Karen Traviss... (Page 8 of 8)

While it annoying at times that they are all shown as lovable messed up people (the clones), it makes sense. They're only 13, they're just kids in men's bodies trained to kill and have killed many many times. An adopted child forced to kill would be lovable and messed up. So it actually makes sense. She throws in descriptions of powerful rage and what not because when it comes down to it, they will destroy their enemies. And Kal feels like he's let them down because he adopted them and still can't offer them normal lives.

Do you guys agree?

LOL!!!  That about sums up my grief with her in a nutshell.  And nothing wrong with being old-school ner vod   

However, in light of the possibility *or already a fact?* that all her work is about to go down the drain, I'd like to reflect back on the great things she's done for the Mando'ade

1. First and foremost, she gave us the Mandalorian language.  The first ever fully functioning Star Wars language!  How epic is that?  It must have taken a body and soul effort to put that much time and thought into such an undertaking; a job I can't even imagin.

2. She gave the Mando'ade the center stage in the creation of one of the jems to be saved from the mess that was the new trilogy: she strengthened the already present connection between the Mandos *Jango* and the creation of the Clone Army.  I loved her entire thesis of the Mando sergeants being used in the training of the clones and the affects Mando intructors would have on their charges because it mirrored my own ideas in a lot of ways.  Maybe that makes me a bit biased on this point, but I'm not too modest to say that I really liked the idea and I think she did really great things with it.

3. She resurected the Mandalorian culture.  I don't give her credit for 'creating' the Mando'ade because the KotOR games and comics came before her, and in all honesty I like their version a lot more then hers.  However, most of the places you would look before KT told use that Boba and/or Jango were either not Mandalorians at all or that they were the VERY last of their kind, wearing the ancient relics of a long destroyed culture that no longer had any bearing on the galaxy.  She brought the Mando'ade back into the very forefront of current events in the SW galaxy, and made them bigger then just Jango and Boba.

We can debate as to her delivery, the way she portrays Boba and the Mando'ade in comparison to the movies/KotOR/our wishful fantasies, and the actual weight and streangth of her characters and their individual stories, but taken into a whole I think her contributions outweigh any of her mistakes.

Not exactly saying I focus more on the good then the bad that I felt she gave us; if you were to read back a bit when I was more active you'd see I've been one of the voices of opposition on this thread.  But again, whatever bad I may feel she caused to the Mandalorian culture, I'm trying to high light the positive controbutions I feel that she did make.

If any of the newer members who havn't seen my previous posts/work are curious as to what my idea of the Mandos should have been, you can check out My Post here on the boards where I combined KT's SW Insider artical about her version of the Mando'ade with my own version *I modified the artical to appear to be a comparison between the ancient Mandos and their decendents; the old-school Mandos are my work/interpretation, and the new-school Mandos are of course KT's.*  In my happy little world I've begun writing for the ancient Crusaders of the Mandalorian Wars era, and the RepCom/KT ideas of the culture are a modern evolution of the Mandalorian people.  Feel free to check it out and leave comments on what you think, where I'm wrong for if you agree, etc.

PS - I've noticed in my return to the boards that a LOT if not all of my old posts have a lot of weird coding in place of the  '  and  "  marks, so please forgive the mess.  If I notice any activity on any of my old posts/threads I'll try to go in and clean that out as I can.

Ahhh, was wondering what happend.  Thxs for the heads up.