17 - Champions of the Force
People's New Republic
We're back finally after reading the third piece of shit "written" by Kevin J. Anderson for his Jedi Academy trilogy, 1994's Champions of the Force. The previous two were bad and this one is also bad, and we discuss why! Topics include the New Republic abdicating all legitimacy by not bothering to prosecute genocide, Luke's terrible pedagogy, and, for some reason, the utility of a four-armed nanny droid with synthetic flesh. Content warnings include racism, misogyny, slavery, references to genocide, and physical violence. -- MEDIA --
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16 - Dark Apprentice
People's New Republic
We're unfortunately back to Kevin J. Anderson's tedious Jedi Academy trilogy with the second installment, 1994's Dark Apprentice. The gang is unifed in our hatred of Kevin's writing and we're just really tired of his shit. Topics include Luke Skywalker's substitute teacher-ass Jedi instruction, Admiral Ackbar flying a plane into a skyscraper (really), and how politically cooked the New Republic is because they want to negotiate and co-exist with what's left of the Empire. Content warnings include misogyny, racism, intimate partner violence, slavery, sexual assault, and references to genocide....
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15 - The Courtship of Princess Leia
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We talk about 1994's The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton. Dave cooked with this one, honestly. There's some outrageous stuff in here but it's combined with genuinely some of the best writing we've encountered on this podcast so far. Topics include if Han is a Space Led Zeppelin guy while he's working in the garage, the psychosexual stuff going on with Dave regarding matriarchial societies where men are only kept around for breeding and to look pretty, and the sentience of rancors. Content warnings include fatphobia, misogyny, enslavement, suicide. Also this story is about...
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14 - Jedi Search
People's New Republic
It stinks! We cover 1994's Jedi Search, the first of Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi Academy trilogy, and based on this one, we're in for a rough ride! Luke wants to restart the Jedi Order so he finds a couple of weirdos, Chewbacca and Han get stuck mining spice on Kessel for an evil frog man, and Lando goes off to the blob races (which include blob obstacle courses. Blobstacle courses, even). Topics include the role of dangerous red-haired women who are mean to the heroes in the Expanded Universe, how one such mean dangerous redhead girlbossed her way into an Imperial admiralship literally through...
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13 - The Truce at Bakura
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We discuss Kathy Tyers' very interesting 1993 novel The Truce at Bakura, our first standalone novel since Splinter of the Mind's Eye. Tyers is a fascinating figure, and she wrote a fascinating book that was fun to read! Topics include the redemption of Darth Vader as an allegory for Christian forgiveness, if Tyers' editor was pushing her to keep Gaeriel barefoot in every scene, and Luke's involuntary celibacy as a result of his Force powers. == MEDIA ==
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12 - The Last Command
People's New Republic
We conclude Big Tim's iconic trilogy with 1993's The Last Command. Topics include how you could escape an asteroid blockade of your planet, what exactly Mara Jade's duties were as the Emperor's Hand, and what Leia and Han's other picks for baby names were. Content warnings include racism, colonialism, and general physical violence. -- MEDIA --
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11 - Mission From Mount Yoda, Queen of the Empire, & Prophets of the Dark Side
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The regret continues as we conclude Paul and Hollace Davids' horrible 1993 children's series. Somehow these books are even more insane than the first three. Topics include whether archaeologists can get ghosts from licking bones, the environmental tradeoffs often made by developing nations/planets while building their economies, and how much J.J. Abrams stole the plot of the sequel trilogy from these books. Content warnings include racism, misogyny, anti-semitism, and ableism. Check out our instagram page for the images from the books!
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10 - The Glove of Darth Vader, The Lost City of the Jedi, & Zorba the Hutt's Revenge
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(There are some issues with specifically Ethan's audio in this one. We regret the error.) Regrettably, we cover a trilogy of children's Star Wars books published in 1992 by married writing team Paul & Hollace Davids. These were not fun to read, but we had fun roasting them! Topics include the incredible racism of the 1980s Transformers cartoon, whether children deserve good books to read, the unfortunate stereotypes the Prophets of the Dark Side may be treading on, and droid misogyny. Content warnings include misogyny, racism, and anti-semitism. The media for this episode will be posted on...
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9 - Dark Force Rising
People's New Republic
We continue Big Tim's iconic trilogy with 1992's Dark Force Rising! Topics include US/Imperial debt trap neocolonialism, the white Saw Gerrera, and C'baoth wanting to preserve the purity of the Jedi race. Content warnings include misogyny, racism, white nationalism, colonialism, imperialism, and general physical violence. -- MEDIA --
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8 - Heir to the Empire
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We finally make it to (pretty) Good Star Wars with Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire (1991). This is the one that started it all! Topics include Grand Admiral Thrawn as an example of the "Clean Wehrmacht," why the New Republic here is definitely not a People's one, and how Chewbacca must feel about his boyfriend's racist wife. Content warnings include racism, colonialism, misogyny, and general physical violence. -- MEDIA --
info_outlineWe discuss Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978) by Alan Dean Foster. This being the first episode, we spend a while discussing our general opinions and history with Star Wars as a whole, but then we get into this very bizarre and often bewildering first outing of the literary Star Wars Expanded Universe.
Content warnings include misogyny, racism, fatphobia, drug use, general physical violence.
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