The backstory was probably one of the hardest parts to try and get by, since I was trying to come up with one for what we were told in the OT without being restricted by the PT (or ROTJ!), but also to work the PT (and ROTJ!) in where I could. I'm really glad this worked! I definitely wanted to keep that element of "it's all my fault" but ... you know, a slightly different way. And yeah, poor Anakin. :(
I really like SOTE! I bought it, even. I mean, it's not canon for me, but Xizor is hilariously awful, it's reasonably well-written, and Perry does do a good job with Vader. So much of the time it seems like he's written either as a Complete Monster (which he isn't, even in ANH) or he's ridiculously woobified (I struggled with both extremes in Revenge!), and I liked that he managed to keep a decent balance. And his defeat of Xizor was awesome.
I've heard good things about Death Star, but it keeps coming up in the arguments about Luke being a mass-murderer for, you know, stopping the genocide of entire planets, so...hm. And the EU does a lot of introducing moral ambiguity where it doesn't exist (honestly, the Imperials in ANH have all the ambiguity of Snidely Whiplash), which I'm iffy about -- I like the fairy-tale-in-space thing. So is it ... idk, a deconstructive type thing? Or more filling the blanks?
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The backstory was probably one of the hardest parts to try and get by, since I was trying to come up with one for what we were told in the OT without being restricted by the PT (or ROTJ!), but also to work the PT (and ROTJ!) in where I could. I'm really glad this worked! I definitely wanted to keep that element of "it's all my fault" but ... you know, a slightly different way. And yeah, poor Anakin. :(
I really like SOTE! I bought it, even. I mean, it's not canon for me, but Xizor is hilariously awful, it's reasonably well-written, and Perry does do a good job with Vader. So much of the time it seems like he's written either as a Complete Monster (which he isn't, even in ANH) or he's ridiculously woobified (I struggled with both extremes in Revenge!), and I liked that he managed to keep a decent balance. And his defeat of Xizor was awesome.
I've heard good things about Death Star, but it keeps coming up in the arguments about Luke being a mass-murderer for, you know, stopping the genocide of entire planets, so...hm. And the EU does a lot of introducing moral ambiguity where it doesn't exist (honestly, the Imperials in ANH have all the ambiguity of Snidely Whiplash), which I'm iffy about -- I like the fairy-tale-in-space thing. So is it ... idk, a deconstructive type thing? Or more filling the blanks?