Reviews the force awakens3/9/2023 ![]() Perhaps he was more forthcoming with you than he was with me.” Poe made a show of seriously considering the proposal before replying phlegmatically, “Might wanna rethink your technique. We both wanted the same thing from the old man. “None of this unpleasantness need be necessary. But those others who have made your acquaintance possess only the most primitive abilities, and further defiance on your part would demand their unnecessary exertions.” He bent toward the prisoner. “The accommodations leave something to be desired.” “I regret the necessity. “Not really.” He gestured as best he could with a shackled hand. Comfortable?” Poe did his best to sound nonchalant. Even had you not been slow and ill-prepared, Tekka was already dead. Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity. Revealing yourself through your futile attempt on my life was foolish. “I had no idea we had the best pilot in the Resistance on board. While his interrogator’s greeting was far from challenging, the sarcasm underlying Kylo Ren’s words was plain enough. Was the masked figure smiling? There was no way to tell. ![]() Doubtless his inquisitor could sense his determination. Contrast that with the same scene as it appears in the book. That’s thirty-nine words total spoken by Kylo Ren. Kylo Ren: Where is it? Poe Dameron: The Resistance will not be intimidated by you. Poe Dameron: You might want to rethink your technique. No one has been able to get out of you what you did with the map. Kylo Ren: I had no idea we had the best pilot in the Resistance onboard……Comfortable? Poe Dameron: Not really. Take this scene, from early on, where Ren is interrogating the captured Poe Dameron. In the film, Ren is blunt and direct in his words. There were a few scenes added to the book that weren’t in the film, but a lot of the difference in length between a novel and a feature film is made up by expanding the dialogue. Reading through this book, the thing I was struck by was how needlessly verbose it was. Not only does this book add very little to the story already told in the film, it tells that story generally worse than the film. But even if this book were simply a straight retelling of the film, it would honestly be better. They add scenes, internal monologues, and detail about the world that couldn’t be effectively delivered in the films. But, in the case of Star Wars, they can be and have been quite good. Novelizations occupy a weird position in the world of books, to be sure. ![]() Sadly, the book he wrote isn’t very good. Such an impressive resumé makes it no wonder why Foster was brought back to novelize The Force Awakens. Additionally, he adapted Lucas’s concepts for a low budget sequel to A New Hope into the novel Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, which is sometimes regarded as the true start of the old EU. Most relevantly, in this case, Foster was George Lucas’s ghostwriter for the original Star Wars novelization that was released ahead of the film in late 1976. If the author’s name seems familiar to you, it’s because Alan Dean Foster is a well-established sci-fi novelizer, having written the book forms of the Aliens franchise, The Last Starfighter, The Chronicles of Riddick, Terminator: Salvation, Transformers, Star Trek, and others. I’m going to skip any synopsis since this is just a retelling of a film I’ve already reviewed Analysis The novelization of The Force Awakens was written by Alan Dean Foster and was released in January of 2016, a few weeks after the film. Unless you’re really interested in Starkiller Base, just watch the film. A passable product to fill bookstore shelves and give the studio an opportunity at another market space.
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