Saxton and Star Wars
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 4:10 pm
Question for all.
Did anyone here read over Saxton's website back in the day before the prequels and just call bull like I did?
I started reading them, and started thinking: There's lots if interesting info here, but it seems like he wasn't watching the movies I did and could even get the names of the ships right like the Imperial Star Destroyer. My logical progression was that if he couldn't even get something that simple correct than the reasoning he used to create his entire website must have quite a few flaws. It also didn't feel like a Star Wars website; there's no creativity, just lots of math and an attempt at reason.
Anyway, I get frustrated by the fact that his goofy ideas are now posted everywhere because they were published, Wookiepedia for one. I don't even go to that website because they have so many star destroyer classes and relegate the Imperial version to something along the lines of an escort. That just doesn't fit the movies or what I think of as Star Wars. It's like a snowball effect with fans that read Saxton's stuff and I wonder if some people forgot the actual movies and they have read so much Eu stuff they can't remember what Star Wars is.
I suppose I may have a strange point of view since I stopped reading Eu around 1999, back in college. And my personal canon is the original trilogy and most of the Zahn books. I like to include prequel tech, but the stories don't match up with original trilogy, especially the idea of the clone wars. Just think about the name "clone wars". It implies that the clones were the enemy in the conflict,l ike the Zulu wars, or the French & Indian war.
The tech in star wars is so inconsistent I don't understand how anyone can pretend to write a tech journal. Star Wars shields alone are so inconsistent I can't use logic to understand what they are doing.
I suppose I'm ranting a little. I'm just wondering if there's anyone else that gets where I'm coming from.
Did anyone here read over Saxton's website back in the day before the prequels and just call bull like I did?
I started reading them, and started thinking: There's lots if interesting info here, but it seems like he wasn't watching the movies I did and could even get the names of the ships right like the Imperial Star Destroyer. My logical progression was that if he couldn't even get something that simple correct than the reasoning he used to create his entire website must have quite a few flaws. It also didn't feel like a Star Wars website; there's no creativity, just lots of math and an attempt at reason.
Anyway, I get frustrated by the fact that his goofy ideas are now posted everywhere because they were published, Wookiepedia for one. I don't even go to that website because they have so many star destroyer classes and relegate the Imperial version to something along the lines of an escort. That just doesn't fit the movies or what I think of as Star Wars. It's like a snowball effect with fans that read Saxton's stuff and I wonder if some people forgot the actual movies and they have read so much Eu stuff they can't remember what Star Wars is.
I suppose I may have a strange point of view since I stopped reading Eu around 1999, back in college. And my personal canon is the original trilogy and most of the Zahn books. I like to include prequel tech, but the stories don't match up with original trilogy, especially the idea of the clone wars. Just think about the name "clone wars". It implies that the clones were the enemy in the conflict,l ike the Zulu wars, or the French & Indian war.
The tech in star wars is so inconsistent I don't understand how anyone can pretend to write a tech journal. Star Wars shields alone are so inconsistent I can't use logic to understand what they are doing.
I suppose I'm ranting a little. I'm just wondering if there's anyone else that gets where I'm coming from.