One Week Post-Employment
Oct. 22nd, 2004 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedibuttercupI finished Splinter of the Mind's Eye this morning. Hnh. Well written, but some of the events made me go "Wha ...?" You can definitely tell it was written before the second and third movies came out.
Luke spent a lot of time mooning over Leia ... *shudder* ... and Vader acted with total disregard for Luke's last name or relation to him. I suppose one could theorize that Skywalker might be a relatively common last name and that even if Vader did know Luke was his son already, he at first expected Luke to be more inconvenience than anything else, until he realized just how much power the boy had.
Where were Han and Chewie when all of this was going on, I wonder? In The Ruins of Dantooine, set a few months earlier, they were making the rounds of other smugglers trying to persuade them why working for the Rebellion would be profitable. Which is amusing, considering what happened a year or two before that, in Rebel Dawn! I suppose I'd have to check the old comics series to find the original explanation. And what happened to the Kaiburr crystal after the book ended? Something that powerful would have turned up again; I hope one of the other EU writers mentions it at some point. Which reminds me, it's a good thing Leia never actually touched the thing, or when she later turns out to be Force sensitive a pretty contorted sequence of reasoning would be required to explain why she never reacted to it. Her persistently not being aware of the Force in general is troublesome enough as it is.
It's also unintentionally amusing, I suppose, that Vader knew all the shut-down commands for R2D2 and C3PO in the book; Foster could have had no way of imagining that he had a rather extensive acquaintance with those particular droids in the past. And Luke cut off Vader's hand ... So Vader wasn't being cruel on Bespin, he was just retaliating in kind ... and they both must've been experiencing some déjà vu in that scene in "Return of the Jedi" ... *rolling eyes*
Heh. Anyway. I finished up the work on my website this afternoon, and then cracked open The Empire Strikes Back. It stuck closer to the film version than the novelization of A New Hope did, though there were still a few noticeable differences; Luke's training scenes on Dagobah were a little differently laid out, and the famous "I love you" / "I know" exchange was a bit longer. It went instead: "I love you. I couldn't tell you before, but it's true." / "Just remember that, because I'll be back." I think they were right to abbreviate that one on-screen; it certainly upped the dramatic quotient.
On to Shadows of the Empire next. And ... *wince* ... I really need to do my bills. I've been keeping up with payments, but I knew I had a few hundred dollars' cushion so I hadn't input my checkbook to Quickbooks in about three months. Now, though, I really need an accurate figure on what's in my account if I'm to budget properly over the next several weeks.
Oh, and I'd better call Mom to tell her I forgot to watch Survivor and CSI last night. If I'm lucky, it was one of my brother's worknights and she taped it for him to watch. *smacking forehead* Now that I'm not required to get up at a particular hour of the morning, my internal clock is rapidly resetting itself to its natural rhythm, which involves getting up around 11 AM and going to sleep at 4 AM. It's throwing my sense of timing all out of alignment.
Luke spent a lot of time mooning over Leia ... *shudder* ... and Vader acted with total disregard for Luke's last name or relation to him. I suppose one could theorize that Skywalker might be a relatively common last name and that even if Vader did know Luke was his son already, he at first expected Luke to be more inconvenience than anything else, until he realized just how much power the boy had.
Where were Han and Chewie when all of this was going on, I wonder? In The Ruins of Dantooine, set a few months earlier, they were making the rounds of other smugglers trying to persuade them why working for the Rebellion would be profitable. Which is amusing, considering what happened a year or two before that, in Rebel Dawn! I suppose I'd have to check the old comics series to find the original explanation. And what happened to the Kaiburr crystal after the book ended? Something that powerful would have turned up again; I hope one of the other EU writers mentions it at some point. Which reminds me, it's a good thing Leia never actually touched the thing, or when she later turns out to be Force sensitive a pretty contorted sequence of reasoning would be required to explain why she never reacted to it. Her persistently not being aware of the Force in general is troublesome enough as it is.
It's also unintentionally amusing, I suppose, that Vader knew all the shut-down commands for R2D2 and C3PO in the book; Foster could have had no way of imagining that he had a rather extensive acquaintance with those particular droids in the past. And Luke cut off Vader's hand ... So Vader wasn't being cruel on Bespin, he was just retaliating in kind ... and they both must've been experiencing some déjà vu in that scene in "Return of the Jedi" ... *rolling eyes*
Heh. Anyway. I finished up the work on my website this afternoon, and then cracked open The Empire Strikes Back. It stuck closer to the film version than the novelization of A New Hope did, though there were still a few noticeable differences; Luke's training scenes on Dagobah were a little differently laid out, and the famous "I love you" / "I know" exchange was a bit longer. It went instead: "I love you. I couldn't tell you before, but it's true." / "Just remember that, because I'll be back." I think they were right to abbreviate that one on-screen; it certainly upped the dramatic quotient.
On to Shadows of the Empire next. And ... *wince* ... I really need to do my bills. I've been keeping up with payments, but I knew I had a few hundred dollars' cushion so I hadn't input my checkbook to Quickbooks in about three months. Now, though, I really need an accurate figure on what's in my account if I'm to budget properly over the next several weeks.
Oh, and I'd better call Mom to tell her I forgot to watch Survivor and CSI last night. If I'm lucky, it was one of my brother's worknights and she taped it for him to watch. *smacking forehead* Now that I'm not required to get up at a particular hour of the morning, my internal clock is rapidly resetting itself to its natural rhythm, which involves getting up around 11 AM and going to sleep at 4 AM. It's throwing my sense of timing all out of alignment.
