This is not a critique since I know it would be unrealistic and extremely difficult to do so, but it would be cool to get source material of each event. I didn’t realize it was a surname because my eyes skipped over the “Professor Glenna Kip” part of the “Resistance on the Move” spread. Except…it took me a long while to find her on the Wook. I am tickled silly by the fact that there is a canonical Kip with explosives. The words say one thing, rationality says another. Ysanne Isard, perhaps? Later, it says that he was a clone, but he looks nothing like Palps in any form. Meanwhile, there is no information on Palpatine’s son, like where he came from. How did it just push out the New Republic? How can there be a “Resistance” group if the NR is the actual government? It’s a lot of poor writing IMO. The more I read, the more I realized that there is no actual foundation for the First Order. Then Ben gets sulky about it? A lot with the ST just baffles me. Also, Leia keeping secret her parentage for 24 years is asinine. I can’t believe the sequels only cover a year. I am quite annoyed that “Frog Lady” is the creature’s name. It’s worse here than when I’ve read about her in books or comics I keep reading Shara Bey as Shira Brie. I don’t understand how Ben was born in 5 ABY I LOVE the pink of the Age of Rebellion section!! I love that the Ewoks Chirpa, Logray, and Ra-Lee were represented in 1 BBY. The timeline deviations and offshoots in 1BBY (before information on the TIE fighter) are awesomely intense. I also liked the layout of First Order Powers Up. It’s quite interesting that Gardulla lost the bet to Watto around the same time that Galen and Orson met between 6 and 3 BBY. What the heck at Qui-Gon in a “romantic relationship.” Gag me. I listened to both ‘Master and Apprentice’ and ‘Dooku: Lost’ and recalled none of the information on Sifo-Dya and Averross. The fact that there is a Jedi Sean makes me laugh I liked seeing the THR information I don’t know past phase 1, but I kept wondering at various times–what the heck happened to the Drengir and Nihil? Huyang is 25,000 years old? That makes no sense at all. This book is a good compilation of all the events. I did find it almost beautifully jarring to see how much happens all at once. Some parts could have also been easily combined into one instead of two separate pieces. Really? THAT is the timeline piece that was chosen? Do we REALLY need that written out? But the first thing that jumped out at me was that in 230 BBY, the Jedi felt dread. Very few had no irrelevant information and some had more than one, so let’s say an average of one per spread. Unfortunately, there is at least one ridiculous piece of information per spread. I found the Mandalorian (Din) to be the most asinine though as all the information was from the same time frame as the events explained from the television show. Anakin’s lightsaber, Star Destroyer, Rebel cells, the Chiss, and Leia were among my favorites. I like how certain things and people get their own spread at various times throughout the book. For example, sometimes the larger portion on a page would not be the first piece of the timeline on the given two-page spread, yet that was what my eye was drawn to first. I still found it too easy to forget names from one blurb to the next, but that could also be because the layout of the timelines threw me off a bit. I could get a big picture of the events without having to read or watch everything. I do wish it cited the source for each event but there are SO many little blurbs per page that I see why they didn't.Īs someone who hasn’t read everything in the Disney canon due to not liking a lot of the content or finding the quality lackluster, this was a great book. I find myself googling the timelines oftens, so this is nice. This is great for those who need all the gaps in lore filled in, and just as entertaining for those who have kept up. I'm keeping this at work so whenever a co-worker says "okay, but what was that about on Mandalorian last night" we can pull it down for the full history. It draws from everything currently Star Wars "canon", from the movies and tv series to the books, comics and video games (those about to play Jedi Survivor will find Cal's timeline in here). What is really helpful is the way it shows how all these threads intersect and while the pages are fairly busy, they offer great visuals and concise but helpful details. This can be anything from large and lengthy series of events, such as Leia's entire life, or more minor threads. There was a lot going on a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away and this book offers a vast variety of timelines to track it all, with full spreads for each topic. On Star Wars day I had the pleasure of spending much of the morning at work reading through this and it is a fantastic resource.
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