#but whatever! i hate when sw authors ignore canon just bc they personally don't like tarkin like shut up!

[grandmofftarkinsuggestions]

sometimes...... legends canon star wars..... is worse.

#sw #death star novel #i'm most of the way finished with it and dear g-d. #do ya'll seriously like this novel??????? #i need to know what the actual ultimate end-all-be-all daala x tarkin book is bc it is not this one surely. #she's barely in it! she is just here to be his yes man and have a few cute moments with him and that's it. #she is meant to be the main investigator for the mysterious ship explosion that happened but then she retained #memory loss of the past six months after some brain trauma caused in a fight. and then she got shipped back off to the maw. #like any agency and importance she had as a character besides being an emotional base to tarkin (who is also barely in it) #was rendered utterly and totally useless. like she doesn't matter at all besides a few hey we totally care about giving tarkin an arc #/lying moments from the authors. like? they don't even actually utilize her as a tool to uplift tarkin's character arc. she's basically #just there for the investigation (which is now a fridged plot point? i'm assuming that's that on that for its importance to #the story bc she was the only one who knew anything about it and her memory got fucked) and they immediately threw that away #bc it wouldn't fit with anh plotwise and her injury was used for like. two or three scenes of tarkin being kinda nervous. #that's it. like the writers obviously don't care about tarkin and it's killing me bc he is objectively one of the most interesting #characters in the death star novel's mile-long cast of boring apolitical straight couples. #also they make tarkin and vader mildly irritated with each other. even when this book came out (mid 00s) vader and tarkin #were still canonically friends. like in anh. the first movie. the movie that the rest of either canon is based upon. #but whatever! i hate when sw authors ignore canon just bc they personally don't like tarkin like shut up! #get somebody who does like him to write him for g-d's sake. #and that's not even really touching on just how misogynistic this book's writing of every single female character is lmaooo #like daala is the best written woman in it imo and i just ranted about how they used her exclusively as a crux to tarkin's emotions. #insane that she didn't have a first name for over 20 years. that says it all right there.