Dave Filioni is not like, the most talented auteur in tne history of science fiction but I love Clone Wars Season 5 for actually putting some of that world Stover creates on screen.

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the entire novel is a tremendous exercise in overcoming lazy worldbuilding and incoherent multi-author canon along with a terrible directed and hackishly written movie into an incredibly compelling story of decline and fall. It makes you mourn the movie that could have been

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There was a joke cut from The Simpsons about the word "massacre" being named after a guy named Jean-Baptiste Massacre and his decisive victory over the children of Provence, and this is basically the same thing.

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The real shell shock moment is when the teens of seven years ago are able to express that the fake deaths of Chewie/C3PO/whoever else are not a comical absurd flaw but deep moments that tie them in to the wider lore. reasurring that none are doing so yet ofc

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Yeah, and obviously you get a form of this with like the OT too but I think crucially, there it’s presented more as shading in details or filling out context whereas with the PT it’s so often trying to find the hidden meaning which will prove that this is great art

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