• Whenever I hear people complain about Luke falling,

it is always from people who hasn't read the comics,
just assuming it doesn't make sense. I'm surprised to
hear the same from those who actually have read
them.*

You shouldn't be. DE was one of the most polarizing stories of the EU, and many felt that it started off the whole thing on the wrong foot.

I was reading the JAT way back in the day, and no idea what the reborn Emperor thing was, let alone that it was a comic. And once I figured that out, I had no idea where to even get such a thing. I actually ended up shelling out $30 for the DE Sourcebook from WEG! (Hey, I was like 15.) You have to recall that in the 90's bookstores were not carrying trade collections... At least not the dinky mall bookstores, which was all we had in my corner of suburbia at the time. And I had a comic store, but it closed due to the Marvel distribution brouhaha. (That might have been right after I found out about the comic... Or it might not. To be honest I have no memory of where or how I found the actual DE.) I was pretty ignorant back then, and I don't think we had the internet yet so I was on my own.

As for the comic itself, I wish Infinities had been an option back in the day... I like Dark Luke stories, but that one... Meh. It wasn't worth half the trouble.

Sue,

Are you guys ever going to go back to putting the "Star Wars Novels Timeline" back in the fronts of the books?

Personally, it was a very useful bit of information.

As always, thanks again for all your time:)

Then there might be simple preference. Or finances. Face it, following the entire continuity is an expensive venture, and comics are even more expensive than novels, due to the higher quality of paper, etc. There could be any number of reasons that don't equate to elitism.

I think that even with the decision to make the comics and the novels a single continuity (which is very cool and admirable), there should have been a greater effort to maintain internal consistency within the media without the need to "cross over." Readers of comics should be able to pick up a book and think, "Wow, this really fits with what I've read," and vice versa, but no one should have to pick up a story and think "Huh? This makes no sense given what we know."

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*The problem with novel readers being confused with
the events of DE was that they didn't read comics,
either because they hadn't gotten around to them yet
fair enough) or because they were elitist and
thought that comics were beneath them, the realm of
children's fare. *

I read DE way back when those events started being referenced in the books. I think that the whole DE story should be buried with the "Glove of Darth Vader" series of books as far as continuity. It's just totally implausible. Luke stands up to the Emperor in ROTJ and didn't fall, yet he just changes his mind later? C'mon. Same thing with Legacy. The original Jedi Order survived for 1,000 generations, but Luke's Jedi only survive for 100?

The problem with novel readers being confused with the events of DE was that they didn't read comics, either because they hadn't gotten around to them yet (fair enough) or because they were elitist and thought that comics were beneath them, the realm of children's fare. No doubt many of these same people aren't watching the animated series for similar reasons.

I don't think rewarding such narrow-minded elitism is the answer.

As regards Lumiya, seeing her again (and in a novel) was one of the greatest rewards that LFL could've given this old SW fan!

I guess the point I was trying to get across is that this whole situation shouldn't be taken as seriously as everyone is making it out to be. Eventually, they'll come around. Ostrander and the rest brought them in for the sole purpose that none of the novel authors had any plans for them...so, to me, it would seem that there are no plans to use them in the foreseeable future.

But I agree, eventually they may bring them in to the NJO. I'm just not expecting them to.

Just because they haven't been mentioned doesn't mean they are not already part of Luke's order. Things can happen "off screen" so to speak.

that's not Karen Miller's fault. She's a newcomer to the universe who's work should be weighed on its own merits.

Hear, hear.

The whole reason Legacy authors used them is because the novel authors did not, and do not have any plans for them. They didn't want to mess with the novels' timeline/continuity/plans, as Ostrander says, so they used 2 old Jedi that would otherwise have been overlooked by the NJO. Plus, he also says that Yoda or Luke would not have sensed them because they were not drawing on the Force or acting as Jedi.

But, of course, that is not to say that the novel authors won't use them, it's always possible - they're just not really obligated to do so. Either way, I wouldn't mind, I just wanted to know why they chose K'kruhk and T'raa in the first place, and what impact this would have on the novels... which would appear to be none.

I'm sure the novel authors know this. I just don't think it would happen (if it does at all) any time soon.