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3.91 AVERAGE
I'll be perfectly honest, I skimmed most of this book and read it for the scenes with Rey and Kylo.
A profoundly better novelization than that of The Force Awakens. I also enjoyed this novel better than the film version - you got a lot more (very necessary) back story on the characters, and those that were pretty annoying in the movie were less so in the book. Overall an enjoyable read.
The Last Jedi is a practice in nihilism, and I just...wish it wasn't.
This is a genuinely good novelization, even if personally, I want to see more than entirely possible into Kylo Ren's mind. I think if The Last Jedi wasn't the exactly opposite of what I was looking for in a Star Wars story, then I would have even really enjoyed this novelization. Alas, here we are, two and a half years later, and I am angrier about tlj than ever.
To be honest, sort of as a disclaimer before I begin: I was completely ambivalent about tlj in 2018. There were things I liked (Yoda, Kylo Ren's hissy fit on Crait, The Nuns), and things I didn't like (Rey, Poe's attitude, the way the Resistance went from being an entire fleet on the heels of a "major victory" to 6 transport ships who had no contact from whatever remained of the Republic, seemingly abandoned); I even defended the plot - I thought it was perfectly precedented and in some ways, when executed well, I think a story about running out fuel and being saved at the last second is very good. Unfortunately, in this novelization, it sort of dragged - especially knowing that Finn + Rose would ultimately be unsuccessful. That, coupled with inisight into the characters, bring this book from a 4 to a three star read. (Also, and I'm going to talk about this moment in a second - towards the end, Finn reflects that DJ will have to learn the hard way eventually that not choosing a side in the face of evil will only hurt him in the long run, and this would be fine, if it was: Finn reflects, and realizes that was what he was doing, and he cannot do it anymore, INSTEAD OF Finn reflects, and pats himself on the back for not doing this anymore - anymore being, he must have had this realization in the lat 30 minutes).
So the good of this novelization stands out to me in a couple of key sections: the beginning and the end. The novel opens with. This section is beautifully written, references characters from ANH who have been written out of the movie, and is thematically relevant to Luke's journey in tlj. I had high hopes that the rest of the novel would move me in the same way that the prologue did. The end covered both the boy from the end of tlj who uses the Force (the moment that tricked me into thinking I enjoyed the movie), and also the NUNS!!! I was so excited about the NUNS???? I love them! Wish this whole book was about these alien space nuns!!! and their relationship to the Jedi!!! and the Force!!! I know that's ridiculous, but wow. And also, it is well written, I think Jason Fry might be trying to refute some of the nihlism that occurs in tlj, and it's engaging for the most part. Wish I liked the story so I could give this book it's due.
Okay, to be fair, this isn't my idea: my phil professor last spring was like: Yo, was it just me or was tlj wack? Like...nihilism (this is NOT a direct quote! and only half an idea, he almost immediately moved on with the lesson, realizing we did not have the time to start dissecting this movie, and so idk how he really comes down on it, but I've been thinking about it for the last year, and FINALLY, I've got it! I know what he was saying).
There's one section that could have been really really cool if it didn't absolutely stand against everything that I believe Star Wars is about and it turned out to irk me, ticked off every single star wars nerve I have: In the Throne Room Scene, Snoke reflects on the beginning of the First Order and the Fall of the Empire:
1. Palpatine was planning a Contingency and this eventually turned into the First Order.
2. Oh we're doing: Palpatine was An All Knowing God again (if we recall this was my problem with tLords of the Sith) and it was Luck that Vader was able to stop him and not Palpatine's hubris. Boy does this SPIT in the face of the Original Trilogy (not to mention the prequels, which is really what I care about) - Luke didn't really save Vader and the Galaxy - Palpatine knew that the Empire would have to end so he started the First Order (known to him as the Contingency) to not only replace the Empire but to weaken it. Oh this makes me SO angry! Palpatine doesn't have any flaws (except that he's evil, I guess, but this isn't really a flaw as much as like, A Character). He is undone simply by the Will of the Force, not because he is, at the end of the day Human. Really minimizes Luke's impact, and I'm beginning to see why people were Big Mad at tlj now. Although, I don't think it was about this.
2b. is like...I guess they knew they were going to work Sheev back into the mix somehow, unforunate that Snoke is like...a Sheev clone or something. Still unclear about ros tbh. Glad the st is continually retconning itself in an attempt to show off.
