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Hmm. I'm going to have to disagree with your idea about why people like LOTF. I am proof against it. I had read Thrawn, I' Jedi, Hand of Thrawn, NJO, Dark Nest and then LOTF, yet I still liked it. Instead, I believe it's a case of people who read it as it was released, or those who took a long break between each book, next to people who read the series all in one go.
The people who read it as it was released had months to cement opinions, ferment thoughts and ideas, whereas those who read each book directly after the other, had no such time to have 'rebellious thoughts'. We, or at least I, have seen this happening with the current series. A lot of people who've read it as it's been released have had time to dissect it for all the flaws, whereas the people who are just catching up quite like the series. |
Well, I thought Betrayal was really good, and I also enjoyed Bloodlines when I read it. Then in Tempest I noticed that Jacen's characterization was completely different and it turned me off and I didn't start reading again until Revelation was out, then I read from Exile to Revelation all at once, and at that point I didn't read Invincible until it had been released in paperback for a few months, basically before I read Outcast.
I'd be inclined to think that reading them all at once would actually be worse for the series because of the jarring changes in characterization that accompany most of the books. Reading them over long periods of time would make one more likely to forget that sort of stuff.
And I didn't dislike LOTF so much as I was just bored with it when I was first reading it. The plot induced character stupidity was extremely annoying. And I felt like I was just reading a rehash of the film saga, condensed into a really short period of time.
Honestly, my recognition of Jacen as the next hero character in the NJO probably didn't really come until after LOTF was finished, and then re-reading it all I realized what they had done. I think my first reading of the books NJO through LOTF was pretty superficial when it came to the themes and the deeper stuff with Vergere, and it wasn't until I read them on a deeper level that I came to the realization. I didn't care that Betrayal revealed that Vergere was allegedly a Sith apprentice when I first read it, nor did I attempt to sort out that convoluted backstory retcon and realize how ridiculous it was at the time. I also didn't notice the absolute shift if Jacen's character from NJO to Dark Nest that is JINO.
I think the whole Vergere thing and JINO thing is the core of why people dislike LOTF, which is why I theorized reading NJO later changes one's opinion of LOTF. If people already read LOTF when they read NJO, Vergere's stuff is already tainted in their mind, and Jacen's actions in that series are viewed through an entirely different lens -- which I think ruins the series. I could actually write a much longer post about why I think LOTF ruins the NJO series, especially if one reads LOTF before NJO, but I'm already overly verbose as it is.
Plus killing Mara Jade for shock value and, in my opinion, because they felt it was necessary to keep that up after the NJO did it.
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You're totally correct, my Queen.
