1. I think I liked Master and Apprentice the most, although I'm not sure about Qui-gon Jin appearing as a force ghost - I know that he's maintained a prescence within the Force, but I thought that he hadn't managed to pass across as well as Yoda or Obi-Wan would, and was limited to being a voice that could be heard. I'm not sure where I got that impression from, though. I think my second favourite was probably Raymus - I've known what happened to him since I first saw A New Hope, but seeing the crew of the Tantive trying to get to safety, reading about him trying to write letters for his family. and seeing his determination to help Leia get away and try and care for his crew made for a very poignant story. The Red One is I think the origin of a remark I heard someone make about how there's a fan theory that R5-D4 was a rebel alliance droid who helped R2-D2 get away. I really like knowing that he got to escape and retire to a moisture farm in the country - and not as a euphemism.
I wanted to like The Sith of Datawork more than I did. I think it felt a bit too much like a parody of how a military organisation works for it to really work for me as a story - it felt a lot to me like it was going for the same kind of humour about military paperwork that M*A*S*H used to do a lot, while also trying to be vaguely serious, and it just didn't work for me. I thought Reirin was interesting, and I'm curious about waht the artifact was (was it meant to be a khyber crystal?) but having recently read the first comics to feature A'sharadd Hett, I have mixed feelings about Tuskens who leave Tatooine in pursuit of greater opportunities...
2. I thought TK-4601 was interesting, but I struggled a little with the idea that any Stormtrooper with any doubts about doing whatever was ordered would last long in Vader's legion. I thought Jot the Jawa was fun - although I'm guessing that unless the stormtroopers missed the concealed compartment, Jot's probably another casualty of war. Learning more about Aunt Beru made me feel very sad for her, and the way her life became more limited because of Luke, even though she doesn't resent him for it.
3. I nearly ordered the wrong book, because it turns out there's another book like this for the Empire Strikes Back out there (and it's cheaper on Kindle, too). I wasn't sure what I expected it to be, but I first started writing fanfic as a way of adding extra scenes to what was my favourite show, and I wanted to avoid contradicting canon while keeping everything plausible. So... this book has a lot of appeal to me, because it's doing something similar. Some of the stories feel like more of a fit than others, though - Reirin is the one that stands out the most to me as being the one with the weakest links to what we actually see on screen in ANH, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.
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I wanted to like The Sith of Datawork more than I did. I think it felt a bit too much like a parody of how a military organisation works for it to really work for me as a story - it felt a lot to me like it was going for the same kind of humour about military paperwork that M*A*S*H used to do a lot, while also trying to be vaguely serious, and it just didn't work for me. I thought Reirin was interesting, and I'm curious about waht the artifact was (was it meant to be a khyber crystal?) but having recently read the first comics to feature A'sharadd Hett, I have mixed feelings about Tuskens who leave Tatooine in pursuit of greater opportunities...
2. I thought TK-4601 was interesting, but I struggled a little with the idea that any Stormtrooper with any doubts about doing whatever was ordered would last long in Vader's legion. I thought Jot the Jawa was fun - although I'm guessing that unless the stormtroopers missed the concealed compartment, Jot's probably another casualty of war. Learning more about Aunt Beru made me feel very sad for her, and the way her life became more limited because of Luke, even though she doesn't resent him for it.
3. I nearly ordered the wrong book, because it turns out there's another book like this for the Empire Strikes Back out there (and it's cheaper on Kindle, too). I wasn't sure what I expected it to be, but I first started writing fanfic as a way of adding extra scenes to what was my favourite show, and I wanted to avoid contradicting canon while keeping everything plausible. So... this book has a lot of appeal to me, because it's doing something similar. Some of the stories feel like more of a fit than others, though - Reirin is the one that stands out the most to me as being the one with the weakest links to what we actually see on screen in ANH, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.