/sw/ - Star Wars★

>>301 (OP)

It's a combination of people defending it just because it's tied to the new SW canon and people defending it because they're trying to virtue signal and act like they're better people for supporting it because the author is progressive.

That's the only reason people like Wendig.

I really hate the excerpt. The writing style is awful, the sentences too short. Cadences are clipped--then suddenly a dash and off we go down a winding clause which ends in a word mismatched in tone with the surrounding diction. As such, he has to use a hackneyed phrase and comma to stall before the next sentence. It reminds me of my boring political digressions. It sucks. But the paragraph is not done, because Wendig is apparently a foot fetishist.

>>310

One thing I've learned from watching how these things go from a distance is media executives, despite having all the tools in the world and paying off experts up the ass, sometimes make gut decisions based on what they assume is a sure thing and lock it in for so long they can't change it. A good example of this is the Legend of Korra: A show considered a guaranteed success because it was a sequel that finished it's run without the last season ever actually being aired.

Aftermath is the same shit. A star wars sequel trilogy starring a minor dude from the new movies probably sounded good at the time and Wendig probably sounded like a decent pick as far as random authors go from people who just use wikipedia and a couple of light resources. I expect nobody knew how bad it'd be until it was out, or if some editor realized it Wendig may have called him a homophobe and busted out HR - which is always the place liberal arts whiners go to get work. But oh shit, now that it's a laughingstock they already locked him in for the whole trilogy and book two is probably mostly done. The books themselves sold ok, so even then executives may not have even cared.

That, and Disney didn't give a shit about Zahn or any of the other golden age of Star Wars writers like Stackpole who really made the novel scene what it was. Remember they were all kept in the dark as much as we were for YEARS and Zahn is only back because Filoni and Hidalgo are the only two people who know what the fuck they're doing and specifically brought him on. Hipster bitches work cheap. They don't need to be good.

>>310

Because he's old and not "down with gen Z". Its the moronic strategy of only appealing to the new crowd by hiring someone young and hip rather than someone talented regardless of age or twitter popularity.

>>312

Nobody from those shitty books is even in the movies except cameos from the OT cast and the shitty Porkins replacement with two moms.

>>324

Virtue signaling.

>>330

>space diapers

damn it what now

>>333 (forced checked)

he's not kidding, it's actually what cuck wendig wrote in the first book.

>The boy runs. His footsteps echo across the hard, unforgiving ground. His feet have no shoes-they are wrapped in ratty bindings, the same bindings Mersa Topol uses to mend the wounds of those miners and scavengers who come to the anchorite nurse for succor, As such, the ground is rough beneath him. It bites through the thin cloth. It abrades. But he does not bleed, because his feet are tough even if many think him weak

>The boy runs. His bare feet wrapped in ratty bindings echoing across the hard, unforgiving ground. the same bindings Mersa Topol uses to mend the wounds of those miners and scavengers who come to the anchorite nurse for succor, (irrelevant) As such, the ground is rough beneath him. It bites through the thin cloth. It abrades. But he does not bleed, because his feet are tough even if many think him weak (possibly irrelevant)

>The boy runs. His bare feet wrapped in ratty bindings echoing across the hard, unforgiving ground. As such, the ground is rough beneath him. It bites through the thin cloth.

>>335

I'm all for detail in books. but that's far too wordy. we don't need Stephen king level of detail in a star wars novel

>>336

But detail, especially unnecessary detail, such as that I supplied in a recent presentation to the amusement of my peers who found my stalling for time as obvious as a stone inside a pair of shoes, shoes not unlike the last pair I bought from Burn Rubber, can be overdone, leading any sensible, upright and worldly gentleman or gentlewoman or brutal attack helicopter to conclude that your writing style is not only shit, but you have padded out your shit writing to make your writing equivalent to watered down piss, only watered down piss can actually re-hydrate someone.

>>336

>we don't need Stephen king

Yes, that's right.

>>714

Are you sure about that? I thought that scene took place in a Not Mos Eisley casino cantina owned by an alien crime syndicate and that the observation was of a mostly inhuman menagerie selling prostitution.

>>761

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sexes

>>790

Aaaaaand, nothing.

>>761

>>793

Wendig himself confirmed the multiple gender shit you mook. Zhe is even a canon pronoun with human characters of all things. Read the damn book.

>>805

Wendig didn't write the book I'm referring to, "Bloodlines", and his opinion on it is void. I don't know what he's written into his Aftermath trilogy.

In Bloodline, which talks about there being 4 genders in sight, the character is sitting at a sabaac table in a hive of scum and villainy looking at an upper level of the casino where various species are buying and selling "escorts." It's not established whether or not those genders are psychological or bizarre xenos biology.

>>830

Even in the old canon there were only these kinds gender systems. Binary for all humanoids, Hermaphrodites for some non-humans like Hutts (which Disney retconned despite being gastropods probably because of that gay hutt from Clone Wars), and about 2 insectoid species that have over 30 genders each and could only reproduce by getting into these weird but perfectly alien reproduction ritual. Wendig is just trying to appeal to his tumblr fans. Also hermaphrodites in general no longer seem canon. I even recall people on the jedi council forums saying that "hermaphrodite" is offensive. Honestly, the only thing worse than this new canon bullshit is the fact that there's no one left to talk to about the old canon with or that it will sadly never be relevant again.

>>831

>Hermaphrodite

>a slur

Talk about being thin skinned.

>>830

>>831

Yeah, I thought it was weird that they had the perfect Tumblr bait in the form of Hutts which decided for themselves whether they wanted to be seen as masculine or feminine.

I suppose it's just that Hutts were usually bad guys, so they didn't want to associate transsexualism with nigh genetic organized crime.

They haven't had a problem letting lesbians and black women be Imperial moffs and admirals, though. Of course, Panaka has only been mentioned in an art book because he's a male and associated with the prequels.

>>843

>I suppose it's just that Hutts were usually bad guys, so they didn't want to associate transsexualism with nigh genetic organized crime.

Even though they're fucking slug people and still classified as such ffs. Stifling creative freedom to avoid offense is one of the worst results of Disney buying Star Wars.

>>857

Aliens don't count as people goy. The director of Rogue One said so himself. Its all about the chosen humans! But yeah, all Hutts have always been asshole with the exception of one who became a Republic Chancellor and brought more prosperity to the galaxy than any other political figure. Hutts are just that influential. If they were all good the galaxy would be a boring place, much like Disney has made it into.