I have a hard time sometimes trying to find a balance for just reading things to enjoy them. Too many years training for critical analysis, as an English major, is to blame for that. It's what makes me so picky about some things in the EU while, on the other hand, I tend to be more forgiving about (and to even enjoy) some things that I think other readers often don't like, because they just want to be entertained and not have to worry about things like politics or philosophy. *Shrugs* I figure the gain from the one usually balance out what I lose to the other, buet sometimes I wish I could just flick a switch somewhere and read without the background voice nitpicking over lack of character development or consistency in characterization from book to book, etc. *Sighs*
Jude Watson wrote actual romance novels before SW? I . . . did not know that. And that actually explains a lot, now that I think about it . . . *Is tempted to sigh, because it certainly explains where the fascination with the whole tragic unrequited love trope came from*
*Snickers* Yeah, I think if I came across the same blasted story from a SW fic in a comic about the Catholic Church, I'd be just a wee bit upset, too!
For Anakin, it makes sense. Anyone else but Anakin, someone who might've been raised outside the Temple longer, like Anakin, or for some reason ended up living among a nonJedi population for a while (because of being stranded during a mission, amnesia, whatever), somebody who's survived Order 66 and is trying to blend in and keep on surviving, or someone like Whie and Scout, who're thrown together at fairly young ages under really awful circumstances, though, and I reserve the right to cry foul over what's probably an inappropriate plot device.
I'm probably remembering the book wrong - I read it concurrently with two other SW books while I was working the nightshift doing data entry at Bank of America, and those were 11-hour shifts, so it's entirely possible.
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Date: 2007-09-12 08:07 pm (UTC)Jude Watson wrote actual romance novels before SW? I . . . did not know that. And that actually explains a lot, now that I think about it . . . *Is tempted to sigh, because it certainly explains where the fascination with the whole tragic unrequited love trope came from*
*Snickers* Yeah, I think if I came across the same blasted story from a SW fic in a comic about the Catholic Church, I'd be just a wee bit upset, too!
For Anakin, it makes sense. Anyone else but Anakin, someone who might've been raised outside the Temple longer, like Anakin, or for some reason ended up living among a nonJedi population for a while (because of being stranded during a mission, amnesia, whatever), somebody who's survived Order 66 and is trying to blend in and keep on surviving, or someone like Whie and Scout, who're thrown together at fairly young ages under really awful circumstances, though, and I reserve the right to cry foul over what's probably an inappropriate plot device.
I'm probably remembering the book wrong - I read it concurrently with two other SW books while I was working the nightshift doing data entry at Bank of America, and those were 11-hour shifts, so it's entirely possible.