Have you read some of the EU stuff on the sexuality of Hutts? Apparently Jabba was really perverted for liking human (and humanoid) women...
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I can't recall... Let's see what wookieepedia says:
quote:Hutts were hermaphroditic, and as a result, gender was more of a case of a Hutt's deliberate decision or a viewer's deduction. Often, Hutts carrying children were referred to as female, though it was entirely up to the Hutt in question as to if the distinction was accepted or not. For instance, Jiliac was referred to as a female after becoming pregnant, but Popara and Zorba still considered themselves males after birthing their respective children. In addition, some Hutts were known to take mates with each other, such as Gorga and Anachro.
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I've seen longer trailers for the Clone Wars cartoon movie in the last couple days and it actually looks pretty decent. If the series is anything like this pilot movie (which I'll see when it is played on TV) then I'll probably watch it with some regularity.
The Han Solo trilogy really is pretty good. My favorite part, being a poker player, was when Han was in the Sabacc tournament. I keep waiting for casino Sabacc to pop up somewhere, as it looks like it'd be a blast to really play, but no dice so far.
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Yeah, the whole self-randomizing deck that changes value as you play is kind of a barrier.
And the Han Solo trilogy is, I think, some of the best EU stuff. Doesn't touch I, Jedi, of course, but it's right behind the X-Wing books.
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I think current technology could get around that. You have cards that display different values with a wi-fi connection to a computer that does the randomizing. I'm not saying it'd be cheap, but casinos are loaded, they could afford it. I guess the hardest part really would be the cards themselves, but they make some insanely small and thin screens. Look at how thin a cell phone screen can be. Just make it threeish times bigger. Man, I REALLY want to play. My brother and I when we were younger tried to make a home made version of it with cards that you randomly have to throw away and draw new ones of and we used to love it. The shine wore off when we got older though.
Where do you put the Thrawn Trilogy?
It's the first thing I read, and got me into the series. I think I'd have to put the Thrawn Trilogy just above the X-Wing series, but below I, Jedi.
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Did I, Jedi come out relatively recently (compared to the X-wing series and whatnot)? I don't feel like I got around to reading that one. The Thrawn series was also the first Star Wars book I read, probably about a decade ago.
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I, Jedi came out after all the Rogue Squadron books, but it may have come out before Wraith Squadron got under way, I don't really remember. But it's still several years old, probably 5-8 years.
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quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: I think current technology could get around that. You have cards that display different values with a wi-fi connection to a computer that does the randomizing. I'm not saying it'd be cheap, but casinos are loaded, they could afford it. I guess the hardest part really would be the cards themselves, but they make some insanely small and thin screens. Look at how thin a cell phone screen can be. Just make it threeish times bigger.
And then shuffle it a few thousand times a day and see how long it lasts! Blackjack tables replace their cards every day, because by the end of a shift of constant play the cards are worn and often bent or ripped. I could see somebody making a video Sabacc game for casinos, like video poker, but not one where you actually have screens on the players' cards.
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Hutts change sex to female to bear their young. Gosh, this might have been in Darksaber where one of the hutts were female??? Anyone remember the awful kiddie glove of Darth Vader series with Zorba the Hutt, Jabba's dad?
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Yep. Read that one. Young Jedi Knights and Junior Jedi Knights too. They pretty much stunk. The only actual good kids' SW fic I read was the Galaxy of Fear books-- okay, "good" may be stretching it, but not as bad!
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quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: Yep. Read that one. Young Jedi Knights and Junior Jedi Knights too. They pretty much stunk. The only actual good kids' SW fic I read was the Galaxy of Fear books-- okay, "good" may be stretching it, but not as bad!
I'm surprised that you feel that way. I've never read any of the young adult/kids books myself, but I'm used to EU fans gushing about how great the YJK books are and how the Solos and other young jedi were ruined in the NJO and everything that followed. I guess many fans found it a bit jarring for them to go from the light-hearted adventures to the darker NJO and LotF.
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quote:Ziro, Jabba’s uncle, originally spoke in Hutt-ese, like Jabba and then he had a different sluggish voice just like Jabba, and then George one day was watching it and said ‘I want him to sound like Truman Capote.’
Did my browser cut off the rest of that sentence, where he said "...and then I was forced to beat George to death with a pool cue..." ? 'cause I know that has to be there somewhere.
I keep thinking that George will do things right eventually, that he has learned from his past mistakes. But noooo.... He's walking the line between sanity and dementia now.
