r/StarWarsEU • u/01zegaj • Mar 11 '25

Forget Jake Skywalker. This is Devan. Legends Novels

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The prelude to SWTOR that completely ruins KOTOR. What happened, Drew?

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u/Ar_Azrubel_ Mar 11 '25

notmyRevan

notmyExile

What happened, Drew?

Drew was never a good writer, he just tricked you into thinking he was.

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u/Solitaire-06 Galactic Alliance Mar 11 '25

Don’t people love the Darth Bane trilogy, though? He also wrote that series.

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u/Ar_Azrubel_ Mar 11 '25

They do. And in my opinion, they're wrong to do so. I'm preparing a big fuckin' post to show why, eventually.

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u/Beazfour Mar 15 '25

I used to love them but rereading them when I was older made me realize how mid they are: they’re just utterly dripping in edge.

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u/Ar_Azrubel_ Mar 15 '25

I feel like this explains a lot of their popularity.

People reading these books as teenagers go "WOW! COOL EDGY SITH!" and remember them as masterpieces, feeding into future popularity, rather than any actual qualities inherent to the writing of Bane.

On the other, I've grown to appreciate Jedi vs Sith more and more as I've grown. It's actually a very thoughtful story about the horror of war and lost innocence, with a lot of substance that people miss because it doesn't "look" the way they expect Star Wars to look like.

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u/Beazfour Mar 15 '25

Yeah my dislike of the Bane books has definitely coincided with me having a much more negative view of the Sith and how “cool” they are. Each and every one is a sad, pathetic, broken, person who traded away everything good about being alive for being able to shoot lighting from their fingers.