Star Wars Legacy of the Force Invincible OUT TODAY!! May 13, 2008
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Finally it’s here!! The final book in the Star Wars Legacy of the Force series is out!
We’ve had some really healthy discussion about this for months on this site and there are heated opinions all around.
For now though I’m personally going to savor every page and take some time to read this final episode in this series.
For better or for worse Legacy of the Force has been a VERY eventful series, splitting the Galaxy, families and fans alike.
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“If this war has taught us anything, it is that we all lose when we fight. My friends, the time has come to try a new way-” lol, I can’t describe the wave of apathy I felt reading that. The atmosphere for new books is lousy, the pool of characters has been drastically diminished with them killing Jacen, the storyline couldn’t stay together within its own series let alone the rest of the books and after all the shock tactics and melodramatic bull they used to sell this lousy series they cap it off with an ending reminiscent of some of the old one novel stories.
As for training with Mandalorians, I was being facetious. I liked how they wrote in all that crap about how she was going to learn how to beat him by “studying” with Fett then she didn’t do anything with it. Like I said before all of that was nothing more than Karen Traviss’ inability to come up with anything else. They continuously talk about how much more powerful Caedus was than her (a few specific examples in this book as well) yet he doesn’t even put up a decent fight.
When I buy a book I tend to read it twice to make sure I pick up everything, this is the first time I’ve ever had one that I couldn’t even finish. This whole series overall was horribly (or at least hastily) written.
ok there was no caedus early in the book. he shows up aboput a quarter through like page 60 or something. he was well written when he killed isolder, he wasnt an idiot luke was fucking with his head, its the old JEDI MIND TRICK multiplied by about 10.
relax everyone.
lod maloch i see u have returned.i agree that the death was rushed but i think it was well done. to have jacen get stabbed in the beginning of round 2 was the only way to keep things somewhat even between them.and jaina was in shock thats why she wasnt crying she was lost,
i called zekk being a bad guy in upcoming series a week or so ago.
he was captured by krayts sith so they could make him the new sith lightning rod,
Listen to what you said darth chebbis. “getting stabbed in the beginning of round 2 was the only way to keep things somewhat even between them.” That is why the writing was soooooo ridicules. Jaina cannot beat Caedus so lets have her sneak up on a sith lord and stab him. Jaina could never beat him straight up so lets have two stupid circumstances happen. first with Luke “helping” her, and the second with stabbing him. If you think that is good writing then something is wrong with you. Never in an epic clash did something so stupid happen. And you think Caedus wasn’t acting like an idiot in the end? He sees a vision of the white throne and thinks everything is over? What? The moffs to Caedus, “what do we do now? The Anakin Solo is falling apart.” Caedus, “dont woory about anything. I’ve seen a vision and we won.” I guess he thinks that the fight is over and Luke and then will just pack up and leave. Just cuz you see a vision, you still have to do what it takes to achieve it. Denning wrote it like Caedus got relaxed, didn’t care.
yeah, you do the old JEDI MIND TRICK on people who aren’t strong willed. Not on a SITH LORD. You must be a Luke fan. I was a BIG Luke fan up to this series. They just made him to powerful and doing things that were ridicules. How can you be peering into the future every single time Caedus is? Caedus is looking through his own “force window” anyhow, so Luke knows how to look through that same window? It was if Luke was in Caedus head manipulating his visions. It is the only way Luke could do that. And that is soooo far fetched. You know, Yoda should have just went into Sidious’s force visions and just saw what he was going to do and then stopped him before he did it. He could have just told all his Jedi to leave the clones so they wouldn’t die. It just would have been the old jedi mind trick multiplied by about 10.
Isn’t there a site that will tell us what the authers thought of the book or what they were think when they wrote it? I would love to hear/read what the authors of the Legacy of the Force series were into and how the/if they colaborated and how much time they spent talking to eachother. Who made the desision to kill the great Lord Caedus/Jasen Solo, on the the best charactors, with unlimited potential, a perfect charactor to keep up with, a charactor that made many who just started reading these book with Legacy…..who was the bright star in that room that say it would be a good idea. Or why? Do these guy/gals even really care about the Star Wars universe of do they just have a knack for writing sci fi?? It should be a prereck to have them answer questions pertaining to the Star War galaxcy in order to get the job. If you don’t start of an interview with. ” I’ve been watching Star Wars since I was a kidd, I can remember the magic etc….. I would love to read these book in the futur but, what garontee can I have that the writers actually care about what there doing?
I feel the same way. They killed off a great and powerful character in Jacen/Caedus. If Caedus would have lived that would have been great. He could be the villian in the next series. If Caedus never turned bad, Jacen Solo was becoming the perfect and most powerful Jedi knight of the next generation. Sure his tactics were questionable at times, but that was the way of the new “unifying force.” I said this before, Jacen could have took the place of Luke as Grand Jedi Master when he stepped down or was killed. F Jaina. All she is is a great piolit. She can’t even get her life together. Uh–which one–Jag or Zekk? pick one you stupid whore.
A mate of mine just finished reading this book (though he said he skipped the last forty pages) and we were talking about it at work today and I was wondering something about regarding his killing Isolder. Throughout the series Jacen/Caedus does several questionable things: firing on a ship after it’s surrendering, bombing a city, things like that I would just say are the result of brutal warfare (as is mentioned regarding dropping asteroids on Commenor If I remember correctly). However the only outright “morally reprehensible” thing I remember off the top of my head is his murdering his assistant in a rage.
Towards this end I was thinking that while they’d set him up through the story as a shall we say rough leader he really didn’t do much that I would classify as evil which would “justify” the Jedi essentially assassinating him. As I understood it he went to release Isolder so that he could warn his daughter about this “nanokiller,” he refuses believing that Caedus wants to use him to deliver the weapon; so Caedus kills him.
The question I have is why, what difference would it make to Caedus what Isolder believed so long as he warned his daughter about this weapon one way or another (which one would assume he would) which is what Caedus wanted in the first place. Whatever excuse he was planning on using for why he got away would have been the same regardless so whether Isolder blared a warning to everyone in sight or whispered it directly in his daughter’s ear wouldn’t have really mattered. They carry around intragalactic, faster than light communicators in their pockets so how hard would it have been to get a warning out, so why would Isolder even bring it up if he was being let out the front door?
The only reason I can think for this killing in the first place has to do with the fact that the beginning of the section wherein Isolder is killed starts by talking him up as to what a fine man he is and ends with his ship/crew being destroyed because they would refuse to leave him. The point of this being that it is a deliberatly malicious act on Caedus’ part that makes him very much the villain and is quite fresh in the reader’s mind less than twenty pages later when he is killed.
Frankly I think this killing was unnecessary, and only put in as a result of lazy writing resulting in Caedus being much less the bad guy than they wanted him to be.
See how diappointed the fans are!!! Where not ever into writing about the danm outcome anymore. WAY TO GO THERE DEL RAY! Ya’ll helped make a great series a failure. Super job.
I’m not going to repeat everything that has been written above – I agree with it all totally, but if I start typing I don’t think I will be able to stop. Suffice to say that I’m more than a little dissappointed with the money-making exercise that is Legacy.
I’ve got to ask though – did I get sent a copy of ‘Invincible’ that had a section missing? I only ask as I have been looking forward to learning more about Dician and the Sith hiding out on Korriban, but off she went, chasing after ‘Ship’…..and apparently vanished down a black hole along with her story line! WTF?!?!
Or are the Sith going to be the bad guys in the next thrilling series that Luke takes on single-handedly and defeats using only a chopstick and a frown?
What’s he going to need the chopstick for?
Just completly ruined a great series!