3. In addition to it being just...an illconcieved mess, this is just...the villain believes in Nihilism, he believes in Will to Power, and there is just no solid refutation of this philosophy. I'm not saying that there needs to be for other people to find value in this story; I think tlj and the sq as a whole come down pretty heavy on the side of Neitzsche - the only refutation being that they are going to make themselves into powerful people through the power of love, but a) I do need a more solid refutation to find value in it, and b) I just don't think that's star wars. I do think there is a struggle between the light and the dark, but I don't thinks star wars had historically taken a stance of: the dark will always triumph. I don't think star wars works with that philosophical assumption, so tlj, which really wants to take that sort of position, has to shift and say: the darkside is always out there trying to squash out the light, and if we don't meet it on it's own terms (vie in the Power struggle of the universe), then it will overpower. This is seen in Palpatine manufacturing the Empire's own undoing in the Contingency, NOT JUST the rise of the First Order. This is The Resistance Fleet (a military organization) being specified to be a Weirdo But Brave Group of New Republic Defectors (or something) because the New Republic wouldn't take the First Order seriously (but if Palpatine built it, of course there was no chance) becoming nothing more than six transport ships with no one else in the galaxy at their side - no one except themselves, and they have to Fight, as Finn says. This is seen in Luke INSISTING that he can't save Ben. >:| Sir, you saved Darth Vader, I think you can save Ben Solo! The ending of the ot was the exact OPPOSITE of this stance: Luke does not fight Vader, he does not give in to his hatred. In fact, the rotj novelization specifies that Luke doesn't save Vader because he loves his Father but because he is a Jedi and it's the right thing to do. If Vader saving Luke "undoes" his mistake from rots, then uhhh...Luke wanting to burn down the tree with the Jedi Order undoes THAT sacrifice. Luke sacrifices himself to give the Resistance more time, but I've decided that you were all right: Luke should have had a better end, no matter how much it moves me when I see it. I think it's a trick. I think so much of this movie is a trick!!! .
Also: I think Rey is overpowered and her connection to Ben and her connection to the Force is contrived. I don't like how little time she spends with the rest of the Resistance, I think there are too many characters. And that little boy gets too much credit for what Rian Johson was trying to say about Star Wars or the Force, especially since if it was about "democratizing the Force" as I read one reviewer describe it, uhhh, sir, the Force already is like that, please watch a Prequel I BEG of you!
The above isn't really Jason Fry's fault, but I've never felt so clear and confident about why the st doesn't engage me until I finished reading this book. All in all: If you like tlj this is Good and I think You'll Really Enjoy this, but this review details why I didn't.
This is a genuinely good novelization, even if personally, I want to see more than entirely possible into Kylo Ren's mind. I think if The Last Jedi wasn't the exactly opposite of what I was looking for in a Star Wars story, then I would have even really enjoyed this novelization. Alas, here we are, two and a half years later, and I am angrier about tlj than ever.
To be honest, sort of as a disclaimer before I begin: I was completely ambivalent about tlj in 2018. There were things I liked (Yoda, Kylo Ren's hissy fit on Crait, The Nuns), and things I didn't like (Rey, Poe's attitude, the way the Resistance went from being an entire fleet on the heels of a "major victory" to 6 transport ships who had no contact from whatever remained of the Republic, seemingly abandoned); I even defended the plot - I thought it was perfectly precedented and in some ways, when executed well, I think a story about running out fuel and being saved at the last second is very good. Unfortunately, in this novelization, it sort of dragged - especially knowing that Finn + Rose would ultimately be unsuccessful. That, coupled with inisight into the characters, bring this book from a 4 to a three star read. (Also, and I'm going to talk about this moment in a second - towards the end, Finn reflects that DJ will have to learn the hard way eventually that not choosing a side in the face of evil will only hurt him in the long run, and this would be fine, if it was: Finn reflects, and realizes that was what he was doing, and he cannot do it anymore, INSTEAD OF Finn reflects, and pats himself on the back for not doing this anymore - anymore being, he must have had this realization in the lat 30 minutes).
So the good of this novelization stands out to me in a couple of key sections: the beginning and the end. The novel opens with
Spoiler
Luke dreaming he had never left TatooineOkay, to be fair, this isn't my idea: my phil professor last spring was like: Yo, was it just me or was tlj wack? Like...nihilism (this is NOT a direct quote! and only half an idea, he almost immediately moved on with the lesson, realizing we did not have the time to start dissecting this movie, and so idk how he really comes down on it, but I've been thinking about it for the last year, and FINALLY, I've got it! I know what he was saying).
