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Asajj Ventress (and Anakin Skywalker) on the Japanese covers of Clone Wars novels: The Cestus Deception, Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, and Jedi Trial
#daily asajj thought of the day#asajj ventress#ventress#anakin skywalker#the clone wars novels#clone wars#the clone wars multimedia project#the cestus deception#Yoda: Dark Rendezvous#jedi trial#star wars art#idk who the artist(s?) for this is but if you do please tell me so i can credit them#star wars books#sw#star wars#two pretty best friends#(the first time they met they were trying to kill each other)#(she almost died because of that meeting)#(she gave anakin his scar and he in return electrocuted her and dropped her to her death)#(they've never interacted positively in anything i've read)#(they should be friends anyway)#star wars covers#star wars legends#sw legends#star wars eu
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Would you want to see Dark Side Yoda? Check out the full panel video from "A Clone Wars Novel" with Sean Stewart and Matthew Stover next week!
Transcript: "And Yoda takes a step towards the Dark and basically says 'How much do you want this to happen?' and Dooku goes 'Ohhhhhhhhhh... Dark Yoda would be annihilating. Let's totally not, I was sort of joking... let's let's... would you like that?' Because there's a moment, and it's, it's one of those things, it's very important to me in the book; (if you haven't read it, think about it) is the moment at which everybody gets a good long look at what Dark Yoda would be like and decides that maybe they don't want to see that."
#Sean Stewart#Clone Wars#Yoda Dark Rendezvous#Jedi#Yoda#Dooku#Sith#Dark Side#Clone Wars Multimedia Project#Clone Wars Books#Expanded Universe#Star Wars Expanded Universe#Star Wars Legends#SWEU#Star Wars EU#SW Expanded Universe#LegendsExpo#Star Wars Books
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"The words that make us fall apart, cannot be taken back. You hold the line that holds my heart, don't let go of that. The stars that keep on falling down, will shine on us forever. We disappear without a sound, on wings of hopeless dreams."
The Words by Dragonborn feat. Jacob Bellens
#star wars#a'sharad hett#anakin skywalker#jedi#tusken raiders#clone wars#my art#watercolor#this was inspired by star wars republic nro 59#it's a comic from 2003#I really recommend these comics!#they were part of the original clone wars multimedia project
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Star Wars: Tides of Terror Comic Dub!
Aayla Secura and Kit Fisto discover that the Seperatists have bribed a cloner to create a nano-virus designed to infect the Clone Troopers and destroy the Grand Army of the Republic from the inside! Join our friends in a race against time to discover the traitor and find a vaccine!
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#star wars#youtube#star wars eu#star wars legends#voice acting#kit fisto#aayla secura#kamino#taun we#kuma nai#sayn ta#comic dub#star wars expanded universe#voiceover#fandub#jedi#jedi knight#jedi master#star wars clone wars#clone wars multimedia project#nautolan#twi'lek#star wars comics#star wars prequels#star wars prequel trilogy#tides of terror#star wars tales#kaminoan#kaminoans#cpr
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the dilemma of NOT actually liking tcw, but liking ahsoka tano
#like... the 2003 multimedia project is still my clone wars#(jabiim arc and shatterpoint my beloved)#and there are way too many things i hate in f*loniverse#the mortis arc what he did to dathomir bringing maul back ruinung ventress and quinlan and a certain cyborg general but.... AHSOKA
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What's also crazy is that there's an actual official legends short story that's written by Luuke where he apologizes about how he had to replace the real Luke who died in an accident and that actually people have been being killed off in Legends and replaced with clones like Haan and Ackbaar and Cheewie, and that The Clone Wars is actually about trying to find and eliminate all the clones.
