The Clone War's Canon Conundrum

Before Legacy, before Dark Times, and before Republic, go burn the $40 or $50 and buy the Tales of the Jedi Omnibus collections from BAM or Barnes and Noble or wherever. The Knights of the Old Republic comics featuring Zayne Carrick weren't bad, either.

Never got to read any of Dark Empire. How bad were they?

I don't really follow the series, but I don't see how Asajj being a Nightsister is a good thing. Before the series reinvented her, she had a great storyline, what with being Padawan to a Jedi who died in battle, which caused her fall to the Dark Side. Her youthful naivete became a strong character theme later on, what with her self proclamation of being Sith and her utter devotion to Count Dooku, despite the fact he was manipulating and using her. Furthermore, though she is a fierce combatant, she never showed much strength in Force abilities. Then they shoehorned in the fact that she was a Nightsister - Force Witches who are pretty much dedicated to the use of the Force through rituals and powers. It seems...really clunky, and only for the purpose of the Savage Oppress/Maul backstory, rather then a logically drawn conclusion. Furthermore, we see some serious changes in her personality through the series that also seem to contradict her naive, aggressive nature.

There's a very strong existing parralel between her and Anakin - I see her as what Anakin could have become if not for Obi-Wan - and her own relationship with Kenobi himself is really heavily immersed in resentment (that Anakin's master is alive, while her own died), and some really strong elements of sexual chemistry depending on the writer at the time. The Clone Wars seems to just...ignore all that depth, and that's a shame. It's also a shame that she's been reduced to essentially a henchman role by the show, when realistically she could very well have been the focal 'Big Bad' for most of the series.

The Nightsisters only come into play when she is betrayed by Dooku. She did not grow up as a Nightsister but was taken away at birth, this is why she doesn't have all the voodoo powers.

See I'd consider that bad writing. How does she remember she's a Nightsister? She was still an infant when they took her. Why do the Nightsister's suddenly have to bargain with slaver's by giving up one of their own? Why don't they just kill or enslave the slavers? They ride Rancor's and have the Darkside for god's sake. Why do the Nightsister's even allow MALES to walk on their planet without immediately enslaving them? That goes against every portrayal of the Nightsister's formerly shown.

Like I said, it just seems like it was a way to shoe-horn the Nightsister's in, and then base the rest of their series main plot line on this shoe-horn. There were better ways to incorporate the Nightsister than changing Ventriss' backstory. Their were better ways to introduce Savage than changing Ventriss' backstory. Also, no she doesn't have Nightsister written all over her, she has Rattataki written all over her. You know, the race that is in THIS game, and now suddenly doesn't exist in any other Canon source.

I disagree, if anything almost all of Dark Horse's Star Wars lines over the past 20 years have been moderate-good, I suggest you pick up Legacy, Dark Times, and Republic just to name a few stand outs. The only notably bad one they've done was Dark Empire from when they first obtained the license.

Thats three out of nearly dozens.


The many times they brought back Darth Maul were all horrible, the lost tribe has been getting extremely bad reviews. I think IGN gave some of those comics 4's and 5's out of 10s. Blood Ties has been really losing its originality.

This is going off topic, but I seriously feel like you think your opinion is everyone else's opinion.

lol you obviously don't know anything about Dark Horse comics. *face palm* They've brought back Darth Maul ONCE, it was in Infinity Tales, which was non-canon. The Clone Wars was then like "Hey that sounds like a cool idea! Lets do it! Derp!", and thus made it canon.

They brought him back three times actually, once against Ben Kenobi, once against Vader and another time when he ambushed Skywalker as a hologram, four times if you count his Proxy cameo in TFU.