Daala

lol...im surprised u actually had expectations of her Smile

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How could you not find the Maw Irregular Fleet cool (that's probably the reason I began to like her)? The fact that got thrown away is just one example of how they degraded the coolness they were creating for her character.
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Believe it or nt...when she was A renegade -loose cannon- Imperial...who had lost pretty much evyting...and was facing a volly of defeats...i actually had sympathy fr her...
But Her Sudden Return And Oh So Easy ReturN To The ToP...it left a sour taste=/
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I always, from JAT onward, equated Daala with a Force ability-less Palpatine, an opinion that the FOTJ series seems to have reinforced, right down to the dirty fighting power grab (Ep. III=Palpatine; FOTJ=Daala).

That said, for a non-Force sensitive villian, she's pretty skilled in her own right... She'd have to be, to reach the rank that she did, assuming the rumors within GFFA about how she reached it were fabricated, the whole thing with Tarkin.

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We've seen her with Tarkin, so I don't think the rumors are untrue... She was also with the Bothan admiral, Bwua'tu -- whom happens to be the person that nominated her for Chief of State after turning it down himself. So......
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There are only two female Imperial villians: Ysanne Isard and Natasi Daala. Daala represents to me a female stereotype. She's emotional. She's kooky. She's sleeps her way to get power. (Although, considering how anti-feminist and highly populated with males the New Order was, I might consider that a winning strategy.)

Are there any female Imperial villains not closely linked to high ranking officers? Ysanne Isard was getting cozy with Palpatine. Nyna Calixte slept with Morrish Veed. Daala had Tarkin. Love lives aren't discussed when it comes to male Imperial officers (like Pellaeon, Baron Fel, etc.) Does anyone think that Warlord Zsnji slept his way to the top? I'd rather discuss Daala's merits (or the lack thereof), not her love life.

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Daala has merits?

You do bring up a good point. I'm not sure if it was merely thoughtlessness on the part of the writers, or that they intentionally made it so that the female Imperials slept their way to the top, given that the Empire was supposedly chauvinistic, and thus focused on that instead of their merits. I'm guessing that was the focus because that's what they had to do, to gain power. For men it's not necessary, and so not the focus.
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I'm not a huge fan of Daala, but I thought she was a good villain, both in her first appearances and in Fate of the Jedi. I haven't finished the FOTJ books that are out, so I don't know what happens with her past the middle part of Conviction, but so far the writer did a good job with making her a threat, and making the reader hate her the way you are supposed to hate a villain. I loved it when

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“Daala might not be that bad,” her father said. “Give her a chance.”

Good call, Han.
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“The world is understood through metaphors. Language is a metaphor-system. Mathematics is a metaphor-system. All real-world schools of magic and religion revolve around the understanding of vast metaphor-systems, symbols as they relate to concepts."

"See, the thing is, everything everyone tells you is a lie. The truth is always bigger than the words we use to describe it."

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