Chat corner 70: Phasma

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week’s chat corner!

Optional prompt

This week, the optional prompt is “Phasma“, the canon novel about the character of the same name. It came out in 2017, and it was one of the books tied to the second sequel movie, The Last of the Jedi.

Anyone here has read it? Did you like it? Would you recommend it? Phasma has been a fan-popular character after the first movie (certainly also because of Gwendoline Christie’s general charisma) - does the book live up to that?

Comments

[extrapenguin]

I haven't read the book, but I have made a Mace Windu fanvid for vexercises! Only the free vid left! I'm vidding Padmé/Anidala to (a cover of) Pulp's Common People. I'll probably make a roundup post after.

[annathecrow]

That's a nice vid! It's strange to see Windu recentered as a protagonist. I'm not sure I got the story of the vid (or perhaps I'm overthinking the comment - what did you mean by "going against the grain"?), but I liked it a lot. Although the ending, ouch XD

I fell out of vexercises because of Battleship and haven't managed to catch up ;_; Doing three vids (the lyric exercise) atop of that bucket of crazy was just. Too much. (I did the first one! Funeral Bell - it's about Anakin dying, I legit cried when I worked on it.) I want to at least try the color grading exercise, but I don't think I'll manage to complete all of them.

I'm looking forward to that round up post!

[extrapenguin]

The song/vid's story is basically about being 100% down with dying to go down in history, when that is, uh, not what canon Mace Windu set out to accomplish there. And yes, the ending is very ouch.

Battleship looked very intense! I'm trying to make something full-length for the final vid, and I have almost a minute figured out but I still need to do the other 3+ minutes... I'm half falling off the bandwagon just with FFFX and Fic in a Box, oops.