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I liked NJO up to a point. When I stopped liking it, I stopped reading. Maybe someday I'll finish since I heard they got better. Maybe.
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quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: I'm weird.
I liked NJO up to a point. When I stopped liking it, I stopped reading. Maybe someday I'll finish since I heard they got better. Maybe.
Where did you stop? I enjoyed the NJO except for that fact that it was drawn out way too long. A lot of fans lost interest along the way. It did not need to have 19 novels by like 10 different authors. They could have done it in half as many books if they trimmed the fat. Even the "Legacy of the Force" series that followed, which was only 9 books long, could have been improved if they did it in 4 or 5.
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It's the first thing I read, and got me into the series. I think I'd have to put the Thrawn Trilogy just above the X-Wing series, but below I, Jedi.
Exactly.
I'm mostly the same. I'd rank them roughly most to least favorite:
I, Jedi Hand of Thrawn Thrawn Trilogy Rogue Squadron Han Solo Trilogy Outbound Flight, Survivor's Quest Wraith Squadron
Beyond that, I can't think of any other pre njo books worth reading
I'm sure that a similar list could be made for the NJO books, but I can't really recall the specifics at the moment. I stopped reading about halfway through the first book after NJO, and haven't really been following it much since.
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I liked the Wraith Squadron books. I never read Outbound flight, but I'd put them right below the Rogue Squadron books. I didn't like the Starfighters of Adumar that much though.
I liked the Courtship of Princess Leia, but I'd put it way at the bottom of my list. I also sort of liked Black Fleet Crisis and the Corellian Trilogy, but I don't think I've reread them more than once each. The Jedi Academy Trilogy was awful. I, Jedi I think only shows how much worse it is because it's 10 times more awesome.
KQ -
Wait, so you read the first like dozen books and stopped (on NJO) or you ONLY read the Allston books and then quit?
Of the NJO, other than the two Michael Stackpole books (because they focus on my favorite character; Horn) my only real FAVORITE book is Destiny's Way by Walter Jon Williams. I was ready to quit reading the series because it was just dragging on FOREVER but that book was action packed and awesome. Ackbar reenters the mix and the whole thing turns on its head. Plus you find out a lot of behind the scenes stuff, the Jedi get reorganized, Talon Karrde and Lando play a big role in exactly the way you'd want them to, some stuff comes out about Vergere, and the New Republic goes on a tear. Maybe part of what was so cool is that everything before it was so boring that by comparison this was huge, but I thought in general it was a heck of a lot of fun.
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quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: Yep. Read that one. Young Jedi Knights and Junior Jedi Knights too. They pretty much stunk. The only actual good kids' SW fic I read was the Galaxy of Fear books-- okay, "good" may be stretching it, but not as bad!
Huh. I adored the Young Jedi Knights books. But I was 10-12 when I read them.
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Does anybody else think this thread title sounds like the punchline to a joke? One along the lines of "What do you call Batman and Robin when they're run over by a steamroller? Flatman and Ribbon." or "What does the Lone Ranger sing when he takes away his trash? to-the-dump, to-the-dump, to-the-dump dump dump".
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quote:Wait, so you read the first like dozen books and stopped (on NJO) or you ONLY read the Allston books and then quit?
I read like the first dozen and only held out that long because I knew some Allston books were in the works. I was ready to quit in disgust about 4 books before that...
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Ooo you HAVE to go back and read Destiny's Way, which I'm guessing you quit before you go to, or you never would have stopped there.
If for no other reason than the fact that we're fairly lock step on what parts of the EU we favor, trust me and read that one.
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I probably would have eventually kept going except that I was busy planning my wedding shortly after that, then busy being pregnant, then basically busy with the last 4 1/2 years...
Maybe someday I'll decide to go back to them. If the library has them. I'm not spending more money on that series...
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quote:Ziro, Jabba’s uncle, originally spoke in Hutt-ese, like Jabba and then he had a different sluggish voice just like Jabba, and then George one day was watching it and said ‘I want him to sound like Truman Capote.’
Did my browser cut off the rest of that sentence, where he said "...and then I was forced to beat George to death with a pool cue..." ? 'cause I know that has to be there somewhere.
I keep thinking that George will do things right eventually, that he has learned from his past mistakes. But noooo.... He's walking the line between sanity and dementia now.
The advanced stages of Lucasitis are grim indeed.
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