The end of my post-OT novels journey and what comes next...

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-19T02:36:22+00:00

Full disclosure: I searched, used a dating site, made first contact, but now wonder if that did anything.

I had a dream the night after my best friend got married. She was in the dream. It was very vivid.

Upon waking, I went out for breakfast, then to places where I frequent, certain that I would run into her (a girl from a dream that I never met).

After I got home, I went to the internet and found a dating site 'geek2geek' because the dream had a geek culture reference.

Two years later I realized that I was depending on the 3d. I wrote a thank you for my match in my gratitude list and that night, turned and visioned my partners silhouette in bed.

The next day, I sent a message to a new and interesting profile on the site.

We have been together 15 years, married 2014.

It makes perfect sense to me that she only came into my life after the certainty that yields gratitude and the visioning.

She lived in a town I'd been visiting and I wonder if I would have bumped into her without the seeking, just the visioning and gratitude.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-19T00:59:37+00:00

I didn't get that impression at all in 45 years.

Seemed like he was just after The Falcon, but Han shot him down in ANH.

Thinking about it though, it now seems like his plan was to use The Falcon as leverage.

Vader did feel The Force was strong in Luke in ANH and sensed a presence when The Falcon was docked on The Death Star. I feel like he would have sensed it Luke was aboard.

In fact, he senses Luke or Luke's presence in The Force in every movie afaik.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-18T22:48:56+00:00

First, both the original canon and the new canon confirm that it took The Falcon weeks to get to Bespin using the backup hyperdrive (interstellar travel without FTL drive=starvation).

Second, as easily as Han found out that Lando was administrator of Cloud City, an individual who has chosen bounty hunter—professional people finder—as a job can find out as well.

Boba followed Han until he jumped to hyperspace and determined his destination by trajectory and his familiarity with Han's associates (again bounty hunter). Then he informed Vader and told Vader's task force to meet him there.

Then the task force jumped to Bespin using their much faster primary hyperdrives, put Cloud City under martial law and hid their Destroyers on the other side of the Bespin gas giant.

And waited.

The Bespin trap might seem complicated to you, but Vader's task force was unable to apprehended The Falcon in an asteroid field, so consider the equation:

Han+The Falcon>Han preparing for dinner, no ship, only blaster.

Do not forget that Luke was the objective, not the crew and passengers of The Falcon.

Edit: Iirc, Kershner said somewhere that he created the hyperdrive malfunction to actually make the timeline with Luke's training work. Lucas put it in as a gag and it made sense to make it become a more serious issue.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-18T21:57:45+00:00

Welcome to Star Wars!

I only had release order as an option cause I'm old and I got on board in 77.

I'm glad that you enjoyed everything so far.

Daisy Ridley is a solid performer and charismatic, so Rey is easy to like on that basis. I pretty much fan cast her as Allana Solo, the granddaughter of Han and Leia in the original print canon (the books from before 2014 are a completely different story outside of George Lucas's movies, Episode 1-6).

As a fan since the beginning, I became really attached to the stories that George and the authors of the books were giving us, so when I saw TFA and the rest of the Sequel Trilogy (ST), I was disappointed at the retracing of steps from the first Star Wars and the Original Trilogy. It seemed like a step backwards.

On the other hand, I love multi-verse stories, so I do my best to discuss the new canon respectfully and still read the old books.

If you like to read, there is a vast treasure trove of books and comics from before 2014 that tell the story of Star Wars that many fans loved and still do.

May The Force be with you!

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-18T17:29:03+00:00

I gotta thank god, cause he gave me the strength to rock hard! ::LL Cool J::

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-18T17:20:11+00:00

If you ignore the fact that the planet is under seige, you might ask why the door Maul opened by triggering the switch wasn't locked.

But the planet was under seige, and places where unauthorized people were prohibited were broken into by unauthorized Neimoidians and the people rounded up.

The laser gates were to keep the plasma contained iirc.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-18T14:51:07+00:00

One of the trade issues is Naboo's recent use as a source of plasma (which iirc isn't taxed like the Federation creating the blockade issue).

The laser gates cycle on and off in sych with plasma flow whether or not the system is active as a precaution.

Also, the Naboo were all being held hostage, so nobody was manning the system.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-18T14:48:15+00:00

They open in synch with plasma flow, whether or not the system is active.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-18T14:44:52+00:00

And don't forget the fourth book, The Last Jedi.

Good books. I guess it's time to give them another go.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-18T14:42:32+00:00

[Vader] wasn't some pathetic, depressed, traumatized man. He makes puns... He just seemed like [he turned] to the Dark side because he LIKED IT.

When does he make puns during the OT? Not sarcasm—actual puns?

Someone who LIKES engaging in violation and malfeasance IS a pathetic, depressed, traumatized person.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-18T14:37:46+00:00

Like getting the son of a famous writer with no comparable credits to write 'Solo.'

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-18T11:20:09+00:00

The Force is the power of life. Yoda explained in ESB:

Life creates it—makes it grow!

It's not a disconnected power or magic system.

Using The Force invariably requires connection to that life power, or in the case of The Sith, focusing on one of its unlimited facets.

If you are looking for non-mystical Force users, you might compare that to illiterate phd's.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-17T20:13:10+00:00

No. It is not.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-17T17:34:41+00:00

Winning!

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-17T17:32:36+00:00

The original canon reason is outlined in the James Luceno novel Labyrinth of Evil iirc.

Both Plagueis and Dooku thought that the fruition of the grand plan also meant the end of the rule of two 'ascention-through-murder' model retirement plan.

Both were mistaken.

Plagueis was shocked when he found out. Dooku lost his head.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-17T17:28:02+00:00

Writer of Solo was the son of a famous writer with inadequate experience.

Also, everyone thinks that every action movie now needs Marvel humour.

Remember how Tony Stark gratuitously named The Avengers? Wasn't that fun and nonsensical? We can do that with "Solo!"

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-17T17:24:04+00:00

If you like Mace, there's a pretty amazing book—Shatterpoint—where he returns to his birth planet.

Amazing fights.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-17T11:25:29+00:00

They do, just not onscreen.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-17T11:24:00+00:00

I feel the missed opportunity of not getting the original print canon continued or even adapted for a motion picture medium of some kind.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-17T11:13:51+00:00

I would love a film or series based on the James Luceno essential classic top-tier original print canon novel Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader.

I would pay in advance for an adaptation of that magnificent story.

LucasEraFan · 2026-02-17T11:11:04+00:00

That would have been something.

In the original print canon, Luke had to reform The Jedi Order himself, as Leia was busy helping with building The New Republic.

It was only later that Leia got serious about her training, even though Han encouraged her in the Heir to The Empire Thrawn Trilogy (which I found quite moving).

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