There's one section that could have been really really cool if it didn't absolutely stand against everything that I believe Star Wars is about and it turned out to irk me, ticked off every single star wars nerve I have: In the Throne Room Scene, Snoke reflects on the beginning of the First Order and the Fall of the Empire:
2. Oh we're doing: Palpatine was An All Knowing God again (if we recall this was my problem with tLords of the Sith) and it was Luck that Vader was able to stop him and not Palpatine's hubris. Boy does this SPIT in the face of the Original Trilogy (not to mention the prequels, which is really what I care about) - Luke didn't really save Vader and the Galaxy - Palpatine knew that the Empire would have to end so he started the First Order (known to him as the Contingency) to not only replace the Empire but to weaken it. Oh this makes me SO angry! Palpatine doesn't have any flaws (except that he's evil, I guess, but this isn't really a flaw as much as like, A Character). He is undone simply by the Will of the Force, not because he is, at the end of the day Human. Really minimizes Luke's impact, and I'm beginning to see why people were Big Mad at tlj now. Although, I don't think it was about this.
2b. is like...I guess they knew they were going to work Sheev back into the mix somehow, unforunate that Snoke is like...a Sheev clone or something. Still unclear about ros tbh. Glad the st is continually retconning itself in an attempt to show off.
3. In addition to it being just...an illconcieved mess, this is just...the villain believes in Nihilism, he believes in Will to Power, and there is just no solid refutation of this philosophy. I'm not saying that there needs to be for other people to find value in this story; I think tlj and the sq as a whole come down pretty heavy on the side of Neitzsche - the only refutation being that they are going to make themselves into powerful people through the power of love, but a) I do need a more solid refutation to find value in it, and b) I just don't think that's star wars. I do think there is a struggle between the light and the dark, but I don't thinks star wars had historically taken a stance of: the dark will always triumph. I don't think star wars works with that philosophical assumption, so tlj, which really wants to take that sort of position, has to shift and say: the darkside is always out there trying to squash out the light, and if we don't meet it on it's own terms (vie in the Power struggle of the universe), then it will overpower. This is seen in Palpatine manufacturing the Empire's own undoing in the Contingency, NOT JUST the rise of the First Order. This is The Resistance Fleet (a military organization) being specified to be a Weirdo But Brave Group of New Republic Defectors (or something) because the New Republic wouldn't take the First Order seriously (but if Palpatine built it, of course there was no chance) becoming nothing more than six transport ships with no one else in the galaxy at their side - no one except themselves, and they have to Fight, as Finn says. This is seen in Luke INSISTING that he can't save Ben. >:| Sir, you saved Darth Vader, I think you can save Ben Solo! The ending of the ot was the exact OPPOSITE of this stance: Luke does not fight Vader, he does not give in to his hatred. In fact, the rotj novelization specifies that Luke doesn't save Vader because he loves his Father but because he is a Jedi and it's the right thing to do. If Vader saving Luke "undoes" his mistake from rots, then uhhh...Luke wanting to burn down the tree with the Jedi Order undoes THAT sacrifice. Luke sacrifices himself to give the Resistance more time, but I've decided that you were all right: Luke should have had a better end, no matter how much it moves me when I see it. I think it's a trick. I think so much of this movie is a trick!!!
Also: I think Rey is overpowered and her connection to Ben and her connection to the Force is contrived. I don't like how little time she spends with the rest of the Resistance, I think there are too many characters. And that little boy gets too much credit for what Rian Johson was trying to say about Star Wars or the Force, especially since if it was about "democratizing the Force" as I read one reviewer describe it, uhhh, sir, the Force already is like that, please watch a Prequel I BEG of you!
The above isn't really Jason Fry's fault, but I've never felt so clear and confident about why the st doesn't engage me until I finished reading this book. All in all: If you like tlj this is Good and I think You'll Really Enjoy this, but this review details why I didn't.
Lolz ok so I’ve never been into reading Star Wars books but with all this new Disney shit being canon now I have to read it all. Anyway, this book is lame and poorly written but it was interesting for the few things I learned. Namely about Rose & Paige’s Home territory Hays Minor, the First Order’s slow rise to power and subsequent take-over of many territories, and the Resistance side of Leia pleading with the New Republic for aid and the day-to-day goings ons. There was a lot of touchy-feely stuff that was just dumb but it was cool. Oh, and the graphs were good.
