"Father's Heart" which is a fantastic story set between the trilogies, showing us a strange relationship develop between Leia and Anakin which goes from odd friendship to the hostility we see at the start of ANH, holds up perfectly, with the only problem being that Leia remembers her mother, which is so George's fault.
Hee, clearly.
"The Penitent" is down right now but will be up again in a few days. There are a few more continuity problems with it because it was written after TPM, so for example it's Amidala, not Padme, and the assumption is she never stopped being Queen of the Naboo until the fall. Otherwise, though, it holds up well, though I'd say the depth of Obi-Wan's attachment to Anakin is underestimated, but hey, again, written after TPM.
Which is funny, because I always figured that Obi-Wan cared about Anakin a great deal, just from the way he talked about him in ANH. I wasn't expecting the level of attachment that we did get (because, if I had been, I would have been paying more attention to the Republic Trilogy the first time around, let me tell you), but I knew that Obi-Wan had loved Anakin. Just the wistful way that he says, "And he was a good friend." always struck me as one of the more powerful moments of the movie, before I saw any of the rest. Luke was, I think, my favorite character before the Republic Trilogy came out, but Obi-Wan was second. Of course, I didn't care anywhere near as much about them then as I do now, but I did like the movies. I just wasn't a 'fan'.
Let me also recommend this, also by Fernwithy: "Family Portrait", a terrific story set between TPM and AotC (but written after AotC was released, so with knowledge of it), centring on the relationship between Obi-Wan and Anakin, and fits very well with RotS. It has plot, it has character, and it should be a published book because it's way better than what I've read of the EU, which admittedly isn't much.
I will definitely check it out. I've read a few SW essays by fernwithy that I thought were interesting.
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Date: 2005-06-17 06:21 pm (UTC)Hee, clearly.
"The Penitent" is down right now but will be up again in a few days. There are a few more continuity problems with it because it was written after TPM, so for example it's Amidala, not Padme, and the assumption is she never stopped being Queen of the Naboo until the fall. Otherwise, though, it holds up well, though I'd say the depth of Obi-Wan's attachment to Anakin is underestimated, but hey, again, written after TPM.
Which is funny, because I always figured that Obi-Wan cared about Anakin a great deal, just from the way he talked about him in ANH. I wasn't expecting the level of attachment that we did get (because, if I had been, I would have been paying more attention to the Republic Trilogy the first time around, let me tell you), but I knew that Obi-Wan had loved Anakin. Just the wistful way that he says, "And he was a good friend." always struck me as one of the more powerful moments of the movie, before I saw any of the rest. Luke was, I think, my favorite character before the Republic Trilogy came out, but Obi-Wan was second. Of course, I didn't care anywhere near as much about them then as I do now, but I did like the movies. I just wasn't a 'fan'.
Let me also recommend this, also by Fernwithy: "Family Portrait", a terrific story set between TPM and AotC (but written after AotC was released, so with knowledge of it), centring on the relationship between Obi-Wan and Anakin, and fits very well with RotS. It has plot, it has character, and it should be a published book because it's way better than what I've read of the EU, which admittedly isn't much.
I will definitely check it out. I've read a few SW essays by fernwithy that I thought were interesting.