# Your Favourite Star Wars Character **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008 "2010-05-11T03:48:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008/81 "2010-05-14T06:12:50Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I quite liked _Children of the Jedi_! :mad: ☹ Why is she seen as a bad writer? I haven’t read them myself (primarily due to warnings of that sort) but I’ve heard her writing style described as “Victorian”, “tedious” and “boring”. And I may be wrong, but I get the impression she may have tried to pass off Mara Jade onto Lando to make room for Callista. Another one I’ve heard is good from the NJO: _Star by Star_. Another one to avoid: anything by Paul and Hollace Davids. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008/82 "2010-05-14T12:22:28Z")
If my son becomes one of you …too whom should I send his book/movie/action figure/ con bills too? hMMMMM? ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008/83 "2010-05-14T17:23:44Z")
R2 D2 / Han Corran Horn from the books And I recommend any of the books written by Stackpole, Allston, and Reaves. I’m not much of a Thrawn fan though. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008/84 "2010-05-14T18:21:27Z")
> [@Tanbarkie](#): > > Hear, hear. Virtually every character from “Star Wars” and “Empire” was memorable/ cool in one way or another. Well, okay, maybe not the begoggled alien with the ludicrous prosthetic nose in Mos Eisley (you know, the dude that follows Luke and Ben on their way to the _Falcon_). > > \ I think his name was Raymond Luxury Yacht, but it’s pronounced Throatwarbler Mangrove… Personally, I liked Vader, oh, and that pale Twi’Lek singer in Jabba’s palace ---
**Author:** ![ProfessorX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@ProfessorX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProfessorX)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008/85 "2010-05-14T18:24:13Z")
Han Solo man, the ultimate badass. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008/86 "2010-05-14T18:52:33Z")
You know the scene at the end of the first one … I mean the fourth one … I mean the original one … where they’re getting their medals in front of that huge throng of rebels? The fourth guy from the left in the eighth row back is the cat’s balls, man. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008/87 "2010-05-14T19:12:47Z")
> [@ProfessorX](#): > > Han Solo man, the ultimate badass. Anton Chigurh is the ultimate badass. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008/88 "2010-05-14T19:38:56Z")
How about Bollux & Blue Max? Would beat 3P0 & R2 in any droid competition I can think of. > [@Grumman](#): > > Don’t read: > [ul] > [li]Anything by Kevin J. Anderson.[/li][/ul] Follow this advice at all times, not just the Star Wars universe. Don’t be fooled if he’s a “co-author” either, even if the other author’s name looks vaguely similar to that of a more famous writer. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008/89 "2010-05-14T21:49:14Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > I haven’t read them myself (primarily due to warnings of that sort) but I’ve heard her writing style described as “Victorian”, “tedious” and “boring”. And I may be wrong, but I get the impression she may have tried to pass off Mara Jade onto Lando to make room for Callista. I’ve heard this too, and I’ll admit it does feel like she pushes them together somewhat. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008/90 "2010-05-22T04:55:12Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > **Curtis** , are you British? No but I prefer British spelling like HP Lovecraft.e > [@kjckjc](#): > > Gotta go with Yoda. Other than Mace he was the only one to try and oppose the Emperor face-to-face (and have a chance to win.) Especially since from an objective viewpoint the Republic would not be dying or gridlocked and would have been monstrously more prepared for the Yuuzhun Vong invasion without Palpatine’s interfence. (Force resistant or not, I would rather have an extra couple hundred well-trained and experienced Jedi with me in a fight.) If Palpatine had not manipulated to start the Clone Wars and thus have a military buildup the Republic would be monstrously unprepared. There were only ten thousand Jedi knights at its height which certainly couldn’t take on a whole invasion fleet. There would be no thousands of warships available to fight. > [@silenus](#): > > Grand Admiral Thrawn. Or maybe Captain Pellaeon. Amen! ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008/91 "2010-05-23T20:30:56Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > That nasty little shit that laughs at Jabba’s jokes. Salacious Crumb. I am slightly ashamed that I knew this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-star-wars-character/539008.md?page=4)