I picked up this book yesterday and jumped right into it! Fantastic start excellently tying Rogue One and A New Hope together!
I could almost see Disney re-making A New Hope in this fashion. Would make for a great re-telling of the story.
I'm anxious to see how each scene played out from a different point of view.
Have yet to get myself a copy.
Too busy purchasing stuff for my new leopard gecko 
2 hours ago, drail14me said:I picked up this book yesterday and jumped right into it! Fantastic start excellently tying Rogue One and A New Hope together!
I could almost see Disney re-making A New Hope in this fashion. Would make for a great re-telling of the story.
I'm anxious to see how each scene played out from a different point of view.
Noooooooooooooo
not remake a new hope. No touch my precious.
Make an anthology series that explores characters during the events of a new hope?
yesssssssss
17 minutes ago, FlyingAnchors said:Noooooooooooooo
not remake a new hope. No touch my precious.
Make an anthology series that explores characters during the events of a new hope?
yesssssssss
Read the book. I've felt the same way about Ep IV. HATED the Special Edition for messing with the original. However, as I read this book, I could get behind a 50th anniversary re-telling of Ep IV from a different point of view.
Got it yesterday also and am totally loving it. Favorite so far was the conversation between Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon. The Tusken POV story was really good as well. All the stories have been good so far, those two are just my favorites.
Jim
1 hour ago, Emrico said:Got it yesterday also and am totally loving it. Favorite so far was the conversation between Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon. The Tusken POV story was really good as well. All the stories have been good so far, those two are just my favorites.
Jim
I've just finished R5's POV. That was a neat take on things. Still wondering what the female Tusken was up to and how it ties in. Don't want to give any any spoilers.
3 hours ago, drail14me said:Read the book. I've felt the same way about Ep IV. HATED the Special Edition for messing with the original. However, as I read this book, I could get behind a 50th anniversary re-telling of Ep IV from a different point of view.
Nah, re telling you just confuse people more and your liable to Mess up the canon if done wrong. *ahem special editions*
adding to it (via spinoff tv series, movies and hey, books) helps establish the known universe but doesn't mean you have to re make the original every time something new comes along.
46 minutes ago, FlyingAnchors said:Nah, re telling you just confuse people more and your liable to Mess up the canon if done wrong. *ahem special editions*
adding to it (via spinoff tv series, movies and hey, books) helps establish the known universe but doesn't mean you have to re make the original every time something new comes along.
Maybe so but I'm really enjoying this book and the perspective the story is being told from. Pretty neat idea and so far, spot on and well done.
Glad to hear people enjoying it. It had fallen off my radar, but it seems I need to reprioritize it.
I'm loving the imperial humanizing stories like The Bucket and The Sith of Data Work.
When's the Mouse going to make an imperial movie?
Sheesh. Can't R5 just be a droid with a bad motivator?
Why is everyone a Jedi/Sith/hero/Rebel sympathizer/Imperial agent/bounty hunter?
6 hours ago, Hawkstrike said:Sheesh. Can't R5 just be a droid with a bad motivator?
Why is everyone a Jedi/Sith/hero/Rebel sympathizer/Imperial agent/bounty hunter?
Wasn't keen on the book for basically the reason suggested in this post - there was another one some time back, 'Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina' or something like that, that had the same problem - for some reason, some random bar on some backwater world on nobody's radar, was absolutely CHOCK FULL of every important person in the universe at that time or something.
It just struck a completely ridiculous note, and this seemed like more of the same.
I get that everyone wants to be the 'hero of their own story'...but sometimes that story is nothing more than 'you are an NPC in a more important person's campaign'.
11 hours ago, xanderf said:Wasn't keen on the book for basically the reason suggested in this post - there was another one some time back, 'Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina' or something like that, that had the same problem - for some reason, some random bar on some backwater world on nobody's radar, was absolutely CHOCK FULL of every important person in the universe at that time or something.
It just struck a completely ridiculous note, and this seemed like more of the same.
I get that everyone wants to be the 'hero of their own story'...but sometimes that story is nothing more than 'you are an NPC in a more important person's campaign'.
It's actually not really like that at all, with maybe the exception of the R5 story. Most of the stories are just about the people doing their own thing and noticing events in the background, for the most part. Stuff like the Devastator weapons officer who didn't fire on the escape pod working with the data clerk to figure out a way to cover his *** for not destroying it. Motti filling out an incident report on Vader choking him is pretty damned funny.
So far (I'm about halfway through) it is far better than the cantina tales from Legends and written better too.
Jim