OH KAREN TRAVISS, YES!
Aug. 9th, 2009 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccatoriaOH, UNIVERSE. You give me such lovely birthday presents
Most of you probably don't remember my various rants about Karen Traviss, but trust me, she's nuts.
And, in a wonderfully ironic turn of events, has decided to stop writing Star Wars novels after her final two (I presume already written) novels are released later this/next year.
Her stated reasons for the decision are to do with the Clone Wars Animated Series contradicting some fairly fundamental pieces of canon she introduced in her Mandalorian storylines (we don't know what yet because it's to do with the upcoming second season, but she says it's big enough she can't just retcon around it). And she doesn't feel that she can tell her story without rebooting it entirely so she's out.
It's wonderfully ironic because one of the major reasons that a lot of EU fans dislike her (aside from her vile comments about the fanbase and blatant Mary Sueism) is the fact that she semi-frequently wanders all over canon rewriting it to "improve" it, which invariably means, to make the Mandalorians look more badass. And by rewriting, okay, maybe it's more a retcon than just flat out changing stuff, but when your retcons entirely change the motivations, characterisations, goals, ideologies and outcomes of storylines, to the point that the only thing that remains the same is...well, they were there and maybe...they said some words or something...that's pretty much rewriting canon.
I cannot say I'm sorry to see her go. More because I'm still so shocked by her attitude to the fans (flatout comparing us to terrorists, the mentally ill and nazis among other things) and was shocked LFL never, like, DID anything about that, than my dislike of her work. But...I really didn't like her work and felt a lot of her ugly public behaviour was reflected in the underpinnings of her stories, so yeah. I'm glad that'll be gone too.
And I certainly think it's fantastically ironic that it's the fact someone suddenly changed HER canon that caused her to do it.
Good luck video-game fandom! She'll be grenading your fetuses and comparing you to Nazis in no time! :D
Most of you probably don't remember my various rants about Karen Traviss, but trust me, she's nuts.
And, in a wonderfully ironic turn of events, has decided to stop writing Star Wars novels after her final two (I presume already written) novels are released later this/next year.
Her stated reasons for the decision are to do with the Clone Wars Animated Series contradicting some fairly fundamental pieces of canon she introduced in her Mandalorian storylines (we don't know what yet because it's to do with the upcoming second season, but she says it's big enough she can't just retcon around it). And she doesn't feel that she can tell her story without rebooting it entirely so she's out.
It's wonderfully ironic because one of the major reasons that a lot of EU fans dislike her (aside from her vile comments about the fanbase and blatant Mary Sueism) is the fact that she semi-frequently wanders all over canon rewriting it to "improve" it, which invariably means, to make the Mandalorians look more badass. And by rewriting, okay, maybe it's more a retcon than just flat out changing stuff, but when your retcons entirely change the motivations, characterisations, goals, ideologies and outcomes of storylines, to the point that the only thing that remains the same is...well, they were there and maybe...they said some words or something...that's pretty much rewriting canon.
I cannot say I'm sorry to see her go. More because I'm still so shocked by her attitude to the fans (flatout comparing us to terrorists, the mentally ill and nazis among other things) and was shocked LFL never, like, DID anything about that, than my dislike of her work. But...I really didn't like her work and felt a lot of her ugly public behaviour was reflected in the underpinnings of her stories, so yeah. I'm glad that'll be gone too.
And I certainly think it's fantastically ironic that it's the fact someone suddenly changed HER canon that caused her to do it.
Good luck video-game fandom! She'll be grenading your fetuses and comparing you to Nazis in no time! :D