Soy fan de la saga y cómo me paso con los anteriores, siento que me completa la historia de las películas, además la lectura fue súper ágil. De todas formas, en esta novelización, no se introducen tantos elementos nuevos como en otras. Soy de las que disfruto la película, así que me inclino a pensar que simplemente, la novela no necesitaba agregar tantas cosas a la película. De todas formas, las novelas siempre aportan una nueva perspectiva y es lo que las hace valiosas. Esta no esta excepción. Disclosure: Claramente no puedo evitar ver la novela a la luz de la película, y de episodio IX, ya que estoy leyendo las novelas con la saga ya ”cerrada” en el cine, pero he tratado de que mi opinión se vea afectada por esto en una medida que sea justa.
This book is exactly like the movie, with a few exception.
I really wanted more from this book than I got. You would assume going into a novelization that you would get more internal dialogue, maybe some important thoughts going through character's heads in emotional scenes? While you do get some of this, most notably from Luke and Snoke, its never to the extent I wanted.
The best scenes were the scenes that weren't in the movie, clearly Jason Fry had a better time writing scenes that didn't need to correlate to a movie scene, that in describing the movie. The best I thought wereFry's writing of high emotional scenes was severely lacking and came out dry and without impact. His best writing came out in the last face off of on Crait. I thought he did his most informative writing in this part of the book. Not only do you get some insight into how strategic Kylo Ren is(when he's not a emotional mess of betrayal and rage), but also some good reflective inner dialogue from Luke, Poe, Finn, and Rose at times.
Another great element of this book was Hux's perspective, and to me, it looks like he's gearing up to perform a coup of some sort. He doesn't like Kylo Ren and see's his weaknesses, and very clearly intends to exploit them to assert himself as the man in charge. How successful this endeavor will be who knows? I also really liked getting Canady, Yoga, and Peavy's pov, its interesting to see inside the heads of these well trained First Order officers. I also loved how Luke talked about Living vs Cosmic Force, bc Kylo and Rey are still connected even after Snoke dies y'all, how is that not the Cosmic force at work? Leia was also just such a badass, whenever we got to be in her mind it was awesome and I love her.
Things I didn't like:
-Whoever edited this book clearly didn't catch the fact that spelling names as BeeBee-Ate, Ceethreepio, and Ar-Too is stupid. And it was INCONSISTENT-they would jump between BB-8 and BeeBee-Ate, like wtf? Just use their names, not the pronunciation. We all know who they're talking about.
-How we got basically zero inner dialogue in either Kylo or Rey perspective during they're force bonds. We got a tiny bit of their POV's but not as much as other characters. I really wanted more of Kylo or Rey's POV (since they are basically the two main characters) and there wasn't a lot. There was maybe only four short instances I thought were significant. And this may just be me, but just from this book I would think Ben barely cared for Rey, which is crazy because on screen its so clear how obsessed/invested in their relationship Ben is, even at the end after his temper tantrum. That just goes to show how little internalization you get from him, but maybe they're just waiting for episode IX...
-The droids and ships POV I thought were extraneous and silly. They were kind of cute, but I just thought they were unnecessary.
-the characterization of Finn and Rose throughout the entire first half. Idk what Jason Fry was thinking, but Finn was reduced to an annoying and clueless Rey-broken record, holding little to no personality or agency until the very end and even then it wasn't to the extent I saw in the movie. And Rose was jealous and mean to Finn for a long time. Idk about you, but I never thought Rose was ever JEALOUS of Rey in the movie. After her sister died, she was somehow reduced to the jealous girlfriend who hounded Finn by pointing out everything he did wrong. Later she gets much more in character, but still resides as this love smitten Finn groupie with no personality. Fry really failed in bring Finn and Rose to the page.
Overall I think its a good read for the scenes not in the movie and for those small, tiny, infrequent but important looks into some of our main characters.
P.S. Kylo is an emotional mess y'all, and he's had an unintentionally really fucked up life (), and he's still pretty scary, but I wouldn't say he's good person even though he still loves his mom. But I'm now 100% sure, based on what Rey and Snoke both discussed, that we are going to get a redemption arc for Kylo, but I think it'll have to come from him wanting to change and forge his own path. I'm so excited.
