious.
It's one of those ridiculous family friendly movies that is entirely predictable and by-the-numbers and it's just so damn charming and cute and funny and earnest and well-executed that i couldn't help but enjoy it.
Btw, Kobna Holbroock-Smith, who narrates the RIVERS OF LONDON earbooks, is among the human actors. -
In Topic: Ye Big Movie thread
11 May 2026 - 02:02 PM
MICHAEL.
...the dance scenes were great.
It's otherwise a very safe version of the Michael Jackson story from earliest Jackson 5 to just after the Victory Tour. There are some interesting moments that were clearly adapted for drama, there is some drama that's just boring, there are some moments that are clearly there to deify Michael and downplay his eccentricities, and fine, we can all see it for what it is. Despite being a Jackson family effort the brothers are barely even there and the Janet erasure is kind of wild even if it was at her own demand.
But the dance scenes were great!
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