Maybe you knew this already but in case you didn’t in legends, there is an evil clone of Luke made from his severed hand that he lost in his fight with Vader. And what is evil clone Luke named? LUUKE SKYWALKER
I’m not kidding.
anyway, with that, I bid you ado. Have a wonderful day and a wonderful, spooky season. I always love sending you asks and it really is amazing You do all of this for free! So long soldier 🫡
i might've heard of luuke before but also what the hell. what is legends and why was every single legends author snorting 2kg of crack-cocaine before writing each book
#i'm not even kidding#it was obviously a joke story#but this was how they announced The Clone Wars multimedia project before it started
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i think the prologue to revenge of the sith is my favorite piece of star wars writing anywhere
nobody asked matthew stover to cook this hard but he did anyway
sorry andor, you're a close second
it's really cool because not only is it so evocatively written, but it manages to simultaneously adapt the opening shot of the movie but also tell the story of the entire clone wars, bringing us up to speed on exactly what has happened in the interim since attack of the clones and telling us exactly where the people of the galaxy are emotionally and ideologically as they are primed for empire
and it also perfectly bridges the military sci-fi style of the clone wars multimedia project with the heroic fantasy of the movie itself, embracing both without giving ground on either front
"A pair of starfighters. Jedi Starfighters. Only two.
Two is enough.
Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right.
Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last."
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I'm happily educating myself on all things Barriss via your wonderful blog. If you'd ever feel like unpacking more of your Wrong Jedi thoughts/intrigue, I'd love to hear more of your analysis.
Oh my, you've put a quarter in the machine now you have to hear the whole song.
The arc is very divisive with Barriss enjoyers because her character veers so far from her Legends depiction. She was a pretty prominent character in the original Clone Wars multimedia project and was a caring and selfless healer. And the arc doesn't do much to explain her motivations for turning.
Another thing that vexes me is because it is essentially a police procedural (they even hired a writer from Third Watch for this arc) so much occurs off-screen. So, we do not know quite what happened but have to infer.
Let's start with motivation. In her very few post The Wrong Jedi appearances they've tried to hint at Barriss falling mainly though post-traumatic stress disorder. And that's sort of a good explanation? She was at Geonsis at the start of the war, and was one of two Padawans we know of IN the arena who lived and the other was Anakin! You have to think this is a healer, someone who was trained to be a pacifist, and the battle was so sudden and frantic that she had to witness other Padawans she knew in the creche die all around her and she was too busy defending herself to do anything. So that's trauma and guilt. The short story A Jedi's Duty shows that she sat out nearly the entire first year of the war healing others back at the temple, explaining why she wasn't there to deal with Asajj Ventress with Luminara in TCW season 1. Also, she is having trouble sleeping because of memories of that first battle. She asked for help but they told her to meditate if she couldn't sleep, but she couldn't meditate properly because of this haze of the dark side invading her perceptions. She's even having trouble Force healing and she feels guilty that others are taking risks that she is unwilling to take. She consults with an old friend, Tutso Mara and is finally able to meditate, but right then Luminara calls her to a briefing, and wouldn't you know it, they're going to Geonosis again. She is frightened but memorizes the tunnel formations under the weapons factory they need to destroy because that's her duty to the Light and to her Order. The last scene is her joining Luminara and Gree to depart for the battle. And it's such an ironic story because Master Mara is one of her later victims and the place she bombs is right there in the temple hangar where the story ends. I think that's why she chose it as her target, it was the place she went from safety to chaos.
And what happens next? She almost is buried alive Right Away, then as she's reeling from that she gets a Geonocian brain worm. She was also at the Battle of Umbara, and you know how that goes. So I guess trauma is a fairly good reason, as well as her love and admiration of Jedi ethics and pedagogy that just went right out the window when the Jedi had to do what it took to fight in this war. Barriss is a bookworm, all that heritage meant something to her. And really, that was the purpose of the war, to isolate the Jedi by having them betray their morals and sully their reputation with the public.
Fanfiction writers also can pick and choose from Legends, such as all the crazy stuff that happened to her on Drongar but that's a story for another day.
So we get to the Wrong Jedi Arc itself. We aren't shown how she meets Letta Turmond, how much of a partnership that was. Letta says Barriss was the mastermind of the operation but that's after she's jailed. I don't trust her. I mean, Letta is a grown woman and while Barriss was an idealistic and heartsick Jedi at that point she's just 17-18 according to Feloni. I can see it as a situation where a teenager gets politically radicalized and taken advantage by a woman she trusts. If we get a Letta flashback in Tales of the Empire I will be so happy!
Ahsoka is framed. But there's a multi-step aspect to it. Part A, Letta calls Ahsoka to the prison because she was told she was the only Jedi her collaborator trusted and gets Force choked by someone we do not see. Part B, after she is arrested someone leaves a key card outside her cell and she follows a trail of first injured then dead clones to make it look like she broke out and went on a killing spree. Part C is the only one we actually see start to finish, where Ahsoka contacts Barriss and she lures her to the factory that made the nano-droids.
