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I like Corran much better as a Jedi than I did as a pilot. He's more mature as a person: he's less suspicious and less arrogant. He recognized that he was very competitive, and liked to be the best, but it took quite a while for him to learn to be a good team player. There were times when it had to be beaten into him pretty hard. In the early Rogue Squadron novels, he's just too ready to make assumptions about people, and frequently too stubborn to listen when told he's wrong.
His case wasn't helped, for me, by his introduction. I was thrilled when I learned that Bantam had taken my suggestion and produced a book about Wedge and Rogue Squadron. A whole book with Wedge as the central character ! So I bought it, started reading, and instead of Wedge, the POV character was this show-off, Corran Horn. The whole of the first chapter was about this never-heard-of-him-before character who thinks he's a better pilot than almost everyone. He didn't go away either. I wanted more Wedge, but instead we got this hot pilot, pestered by beautiful women, who had a souped-up droid stuffed with useful extra programming that helped him to solve problems for the squadron. Oh, and it turns out he's a potential Jedi.
Fortunately, Corran doesn't always take himself too seriously and can admit to being in the wrong. He still got preferential treatment from Stackpole though, which grates. During the Bacta War, Rogue Squadron distinguished themselves from the NR by giving their X-wings personalized paintjobs. Afterwards, the X-wings are restored to Alliance grey, apart from Corran's. His fighter is still in CorSec colours three years later. Technically, the fighter is Corran's personal property, but the special paintjob still seems less like Corran asserting his individuality, and more like the author shouting 'Hey, this guy's special !"
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