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DJSJ said:
Ostrander is the man. Love all that DC stuff (The Spectre!) and his Star Wars material has that same dark introspection aspect that's so emblematic of his work. He wrote a good chunk of the "Republic" series (the flagship prequel era series coming out at the same time as the films), and is a large reason that run is so highly regarded, even managing to get some of his ideas into the new canon (see: Dark Disciple).

Legacy is so different than everything else, it's like being dropped into post-apocalyptic Star Wars. At first it's kind of jarring: how did we get from The New Republic, to a galaxy with 3 equal ruling factions (one of which is an Imperial remnant?); then the more you read Post-ROTJ things start to fall into place and it starts to make sense. It connects a ton to past work too; one major character in the series is revealed to be a relatively minor character that Ostrander introduced waaaay earlier in the Republic series, and was subsequently included in a bunch of novels. Ah man it's so rewarding.
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Just read the first Dawn of the Jedi arc. Great stuff. Very excited to get to the next one.
 
avecigrec said:
Just read the first Dawn of the Jedi arc. Great stuff. Very excited to get to the next one.
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Fantastic stuff, it’s so incredibly out there for Star Wars. That’s one series that was ongoing at the time of the Disney purchase, so unfortunately it all had to wrap up really abruptly.

But I adore everything about pre Old Republic era star wars. I can remember playing Knights of the Old Republic for the first time at age 10 or so and being blown away by all the lore being thrown at me. Ancient sith empires, legends of fallen Jedi, the Mandalorian Wars…I ate it all up. I’m extremely excited for Marvels upcoming omnibus for the Tales of the Jedi series; sold all my tpb’s in anticipation. That’s one great thing to come from the Disney acquisition; we’re getting all these hard-to-collect series in oversized hardcover format. Only problem is I want to buy them all.
 
Finished Ashoka and quite ejoyed it, though I do not find it as strong as andor but a lot better than book of Boba and better than kenobi . So roughly on a Level with the mandalorian for me although that one excited me more in the beginning because it was tge first oc the live action star wars series. Definitely a lot better than rebels season 4 although it pretty much is rebels season 5.


i am very glad they dud not fall for the time travel bullshit of the world between worlds and kept it basically as an internal /dream sequence to have some ahsoka-Anakin fan service. The villains were the highlight of the series, especially baylan and his apprentice, buth although thrawn and the witches.Sabine Wren did not really convince me and her turn into a mandalorian-jedi padawan felt forced ,probably meant to distinguish her from all tge other mandalorians around. Also her whole character developement was not written very well. I did not particularly like the ezra bridger character as well. But overall it was an interesting plot with good action scenes. So now they probably have to continuethe story to get both thrawn and the heroes out of the way before the rise of the second order in the sequel trilogy.
 
Jan said:
Finished Ashoka and quite ejoyed it, though I do not find it as strong as andor but a lot better than book of Boba and better than kenobi . So roughly on a Level with the mandalorian for me although that one excited me more in the beginning because it was tge first oc the live action star wars series. Definitely a lot better than rebels season 4 although it pretty much is rebels season 5.


i am very glad they dud not fall for the time travel bullshit of the world between worlds and kept it basically as an internal /dream sequence to have some ahsoka-Anakin fan service. The villains were the highlight of the series, especially baylan and his apprentice, buth although thrawn and the witches.Sabine Wren did not really convince me and her turn into a mandalorian-jedi padawan felt forced ,probably meant to distinguish her from all tge other mandalorians around. Also her whole character developement was not written very well. I did not particularly like the ezra bridger character as well. But overall it was an interesting plot with good action scenes. So now they probably have to continuethe story to get both thrawn and the heroes out of the way before the rise of the second order in the sequel trilogy.
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100% agree with everything you see.

I have no idea what they do with Baylan from here. He was such a compelling character who obviously is supposed to play a bigger part. But I can't see him being re-cast and I don't want a wonky CGI recreation like Tarkin.
 
dbarila said:
I have no idea what they do with Baylan from here. He was such a compelling character who obviously is supposed to play a bigger part. But I can't see him being re-cast and I don't want a wonky CGI recreation like Tarkin.
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Withouth wanting to take anything from Ray Stevensons great performance, this case i´d actually prefer a recast to follow the further journey of the character, because he was the most nuanced and intersesting character in the series and i would like to follow the story further
 
Jan said:
Withouth wanting to take anything from Ray Stevensons great performance, this case i´d actually prefer a recast to follow the further journey of the character, because he was the most nuanced and intersesting character in the series and i would like to follow the story further
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Agree. The first 6 episodes before Disney Disney’d the last two were my fave things they’ve done since Rogue One and an interesting concept baddy helped.

Although at first I didn’t realise it was Ray Stevenson and remember instead thinking ‘Pacey Witter is looking hench these days’
 
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Yeah I still need to read phase 2 as well.

I need a better division between my comics and novel reading. I keep getting into long-term comic reading projects and all my reading time goes into that. But I have Path of Deceit and Convergence sitting on my shelf waiting to be read.
 
Jan said:
Is that Phase 3, as well? Did not proceed afterr Phase 2 yet
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DJSJ said:
Yeah I still need to read phase 2 as well.

I need a better division between my comics and novel reading. I keep getting into long-term comic reading projects and all my reading time goes into that. But I have Path of Deceit and Convergence sitting on my shelf waiting to be read.
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In a small way I'm somewhat jealous you've still got to get through Phase 2 to get here as it will mean your waiting time from the beginning to the end of Phase 3 will be shorter than for me...

But also, I'm excited for you to get here! It's a WILD ride!!
 
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