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Post by finarvyn on Jul 10, 2018 6:56:12 GMT -6
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Post by boot on Jul 10, 2018 7:05:29 GMT -6
I love the new movies, fwiw.
And, I think Lando is awesome. I like him in the OT, and he was the best character in Solo.
Heck, with Carrie Fisher passed, Han Solo dead, and Luke Skywalker dead, Lando will probably get the best treatment of all the original heroes in the new film.
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Post by Falconer on Jul 10, 2018 10:19:50 GMT -6
Great! It will be nice to have Williams back.
I didn’t care for the direction they took the character in Solo, but hopefully they can ignore that in Episode IX.
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Post by rafael on Jul 10, 2018 12:02:19 GMT -6
Finally! Lando, for no particular reason, perhaps my favorite character in the entire franchise, except for novel-Wedge, Han, and some of the lesser known pilots. In the "Black Fleet Crisis" novels, where he goes looking for a woman to marry, and runs from one catastrophe into the other - that had me laugh out loud.
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Post by Falconer on Jul 10, 2018 12:14:45 GMT -6
Do you recommend Black Fleet Crisis? I have heard very mixed reviews.
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Post by Zenopus on Jul 10, 2018 15:36:01 GMT -6
Do you recommend Black Fleet Crisis? I have heard very mixed reviews. I had completely forgotten about reading that trilogy until I was looking over your list of "the 12" the other day. Looking up the summaries I realized that I had read all three of them. I think I found them at the local library, so after I returned them I forgot about it quickly. Doesn't speak too highly of its memorability. At the time, it was the third post-ROTJ SW trilogy I had read, after Zahn and Jedi Academy, so the novelty was wearing off. But I think I enjoyed each book as I read them. Looking at the summaries, the part that came back to me as the most fun was the Lando-Lobot pair up, I think it was mostly in book two. They did a good job making Lobot an interesting character. I remembered that detail, I had just forgotten which SW book it was in. I recently read a new Lando comic that featured his friendship with Lobot, just from the other side, before ESB. I also found it at the library, and IIRC it was after Waterbob ( boot here) had mentioned it on DF. He's certainly helped feed my renewed SW enthusiasm over the last few years!
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Post by Yora on Jul 11, 2018 8:52:00 GMT -6
I've read it ages ago, and my memory was that I thought it was quite decent. But the new alien invaders also felt rather out of place to me, which was the reason that I never touched the Vong novels that seem to depart even further from the Republic against Empire setting.
Lando is great, but I don't see him making a difference big enough to make me like a Disney Star Wars movie.
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