Singin Hobo
March 3rd, 2005, 04:53 PM
Still working away at my Clone Wars novels :D
I just finished Jedi Trial today and I thought it was another great Clone Wars story... I'm not sure if it was particularly big enough to warrant being the trial that made Anakin a Jedi Knight... but it was cool. Personally, with the small mentions of Asajj Ventress here and there... and even the fact of her promising to show up towards the end... I was expecting it to be the final undoing of her and I was hoping that destroying her would be the thing that earned Anakin his long-awaited title.
And along those lines not only wasn't it something huge but in the long run it seemed like something small... he did save a planet, for all intents and purposes, but it wasn't really an inhabited planet... it was a strategic planet. So, it wasn't really a big fat deal... just another move that the Republic won for the time being, not really anything I cared about.
And what gives with the authors who are afraid to let Anakin really get sucked in a new way... sure he had his little bout of rage after that matronly lady died, but it was so closely tied to the exact same thing that happened to him with his mother that it wasn't like I was reading about a new event. It was just sort of a rerun-rage.
I also thought it kinda corny that the Jedi Master he was teamed up with was also secretly married and had a kid.
What WAS cool was the military style and language of the book... they did a great job of illustrating the battles and the surroundings and the moves and all that. I thought they did a great job of really bringing it all together like they did and laying out the map for us so we could see it. Good deal.
I just finished Jedi Trial today and I thought it was another great Clone Wars story... I'm not sure if it was particularly big enough to warrant being the trial that made Anakin a Jedi Knight... but it was cool. Personally, with the small mentions of Asajj Ventress here and there... and even the fact of her promising to show up towards the end... I was expecting it to be the final undoing of her and I was hoping that destroying her would be the thing that earned Anakin his long-awaited title.
And along those lines not only wasn't it something huge but in the long run it seemed like something small... he did save a planet, for all intents and purposes, but it wasn't really an inhabited planet... it was a strategic planet. So, it wasn't really a big fat deal... just another move that the Republic won for the time being, not really anything I cared about.
And what gives with the authors who are afraid to let Anakin really get sucked in a new way... sure he had his little bout of rage after that matronly lady died, but it was so closely tied to the exact same thing that happened to him with his mother that it wasn't like I was reading about a new event. It was just sort of a rerun-rage.
I also thought it kinda corny that the Jedi Master he was teamed up with was also secretly married and had a kid.
What WAS cool was the military style and language of the book... they did a great job of illustrating the battles and the surroundings and the moves and all that. I thought they did a great job of really bringing it all together like they did and laying out the map for us so we could see it. Good deal.