Mm. I'm actually a relatively uncritical reader most of the time, for some reason. More so when I'm first getting into something, perhaps... although even during my first EU binge back in high school, I was kind of iffy on some things.
*wince* Ah, yes, the forbidden/unrealized love. Not that Watson was the only one doing that. I suppose it's pretty common in literature generally, and her non-SW stuff is romance (how this got her a Star Wars gig I have no idea), but... sigh. I got really fed up at one point when I'd run into some otherwise good Star Wars fics with irritating levels of Forbidden Jedi Romance and then hit a similar story involving the Catholic Church in a comic strip. Of all things.
You know, it makes sense for Anakin; he was raised for several years with (probably) the idea that marriage and family were desirable things even if he might or might not get the chance at them. But there seems to be this assumption among a lot of people that similar grand passions and rebellions ought to be common throughout the Jedi, that hormones and the desire for a "normal romance" would be so strong that being raised with the assumption you wouldn't enter into romantic commitments shouldn't make any real difference to what you want. I thought that was something Stewart handled well, really; he had hormones and crushes as things that were assumed to happen, but not taken as reason for Grand Drama. (Well, perhaps by the people involved, especially when young, but that's kind of standard. *pats Whie*)
I'm pretty sure Chankar was her official master -- it's spelled out that Scout was thirteen that day and expecting to be sent away, and Yoda told her Chankar had asked for her as Padawan. And then three months later Chankar was dead, and Scout's been driving herself, not entirely healthily, for either a year or two years and a half.
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*wince* Ah, yes, the forbidden/unrealized love. Not that Watson was the only one doing that. I suppose it's pretty common in literature generally, and her non-SW stuff is romance (how this got her a Star Wars gig I have no idea), but... sigh. I got really fed up at one point when I'd run into some otherwise good Star Wars fics with irritating levels of Forbidden Jedi Romance and then hit a similar story involving the Catholic Church in a comic strip. Of all things.
You know, it makes sense for Anakin; he was raised for several years with (probably) the idea that marriage and family were desirable things even if he might or might not get the chance at them. But there seems to be this assumption among a lot of people that similar grand passions and rebellions ought to be common throughout the Jedi, that hormones and the desire for a "normal romance" would be so strong that being raised with the assumption you wouldn't enter into romantic commitments shouldn't make any real difference to what you want. I thought that was something Stewart handled well, really; he had hormones and crushes as things that were assumed to happen, but not taken as reason for Grand Drama. (Well, perhaps by the people involved, especially when young, but that's kind of standard. *pats Whie*)
I'm pretty sure Chankar was her official master -- it's spelled out that Scout was thirteen that day and expecting to be sent away, and Yoda told her Chankar had asked for her as Padawan. And then three months later Chankar was dead, and Scout's been driving herself, not entirely healthily, for either a year or two years and a half.