Hmmm . . . the impression I always got was that she just couldn't be bothered to flesh anything or anyone out properly because she was writing for pre-teens and teens, but then, I started reading the Jedi Apprentice series and the resemblances between the Jedi Order and a rather clique-ridden exclusive prep school were such that I had a very hard time taking anything she wrote seriously, especially after she made that ridiculous mistake about insisting that Obi-Wan (and others) would've been allowed to visit their families while still children in the creche, which is absolutely ridiculous as it would totally defeat the purpose of removing potential Jedi initiates from their families at an age too young to remember being raised in such an environment to begin with. *Head-desk* Her characters have never struck me as being properly fleshed out, which is why I dislike the books. They all read as variants of the same four or five basic archetypes or stereotypes, with nothing but names and a few features switched around. (She also managed to make Qui-Gon such an insensitive, unfeeling, unsympathetic ass that I'd probably distrust him even if TPM hadn't already made me dislike him for his hypocrisy.) *Sighs*
I think the reason I dislike the way they drop him is based largely on the fact that it's not only wasteful but self-destructive of them to send people who are proven to be prone to the "Dark Side" out into the galaxy to wreck whatever havoc they please. It's like . . . okay, not only are we going to create our own worst enemies, we're going to create them and then pitch them out, basically throwing him into the AgriCorps flat broke and with no where else to go (though it didn't keep him from running), instead of trying to help rehabilitate them (because apparently everyone but our own can be rehabilitated), so they'll be free to wreck the greatest amount of havoc possible. All I can think is, could y'all be any more short-sighted?!?!
*Sigh* The thirteenth-birthday thing is weird because it's arbitrary and would only work for those who mature exactly like humans do. While it seems to've been sorta adopted into the rest of the prequel-era EU, it's not always held to, as Scout is supposed to a year older than Whie and yet Whie is only thirteen and has been a Padawan a bit while Scout is only just chosen as a Padawan (and seems to be fourteen or almost fourteen) during the book about Yoda and Dooku.
It's entirely possible that I just want more out of my characters (more inner thoughts, more on their motivations, just more, plain period) than it's fair to expect, especially from a young adult novel. Still. Lorian and Dooku are supposed to be best friends, and it would've been nice to know more about why, in my admittedly rather less than humble opinion.
Sometimes I think I'm reading too much, and sometimes I think I'm reading too little into things. Somehow, I never seem to reach a happy medium, when it comes to EU novels anymore . . . *Sigh*
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I think the reason I dislike the way they drop him is based largely on the fact that it's not only wasteful but self-destructive of them to send people who are proven to be prone to the "Dark Side" out into the galaxy to wreck whatever havoc they please. It's like . . . okay, not only are we going to create our own worst enemies, we're going to create them and then pitch them out, basically throwing him into the AgriCorps flat broke and with no where else to go (though it didn't keep him from running), instead of trying to help rehabilitate them (because apparently everyone but our own can be rehabilitated), so they'll be free to wreck the greatest amount of havoc possible. All I can think is, could y'all be any more short-sighted?!?!
*Sigh* The thirteenth-birthday thing is weird because it's arbitrary and would only work for those who mature exactly like humans do. While it seems to've been sorta adopted into the rest of the prequel-era EU, it's not always held to, as Scout is supposed to a year older than Whie and yet Whie is only thirteen and has been a Padawan a bit while Scout is only just chosen as a Padawan (and seems to be fourteen or almost fourteen) during the book about Yoda and Dooku.
It's entirely possible that I just want more out of my characters (more inner thoughts, more on their motivations, just more, plain period) than it's fair to expect, especially from a young adult novel. Still. Lorian and Dooku are supposed to be best friends, and it would've been nice to know more about why, in my admittedly rather less than humble opinion.
Sometimes I think I'm reading too much, and sometimes I think I'm reading too little into things. Somehow, I never seem to reach a happy medium, when it comes to EU novels anymore . . . *Sigh*