Chat corner 19: Novels

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week’s chat corner! Dammit, how is it almost September already? :/

 

Optional chat prompt

If you want a prompt, the topic is “movie novelizations”. Have you read any of them? All of them? What did you think?

 

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

I read all the movie novelizations of the original trilogy at the time but I didn't keep any so I remember them poorly. What I do recall is that I found the novelization of New Hope enormously helpful in filling in gaps and making the story more coherent. Although things like the prequel trilogy seemed very connect-the-dots, the first film left out a lot of things. This was particularly jarring because, of course, the whole story was in another verse so there were many things one had to pick up on.

[annathecrow]

I read the novelization for Phantom Menace as a kid, and only there I understood that Padmé was the queen all along! I was really small, though, and I must have seen it either with subtitles or completely without, so it's a miracle I undestood anything at all. XD