It is a solemn time for the New Republic, as the merciless Yuuzhan Vong continue their campaign of destruction. Now readers will pierce the very heart of darkness. That and later books begin to explore the nature of the force and come to some interesting conclusions about the Dark Side (which later series would, of course, retcon at once).The New York Times bestselling Star Wars series The New Jedi Order enthralls readers with its epic drama and thrilling adventure. The Vong are an enemy out to enslave EVERYONE, regardless of what color lightsaber they have. Yet what I love most about the series, especially now that TROS is out and the ST is done, is that is does something new. Now what I look back at the series, I do still kinda like, though so many things could've been better, and the constants attempts at shock value wears off really fast. Those of you who feel that the sequel trilogy feels disjointed due to the different styles between RJ and JJ, the same situation kinda happened here. I agree with many criticisms: that it was grim dark just for the sake of it, that the Vong as a whole just didn't work in the SW universe (which I guess was kinda the point, but still), and most importantly, that the revolving door of writers involved with the series made the series feel VERY uneven at times. But when I reread them a few years later as I was entering college, I found myself disliking them, though never outright hating the series like many others. But then, I was entering middle school, so it was basically the perfect thing series for an angsty pre-teen to love because the dark and grittiness made it seem so mature to my eyes.
Basically, this is the EU series that more or less brought Star Wars universe forward from the optimistic 90s to the dark and gritty 00s, for the good and bad (many would say bad) that entailed.Īs for me? I remember LOVING this series when it came out. There's torture, horrific human experimentation, mass death on a scale never before seen in the EU (the last book calculates that some several hundred TRILLIONS were killed during the war).
The very first book kills off Chewbacca, and later Anakin Solo (Han and Leia's 3rd child in the old EU) is also killed. The main villains were the Yuuzhan Vong, an extragalactic race of S&M aliens that looked like the bastard love children of Pinhead and the Dark Elves from Warhammer 40k. It was considerably darker than any previous EU story. It also was and possibly remains THE most controversial storyline of the old EU. For those of you who forgot (or are too young), The New Jedi order was the Old EU (now Legends) big post-RotJ storyline from 1999-2003.
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