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annathecrow ([personal profile] annathecrow) wrote in [community profile] dreamwars2022-08-22 07:28 am

Chat corner 70: Phasma

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?

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[personal profile] extrapenguin 2022-08-22 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't read the book, but I have made a Mace Windu fanvid for [community profile] 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.
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[personal profile] sathari 2022-08-24 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, I am definitely up for discussing Phasma, both the book and the character in general. (Why did we even need Hux in those movies? I would have been fine with Phasma and Ben|Kylo as our darksiders!)


ETA: Just reread the comm rules, taking out the rest of my previous content. Will repost if asked.
Edited (See comment) 2022-08-24 14:07 (UTC)
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[personal profile] extrapenguin 2022-08-26 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] sathari 2022-08-27 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
So I reposted my original comment content over on the Dark side post, here. And I can't really answer the question about recommending the book without referencing some of the content from that comment. Thing I will say here is that for a book about Phasma it was not nearly enough about or with Phasma. It's, like, told practically third-hand by characters who have reason not to be Team Phasma. Add in what to me were horror elements and... well, if you like horror, I might recommend it, but horror is not my genre. (The, ah, deeply dysfunctional family elements, speaking euphemistically, on the other hand, were something I personally quite liked, as it makes a certain kind of sense for her character.)

I felt like Hux was superfluous and that I would have preferred more screentime for Phasma. I mean, I agree with you about his hateability, I... just didn't need him around as a character.