I'm not going too far into it, but my issue with Traviss is not that the Mando's see themselves as the ultimate pinacle of civilization, it is that she writes that same opinion into the non-mandos as well. From what I've heard, it is glad I did not read the Commando series, as it apparently devolves into similar style...

And as much as people are going to complain about continuity, just imagine the possibilities of having animated Mandos vs Jedi. You thought the Obi vs Jango fight was fun...

I was pleased.

techniqly boba's armor isn't Mando'a beskar, its durasteel, therefore not real mando armor. A mando himself asked fett when he was gonna get "real armor"

TBH....someone who has not read the BEST work that Traviss did within the SW universe has absolutely no ground on which to stand to decry her work. Yes, the non-Mandos in her stories tend to have a particular opinion about the Mandos, but you have to remember that those stories (presumably LOTF, if you haven't read the RC books), there's a specific feeling about the Mandos during that time. And honestly, I never felt like ANYONE thought they were the pinnacle of civilization. If anything, their home planet sucks, and all they are good for it fighting wars. They're a flawed culture at best.

And not reading the RC series simply because you don't like the author is cutting yourself SO short it's not even funny. The RC series is by far my favorite in all of SW EU right now. And in comparison, there's a HUGE difference in Traviss' writing style between the RC books and the LOTF ones. You can tell she wasn't as comfortable writing the LOTF novels.


Anyways...sorry for the off-topic rant, lol

Having finally seen the trailer for this week....we'll see. I'm still skeptical about the plans for the Mandos, as the whole "nuclear wasteland homeworld" is still a big change. And Open Season would still be all fouled up if the remainder of the Mando culture are pacifists. A whole portion of the Open Seasons storyline was based around the Death Watch being hunted down by the 'True Mandalorians' for being out of line. The 'True Mandos' in Open Seasons certainly weren't pacifists, lol. Remember, Jango Fett was Mandalore before he went to work with the Kaminoans.

Plus, if all of the story elements for Open Seasons remained intact, than I can't understand why Traviss decided to back out of her book series. From the comments she made on her blog, it sounded like there were irreconcilable differences of some sort. Guess we'll find out on Friday.

I liked Bloodlines. The other two just annoyed me all to hell. I was tempted to read the RC series, but from what I've heard, the stuff that annoyed me in her last two LOTF books starts to come out, starts to come out more. Might as well just scrap the whole series.

Man you really don't like the RC's do ya Sithborg? Your the first I've heard who doesn't. Oh well, I won't hold it against ya. Your still good in my book.

Course it's an RC book. Just messing with ya.

Hands down!

I understand, Sithborg. I sort of feel the same way about Troy Denning sometimes though too. He gets SO caught up and focused on Leia/Han it's not even funny sometimes. Everybody focuses on their favorites in their novels, it's just how it is.

Anyways...I just remembered why the CW episode is all screwed up....

Dooku and Jango defeated ALL of the Death Watch in the Open Seasons comic....BEFORE Attack of the Clones! That's why it's screwy. And, from what Travis was doing in the latest RC novel (501st, supposed to occur shortly after Order 66), none of the Mandos were even aware of any Death Watch survivors or sympathizers until after Order 66.

So, the presence of a significant number of Death Watch mandos, combined with obvious awareness of them during the Clone Wars period....just doesn't jive with the rest of the EU material so far. That could be the major difference there.

Heh, yeah, Star by Star is still one of my all-time favorites of ANY EU literature, so it's hard for me to understand why I dislike some of Dennings other stuff so much, lol. Then again, FOTJ: Abyss was absolutely awesome I thought. Oh well.

About the Mandos: Eh, we'll start to find out tomorrow I guess. I just can't imagine the cartoon meshing very well if it was enough for Traviss to have to give up any current or future SW projects because of it. She had to scrap her last RC book AND the standalone Boba Fett novel she'd been planning because of the changes the CW series were bringing about. Seems to me like there's something big we don't know about yet.

The main problem I have with Traviss' books are that she often puts Mandos as morally superior to the Jedi, even to the point where Jedi are conviced to become Mandos in the RC books. That and the conception that most Jedi are chump change to Mandos.

I realize it's just supposed to be from Mando point of view, but Boba being the best one to learn how to kill force users from is weird to me. Unless that one comic where he fights vader with a lightsaber is somehow canon to Traviss...

Mando armor and warrior culture is still awesome either way.

yay Fenn Shysa ftw!