Barriss is guilty of Part C. But did she do Part A and B? She was at the funeral with Ahsoka and heard same time as her that she was transferred to a military compound. Then in the maybe hour, two hours Ahsoka was in a mission briefing Barriss supposedly broke into a brand-new high security compound, got in the walls, and strangled Letta as Ahsoka was in the cell alone with her. Then Part B, she hung around undetected for a few more hours to set up the escape while also erasing the audio off the recording of the murder.
I personally think Palpatine MIGHT have done part A. He has much greater access and he has the motive (to take away a pillar of stability for Anakin). If Barriss did do Part A, what was the motivation? The most pessimistic reading is she did it to save her own skin and purposely framed Ahsoka. Another is that Barriss genuinely talked up Ahsoka to Letta, and did NOT do so to set her up but because she was one of the lonely girl's only friends (and maybe love interest) and then Letta goes ahead and calls her there, Barriss is in the walls, and she just cannot have Ahsoka's opinion of her ruined. She killed Letta to silence her from tainting this one friendship she had left, did so out of panic, and wasn't thinking of the consequences. Then Part B, oh no I got my girlfriend framed for murder. So she springs her out. So why does she kill those clones to further frame her?
Consider the conversation after the funeral, "Ahsoka, do you think it is right for us to ignore our emotions?" I think the subtext there was "Ahsoka, I'm hurting so much, join me to stop me." She was feeling her out to see if she felt the same about the war as she did. And she did Part B to see if Ahsoka would run, SO THEY COULD RUN AWAY TOGETHER. Sure, it's manipulative as all Hell, but that's the dark side for you. It was a test, and Ahsoka failed because as soon as she gets out, she calls Barriss to help clear her name. So that she could get back to the war. The war Barriss hates with all her being. So that's why she did Part C. She had been alienated by the Order and her own master by all these deployments and the one person left who she valued was buying into the propaganda that the Jedi needed to finish this war. It broke her. And she did something awful.
All and all I think her fall is fascinating because it wasn't for personal power or attachments, she wanted to sacrifice her own grace to save the souls of all other Jedi. She did it out of love for the Order, even if it came in such a twisted and destructive form. That's also why she'd become a lousy Inquisitor. They're the anthesis of all she stood for, an army fighting for the dark side.
I know a lot of fans hate this arc but... man that speech! I spent the whole Prequel trilogy and TCW waiting for a Jedi to stand up and say "What we are doing is wrong, we should stop." Yoda and Mace know their path is leading to the dark, but they see no other way but through. I just wanted someone to say no with their whole chest. And it was Barriss. That's why I love her, your honor. I admire the idealists, her and Satine. They should have teamed up and put a stop too all that nonsense.
Sorry this is so long? I have a lot of FEELINGS and now you can see why I have a lot of trepidation about this Saturday. You know, I thought of you last night when I was rewatching Tales of the Jedi. It was the scene were Dooku was leaving to meet Palpatine with Yaddle following in The Sith Lord. I was imagining how you felt watching that for the first time, and I remembered my reaction was "Oh no, it's the temple hangar! Barriss is going to blow the shit out of this place in a decade and change!"
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I have a folder of HoloNet News and CIS Shadowfeed articles from Star Wars insider during the Clone Wars Multimedia Project, with new dates to match my headcanon timeline (you can find it on my account) where necessary, theyre fun to have for fic or TTRPG reference you can find them in this folder:
#omega squad#quinlan vos#aayla secura#repcomm#republic commando#obi wan kenobi#anakin skywalker#alpha 17#count dooku#Nute Gunray#clone wars#star wars fanfiction#fanfic resources#fic resources#Star Wars fanfic resources#Star Wars fic resources
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i like Barriss Offee well enough but don't enjoy anything she's in and haven't watched or read any of it in like 12 years so. i'd appreciate an update or correction if anyone knowledgeable sees this. but here's my likely very skewed understanding of the situation:
2002's attack of the clones arena scene has many jedi, though most show up for a single shot or so, and they have many different alien designs to make it visually interesting. a lot of them don't do anything (not to distract from the main characters' action and because of the limitations of a greenscreen set, as well as some of the costumes and prosthetics not being well suited to action).
two of these background jedi are green-ish ladies with facial markings and head coverings (is this originally for a practical reason because face paint is more complicated when the character's hairline is visible? i don't know enough about film make-up to guess)
Lucas isn't interested in or simply doesn't have the time to establish lore for random background characters, and movie tie-in material is pumped out quickly to drive hype for the films and make the most out of the films' relevance. the early reference books and pre-aotc novels are not very consistent (remember when Tholothians were canonically just humans wearing funny hats for a while? i remember). Luminara and Barriss are officially humans and Jedi Knights for a bit. Barriss' face markings are connected to Depa Billaba's culture.
