Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140921022402/@comment-209421-20141210082449

Shadow at Morning wrote: I'll give you Zahn and Allston (and I'll throw in Stackpole), but I despise Traviss. Her conception of how the Clone Wars went was silly. And I'm never forgiving her for Legacy. Other authors I'd add to the list are Luceno and Stover (mostly for his excellent novelisation of RotS). Probably Karpyshyn, too.

Legacy is my only canon. And only a subset of that. Zahn, mostly. Because he kickstarted it all (well, almost).

What I loved about Traviss's work was the fact that she built a language from the ground up for the Mandalorian people. Hell, at one point I knew how to curse quite fluently in it. She really built the Mandalorians into what they were in Legacy. Yes, her books in Legacy weren't the strongest - Allston's were - but she kept herself true to the characters she loved. Her issues with the Clone Wars estimates was simply misinformation - three million Clones were prepared pre-Battle of Geonosis.

I do enjoy Stackpole's work, especially those tying into Corran Horn, but my issue with his work comes from another science fiction series, where he disregarded the already existing technology of said series and had the signature units of the series exploding into nuclear fireballs when destroyed, despite the concept of salvaging and rebuilding these mechs having existed since the 80s.

I hated the Clone Wars era, mostly because of it's convoluted nature. The cartoon was alright in later seasons, but there was just too many layers of continuity.

Also, could we get any further off track?