Closing out Emperor's Plague
Oh boy, let's talk about racism. This whole arc (book 7 Shards of Alderaan to 11 Emperor's Plague ) is about a group of villains who are trying to oppress and/or genocide humans in the same way that aliens were under the Empire. I said this half jokingly before, but I don't think there's any chance modern Disney-Wars goes there, and I think a lot of major publishers would shy away from it in general. I'm going to land firmly on the side of "yes, you can still discriminate against majority groups" and "yes, that's still wrong", but not write a whole essay about it. What I am going to talk about is the complete failure by AM to actually do their minority (mostly Wookie) characters justice. The main characters of the series as a whole are (roughly in order of importance): Jaina, Jacen, Tenel Ka, Lowbacca. Zekk claws his way inbetween Jacen and Tenel Ka around book 4, and Raynar is also working his way up, though still below the Solos and Zekk. ...