The Last Command: Star Wars Legends (The Thrawn Trilogy): 3 (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy - Legends)

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I also really enjoyed the reveal of who/what the spy was on Coruscant. Zahn had set up some obvious answers, but goes with something else that was foreshadowed earlier and makes total sense in hindsight. All in all, Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy is not a brilliant masterpiece, but an enjoyable series nonetheless. I can't call it overrated because even though I don't love these books as much as most who read the trilogy do, I understand that these novels are close to many fans' hearts, and why people still love them. While the books haven't aged perfectly I think the storylines and characterizations still hold up ok.

By that time, Leia and Karrde had arrived on Wayland. Karrde suggests using his pet Vornskrs Sturm and Drang to find Mara. One thing I like that Zahn does is show that he really understands the characters. Each chapter and section has a separate POV character and the writing style changes for each. For example, if Han is the POV, Luke will be referred to (even in non-dialogue) as “kid”, where Leia will say “her brother” and Mara Jade says “Skywalker”. The POV chapters are written in their characters language, not that of Zahn himself which makes the story feel that much more immersive.

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You know, one of these days I’m going to have to watch the Star Wars movies—maybe next time there’s a Star Wars marathon being shown in town. Y por primera vez en cinco años, comprendió por fin que el antiguo Imperio ya no existía. El nuevo Imperio, con el gran almirante Thrawn a su cabeza, acababa de nacer.

The Thrawn trilogy is widely credited with revitalizing the Star Wars franchise, [26] [27] [21] although Zahn himself was skeptical of this. [12] In The Secret History of Star Wars, Michael Kaminski suggests that this renewed interest was a factor in George Lucas' decision to create the Star Wars prequel trilogy. [21] [28] The trilogy's success has been cited as beginning the Star Wars Expanded Universe. [5] Moviegoers can tell you how hard is having good third movies in a trilogy (why? I don’t know, maybe some voodoo curse, or something!) but it’s almost inevitable after two good movies, having a failure in the third movie. Even sometimes, if we are so kind with those third movies, we can rescue some elements, we can appreciate some effort, but the unmerciful general opinión decrees that the third movie wasn’t near as good as the previous ones.a b c Kaminski, Michael (2008). The Secret History of Star Wars. New York City: Legacy Books Press. pp.289–291. ISBN 978-0978465230. Esta trilogía ha tenido una estructura demasiado apegada a la trilogía original, algo que se achaca a las secuelas pero que aquí es igual de marcado. Con el primer volumen teníamos el inicio de la aventura, el segundo dejaba a los héroes muy tocados, y esta cierra muy similar al episodio VI. Algo bueno a destacar es el inicio de lo que vendría después, con el nacimiento de Jaina y Jacen, personajes muy importantes a futuro, y una vez más el personaje de Mara Jade. También me ha gustado ver más actitudes de Jedi tanto en Luke como en Leia, que echaba un poco en falta hasta ahora. The strongest part of the Thrawn Trilogy was the storyline. Even though the books are no longer part of the Star Wars canon and they have no effect on any of the new movies coming out, Timothy Zahn created a story that not only was a compelling continuation of the original trilogy, but one with an interesting plot that takes as many opportunities as possible to greatly flesh out and expand what at the time was a very small Star Wars Universe. Bacon, Tom (January 23, 2017). " Thrawn, The Next Star Wars Novel, Promises To Transform The Franchise". Moviepilot. Archived from the original on 2017-03-12 . Retrieved March 4, 2017.

My favourite part of the whole trilogy are definitely the new characters. Mara Jade, Talon Karrde, Aves and other smugglers, Bel Iblis, Nogri population, not to mention Grand Admiral Thrawn (the best villain of all times!), they're all amazing. I love them deeply and I need more stories about this bunch of people. They're simply memorable and became a significant part of the Star Wars universe. Besides, in my humble opinion, they deserve a movie, or animated tv show or something like altered universe for another new Star Wars trilogy. One of my favorite things about this series is how the books work together to tell one story (acting as initial conflict, rising tension, and climax, respectively), and yet each book has its own separate arc as well. As they go, the books escalate in tension and in the scale of the final climax of those arcs. In book one, it’s as small as a fight between Luke and Mara in the jungles of a small planet, trying to escape, and a single unit of Stormtroopers trying to apprehend them. In book two, it’s a fight between two Star Destroyers, two squadrons of X-Wings, and several ships of the Katana fleet. And here, everyone piles up in several places for several huge conflicts, and the arcs for all of the characters emotionally all have pretty nice closers as well. Una estupenda lectura, que habría estado bien ver adaptada en pantalla, con mucha fuerza y buenos personajes. No seguiré el antiguo canon de manera ordenada, pero no será el último libro que lea de esta larga saga que se hizo. Aunque tampoco dejaré de lado el actual canon.The concept of the ysalamiri even seems to have changed since Heir. In Heir, Luke never senses the dark void the ysalamiri create, allowing himself to be captured. Here, Luke and Mara can sense that Mount Tantiss is shrouded in darkness, meaning they wouldn't be able to use the Force.

Using the Katana fleet and his army of clones produced on Mount Tantiss, Grand Admiral Thrawn begins a full scale campaign against the already vulnerable New Republic.Otros personajes a destacar son Bel Iblis, como un contrapunto luminoso a Thrawn, y los contrabandistas. Mencionando al gran almirante, me ha parecido muy forzada su inteligencia, algo de lo que venía quejándome en los anteriores, aquí incluso acierta sin tener ni un solo motivo para ello y a pesar de que se lo digan claramente. Well, I am glad to have finished this trilogy. Kudos to Rich Kelly for the wonderful cover art depicting Grand Admiral Thrawn. I wish he’d been on the first book cover of the series, giving me a better image of the master-planning Imperial villain. Is it wrong of me to like Thrawn better than any of the good guys? But I do—he’s smart, he’s cultured, he’s emotionally controlled. And he is by far the most complex character in the trilogy. Cool things I want to comment on: See more space battles, even if they're not as visual as on a screen. Finally see lightsaber clashes. The resolution of the mystery about who the spy Delta source was (sneaky trees). Everything that has had to do with the clone of Luke created from his lost hand in Bespin, although it is somewhat forced, I liked seeing that fight, and how they resolved the situation of Mara wanting to kill Luke (in the end it did not matter the real or the clone) and how she keeps Anakin's famous lightsaber for now. The death of Thrawn, unexpected but very poetic. Zahn, Timothy (2011). "Endnote 13". Heir to the Empire: The 20th Anniversary Edition. Del Rey Books. ISBN 978-0345528292. End with Crucible. It's the final book of the Skywalker saga in Legends. Disney ended it here. We were supposed to get books after it but they were canceled.