Chat corner 42: Romance

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week’s chat corner!

Optional prompt

Are you sick of Valentine’s Day marketing yet? This week’s topic is supposed to come from Legends, so lets talk about “Courtship of Princess Leia“, AKA one of the most memetically bad EU books ever.

I have no idea whether it’s actually bad or not. I’ve also read somewhere that for such a terrible book, it’s the source (or at least inspiration) of a huge amount of current background worldbuilding. (I know Dathomir was mentioned…) Anybody here who has read it and can report?

Comments

[kaasknot]

i first read it when i was a kid, so that probably skews my perception, but it was my favorite of all the EU books i'd read. dathomir is completely different in TCW, it's like GL took the concept of "witches of dathomir" and went completely in another direction with it. honestly, i prefer courtship's version. sure, the book's a little goofy, but i still love it. they had some interesting worldbuilding about the jedi, too.

[annathecrow]

Hmmmm. The idea of a completely different take on the Dathomir witches is honestly intriguing. In what ways are they different to TCW?