by Flack » Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:53 am
I finished the Mos Eisley book. A couple of the stories are surprisingly bad. A couple are just weird (the story about Lak "the werewolf" Sivrak and Dice "the bloody worm" Ibegon falling in love and jumping backwards and forwards through time to assist the rebellion is a little... "out there"). Three of the short stories connect directly. There's one about a Jawa, who smuggles a blaster into Mos Eisley, attempts to shoot a batallion of Stormtroopers, and gets killed; the second story is about a guy involved in a trade with the Jawa who sabotages his plans without knowing them; the third story is about a Stormtrooper who, on the way to work one day, watches his co-workers blast a Jawa. (And again, every one of these stories features a recounting of the events we see unfold in the movie. ("And then a golden protocol droid entered the cantina...")
A couple of the stories are downright silly, one of which is the tale of Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba (Pig Nose and Walrus Man). Both survived their encounter with Obi Wan in the Cantina, and now the mad doctor has invented one of those silly brain-swapping machines (complete with metal bowls attached to wires!) that will swap the brain of one person into another person's body. The pig-faced doctor wants to use his machine to escape his disfigured face, while Walrus Man just wants, you know, two arms. WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
Next up is Tales from Jabba's Palace, followed by the third book in the unofficial trilogy, Tales of the Bounty Hunters.
I finished the Mos Eisley book. A couple of the stories are surprisingly bad. A couple are just weird (the story about Lak "the werewolf" Sivrak and Dice "the bloody worm" Ibegon falling in love and jumping backwards and forwards through time to assist the rebellion is a little... "out there"). Three of the short stories connect directly. There's one about a Jawa, who smuggles a blaster into Mos Eisley, attempts to shoot a batallion of Stormtroopers, and gets killed; the second story is about a guy involved in a trade with the Jawa who sabotages his plans without knowing them; the third story is about a Stormtrooper who, on the way to work one day, watches his co-workers blast a Jawa. (And again, every one of these stories features a recounting of the events we see unfold in the movie. ("And then a golden protocol droid entered the cantina...")
A couple of the stories are downright silly, one of which is the tale of Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba (Pig Nose and Walrus Man). Both survived their encounter with Obi Wan in the Cantina, and now the mad doctor has invented one of those silly brain-swapping machines (complete with metal bowls attached to wires!) that will swap the brain of one person into another person's body. The pig-faced doctor wants to use his machine to escape his disfigured face, while Walrus Man just wants, you know, two arms. WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
Next up is Tales from Jabba's Palace, followed by the third book in the unofficial trilogy, Tales of the Bounty Hunters.