I really wanted more from this book than I got. You would assume going into a novelization that you would get more internal dialogue, maybe some important thoughts going through character's heads in emotional scenes? While you do get some of this, most notably from Luke and Snoke, its never to the extent I wanted.
The best scenes were the scenes that weren't in the movie, clearly Jason Fry had a better time writing scenes that didn't need to correlate to a movie scene, that in describing the movie. The best I thought were
Spoiler
the scene were Rey reflects after leaving Kylo WHICH WAS SOOOO GOOOOD, THAT GIRL IS WISE and Snoke's inner dialogue about Kylo and the force etc.Another great element of this book was Hux's perspective, and to me, it looks like he's gearing up to perform a coup of some sort. He doesn't like Kylo Ren and see's his weaknesses, and very clearly intends to exploit them to assert himself as the man in charge. How successful this endeavor will be who knows? I also really liked getting Canady, Yoga, and Peavy's pov, its interesting to see inside the heads of these well trained First Order officers. I also loved how Luke talked about Living vs Cosmic Force, bc Kylo and Rey are still connected even after Snoke dies y'all, how is that not the Cosmic force at work? Leia was also just such a badass, whenever we got to be in her mind it was awesome and I love her.
Things I didn't like:
-Whoever edited this book clearly didn't catch the fact that spelling names as BeeBee-Ate, Ceethreepio, and Ar-Too is stupid. And it was INCONSISTENT-they would jump between BB-8 and BeeBee-Ate, like wtf? Just use their names, not the pronunciation. We all know who they're talking about.
-How we got basically zero inner dialogue in either Kylo or Rey perspective during they're force bonds. We got a tiny bit of their POV's but not as much as other characters. I really wanted more of Kylo or Rey's POV (since they are basically the two main characters) and there wasn't a lot. There was maybe only four short instances I thought were significant. And this may just be me, but just from this book I would think Ben barely cared for Rey, which is crazy because on screen its so clear how obsessed/invested in their relationship Ben is, even at the end after his temper tantrum. That just goes to show how little internalization you get from him, but maybe they're just waiting for episode IX...
-The droids and ships POV I thought were extraneous and silly. They were kind of cute, but I just thought they were unnecessary.
-the characterization of Finn and Rose throughout the entire first half. Idk what Jason Fry was thinking, but Finn was reduced to an annoying and clueless Rey-broken record, holding little to no personality or agency until the very end and even then it wasn't to the extent I saw in the movie. And Rose was jealous and mean to Finn for a long time. Idk about you, but I never thought Rose was ever JEALOUS of Rey in the movie. After her sister died, she was somehow reduced to the jealous girlfriend who hounded Finn by pointing out everything he did wrong. Later she gets much more in character, but still resides as this love smitten Finn groupie with no personality. Fry really failed in bring Finn and Rose to the page.
Overall I think its a good read for the scenes not in the movie and for those small, tiny, infrequent but important looks into some of our main characters.
P.S. Kylo is an emotional mess y'all, and he's had an unintentionally really fucked up life (
Spoiler
like the thing about his parents talking about him behind his back, and Luke saying how he's still scared and lonely Ben hiding behind the Kylo Ren mask, and just all the daddy and uncle issues
I was disappointed in the movie and while the book does give some background information I am just not feeling it. It's nothing against Jason Fry as he was going off the story told in the film but ... Meh. I can totally see why the R3ylo shippers like it but that ship really doesn't work for me.
I'm sad I didn't like it being the big Star Wars fangirl that I am but can't like everything, I guess.
(ETA: For some reason this says I read it twice - I only read it once and I can't seem to edit the dates. Oh well. I didn't like it enough to read it twice. lol)
I'm sad I didn't like it being the big Star Wars fangirl that I am but can't like everything, I guess.
(ETA: For some reason this says I read it twice - I only read it once and I can't seem to edit the dates. Oh well. I didn't like it enough to read it twice. lol)
I was disappointed by the film The Last Jedi. I found the pacing odd, the resolutions of various plot strands disappointing, and most of all, I didn't care for Finn, Rose, Holdo, or . . . well, really anybody in the story other than Luke, Kylo, and Rey. Watching the documentary The Director and the Jedi helped me appreciate what Rian Johnson was going for in the story, but I still find the movie itself a bit of a mess.