Barriss doesn't have an official age for a while but is assumed to be around Anakin's age or a bit older.
the Mirialan species is established in the lore, Barriss and Luminara being members. their tattoos are now a part of Mirialan culture. it is established that Mirialans have a deep cultural respect for the Force and Mirialan Jedi often take other Mirialans on as students.
authors are allowed to play around with the side characters because that won't impact the films. Barriss is established as a talented compassionate healer and is the main character of the MedStar duology (2004).
Barriss is at first planned to be one of the Jedi shown executed during Order 66 but the scene is cancelled, much like Shaak Ti and Luminara.
The Clone Wars 3D animated show (2008) begins development a while after the prequels end and slowly starts overwriting the Clone Wars multimedia project, because it is made with Lucas. an effort is made to keep the two projects consistent but it becomes more and more difficult the longer the show goes on. the show does incorporate some lore or events from prior media, but regularly changes them to fit its plot and characterization.
Ahsoka is the child audience pov character and needs a peer for some storylines. there are no young teen girl Jedi in the films but Barriss is close enough and her design fits well with the tcw aesthetic, which often prefers hairless characters for its animation style, especially in the early seasons. she is changed to be around Ahsoka's age and a Padawan.
Ahsoka and Barriss are established to be close, paralleled from time to time, and the writer of their main arc together later claims he intended a romance between them. (i only got this second hand and haven't fact checked this.). the barrissoka fandom forms.
Barriss disappears from the show, which focuses on different arcs for a few seasons.
Filoni is writing an important arc for Ahsoka, which needs to challenge her emotionally and philosophically as well as physically, and must culminate with her leaving the Jedi in order to be absent during Revenge of the Sith. he decides to bring back Barriss as an adversary, for the emotional drama of being betrayed by a friend.
Barriss is intended to die during this 2012 arc but Filoni ends up sparing her for undisclosed future plans. she gets arrested and imprisoned instead.
her character's previous ending, shown in the original novels as dying in service of the Jedi on Felucia, doesn't seem to work at all anymore. the MedStar duology is extremely dubiously canon at this point. the canon reset is imminent and lucasfilm has more or less stopped pretending all these events are part of the same continuity. wookieepedia editors are in shambles.
the multimedia project is officially declared Legends in 2014, and Barriss doesn't appear in tcw's new canon tie-ins. her characterization now comes only from the show. she doesn't show up in any of the prequel-era projects for years, until the novel Queen's Hope (2022).
Filoni's new canon show Rebels (2014) introduces new adversaries in the form of inquisitors, former Jedi who are now hunting survivors. one of the more prominent villains is a female Mirialan inquisitor. there is rampant fan speculation that this is Barriss. it isn't.
Ahsoka becomes a main part of the show. the fandom keeps hoping for Barriss to reappear with her. she doesn't.
Filoni creates a tcw spin-off focusing on Ahsoka (and Dooku) in 2022. Barriss doesn't appear.
Ahsoka gets her own post-original trilogy show by Filoni in 2023. there is some speculation Barriss could appear, possibly as a mysterious new inquisitor character. she doesn't.
in 2024 there is a new season of the animated tcw spinoff, prominently featuring inquisitors. Barriss is now a main character, picking up a while after the Wrong Jedi arc. it has been something like 12 years since we last saw her.
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Hi guys! I'm Fizz, this is my second blog on Tumblr and one that will be dedicated to Star Wars; specifically Padmé, Sabé, the other handmaidens and anidala.
A few things you should know about me
- I'm audhd and Star Wars was my first ever hyperfixation!
- I am a woc 🇧🇩
- I only started reading Star Wars books in 2021 and the comics in 2022. I don't really read outside of the prequel era and I prefer the Clone Wars Multimedia Project over the canon Clone Wars material. I've also started reading the High Republic books very recently!
