Well, I dried out my coffee soiled notes...kinda.
I have dried off my notes and, coffee stained though they are, I have managed to decrypt what I had written...for the most part. The rest I am kind of winging.
OK, I may need to re-assess what I said in an earlier post about The Clone Wars movie. The reason? Karen Traviss. I am up to Chapter 9 at the moment and she has done a brilliant job of fleshing out the characters, especially Anakin Skywalker. She takes us inside his head and shows us the dark thoughts lurking there. She keeps taking him back to the massacre of the Tusken/Sand People's village in Attack of the Clones. Whilst he gives his body to the Force to help him cut a swath through countless battle droids, his mind imagines them as Tuskens. Pretty black for a story aimed at children, but it makes perfect sense. Her prose isn't overly descriptive as what actually happened, but it leaves you in no doubt that even before he falls Skywalker is a child killer. Think of that the next time you proclaim Darth Vader is your favourite Star Wars character.
I also find Traviss really good at describing the action and battle sequences whilst keeping the writing sparse, but easy to kept track of. If you can remember as far back as the original X-Box there was a game called Star Wars: Republic Commando. Traviss wrote the tie-in book, Hard Target and followed it up with a few sequels. I read them and thoroughly enjoyed them. If I can get beyond the canon books, I may get around to reading them again.
I have to say, as with the other novelisations I have read so far, Traviss is restricted by the script and the dialogue from the script. Which is a shame, as I feel given a brief outline and free reign she could have done wonders with this. This is shaping up well and is just falling behind the Attack of the Clones and The Phantom Menace.
OK, I may need to re-assess what I said in an earlier post about The Clone Wars movie. The reason? Karen Traviss. I am up to Chapter 9 at the moment and she has done a brilliant job of fleshing out the characters, especially Anakin Skywalker. She takes us inside his head and shows us the dark thoughts lurking there. She keeps taking him back to the massacre of the Tusken/Sand People's village in Attack of the Clones. Whilst he gives his body to the Force to help him cut a swath through countless battle droids, his mind imagines them as Tuskens. Pretty black for a story aimed at children, but it makes perfect sense. Her prose isn't overly descriptive as what actually happened, but it leaves you in no doubt that even before he falls Skywalker is a child killer. Think of that the next time you proclaim Darth Vader is your favourite Star Wars character.
I also find Traviss really good at describing the action and battle sequences whilst keeping the writing sparse, but easy to kept track of. If you can remember as far back as the original X-Box there was a game called Star Wars: Republic Commando. Traviss wrote the tie-in book, Hard Target and followed it up with a few sequels. I read them and thoroughly enjoyed them. If I can get beyond the canon books, I may get around to reading them again.
I have to say, as with the other novelisations I have read so far, Traviss is restricted by the script and the dialogue from the script. Which is a shame, as I feel given a brief outline and free reign she could have done wonders with this. This is shaping up well and is just falling behind the Attack of the Clones and The Phantom Menace.
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