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Post by crystalcat on Jan 8, 2007 16:28:02 GMT -5
If you would like to comment on The Final Word, please do it here. Thank you!
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Post by Annie on Jan 8, 2007 22:46:13 GMT -5
I know what you mean, I don't like how the Eu writers try to kill them off ,and even race to do it. It makes me mad that one of the worst wants to kill Luke..
I would rather have you have the last word!
I am glad to see Leia lived a long life, but what a sad one it must have been, full of the darkness of not forgiving her father, and the suffering of losing everyone before her...but how? Will you tell us the last word on them too? Did she even get a grandchild?
Your description is very well done and full of emotion, sad though it is...and handsome young Anakin coming back to help. WHat a bittersweet end. Is it the end for sure?
What else do you have planned? This is extremely interesting!
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Post by Astrid on Jan 9, 2007 11:08:29 GMT -5
Oh this is so sad. How did Luke die too soon? Are you going to kill little Anakin like in the EU books? Write some more!
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Post by PadmeSkywalker on Jan 9, 2007 12:18:34 GMT -5
Um, I think everyone is gone, except Leia, right? I'm a little familiar with the EU and I know that Anakin Solo dies.....
from what I read in this story, everyone is gone, Leia is left contemplating it all.......
VERY WELL DONE! I can't wait for more!
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Post by crystalcat on Jan 9, 2007 17:01:34 GMT -5
Oh this is so sad. How did Luke die too soon? Are you going to kill little Anakin like in the EU books? To answer your question and others' : I don't view this story as if I had killed little Anakin or Luke (or any of the others, for that matter). I know everyone has not yet been killed off in the EU, but from what I've seen and heard, it won't take too much longer. This story is an answer to the EU massacre. The guy who wrote the ROTS novelization has declared that he wants to write the "Final Word" on Luke, meaning he intends to kill Luke off. This will leave only Leia as an original character who can feel the Force, so I'm betting she will be left alive just so she can feel all their deaths in the Force (for good dramatic measure!). This story begins when she is an old woman and the EU has already killed off everyone else, and provides a starting point to UN-do all the damage done by the EU writers (who seem to be in hot competition to kill off not only each other's characters - i.e. little Anakin - but the original characters as well). Killing is basically a shortcut to character conflict: Just kill someone close to the character and voila! Instant drama and big fat paycheck because that kind of story is fast to crank out. What I would like everyone to take away from my story is that once the EU writers are all done, maybe the slate can be wiped clean so these poor characters don't have to live such a soap-opera life. |
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Post by Annie on Jan 16, 2007 22:16:02 GMT -5
Oh! So her ghost is going back and changing things? She saved Qui-Gon, now how will this change the future? I can't wait to see all your ideas!
And, as always, very well written, descriptive and emotional!
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juliskywalker
Jedi Knight
*THERE'S NO GREATER MISERY THAN TO REMEMBER WITH BITTER REGRET A DAY WHEN YOU WERE HAPPY*
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Post by juliskywalker on Jan 28, 2007 0:46:09 GMT -5
oh my!! this was so good!! i never read anything like this!! i can not believe you're not going to write this story anymore
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Post by Astrid on Feb 7, 2007 10:51:35 GMT -5
Oh no, do not stop! I have no idea what you should do now. I want you to write it!
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Post by crystalcat on Feb 8, 2007 19:57:57 GMT -5
I think maybe I gave everyone the wrong idea with what I said about not continuing the story. It sounds like everyone thinks I just grew tired of it and gave up in the middle.
Not so.
This is actually where I planned to stop the story from the moment I started it. If I were to go on, it would quickly grow into a story so long it would take me years to finish (I know; I wrote something of that scale for another fandom once). As it stands, the story is complete in itself; the ending changed and Qui-Gon didn't die. Depending on your own view of the characters and how they interact and might have made a difference one way or the other, this will either be enough to keep Anakin from turning or it will not. In my view, it will - I base this mostly on the title of the battle music for the duel between Maul and Qui-Gon (later Obi-Wan): Duel of the Fates. That says to me that the decision was made right there. Of course, I think Obi-Wan did a good enough job with Anakin that he was able to come back years later and save himself (with Luke's help), whereas if both Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan had died at Maul's hands, then he likely would have been lost forever (no Jedi to train him, but the Sith already knew who he was).
Retelling the saga (albeit with a different outcome at the end or slightly altered scenes along the way) does not and never did interest me. This is it; this is all I meant to do from the beginning. I was not just "giving up."
I know this isn't a promise to write more about it, but I'm hoping it will clear up any misconception. Sorry.
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Post by arie on Feb 12, 2007 15:59:16 GMT -5
I actually like how you left it off like this... it gives us a sense of mystery!  Great work, I certainly have not read anything so poignant involving the EU. In fact, I am not a fan of EU stories, so it means something that I enjoyed this SO much. Wonderful job!!!! |
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Post by Annie on Feb 18, 2007 21:46:33 GMT -5
You sure took care of a lot! And what an interesting and unexpected way to do it!
So now none of the bad stuff that came later happened? That takes care of a lot! So if anyone finishes it from here it will be the alternate universe just created from this point on?
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