- I'm also into Spider-Man, Ghibli films and Avatar: The Last Airbender though I post about those on my main blog.
- I prefer no DMs unless I know you from another platform or in real life.
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Yoda: Dark Rendevouz unabridged audiobook right when I started reading the Clone Wars Novels???? Love that for me (It's coming out March 2024 tho so guess I'll have to wait a while for it)
#yael is reading star wars#cestus deception and jedi trial next plsss#and it only took 20 years for them to do it#(less than that techincally bc it did come out at the end of 2004 and still)#sw#star wars#yoda dark rendevouz#the clone wars multimedia project
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20 Years of “Winning the Hard Way”
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous turns 20 years old today, and as it is my absolute favorite Star Wars book, I wanted to take some time to talk about it and what it means to me. I cannot recommend this book enough to any Star Wars fan. It really has something for everyone, and is a great place to start in the Expanded Universe because it is a stand alone novel and the only characters you are expected to know are Yoda and Dooku. In addition to being a great Star Wars book, it is a rare gem in that it also has something meaningful to say about life itself.
As it was told to me, Lucasfilm wanted a Yoda centric book as part of their Clone Wars Multimedia project in the years between the release of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. The people at Del Rey hemmed and hawed over who could even write such a thing and do it well, before they eventually landed on Sean Stewart. In my mind he was the perfect pick for a Yoda book, as he has a background of studying Eastern philosophy, which is what George Lucas based the Jedi philosophy off of. He only had four months to write the book, and was still able to deliver something poignant and deeply meaningful, as a Yoda book should be. I think that if someone who did not have this understanding had been picked, there is no way they would have been able to deliver such a book in four months. Sean Stewart was able to stand on the shoulders of the great philosophers who came before to help him write something that was truly worthy of Yoda. I think that many writers (across media types and eras of publishing/producing) forget that the Jedi have Buddhist/Daoist roots, and their writing suffers for it.
Much less impressive, but still relevant, I took a general education class in college titled “Religion and Society in India.” I got a terrible case of pneumonia during the Buddhism unit, and as much as I did try to keep up with the readings, my brain was soup and I was not able to really ingest the text. When it came time for the assignments and test, I just wrote my answers under the philosophy of WWYS (What Would Yoda Say?) and still pulled a decent grade for the unit. Outside of the movies, I pulled much of that WWYS from this book.
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous delves deep into topics of loss, failure, and struggling for the best possible outcome when the deck is stacked against you. I first read the book when I was 13 or 14, and it has always stuck with me as one of the most meaningful books I have read. When there is darkness in my life, it is something I pick back up to renew hope, and really, that’s what Star Wars is about isn’t it?
(read the rest of this essay on our Ko-Fi)
#Sean Stewart#Clone Wars#Yoda Dark Rendezvous#Jedi#Yoda#Dooku#Whie Malreaux#Maks Leem#Jai Maruk#Asajj Ventress#Clone Wars Multimedia Project#pro jedi#jedi appreciation#Expanded Universe#Star Wars Expanded Universe#Star Wars Legends#SWEU#Star Wars EU#SW Expanded Universe#Star Wars Books
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Droite Star Wars The Old Republic AU
I love ZEXAL and also love Star Wars, I feel like some of it Especially Things Like Episode 3 and the Legends Game Knights of the Old Republic inspired some things in the Anime like the Barians killing Yuma's Friends being similar to Order 66, and how the reveal that Shark and Rio were Barians and the fact they betrayed by Vector was similar to Revan Reveal (and The Fact Merag killing Bronk; I can't pronounce the Japanese Name, Was similar to the dark side ending Where Female Revan kills Carth), so I made up an AU with Droite/Dextra
I should note Her Darth Name is Alexandra
Dextra was a young force user who served as a servant for a Hutt on Nar Shaddaa, Her Force powers caught the attention of Darth Malgus who killed her Hutt Master and made her his Apprentice in 3663 years before the Destruction of the Darth Star at the age of 9, She was trained the ways of the Sith Malgus, her training completed when she was 18 and She gained the title of Darth, and Rechristened herself as Darth Alexandra, The Sith Butterfly Assassin. she took part in the Sacking of Coruscant 3653 BBY, She took part in the attack on the Jedi Temple where she slew the Jedi Grand Master Roku, and defeated his former Padawan Kaze, while her Master killed Ven Zallow.
