#jude watson

[dramaticeyerolls]

The Gang à la Jude Watson era padawans! This was by far the crowd favorite at the @legacy-expo last year <3

[teaandjumpers]

Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth by Jude Watson

[amarcia]

Brainstorming the sickest lightsaber combo the temple has ever seen.

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

[bipolyjack]

"I came back to make sure you two weren't killing each other," Clee said. "I remember how you used to scrap at the Temple."

"We are Jedi Knights now," Qui-Gon said. "We don't scrap."

Tahl smiled. "We argue, and then I win."

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just realized i dont think i actually posted this full piece here. anyways young hot qui gon and tahl for my agonies

[friendofconvience]

Darth Maul index: Novels

I've compiled a list of Star Wars novels that explore the life of Darth Maul from his early apprenticeship with Sidious to his downfall on Naboo and eventually a short story during his crimelord era where he goes looking for weapons to use against the Empire but find a ghost from the past instead.

Apprenticeship Era:

Star Wars: Myths & Fables: 'An Unwilling Apprentice' by George Mann [Galaxy Edge Edition]

ISBN 9781368059305

October 2020

Plot: This short story explores Maul's childhood on Dathomir and how he became the Apprentice of Darth Sidious.

Notes: I believe the book is no longer in publication, but PDF copies can be found online.

This story fits into Disney's narrative and has replaced Maul's original story of being taken in by Sidious as a baby that was first written in the novel Darth Plagueis.

Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks

Bonus feature: 'End Game' by James Luceno

ISBN: 978-0-345-43411-1

February 2012 edition

Plot: The written adaption of the film Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Including missing scenes from Mauls perspective of his first duel against Gui-Jon Jinn on tattoine and how he moves past his failure into the next step of Sidious's plan for the trade federations occupation of Naboo.

Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter by Michael Reaves

Bonus feature: 'Restraint' by James Luceno, 'Saboteur' by James Luceno

ISBN: 978-0-345-43541-5

January 2012 edition

Plot: Darth Sidious begins the first step into his master plan when one of the most important pawns to his mission goes missing, forseeing betrayal he sends his assasin Darth Maul to hunt down the missing Neimoidian.

Leading to a cat and mouse chase through the city streets of Coruscant, where the secrets become even more difficult to contain once they pass into the hands of an information broker and a rookie Jedi Padawan.

Star wars: Maul: Lockdown by Joe Scheiber

Excerpt: Honor Among Thieves by James S. A. Corey

ISBN 9780099542964

2014 edition

Plot: Darth Sidious sends his assasin into a covert mission on board a prison ship to find a way to access a powerful weapon to aid in his efforts against the republic. Darth Maul faces off in a gladiator touranment against the most violent and deadly criminals in the galaxy in order to complete his mission.

Notes: The excerpt is not relevant to the story but merely an introduction to another novel about a prison break organised by Luke, Han and Leia.

Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno

ISBN 978-1-804-94360-1

Excerpt: Darth Bane Rule of Two by Drew Karpyshyn

2022 edition

Plot: This story explores the life and death of Darth Plagueis; previously known as Hego Damask II, how he rose from his apprenticeship, into being the feared sithlord and master to sheev Palpatine aka Darth Sidious.

This story includes how Darth Sidious first came to find Darth Maul on Dathomir and the early days of his training.

Star Wars: The Wrath of Darth Maul by Ryder Windham

ISBN 978-0-545-38327-1

2012 edition

Plot: This story explores the early training of Darth Maul from childhood to teenage years and how he was sent to a training school called Orsis Academy for assassins, trackers, spies, and soldiers.

It explores his first friendship, his first betrayals, and his earliest interactions with the Death watch Mandalorians.

Star Wars: Episode 1: Journal: Darth Maul by Jude Watson

ISBN 0-439-13941-4

March 2000 edition

Plot: This is a journal style retelling of the events during The Phantom Menace told from Darth Mauls perspective.

Star Wars episode 1: Adventures 3: The fury of Darth Maul by Ryder Windham

ISBN 9780439101400

November 1999 edition

Plot: Sidious send Maul out to retrieve something that has been stolen from him.

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Crimelord era:

Star wars: Stories of Jedi & Sith: 'The Ghosts of Maul' by Michael Moreci

ISBN 978-1-368-08054-5

June 2022 edition

Plot: Desperate for answers Maul goes raiding through ancient sith tombs and artefacts for weapons to use in his fight against Sidious, only to stumble across ghosts from his past.

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This is not an extensive list. Feel free to add or recommend any of your favourite short stories or novels with Maul.

I will write a comic book/ graphic novel edition later. 💕

[antianakin]

Listen, there's plenty of critiques you can make about Jedi Apprentice and Jude Watson's writing within it, but one of the things I love the MOST about it is the way she's one of the extremely few writers who's actually allowed a main character to get frustrated with an authority, especially the Jedi Council, and then been forced to acknowledge that their frustration doesn't make them RIGHT.

I haven't read the Jedi Quest series, so I'm only really looking at Jedi Apprentice here, but it happens more than once within Jedi Apprentice, most often with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon's storylines, especially in the first 7-8 books where they're figuring stuff out with each other. But the example I actually want to look at is between Obi-Wan and the Jedi Council, in the time period after he comes back from Melida/Daan to Xanatos's death on Telos.

