Honestly, I do not get io9's love affair with these books. They’re poorly written, feature more scenery porn than an a 10 foot stack of fall clothes catalogs, and don’t do a terribly good job of setting up the new EU, compared to other works being produced. The only tolerable part of them is the interludes focusing on…

I’m afraid you’re incorrect, madam/sir. Chuck Wendig is the worst sort of writer, unless you came to his other work first and just followed him into the Star Wars Universe. If that’s the case, welcome to the awesome world that is Star Wars. There’s much, much better writing to be found here, so kindly dump your Wendig…

Yeah, but see, the problem with the shame walk was that it was one of the major things that lead pretty much directly to her blowing up The Sept of Baelor. Now, while Trump isn’t the manipulator Cersei is (at least, I’m hoping he’s really as bumbling as he appears), I wouldn’t put it passed him to try to blow up the…

I don’t get the love that some people feel for Wendig. He’s a truly awful writer who gets away with crimes against the written word for reasons I truly do not understand. His use of the present tense wouldn’t be unforgivable, if it wasn’t also paired with a seemingly love affair with sentence fragments and scenery…

Why are we still letting this man write Star Wars books? Why haven’t we demanded that Lucasfilm/Disney tear up his contact and write a new one, specifically stating that he’s never again allowed to soil Star Wars with his grubby, stubby, ugly little present tense fingers?

That’s Terry Brooks. The man is a bit of a machine.

I can’t really disagree with anything you said. I’m mostly just annoyed that The Real EU is no longer the only EU. xD

Reading comprehension wasn’t your thing in school, was it? I didn’t defend the prequels (in fact I explicitly said they fell short of their potential, and implied that they had issues with execution), I said “Read the novels to see what we MIGHT’VE gotten”. The films weren’t very good, and that’s made clear in the…

It’s always great to see someone from io9 make good in the wider world. We all appreciate everything the io9 staff does, but it is definitely nice to see ya’ll get the recognition I truly think you deserve. Good luck with this new part of your life!

It’s adorable that you think a “cinematic universe” is a co-opting of fandom. When you’ve sunk 20+ years into a universe in multiple forms of media (film, television, prose and graphic literature, various flavors of games), then you can talk to me about whether or not something is co-opting fans.

Pretty much. Go read about the creation of the Original Trilogy, and one thing that shines through regardless of the source is that a lot (and I do mean A LOT) of people spent a lot (no, really, A LOT) of time saying some variation of “No, George, that’s not the best idea, let’s try THIS instead”. Also note that the…

I’ve been saying this for over a decade now (which makes me feel a little old): Read the novelizations of the prequels, and you’ll see how far short the films managed to fall. There are some things that are failures in both conception AND execution (Anakin is still a bit whiny, especially in Phantom Menace; the love…

Greed is always a lot easier to empathize with than grand plans of global domination. Greed and ambition can take good people and corrode them over time, creating a situation like Obadiah’s where he probably meant well in the beginning, but ended up in a mindset where supplying terrorists made perfect sense.

I’ve always thought that myself. It feels like one of those scenes that just sort of happened. The ones that work best, feel the most authetic, usually happen like that. People interacting (in character) in a natural manner, playing off each other the way we do in day to day life. Obadiah being damn near incoherent…

I love you. I genuinely, deeply love you for sharing this wonderful, wonderful image.

The problem with an HBO show is how would they handle the Brian/Kevin novels? Those are decent for the most part, but if they tried to weave those into the original series, you’d end up with a total clusterfuck. You could definitely do Dune as a 10 episode season, but as Sci-Fi’s take on the series showed, Dune Messiah…

I’m sorry, but Chuck “Why Did We Let This Dumbass Write Star Wars Books?” Wendig’s Aftermath series exists. Since I’m forced to deal with that fact that the Real EU is no longer a thing, you’re not allowed to ignore the crimes perpetrated against the galaxy that are those books, simply because they didn’t happen in…

The interesting thing for me is that this tech would almost certainly be applied to other facets of life, with equally circuitous results. Clearly, they’ve been doing this for quite a while (going on presentations together, doing well, “celebrating”, then forgetting the “celebration”), and just as clearly all they’re…

I cannot stop watching this, or smiling. This might be some of the most gorgeous images I’ve ever seen. This cannot be released soon enough.

Before this moment, I didn’t realize it was possible to adore someone and hate them with the burning passion of a thousand suns at the same time.