#profic negativity

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I'm actually lowkey against any visual-medium adaptations of Legends books because I don't want Jaina and Tahiri and Tenel Ka and potentially most of my favorite Star Wars characters to get their own counterparts to the Mara Catsuit Epidemic, or worse.

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I feel like Wes hitting on Jaina over squadron comms, not knowing who she was, is another good comparison for why Allston is so much better of a writer than the people he worked with in Star Wars.

Because when Wes does find out, his reaction is "I guess I'd better apologize to her and then throw myself on her lightsaber." It's fully called out, and in pretty short order.

Like, Stackpole would have done that and then just glossed over it.

Denning would have actually tried to get them together.

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Honestly, a pretty big part of my motivation for Voices of the Force is to do something new.

I'm tired of Star Wars stagnating. Sometimes I'm in the room when my parents are watching Acolyte or the Ahsoka show or what have you, and every time I hear that they introduced a new O66 survivor trying to keep all the Jedi ways alive or something like that, I just... tune it out. Not that Legends did any better on that particular score, of course, but that's exactly my point.

That's part of why Fate of the Jedi, for all its numerous faults, is so enjoyable to me. It attempted, and had some success in, shifting the paradigm in largely new ways, like showing a subculture of Sith that could understand when not to stab each other in the back, and ultimately the Jedi becoming politically independent. The cosmic horror angle of Abeloth's portrayal, especially, was an area that the EU hadn't done very much as far as I know, and Denning's actually good at it.

And as I've come to know that, after reading on Wookieepedia about the connection of Abeloth's origin story, it's increasingly fascinating to do stuff set after FotJ because of how many new things it gives me an opportunity to do. Technically, the concept of using forward time travel to explain Ahsoka's absence in the EU post-TCW has been in my head since I read Crosscurrent at something like 8 years old, when that book was all I actually knew about the EU.

Now, the most interesting part of this AU to me is 16-year-old Ahsoka's relationships with ass-end-of-Legends characters that maybe 0.01% of Ahsoka's fanbase has even heard of.

TLDR, I guess: I think I'm at my best when I can do things in my writing that only I'm crazy enough for.

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As far as I can tell, JAT and YJK both have the depth, complexity, and overall intelligence of books meant for middle schoolers, but YJK is better because it makes no pretense at trying to be anything else.

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The only reason I call Denning!Luke only a borderline sociopath, not a total sociopath, is that scene in Vortex where he's about to break the truce to stop Taalon from beating Vestara. Even that reads to me as being more on principle than because he actually cares about her.

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Invariably, when I hear "quantum armor," I want to throw myself headlong into Yavin's depths to be crushed into a tiny ball.

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Okay, I don't think much about the Legacy comics because I really do not care about them, but lately it's occurred to me that I can't imagine Jag actually pulling off his own neo-Empire or whatever.

Looking at his performance in charge of the Remnant in FotJ? That man's a genius, but he's not a politician.

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The quality's fucked but it's readable so whatever