Not so much Darth Vader more...Daddy Vader

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Last year I posted some images from Jeffrey Brown's instant classic Darth Vader and Son

Though it was enjoyed, there was some comment that what it needed was some acknowledgement of Lei as his daughter...

Well, those fine folks over at Newsarama have an interview with the author as his latest work comes out




Rather than looking at the younger years as they did with Luke, Leia's a little bit older in this... as Darth Vader, Lord of the Sith realises that the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of having a daughter.

Not that it's always easy for her either...




But some boundaries need to be set....



And Luke isn't finding it all plain sailing either...



I don't want to have to wait until April 23 for this, I want it NOW DAMMIT!!

 

Comments

[bj_l]

Oh, I understand that. I just love espousing the virtues of Stovers Star Wars novels. He's only done three of them; they're good. The ROTS novel, a Mace Windu novel, and a NJO novel.

Absolutely agree about the wasted cast. I keep forgetting that Portman can actually act. Jackson doesn't bother me as much because he's just been playing 'Sammy Motherfucking J' for a decade or more now. My biggest problem with the cast was hands down Anakin. Not because of his acting, I didn't find it all that bad (even the awful love dialogue in ATOC is 'poetic' teen awful it fits, even though it shouldn't because it's meant to be serious), it was the lack of charisma. I always figured even sullen and whiny, he should still be kind of charming. There should have been a spark that I could see was *meant* to be there with Anakin in TPM, but just never was. And i really don't know if that was the actors or Lucas or everyone doing their darndest to make Anakin irritating.

I would totally, 100% fall in line with Palpatine, because of McDiarmid. I imagine it would be like waking up to the smell of fresh ham every morning. Charming, fun, lightning shooting ham.

(Also, I have never laughed at Yoda/Dooku duel, and I was kind of surprised to hear so many people did. It made me feel like I was missing something by actually enjoying it haha)

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I, sadly, can't take the Yoda/Dooku duel seriously having seen, in 1996, the Kermit/Tim Curry sword fight in "Muppet Treasure Island"

[mrstatham]

For me, it's just how much Yoda bounced around. Like the guy barely moves throughout the entire film, looks like he's hobbling when he does walk, and/or uses his little hoverchair doodad. And in Empire - Which can barely be about twenty years after Sith, surely, he's seriously old and hobbling.

I always just got the feeling that Force-users like Yoda and the Emperor were basically so powerful in their use of the Force that they didn't feel the need for lightsabers, and to see the two of them leaping about and swinging swords like they're Obi-Wan or Anakin's age, it was just bizarre. I mean, I thought the Emperor doing it was great because McDiarmid is just blatantly having fun, but otherwise.. Yeah. It just felt off, to me.

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Yoda marshall's his strength reserves I suppose, he might have had to rest for a month and a half after the Dooku duel because he's used up all his energy. Plus without other Jedi around, and probably feeling desperately guilty about the whole "missing the Sith Lord and his apprentices who were under our noses" thing I can see him going downhill fast.

And yeah, another thing that making Darth a daddy to Luke and Leia always made slightly odd is that it meant he couldn't be much more than in his mid 40's at most.