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My Issues With The New Star Wars Canon Books
My Issues with the New Star Wars Canon Books
Okay, I have issues with the New Star Wars Canon is with what I perceive as retcons. Example: In the novels ‘Tarkin’ and ‘Lords of the Sith’ Vader is known to some Rebels and elements of the criminal underworld five to eight years post RotS. However, in Season 2 of Rebels, which takes place about ten years later the Ghost Crew has no idea who Vader is and seeing that Hera’s father tried to assassinate the Emperor and Vader during the events of ‘Lords of the Sith’ it seems unlikely that she hadn’t at least heard of him. About half way through S2 the Ghost Crew still has no idea who the Sith Lord is and Ahsoka barely reacts when the Seventh Sister name drops Vader.
What the heck???
Then it’s said that Vader is only known to a select few and that he’s basically the boogeyman. He only goes where the Emperor orders him and he leaves no survivors to spread rumors; any Rebel Cell he faces is destroyed down to the last person. As far as anyone in charge knows the Cell went quiet and when inquires were made they learned they had been wiped out.
I guess an argument could be made that because Cham Syndulla was separate from the rest of the Rebellion and trying to shield his daughter from some of what he was doing she didn’t know about Vader and he didn’t share the information with anyone else but seeing that at the beginning of the book Cham looses a ship and it’s crew to Vader and all the ship’s commander had too say ‘Vader is right behind us’ for Cham to go ‘crap, there’s nothing to be done; unless I want to get all of us killed.’ my feeling is that Vader had be known somewhat, enough that they knew his name and methods.
Moving on slightly another big problem I had with Lords of the Sith was the fact that Cham doesn’t think of Hera and she’s only mentioned at the end by someone else when they ask Cham to think of his daughter. He doesn’t think that he’s trying to free Ryloth so that Hera and all these other children can grow up free and don’t have to be afraid of the Empire or used as sex/pleasure slaves. Instead he keeps telling himself that he’s a freedom fighter and not a terrorist.
Moving on to ‘A New Dawn’ Hera says that this isn’t her first solo mission but she sure acts like it; making a detour because she overhears something that might prove useful but it doesn’t pan out which leads to her missing the very important meeting with the informant that later turns up dead. Yes things work out but still.
Don’t get me started about ‘Heir to the Jedi’ it felt like Luke took three steps forward in his exploration of the Force and because of the movies took three steps back. He uses the Force to up a fork and twist noodles around it and lift it up to his mouth six months after ANH but between then and TESB he didn’t try to lift anything else that he knew he could with his hands? And they kill off the girl, Nakari, for no reason that I can tell besides maybe she’s not around in the movies or mentioned but why couldn’t it have been a one time thing her work with the Rebellion?
And here i will add another mention of Vader before Rebels said he wasn’t known to the rest of the galaxy: Nakari tells Luke that her mother was part of a band and they wrote and sang a song about Vader’s many prosthetics and were sentenced to the Spice Mines of Kessel for it, because neither Vader or the Emperor had a sense of humor and when Luke tries to help her feel better, that maybe they can rescue them, she tells him that they were sent there ten years ago so they are more than likely dead.
I feel that Ahsoka should have taken place a little later in the timeline instead of a yearish after RotS but that’s just me.
I haven’t read Lost Stars, Leia Princess of Alderaan yet as well as a few other books.
I will post something about what i have liked about some books.
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