How angry will you be if Brian Wood's Star Wars series becomes canon?

I will be FURIOUS. I HATE Brian Wood's series. It is the biggest load of crap ever and it took SO long to f*ucking end. Nothing about it was good. I heard a rumor that it might be related to the 2 star wars titles Marvel might be releasing in the future, and I will flip sh*it if that is the case.

Who? What series?

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Who? What series?

What's it called?

Star Wars.

Never heard of it.

Originally posted by Darth Abonis
I will be FURIOUS. I HATE Brian Wood's series. It is the biggest load of crap ever and it took SO long to f*ucking end. Nothing about it was good. I heard a rumor that it might be related to the 2 star wars titles Marvel might be releasing in the future, and I will flip sh*it if that is the case.

.... really?

I stopped after a point, but it seemed to me to be 'Leia spends some time as a rebel pilot, Luke connects with some pilots, etc..'

It's rebels being rebels and Imperials being Imperials with no new superweapons, no new uber villains, etc.. It's not as good as Legacy II, but as far as I can tell, putting it into canon would affect almost nothing.

What am I supposed to be offended about?

Yes it had nothing life-changing. It just had crappy storylines, horrible characters and the only good thing is Leia's huge **** in a short top.

Didn't seem that horrible to me, and I'm not even a fan of Wood.

There are some notable SW writers who are quite a bit worse.

Do you have any *specific* complaints?

Just the flow. It would build these plotlines only to have them disintegrate before they properly built their stride. It introduced characters that virtually amounted to nothing after great importance was seemingly put on them. The Luke jealousy phase was so out of character and the only redeeming quality was Old Ben's ghost contacting Vader.

Idc

Originally posted by Darth Abonis
Just the flow. It would build these plotlines only to have them disintegrate before they properly built their stride. It introduced characters that virtually amounted to nothing after great importance was seemingly put on them. The Luke jealousy phase was so out of character and the only redeeming quality was Old Ben's ghost contacting Vader.

I stopped after awhile so I didn't really encounter that, but.... so?

You'd get pissed about.... poor story flow being canon?

More-so than, say, Kevin J. Anderson's stuff or Karen Travis's mandos and jedi-hate?

You've got weird priorities.

It can't be worse than "The Glove of Darth Vader"...NOTHING can be a worse novel than that...

I don't know, I have some pretty bad memories of Crystal Star.

Have you READ "Glove of Darth Vader?" One of the novels in the series is called "Journey to Mount Yoda." It is pure narm cover to cover

Originally posted by Darth _Sadow1
It can't be worse than "The Glove of Darth Vader"...NOTHING can be a worse novel than that...

Luke's connection to the force is cut off by the Crystal Star so he falls in with an evil cult of an extra-dimensional alien blob called Waru with non-force powers who was allied with 'Imperial dark side adept who thinks he's boss now that the real sith are gone' #8, Hethrir. The climax of the novel takes place *inside* Waru's 'golden ichor'.

And of Wood's series I read up to issue.... 8, I think? Something like that? And I didn't even particularly notice the issues Abonis is raging about. Even if you don't like them, they're fairly normal rebellion stories of the type done before, with one of the more unusual bits being Leia doing some piloting.

Its just.... I don't know. I hate the depictions of the characters, and the stories that transition from one dumb plot to another and its length. Its like enough already. Issue 19 has IG-88 in it, so I might buy it but I gave up after 14, and Issue 20 might give us a clue if this smut will be carried over to canon.

The only problem that I had is that the 2nd death star was now literally already in construction right after episode IV rather than 6 months before episode VI.

Originally posted by The Merchant
The only problem that I had is that the 2nd death star was now literally already in construction right after episode IV rather than 6 months before episode VI.

Consider the prequels retconned the DS1 to be in construction for 19 *years*.

The DS2's build time pretty much had to be retconned or the difference becomes absurd.

Originally posted by Darth Abonis
Its just.... I don't know. I hate the depictions of the characters, and the stories that transition from one dumb plot to another and its length. Its like enough already. Issue 19 has IG-88 in it, so I might buy it but I gave up after 14, and Issue 20 might give us a clue if this smut will be carried over to canon.

Seriously, feeling there's bad story flow and not liking the plot points- though not being able to point out anything horrendously bad about them (c'mon, can't you be a little more specific? The love interest for Luke, maybe? He's had a number of those before....), is not much to get worked up about, especially not the canonness.

Look at my post on Waru! Loooook at Waru! That is bad and doesn't deserve to be in canon. Palpatine having a three-eyed son who tries to take over the Empire, that is also really, really bad.

Wood just sounds not-to-your-taste but I don't see how including it would even affect anything.

Okay I'll be specific. 1. Luke's attitude. 2. Creation of a character (Perla), only to have her go nowhere). Climatic plots that quickly fizzle out and become anti-climatic. Creation of whole new world (Arrochar), and then they turn into nothing. A chance to see Lord Vader in action with an imperial (only to have it become stupid). Blowing up a wooden house with laser cannons. Having a tough Imperial turn out to be a spy and relative of Mon Mothma then leave the storyline. Its just annoying. he creates so much stuff, and then it drifts away. Its like he has ADD.