Now, if the only context you had for this time period was fanfictions, you might believe that Obi-Wan had returned from Melida/Daan and then been almost cruelly and unfairly PUNISHED for his choices there by being put on probation by the Council. Suffice it to say, this isn't what happens.

Obi-Wan returns to the Temple after Melida/Daan because he's decided he does in fact want to be a Jedi because he wants to help others the way he saw Qui-Gon help the people of Melida/Daan finally find peace. When he returns and asks to rejoin the Order, the Council is a little hesitant about it, and Obi-Wan is asked to wait for them to make a decision (they're also actively under attack within the Temple by an unknown assailant at the time and Yoda's already been injured, so they've got bigger issues to manage at the time that they want to handle first before they deal with Obi-Wan, but that's not really the point here). Obi-Wan is frustrated by this decision because he feels like the Council should just believe him when he says he wants to be a Jedi and let him back in and it feels unfair that they're hesitating and asking him to wait for a final decision.

But then he runs into an initiate he knew from before, Siri Tachi, who is angry with him for leaving. Siri claims that the other initiates all feel worried now because they believe that they're essentially tainted by association with Obi-Wan and that the available knights and masters who would've chosen them as padawans might hesitate to do so now out of a worry that Obi-Wan's entire age group might do what he did and leave the Order or betray their masters. Whether Siri is RIGHT about this being something the other knights and masters actually think is left unclear, but it kind-of doesn't matter. What matters is that SIRI (and potentially other initiates their age) feel like it's true. What matters is that Obi-Wan's actions on Melida/Daan, however unintentionally, HAD CONSEQUENCES that he didn't consider or foresee. His actions hurt people, and that's something he has to grapple with and ultimately learn to accept. He can't undo what he did, he can't take away the pain and difficulty he's caused Siri. All he can do is accept it and try to do better from here on out.

Obi-Wan continues to help with the investigation about the unknown assailant in the Temple who turns out to be Qui-Gon's nefarious former padawan. Towards the end of the investigation, he faces his childhood bully who has teamed up with Qui-Gon's old padawan. The bully is threatening the life of one of Obi-Wan's friends, and there's little Obi-Wan can do but try to talk the bully down. And while he does manage to save his friend's life, the bully ends up accidentally killed in the process. Obi-Wan does try to save the bully, but doesn't manage it. However indirectly, Obi-Wan's choices do end up leading to the death of this other child.

Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon then leave the Temple to chase down Qui-Gon's old padawan once and for all, and in the end, Qui-Gon has to almost literally face his own demons. It's a near parallel to the earlier scene between Obi-Wan and his childhood bully, with the padawan standing on a precipice and there's nothing Qui-Gon can do to change the situation other than attempt to talk his old padawan down. And Qui-Gon fails, the padawan chooses to die on his own terms rather than surrender to face the legal consequences of his decisions.

And at the end of it all, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are finally able to accept their demons and fears for what they were, and accepted the parts they played in what ultimately happened to these people. With that clarity, Obi-Wan is able to look again at his conversation with the Jedi Council from days earlier and recognize why they hesitated. He hadn't intended to hurt anyone with his actions, but that doesn't mean that he DIDN'T. He'd caused some of the other initiates to fear for their own futures, and he'd broken the trust of the Council. He can't change the past, so all he can do is work to re-earn the trust he'd so quickly thrown away on Melida/Daan. He can't expect the Council to simply take his word for it that he's learned his lesson and that he is now fully committed to the Jedi path, so he decides to offer up the option of going on probation, to prove his newfound commitment and take his place amongst them again after he's earned their trust.

In this story, we see Obi-Wan go from a juvenile temper tantrum at what he sees as the Council's "mistreatment" of him to a far more adult understanding of the world and how his actions impact other people. His initial feelings of resentment and frustration are valid, perhaps, but that doesn't make him RIGHT. He is, in fact, wrong. He comes to realize how wrong he is to feel entitled to the Jedi's trust after he'd betrayed them. It is only through taking the time to UNDERSTAND where the Council is coming from that he truly begins to walk the path of a Jedi again.

I'm not sure I've seen a similar treatment of the Council almost anywhere else outside of the Prequel Trilogy itself. So often, when a main character is frustrated with the Council, they're considered to be RIGHT. Ahsoka's narrative regarding the Jedi post-Wrong Jedi is an excellent example of this (and even some of her narrative DURING the Wrong Jedi arc).

So as much as there are things I like LESS about Jedi Apprentice's take on the Jedi, I can't help but really appreciate Watson for choosing to tell the story this way, and emphasize that your first reaction to something isn't always trustworthy and it's often worth it to take a second to try seeing things from someone else's perspective before dismissing their own feelings entirely.

[trekkie-dunes]

read jedi apprentice and it truly gave everything a new perspective

30 years old obi-wan: “anakin can you please stop being reckless”

12 years old obi-wan: “so i’m gonna BLOW MYSELF UP for the greater good”

[cinnacelestial]

Can we discuss that moment in the Legends when teen Anakin was drugged against his will with an antidepressant, allowing him to live and think like a normal person without PTSD? He liked it, but he hated himself for this and was ashamed to tell Obi-Wan??????? And also he received condemnation from Ferus?????? This story is terrible on every level. How did the entire Temple miss the fact that the kid was just dying in front of everyone, slowly and painfully?

upd: I love Ferus btw, no neg to him!