Darth Bane: Rule of Two

[unspeakablehorror]

Am reading the second Darth Bane novel. Some thoughts:

*This novel is extremely gory.  Which goes with the theme, sure, but you won't be seeing these death scenes rendered in any Star Wars film haha. 

*Darth Bane is experiencing hallucinatory Force Ghosts. I'll bet Plagueis would love to compare notes over this.  I would love to see the argument that would likely ensue about 'real vs hallucinatory' Force ghosts.  Something in the vein of 'no I was experiencing real hallucinatory Force ghosts, your Force Ghost was not a real hallucination because he was actually real and also you ticked him off'.  Also 'what do you mean you think I'm a hallucinatory Force Ghost, too?  Now you're ticking me off...' and so on.

*Darth Bane leaves Zannah by herself to find her way off planet claiming this is her Sith trial, but personally I think he's just not used to having a child around and wants a reprieve from the endless questions.  Sith Parenting Style: Neglect.

*Darth Bane is the worst driver.  Ever.  You didn't miss anything, Zannah.  Though imagining the alternate scenario of him taking her along and slapping a 'baby on board' sticker on the outside does provide some amusement.  Better yet, he adds a 'baby on board' sticker for every year of her life, because one child is equivalent to their age in babies, right?

Comments

[rugessnome]

the thing I most remember about the third Bane book is the fact that the major characters are like, for once(!), 2/3 female. It is the only Star Wars book I've read like that so far.

side-eye at James Luceno in Darth Plagueis

[unspeakablehorror]

I've read too many Star Wars books to name them all, so I've read a number that focus more heavily on women characters than men, but I've also read plenty by authors like Luceno, who have apparently never encountered a woman in real life and whose writing depends entirely on thirdhand reports of them. At least, that's the impression I get from that kind of gaping omission lol.

[unspeakablehorror]

Though I'd venture to say that Dave Wolverton also gives me that same impression despite writing Courtship of Princess Leia, which features women characters pretty heavily, as well as having the title character be a woman, which is just a different can of worms entirely!

Like there's Luceno 'I will just not write about women since I have never seen one ever--no one will ever notice this' and Wolverton 'I have never seen a woman ever but I totally got this'(spoiler alert: he absolutely had not gotten that) and they are really both...something else.