That's all I got, I may do some for Rio and others some day
I always had ideas for ZEXAL crossing over with Star Wars, Especially the Old Republic era, I really found Star Wars Legends very interesting, like the Clone Wars Multimedia Project
But tell me what you think
That's so cool
I have a slight admission to make, I actually never watched Star Wars
Unbelievable, I know, but the AU sounds really cool even though I might not get any of the references
Thank you for sending it to me!
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so i found the legends expo panel with matthew stover and sean stewart on youtube and watched it. it was a delight
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how story-planning apparently worked in the lucasfilm book department:
matt stover: what if i did apocalypse now with jedi? clone wars multimedia project gods: GO FOR THAT. matt stover: … matt stover: … what if u do mash with jedi?’ cwmmpg: YEAH WE CAN DO THAT TOO. cwmmpg: THIS IS MEDSTAR. sean stewart: so ydr is now the spy sith who came in from the cold
literally brainstorming fanfic-style and getting paid for it.
stover saying his stage voice is ‘professionally trained’ YEAH WE ALL KNOW HOW CLASSICALLY TRAINED YOU ARE ὁ τρᾰγῳδῐογρᾰ́φος THEATRE MAJOR
sean stewart: ‘i was yesterday's old when I found there was [the clone wars multimedia project].’
lucasfilm clone wars story group was ‘the mothership’
the basis of dooku’s characterisation & the whole ‘threats, assets, and irrelevant’ categories is directly inspired by ydr.
matt stover: *was already writing shatterpoint when atoc came out* matt stover: we had no idea what was going on matt stover: so i got a bottle novel sean stewart: i got to read the script of rots before it came out sean stewart: but i had to write my book in four months
(AND THEY STILL HAVE NO IDEA my disillusionment with the lucasfilm story group is complete. i can no longer go ‘save me story group. story group save me.’ because they will go ‘then perish because all we can do is say ‘well you’re not contradicting anything’ weep, weep for the fall of continuity. save me leeland chee holocron. leeland chee holocron save me.)
yes, every trilogy is of the moment—og: vietnam war, reagan; prequels: the ‘war on terror’, recession, the security state; sequels: neo-nazis that everyone is saying ‘oh he’s not REALLY that bad i can change him’, etc.
GREEK TRAGEDY SHOUT-OUT NO. 2, re: anakin’s fall from the audience
audience members GETTING IT:
‘the star wars that i aspire to, watch for comfort and stuff, is the original trilogy’
‘star wars, to me, is all about the hope and the light at the end of the tunnel’
‘any point of star wars can be star wars for somebody’
i like watching recordings like these because i can just pause and giggle over things like stover’s ‘somebody page noam chomsky’ remark, re: the clone wars sides both being controlled by sidious
ur pronouncing it ‘WHY’? why?
‘it was theoretically about yoda’, sean stewart, re: ydr. ‘teachers need to teach someone.’
sean stewart: ‘wHie […] i hate it when people don’t say the ‘h’. WHU WHU WHU.’ me: u have never done ANYTHING wrong in your LIFE sir also sean stewart: *couldn’t continue working on the book knowing that they were both going to be executed in five months CALLED UP LUCASFILM AND BEGGED FOR SCOUT’S LIFE*
EVERYONE SAY THANK U SEAN STEWART we’ll just pretend karen traviss and her anti-jedi agenda didn’t get hold of scout and she ended up somewhere nice where she didn’t have to be a farmer.
sean stewart: so i couldn't think of names and called a padawan ‘enver hoxha’ as a place marker. sean stewart: the name of the fascist dictator of communist albania sean stewart: it sounded star wars sean stewart: it doesn’t mean anything i just forgot to take the name out sean stewart: but now matt stover: now, it was a DELIBERATE reference to all the DEATH
also matt stover: i put an active volcano in shatterpoint and thought caldera was latin so i used calderi as the plural. it’s spanish. also matt stover: but the editor also missed it. the copyeditor also missed it. james floyd (moderator): (not missing a beat) CLEARLY it’s a gffa-ism. we have calderas they have calderi.
and, verbatim:
matt stover: ‘well in the gffa’ sean stewart: ‘some canon is more canonical than others.’
a collective moment of rip pre-2014 canon levels silence laughter
(this is why i double-mark my placeholders by surrounding them in [square brackets] and highlighting them in green. really, they’re meant to be triple-marked but i forget to put them in all caps all the time.)
matt stover: mace is literally the coolest jedi
attention, attention, it is now revenge of the stiffs not sith’ (the zombie apocalypse star wars. coming soon … forever.’)
leeland chee, coming to the rescue. keeper of the holocron, hero to sw writers, and my personal candidate for sainthood.
