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Date: 2012-03-01 11:15 am (UTC)Whoa...! So subtle I missed it! Where's that?
> Hell, that’s why George Lucas made A New Hope first, he knew if he started with Episode I he’d never be able to complete the series.
I always assumed one reason was that in the 70s doing the droid armies would have been impossible. But I guess they could have been done, they'd have just looked like people in suits...
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Date: 2012-03-01 11:23 am (UTC)Darth Plagueis is Darth Sidious/The Emperor's master, and we know that Anakin was born without a father. Putting two and two together...
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Date: 2012-03-01 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-01 04:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 04:22 pm (UTC)http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Plagueis
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Date: 2012-03-01 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-03 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 12:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 12:21 pm (UTC)The creator of the Machete order is arguing that the main plot arc of the series is centred on Luke. If you agree with that, then missing I makes perfect sense. However, if you think that the main plot arc of the series is centred on Anakin, then it makes more sense to include I.
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Date: 2012-03-01 12:47 pm (UTC)… but that may because I wanted to drop kick Anakin as portrayed as a small boy and I find anyone who has both access to Jar Jar Binks and light sabre and doesn’t combine the two in some creative, painful and de-earing ways to be morally bankrupt.
I think I to III were badly handled and it detracts from where I focus my attention.
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Date: 2012-03-01 12:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 01:37 pm (UTC)I think the story of how a cute wee boy who likes fast things nearly become evil - *just like his dad* will be right up his street.
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Date: 2012-03-01 12:24 pm (UTC)http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php?t=3562
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Date: 2012-03-01 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 01:38 pm (UTC)So many ways to enjoy those books.
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Date: 2012-03-01 02:31 pm (UTC)(You have to read Taltos twice, first reading the chapters and then reading the chapter openings; you have to read Yendi in between passes through Dragon....)
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Date: 2012-03-01 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 04:31 pm (UTC)(i) I advise people to start with the Cordelia books if they think they'd prefer those or want to read the whole series anyway, but give them the first Miles book if they think they'd prefer a Miles book to a Cordelia book and aren't sure they'll read everything
(ii) I advise people to start with Warrior's Apprentice, with the warning that the later books are about more mature characters, but are less awesome if you don't already know the characters.
(iii) I generally think the short stories and stand-alone novels can go anywhere in the middle. (Although it's obviously better if the short stories are slotted in somewhere chronologically valid.)
(iv) I don't like Cetaganda as much as some of the others (though the worldbuilding is awesome), so I sometimes try to squeeze some of the short stories, or even the Brothers books, in first.
(v) It's probably self evident, but read Memory through to Civil Campaign chronologically and probably consecutively.
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Date: 2012-03-01 04:32 pm (UTC)I highly recommend them.
Date: 2012-03-01 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 06:21 pm (UTC)ETA: I also highly recommend them, as you may have gathered from the fangirling on my LJ ;)
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Date: 2012-03-01 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-02 01:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-02 10:24 am (UTC)Lizzie xx
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Date: 2012-03-02 10:36 am (UTC)Machete order
Date: 2012-03-02 06:06 pm (UTC)Re: Machete order
Date: 2012-03-02 06:17 pm (UTC)But then I don't worship IV-VI, and so the fact that II and III are just passable action movies doesn't bother me much :->