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[yubsie]

Uh, Karen Traviss?



If you're going to mention Jaina's "perfectly manicured nails", you probably shouldn't have her say three paragraphs later that she's pretty handy as a mechanic.

Actually, you shouldn't mention Jaina's "perfectly manicured nails" at all, because she SO DOESN'T HAVE THEM. She's been a mechanic since she was five! She spends far too much time up to her armpits in ENGINE to have perfectly manicured nails. She most likely keeps them trimmed as short as possible so that they don't break and cause her pain. :p

But that would involve having ANY concept of MY JAINA. :p

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[gabri-jade.livejournal.com]

"Weeping for my fandom" is a good tag to use for that book, alas.

[yubsie]

I do it a lot, it seems

[uscathena.livejournal.com]

It's such a frivolous detail, too. Mary Sue-ish, almost. Who cares?

[gabri-jade.livejournal.com]

Jaina's a Jedi. Hence, Karen Traviss's need to make her look bad in as many ways as possible.

[yubsie]

I think she's trying to Suebash... but real Jaina isn't a Sue, so it doesn't WORK.

[barbiejedi.livejournal.com]

I have decided that once I get home, I am going through the books and editing them into My Version Of Canon. LOTF: The Fan's Cut will include everything Allston wrote about second and third-tier characters not involved in Jacen's storyline, and the Jag parts out of Denning and Traviss' books.

It's going to be a very thin volume.

[yubsie]

But good things come in small packages. :p

[owl]

Go cold turkey. It will save you so much pain in the long run.

[yubsie]

I want to finish this one and the last book of the series because I've come THIS far, but I'm not reading anything set after this. Unless the bastards Allston me again. :p