Star Wars Legacy of the Force : Invincible – Will Jaina Kill Jacen? February 2, 2008
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We’ve known since at least November that Jaina would be on the cover of the final book of the Legacy of the Force series.
Now the first images of the actual book cover are available and it looks to us that she’s going to have a showdown with her brother Jacen – Darth Caedus.
That is a confrontation that is – Inevitable – maybe that should’ve been the name of the book. Then again maybe Invincible refers to Jacen/Caedus….
Invincible’s release date is set for May 13, 2008. Amazon is already taking pre-orders on this the final installment of the Legacy of the Force – it’s a hardcover so it’s more dough than the paperbacks. Amazon currently has a neat offer though, they’re starting at 34% off list price and if you pre-order now they’ll give you an extra 5% discount. Sure beat paying full price the day it comes out..but i wonder if they’ll actually ship it to arrive on May 13th..
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Jacen is weak and he will fall
lord memnoch has a piont about the peace part
I was reading this new book tonight and I started thinking about what would possess a publisher of a series that is essentially just a goose laying golden eggs to print such a ridiculous, incoherent, unnecessarily melodramatic, Jerry Springer’esque, inconsistently violent (Caedus nearly kills Luke, yet can be challenged by his sister who has been taught to aim for the crotch by some people who fight dirty) to be let loose amongst their franchise? Seriously, even the action of these seems like it could have been penned by Jerry Bruckheimer as it has a lot of flash but no substance.
It occured to me that none of these three authors have worked with anyone other than Del Rey since they began writing Star Wars novels for the EU. I wonder if a reason for essentially destroying anything and everything in sight has anything to do that essentially the foundations with few exceptions (Allana, Saba to name the foremost in my mind) for all of these novels (races, essentially every character excluding George Lucas’ of course, planets, ships etc) were all thought up by authors printed under the Bantam label that only lost it’s license to Del Rey in the first place because it was bought out Wal Mart style.
As their license is up for grabs again this year, it seems to me that my earlier assertion (which has been mentioned by mliscky as well) that this “series” is essentially absolutely nothing but a trite mishmash of a story designed to be filled with nothing but shock material so that Del Rey can get one last financial hurrah out of it before they potentially lose their ability to print Star Wars novels to someone else. The case can be made that this is a potentiallity because I really don’t see why who would be receiving the license would be kept so close to the vest if Lucasbooks wasn’t seriously considering other publishers.
If they get their license renewed, they can write in some new characters as they did with the NJO, and coincidentally kill them during much the same time. If they don’t then why would they care if they’d destroyed many well rounded characters and left behind virtually nothing but shallow ones (which also plays towards them having to start again from scratch).
As for the idea that the storyline was ultimately planned out way back in the NJO because of Troy Denning’s “sword of the jedi” line, I find that argument highly specious given that it’s been six years since he wrote it and frankly it seems to me to be little more than a good play on words because he needed something to give his “knighting ceremony” a little zing.
As far as the literary aspect of Del Rey is concerned they have little actually invested in the EU because their contributers are basically writing stories using other people’s settings and characters (I sincerely doubt that Michael Stackpole,Timothy Zahn or even authors right on the cusp of the series changing hands like Aaron Allston considered slaughtering each other’s characters.)
To conclude I once again contend that this series is little more than a slap in the face to the readers, not so much because of who they kill or don’t but because for every senseless character slaying or world destroyed or race eliminated whatever; it only makes the pool for future novelists that much shallower, after all if you have to write in new characters every five novels in an overall story arc that consists of more than a hundred I don’t consider that continuity.
And yes I’m bored, else I wouldn’t be posting at 1:00am.
Hey, you may be bored, Michael, but I agree with pretty much everything you said! Del Rey have completely RUINED Star Wars for me and many others!
I would LOVE it if someone with a larger number of brain cells actually started up a whole new (albeit alternate) timeline from Vector Prime onwards, where the characters do NOT get fucked up six ways from Sunday! I would throw my entire support behind it, and I’m sure others would as well!
Take the YJK group for instance. The Solo kids, Zekk, Tenel Ka, Tahiri and so on. Those guys were BRILLIANT characters! Destined to become heroes of the Jedi order and the galaxy altogether. And what did Del Rey do with them?
THEY FUCKED THEM ALL UP! THAT’S WHAT THEY DID TO THEM!
And now they have killed both of the Solo boys, and Mara Jade as well, and their daughter is now a whiny emo bitch to boot! Since the beginning of NJO, she has never treated her friends and family with proper respect, and now they are probably going to have her go back to that loser Jagged Fel (who I have never liked), and start the goddamned Fel dynasty!
Del Rey, I will try and get my revenge on you bastards if it’s the last thing I do!
Well I hadn’t finished the book yet actually so I can’t say for certain how it ends, though it has a distinct smell to it from page one.
Basically this whole series seems like a literary version of sweeps week.
“This week on Fox. House crashes into a strip club while flying a helicopter which results in all the strippers being infected with a randomly mutating flesh eating virus. Though the biggest shock of all is that two of the strippers are former patients and the rest are former girlfriends. Then on the Simpsons, Homer is arrested for accidentally having child porn on his computer, guest starring STEVEN SEGAL, MEL BROOKS AND KELSEY GRAMMAR.”
“This year in the EU, Jacen Solo turns evil and single handedly upsets the galaxy forcing his family to go for his throat. Boba Fett finds his long lost wife and teaches Jaina Solo how to kick her brother in the junk to negate his superior skills; guest starring ADMIRAL DAALA”
i have the book general myxtylpitilik. i will rejoin u all in about two days time. its a short fucking book for 20 bucks. do any of u have bookstores besides borders? i hate borders
Very nicely put Michael.
im half done and it looks like the most powerful sith in history is goin down. boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
i read the book in 6hrs, i feel similar to everyone else on this board….how in the hell can you kill a new and extremely powerful sith lord so quickly? How come Caedus doesn’t get to kick some Jedi Master ass? How come Caedus falls again and again for the illusion tactics of Luke? LOTF started well and then sucked reallly bad…i’m pissed that he didn’t really get to show his skills very well, or use the sith sphere ship, or meet the one Sith group on Korriban???? what a way to screw this storyline up!
Because this “storyline” was never intended to be contiguous with the rest of the novels, or set up future ones. It was intended only by Del Rey to sell nine books.