Line #3 Trivia/LegacyOfTheForce


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2	* CreatorBacklash:
3	** [[http://www.theforce.net/jedicouncil/interview/timothyzahn.asp Timothy Zahn has said in an interview with Jedi Council]] that he wasn't happy when he found out that [[spoiler:Mara Jade]] was getting killed off, feeling that there was more that could've been done for [[spoiler:her]]. The interviewer also asked him about how he felt about [[spoiler:Pellaeon]]'s death, though Zahn focused more on [[spoiler:Mara]], so whatever he feels about [[spoiler:Pellaeon]], though suggests that he's more concerned about how [[spoiler:Mara]] died.
4	** Likewise, [[spoiler:Shannon [=McCrandle=], the art model of Mara Jade, was also not happy about Mara's death and how it happened]].
5	* FlipFlopOfGod: According to Karen Traviss, she proposed [[spoiler:killing off Mara Jade]], though she apparently later stated in a now-deleted tweet that it was ExecutiveMeddling.
6	* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: Readers submitted suggestions and then voted in a poll to choose Darth Caedus's Sith name, with the runner ups being Darth Acheron, Darth Judicar, Darth Paxis, and Darth Taral.
7	* RealitySubtext: Released in 2006, this series owes a lot, thematically, to the War on Terror, what with Jacen ranting against his parents' support of a totalitarian government and the terrorists that work for them (which is true), while his family is dismayed at his curtailing of democracy and personal liberties in his struggle to defeat them (also true).
8	* TroubledProduction: The series ran into this due to growing animosity between the authors. Karen Traviss was well known for a series of side stories at the time that she had worked on exclusively and thus was never part of a rotating series like Troy Denning and Aaron Allston had been. She was also notorious for never reading other people's works within the franchise, often causing huge {{Continuity Snarl}}s within a franchise that tried hard to keep things consistent. She was also difficult to work with, as Allston once mentioned how he had wanted to tie the Mandalorians into ''Fury'' better, but Traviss outright refused to divulge her plans for them to him. Denning also made various snipes at her as a result and outright ignored much of ''Revelations'' when it came time to write ''Invincible''. Traviss had also suggested various unpopular decisions [[spoiler: like Mara's death]] and never bothered consulting the other writers about if they had plans for the characters, an act that is considered very unprofessional to other SW writers at best and downright insulting at worse. Given this bad blood, it's no wonder the series ended up how it did.
9	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The ending to the series is very straightforward with Jaina killing Caedus in one-on-one combat. Dennings' original idea was ''much'' weirder. Jacen's flow-walking would eventually cause him to [[FreakyFridayFlip switch bodies]] with his brother, a disguised Jacen fulfilling Anakin's sacrifice in the past and Anakin being resuscitated by Jaina in the present. Nothing came of this beyond suggestion.

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