The problem isn’t so much Obi-Wan was like ‘Your dad’s a serial killer’ on first meeting. (Setting aside of course he didn’t know that when ANH was written, just like they can’t tell Luke in ESB Leia’s his sister since that’s not decided until writing for ROTJ.) It’s that he and Yoda spend the next movie sort of…

If the new-canon’s goal is for me to just really wish someone at some point wakes up to discover it was all just a dream and we’re actually halfway through “Dark Force Rising”....well played. Otherwise...please let this be the last Wendig book.

Thrawn being sidelined was less about his being alien (it’s hard to remember now, but Zahn was writing largely in a vacuum that had the original trilogy and nothing else and he could have gone any direction-heck, he casually makes Star Destroyer crews mixed-sex on page three of Heir to the Empire, even is Anderson…

I’m pretty sure that the Interdictor originally came from the West End Games sourcebooks. Zahn says in the annotated HTTE that most of the technology he mentions came from the gaming material that Lucasfilm sent him. He initially was annoyed, but discovered that it was very useful to have the ships and weapons…

Star Wars/Babylon 5 = OTP.

I felt like knowing Hera’s identity was more about making Thrawn look smart by making the other Imperials flipping idiots, which seems to be a thing with Rebels (seriously, he’s supposed to be smart because he’s a strategic and tactical genius, not because he’s the only one in the room with a three-digit IQ.) His…

It’s a short story about red shirts with no character development. I know more about the characters in “Saving Private Ryan” than these people. The X-wing novels in Legends were for the most part about ‘not the big heroes’ and yet they managed to establish more than “Here are the samurai analogues. Here is the…

Actually Rey clearly had Force training in her past she’s forgotten, is very explicitly more than she knows, it’s established why she can fight (she’d be dead growing up if she hadn’t learned to defend herself) and has an arc. You pegged a big problem I have with Jyn-we never see why or how she gets to be a fighter…