I didn't expect much of Jason Fry's novelization, especially since novelizations of The Force Awakens and Rogue One were bland. And so I was very surprised that not only is this one of the better Star Wars books of the new canon, but it's also much better than the movie it's based on!
Any good movie novelization should add content that wasn't in the final film, whether that's scenes that were filmed and cut, or internal dialogues and motivations not visible in the film. This is where the other recent Star Wars movie novelizations fell short, because they offered so little content that was new or extra. In The Last Jedi, on the other hand, Fry frequently gives little extra moments that weren't in the film: just a little bit more dialogue, a slightly different line, a new scene, a character's thoughts. It's nothing drastically different from the film, but somehow all of this extra content made me like the story much more (not enough to want to watch the movie again, but enough to keep me interested in the next movie). Fry's pacing makes more sense to me than the movie's; each plot thread reaches its climax at the right time, coordinated with the others. Maybe that's true in the movie, too, but I was too distracted by the awfulness of several characters and their pointless missions.
As good as the novel is, it can't save Finn and Rose. They are just bad. Finn is reduced to a lovesick teenager constantly pining away for Rey; and then Rose enters the scene and becomes that same character but pining away for Finn. Holdo is also odd in the book as in the movie. Fry hints at some of her past, parts of which were covered in Claudia Gray's Leia, Princess of Alderaan. But that backstory doesn't really matter, either in the book or film version of the character. Likewise, nothing is made of Phasma's backstory, which garnered a full-length novel but now seems entirely unnecessary--weird, even, given her irrelevance in the movies.
An ongoing interesting aspect of Star Wars novels is the real-world items and words they introduce to the Star Wars galaxy. Recent novels have included, from my perspective, far too much from the real world. The Last Jedi has now, unfortunately, brought in the adjective "big-ass" (270; also in the movie), and, more strangely, "cathedral": "It lent a strange beauty to the gloomy chamber within, as if the site had been transformed into a cathedral" (289). "Temple" would make sense, but "cathedral" strikes me as too specifically from the real world.
Regardless of a few linguistic missteps, Jason Fry has a great writing style for Star Wars, and I hope he gets more assignments. Good writers in the Star Wars canon are very rare.
I didn't expect much of Jason Fry's novelization, especially since novelizations of The Force Awakens and Rogue One were bland. And so I was very surprised that not only is this one of the better Star Wars books of the new canon, but it's also much better than the movie it's based on!
Any good movie novelization should add content that wasn't in the final film, whether that's scenes that were filmed and cut, or internal dialogues and motivations not visible in the film. This is where the other recent Star Wars movie novelizations fell short, because they offered so little content that was new or extra. In The Last Jedi, on the other hand, Fry frequently gives little extra moments that weren't in the film: just a little bit more dialogue, a slightly different line, a new scene, a character's thoughts. It's nothing drastically different from the film, but somehow all of this extra content made me like the story much more (not enough to want to watch the movie again, but enough to keep me interested in the next movie). Fry's pacing makes more sense to me than the movie's; each plot thread reaches its climax at the right time, coordinated with the others. Maybe that's true in the movie, too, but I was too distracted by the awfulness of several characters and their pointless missions.
As good as the novel is, it can't save Finn and Rose. They are just bad. Finn is reduced to a lovesick teenager constantly pining away for Rey; and then Rose enters the scene and becomes that same character but pining away for Finn. Holdo is also odd in the book as in the movie. Fry hints at some of her past, parts of which were covered in Claudia Gray's Leia, Princess of Alderaan. But that backstory doesn't really matter, either in the book or film version of the character. Likewise, nothing is made of Phasma's backstory, which garnered a full-length novel but now seems entirely unnecessary--weird, even, given her irrelevance in the movies.
An ongoing interesting aspect of Star Wars novels is the real-world items and words they introduce to the Star Wars galaxy. Recent novels have included, from my perspective, far too much from the real world. The Last Jedi has now, unfortunately, brought in the adjective "big-ass" (270; also in the movie), and, more strangely, "cathedral": "It lent a strange beauty to the gloomy chamber within, as if the site had been transformed into a cathedral" (289). "Temple" would make sense, but "cathedral" strikes me as too specifically from the real world.
Regardless of a few linguistic missteps, Jason Fry has a great writing style for Star Wars, and I hope he gets more assignments. Good writers in the Star Wars canon are very rare.
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes