I was so happy to see him return in TCW. Yeah he got overconfident in ANH, but he was such a great character and I always wanted to know more about him. You don’t get to be the only non-Sith in the top 3 of the Empire as an idiot.
I found his characterization much better in the Thrawn series of books (the new ones, which are Canon, by Timothy Zahn). Well worth the read. Though the second book isn't as strong as the first and third. It's just too hard to write Vader from a first person perspective, he's always best when viewed through the eyes of other characters.
It's excellent for making Thrawn come to life, it just conveys so much more than you could ever hope to achieve from dialogue or exposition. But I really do feel it's pointless and slightly annoying when he does the monologue thing for the other characters. Thrawn is alien in so many ways, but everyone else is just... Not. They're easy to understand motivational wise, they're not strange or different in how they think and operate and their motivations and drive is fairly plain to see. Thankfully I listened to them and Mark Thompson really makes the characters come to life and that makes it work. Still Thrawn as a character is just so well written. Truly fit to join the likes of Hari Seldon, C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes and Ender Wiggin as a masterfully crafted fictional genius.
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Album@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 2y
This politician eliminated pollution overnight! Other politicians hate him, see how he did it.
root_beer@midwest.social · 8 pts · 2y
Gives “life hack” a new meaning
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 2y
It reminds me of the Onion episode about the final solution (cars with killing spikes)
holycrap@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 2y
Bloomberg headline
root_beer@midwest.social · 19 pts · 2y
Trains were never late either.
…never said they run on time but I’m not wrong am I
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 2y
The real version of this would be the Empire erasing that it ever happened.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
He eliminated poverty!
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2y
I was referencing 1984
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 2y
I was so happy to see him return in TCW. Yeah he got overconfident in ANH, but he was such a great character and I always wanted to know more about him. You don’t get to be the only non-Sith in the top 3 of the Empire as an idiot.
I read his novel but found it just okay.
ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com · 10 pts · 2y
I found his characterization much better in the Thrawn series of books (the new ones, which are Canon, by Timothy Zahn). Well worth the read. Though the second book isn't as strong as the first and third. It's just too hard to write Vader from a first person perspective, he's always best when viewed through the eyes of other characters.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
I’m actually trying to slog through the 2nd one right now and yeah, the story isn’t bad but all the internal monologue is slow going for sure.
ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com · 6 pts · 2y
It's excellent for making Thrawn come to life, it just conveys so much more than you could ever hope to achieve from dialogue or exposition. But I really do feel it's pointless and slightly annoying when he does the monologue thing for the other characters. Thrawn is alien in so many ways, but everyone else is just... Not. They're easy to understand motivational wise, they're not strange or different in how they think and operate and their motivations and drive is fairly plain to see. Thankfully I listened to them and Mark Thompson really makes the characters come to life and that makes it work. Still Thrawn as a character is just so well written. Truly fit to join the likes of Hari Seldon, C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes and Ender Wiggin as a masterfully crafted fictional genius.
chatokun@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Ooh, new Zahn books?
ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com · 3 pts · 2y
New as in not the ones from the 90s but the ones from 17-19 :)
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 2y
Hexbear be like
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 2y
Hexbear when China eliminates journalism
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Their carbon footprint gone, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in support and were suddenly appeased.
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
No one complained so that must have been what happened
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
Sometimes I wonder what the motivations are
weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
He also reduced Alderann to 0 soooo Angry rebel noises
chatokun@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
In the distant future, the year 2000:
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Surely the problem of employment is below him as a Grand Moff. Shouldn't the planetary governors deal with it?
root_beer@midwest.social · 3 pts · 2y
A real leader isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty from time to time
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
The planetary governors are all incompetent. He had to take steps.
tacotroubles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
But no one on alderaan is working any more? Thats 100% unenployment? Sad. many such cases
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
But no one is suffering from poverty!
tacotroubles@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Ahh finally equality!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Left the labor pool. No unemployment. Kind of like dividing by zero
moody@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 2y
You got it all wrong. Nobody on Alderaan is unemployed.
peg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Israeli objective identified.
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
enlightened centrism
...or something.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Mitchell and Webb — Kill All the Poor
spez@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Really loved Cushing in The Hound of Baskervilles.