JasperKazai’s Reviews > Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina: Star Wars Legends > Status Update

The final story taking place during the Battle of Endor with flashbacks to the cantina and Hoth was mildly interesting. But the fact he treated it as some sort of metaphysical Force flashback where the characters acknowledged it was a flashback was kind of dumb. Wasn't much of a fan.
And that's that. Finally done. All in all, pretty meh. Im probably still going to read them, but not looking forward to the other Tales

'It was clear she didn't support Eyvind's ideas about my ideas.' Come on, that's just bad writing. There are a number of ways to phrase that better. Stance on my ideas, response to my ideas. It's not hard.
Noticed that this the second-to-last story. I'm glad. I am quite ready to move on from this. It hasn't all been terrible, but it's also not terribly interesting. (Ha.)

'I hoped for the good, that's what I hoped' is a sentence that should've been caught in a proofread. Looks like he reworded it after initially writing it but forgot to completely edit what was originally written.
'I'm sure you guys don't want to be arguing with me five weeks before your wedding.' Lmao, what? That doesn't make any damn sense. Five HOURS before, maybe. But five weeks?? Bad excuse

Wow... that was shit. One of my most anticipated stories in this was Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba. They're the biggest part of the iconic cantina scene! I was hoping for some explanations or whatever. But, nope, the ENTIRE story takes place after EpIV, and not even on Tatooine. The only story in this so far to not include the cantina at all. And it was like Dr. Frankenstein bullshit... what a disappointment.

I wanted to like that story more than I did. BoShek stealing Luke's speeder, and then somehow using the Force to trick the same stormtroopers into repeating the 'these aren't the droids we're looking for' interaction, is way too convenient and nonsensical. Got too cute trying to connect it all. Not everything has to be directly related! Also, what the hell kind of human name is BoShek?

I know that Obi-Wan was shown talking with the spacer before he spoke with Chewie in the movie. But having that conversation be about the Force and Obi-Wan warning him of the dark side is very lame. Also, BoShek getting ready to help Han against Greedo now makes two people in these stories that have done that. I can't remember who the other one was. Too many authors trying to insert themselves into movie events...

The Anzati story was bad. A couple of the other stories hinted at that guy being dark or evil, but did not give any other detail than that, so I was looking forward to what that was all about. She (the author of this) tried to get too weird, and when you force weirdness like that, it just comes off as tryhard and bad. What a disappointment.

I liked the premise of the story, but execution was a bit lacking. Obi-Wan noted the sandcrawler damage was done by stormtroopers, not a tank. Interesting to see Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru get killed, but once again it was by a tank instead of troopers, which waters it down. Describing Han as "athletic" 3 times is weird. Davin shooting the captain in the back being the reason Han gets to escape is kind of lame.

Not done with it yet, but I can't believe they wrote a story about the specific stormtooper that says "look sir, droids!" Lmao. What a dumb idea (in a good way). Although one thing that doesn't make sense is he was shipped off to a bumfuck nowhere assignment to hide the AT-AT flaw he discovered. But he found that out literally his first time in an AT-AT. If a new recruit can find it, surely other people have...

Yeah, it makes sense that KJA's wife would write a companion piece to his story. But the fact that it delivers what essentially is the punchline for the Jawa story is meh. Having a punchline be contained in an entirely separate story is not great. Also, her story has no other purpose aside from that. It was pointless.