Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
I hated them both. Neither felt like "Star Wars" to me.
Have to disagree there. Pace, flavor, atmosphere, phrasing of dialogue...all very Star Wars like. Dialogue especially he really did extremely well, he managed to bring out each character unchanged from the movie, but at the same time none of the painful cheesiness that the movie dialogue suffered from. "No he did NOT say duck. He said get ready to duck. I would think the difference would be apparent even to you." I can't imagine a better representation of 3PO talking to R2.
Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
The new movies may suck, but at least they feel like Star Wars, warts and all.
Not at all. The old ones had much epic atmosphere, and suggested a universe of interesting possibilities through characters like Solo--which Zahn did a great job building off of. The new ones are cheap action flicks at best, complete with poorly done comic relief. And enormously misplaced and incoherent references to the originals. Boba Fett's dad? Please.
The new ones have a level of wartage that the originals could not hope to achieve.
Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
My eye sockets hurt from all the eye rolling when, for the upteenth time, Thrawn figured out what the good guys were going to do because he studied their artwork. Hoo boy.
Nothing wrong in that. SW was never about intricate plot twists and turns...that's not what makes it appealing. Like the Force itself, you don't examine that kind of stuff too closely anyway in SW. Phillip K Dick it ain't...but it's good nonetheless, for other reasons.