UGH THEY GOT COPIES OF THE HOLOCRON ON A CD-ROM
can u IMAGINE
opening up that package, popping the cd into your computer and THE STAR WARS HOLOCRON appears on your screen with ALL OF THE DATA from EVERY STAR WARS THING EVER
no don’t sell it on ebay for more than your car give it to meeeeee
‘can u explain what a cd-rom is?’ james floyd pls.
‘it’s a thumb drive but it’s shiny. *sean stewart makes round motions with hand like wiping off a cd*’
hrrrgh they’re TALKING ABOUT THE HOLOCRON
it is the single sexiest star wars thing to EVER exist
like, props, snaps, hats to wookieepedia but the OFFICIAL STAR WARS HOLOCRON
apparently the security to get into the cia building was much more lax than lucasfilm’s go down to the ranch, go through a special gate, into a special room, that has the script on special paper (un-xerox-able) & don't go above the third step on the red velvet stairs toward the life-size darth vader statue or u are removed from the ranch.
sean stewart: i was so alone with my book and you got a TOUR??? with OTHER PEOPLE???? i got a guy at the sign-in desk and that was it! matt stover: u wrote a book in 4 months. i took a year. i needed special coddling.
sean stewart getting advised to turn the book in as late as possible from an ~unnamed~ sci-fi writer so they wouldn’t try and change a bunch of things
meanwhile, matt stover turns in epilogue of shatterpoint on the ABSOLUTE LAST DAY
(there are many last days in publishing. there’s the last day the book has to get to the agent. the last day the publishing house must have it, the first time. the last day the publishing house must have it after the first round of edits. the last day the publishing house must have it after arguments are had, edits are accepted or discarded. sometimes this is the point where an arc is published. then there’s the LAST day the publishing house MUST have it because they’re printing the actual book, like, tomorrow.
matt stover was the one who invented shatterpoints, in order to backstory why mace got full-master-rank at 40, the youngest.
i’m going to go out here and say the codename ‘fulcrum’ originated with mace because of his shatterpoint abilities in this essay i will.
palpatine as something that ‘transcends the comprehension of the characters’
iwouldliketoseedarkyodamrstewartpls
sean stewart, re: scout’s full name was just i am going to give this girl a birth name so elaborate, so unlike who she actually is, so out-of-left field for star wars that calling her scout is a necessity
‘east block easter eggs’ thank u for that phrase, james floyd
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Star Wars Headcanon Timeline
4000 BBY: Knights of the Old Republic (Female!Revan)
1000 BBY: Darth Bane Path of Destruction, Darth Bane Rule of Two, Darth Bane Dynasty of Evil
200's BBY: The High Republic Multimedia Project
140 BBY: Darth Plagueis
102 BBY: Dooku Jedi Lost
32 BBY: The Phantom Menace
22 BBY: Attack of the Clones
22 BBY - 19 BBY: The Clone Wars/Clone Wars
19 BBY: Revenge of the Sith
19 BBY - 18 BBY: The Bad Batch Season 1-2
15 BBY: Jedi Fallen Order
10 BBY: Solo
9 BBY: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Survivor
5 BBY: Andor Season 1
5 BBY - 0 BBY: Star Wars Rebels
0 BBY: Rogue One
0 BBY - 0 ABY: A New Hope
3 ABY: Empire Strikes Back
4 ABY: Return of the Jedi
5 ABY: Aftermath, Aftermath: Life Debt, Aftermath: Empire's End
9 ABY: The Mandalorian Season 1 and 2, Shadows of the Sith
11 ABY: The Book of Boba Fett, The Mandalorian Season 3
25 ABY: Rise of Kylo Ren
29 ABY: Bloodlines
34 ABY: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, Star Wars Resistance
40 ABY: The Rise of Skywalker
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