Comments on: Can't Be Worse Than "Darth Tater" http://www.showbits.net/2007/01/28/darthwho/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:52:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: peterw http://www.showbits.net/2007/01/28/darthwho/#comment-103 peterw Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:08:03 +0000 http://www.showbits.net/2007/01/28/darthwho/#comment-103 In some ways I'm not surprised you didn't connect with the early <em>NJO</em> books. At one level they were (of course) designed to appear familiar to people who knew the original characters. But on another, you really had to know the <em>characters</em> of the characters to get the most out of them. And that meant following (many, if not all of) the intervening novels. I don't know whether I'd class myself as a "Warsie" (although I do have a friend...), but I did and do enjoy the <em>Star Wars</em> novels. Not all of the authors are great, but some are very good indeed.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('103','peterw'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Reply</small></a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('103','peterw','In some ways I\'m not surprised you didn\'t connect with the early <em>NJO<\/em> books. At one level they were (of course) designed to appear familiar to people who knew the original characters.\r\n\r\nBut on another, you really had to know the <em>characters<\/em> of the characters to get the most out of them. And that meant following (many, if not all of) the intervening novels.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know whether I\'d class myself as a \"Warsie\" (although I do have a friend...), but I did and do enjoy the <em>Star Wars<\/em> novels. Not all of the authors are great, but some are very good indeed.'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Quote</small></a></div> In some ways I'm not surprised you didn't connect with the early NJO books. At one level they were (of course) designed to appear familiar to people who knew the original characters.

But on another, you really had to know the characters of the characters to get the most out of them. And that meant following (many, if not all of) the intervening novels.

I don't know whether I'd class myself as a "Warsie" (although I do have a friend…), but I did and do enjoy the Star Wars novels. Not all of the authors are great, but some are very good indeed.

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]]> By: sheppy http://www.showbits.net/2007/01/28/darthwho/#comment-102 sheppy Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:57:22 +0000 http://www.showbits.net/2007/01/28/darthwho/#comment-102 Hey! I have a <a href="http://www.hasbro.com/default.cfm?page=browse&product_id=15642" TITLE="Darth Tater">Darth Tater</a> on the mantel in my downstairs rec room. He's freakin' awesome!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('102','sheppy'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Reply</small></a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('102','sheppy','Hey! I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/default.cfm?page=browse&product_id=15642\" TITLE=\"Darth Tater\">Darth Tater<\/a> on the mantel in my downstairs rec room. He\'s freakin\' awesome!'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Quote</small></a></div> Hey! I have a Darth Tater on the mantel in my downstairs rec room. He's freakin' awesome!
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