I want to extend the same thanks back to you, while I do a lot of meta-into-the-void on tumblr, there really hasn't been much back-and-forth because of the structure of the site limitations, so this has been an absolute delight to get to talk to you in more depth like this!
Servants of the Empire is a bit of a tough read, I admit, the first one took me ages to finish because there was so very much time spent on space football and I got so bored during those parts. It picked up after that, but I lost a lot of momentum with them. (I have trouble with the YA books that aren't about movie-centric characters. This is why Join the Resistance has been languishing for me as well. If they'd just get audiobooks--!)
Do you know what I would really love to see more of? Aftermath touched on it a little (in a way that kind of made me sad), but I would love to know more about how Naboo fared under the Empire. We got a few glimpses during Leia: Princess of Alderaan when she went to visit Typho, but there wasn't really much from the perspective of the Naboo people. We know later they tore down statues of Palpatine and they ostracized Jar Jar because they blamed him for helping Palpatine's rise to power, but how did they fare during the Empire? I'd love to know!
Yeah after the clone wars I think they would have loved to get their responsibilities diminished, back to just keeping the peace or even just meditating and teaching.
It really seems like this what they were going for. They were in constant triage mode during the war, Jedi were dying in this war, in a way they never had before, the darkness was a constant press upon their psychic brains, and yet they really had no choice, because otherwise it meant trillions of people would suffer if they didn't. So, they were just trying to get through this war and that meant they slipped sometimes, they made mistakes, because I think the sheer weight of what was pressing down on them gets really underplayed sometimes.
In a better universe, that weight would have been lifted off them and they could go back to being hippie monks who liked to sit under waterfalls and feel the universe move around and through them. I think that's what they desperately wanted, to be able to back to just being able to breathe again, to heal and recover from all of this, to actually be able to stop and look around and take care of more subtle problems, because, FINALLY, EVERYTHING WASN'T ON FIRE FOR FIVE MINUTES NOW.
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Servants of the Empire is a bit of a tough read, I admit, the first one took me ages to finish because there was so very much time spent on space football and I got so bored during those parts. It picked up after that, but I lost a lot of momentum with them. (I have trouble with the YA books that aren't about movie-centric characters. This is why Join the Resistance has been languishing for me as well. If they'd just get audiobooks--!)
Do you know what I would really love to see more of? Aftermath touched on it a little (in a way that kind of made me sad), but I would love to know more about how Naboo fared under the Empire. We got a few glimpses during Leia: Princess of Alderaan when she went to visit Typho, but there wasn't really much from the perspective of the Naboo people. We know later they tore down statues of Palpatine and they ostracized Jar Jar because they blamed him for helping Palpatine's rise to power, but how did they fare during the Empire? I'd love to know!
Yeah after the clone wars I think they would have loved to get their responsibilities diminished, back to just keeping the peace or even just meditating and teaching.
It really seems like this what they were going for. They were in constant triage mode during the war, Jedi were dying in this war, in a way they never had before, the darkness was a constant press upon their psychic brains, and yet they really had no choice, because otherwise it meant trillions of people would suffer if they didn't. So, they were just trying to get through this war and that meant they slipped sometimes, they made mistakes, because I think the sheer weight of what was pressing down on them gets really underplayed sometimes.
In a better universe, that weight would have been lifted off them and they could go back to being hippie monks who liked to sit under waterfalls and feel the universe move around and through them. I think that's what they desperately wanted, to be able to back to just being able to breathe again, to heal and recover from all of this, to actually be able to stop and look around and take care of more subtle problems, because, FINALLY, EVERYTHING WASN'T ON FIRE FOR FIVE MINUTES NOW.