The Ladies of Luke Skywalker?

[PC-032]

OK I have referances to Luke Taking up with Mara Jade, but in "Dark Saber" (by Kevin J. Anderson) he is Ronanticaly attached to Callista.

Now I have only a few of the Novels and it has bean years since I've read others. are the two relationships part of diffrant contunitys or dose somthing hapen to one of Lukes Ladies? opening the way for the other and if so when?
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[Rasputiza]

Your post just reminded me of the almost only thing i really hated from the EU.

Mara Jade.

I think i can stick almost completely to the commentary given by spacemara site:

http://www.spacemara.freeservers.com/manifesto/index.html




Ras

[PC-032]

So basicaly Mara was Zhans big plan for Star Wars that got screwed by other Authors, and Callista was a replasment Love Intrest (with a seamily dumb back story), in the end Zhan got to (at least in part) fix the Character.
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[Rasputiza]

Well, in my view Mara has been a lost occasion for Zahn. He didn't depicted her in a believable manner, and the same applies to the Luke/Mara relationship.

The fact is tha Mara IS Luke's wife in the EU, and this is one of the cons in accepting it as canon (i tend to consider Lucas films the only real canon, even if i view the EU stuff as usable for lack of personal resources to rewrite so many millennia of SW universe history).
BTW: i find most TOTJ and pre Film era stuff from the EU as high quality material, my distastes go mostly to the after Endor material.

Besides this, i know very little about the whole Callista/Luke affair...

Ras

[PC-032]

Problem is he wasn't kept on to develop the character, the Thrawn Trilogy introduced and established the Character, working her through a solid arc.

Later authors Missused her, they included her bacause she was popluar but did nothing to develop the character, infact they left her to stagnate and misrepsented her to advance their own characters or story arcs and she is not the only one it hapend to.
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[Chandra Mindarass]

[PC-032]

I like the Idear of Imperial Warlords (Grand Admirals and Marshals) in White Uniforms but the Napoleonic Epaulets is going to far.

Thrawn Trilogy realy was a Primer to the "New Replublic Novles", and it worked, unfortnaly later books set eeriler and after it kind of mucked stuff up.
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[Firehawk0220]

[Hellcat]

Luke's had quite a few romantic involvements over the years. All in the same continuity. Before Mara, you have him romantically involved with Gariel Captison in Truce at Bakura, which is set immediately following RoTJ. Both characters essentially agreed to break it off at the end of the novel. Luke and Mara were never romantically involved in the Thrawn Trilogy, and Zahn left them as more ofbeing on the road to being friends than anything at the end of The Last Command. It wasn't until the Hando of Thrawn Dulogy that they actually became romantically involved, and that was after Luke and Callista. Which itself was after Luke and Jem. Callista left Luke because she didn't want to be reminded of what she had lost, her ability to use the Force, and wanted to find a way to get it back. A way that would have meant her returning to him. Whereas with Jem she and Luke never broke up, she was killed.

Check out this OS databank update from Feb 13, 2004. Four of them were some of the ladies Luke has been romantically involved with before marrying Mara Jade, two ladies han was romantically involved with before Leia, and two for Leia.
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[Kayle Skolaris]

It should be noted that Mara Jade is basically a rip-off of Shira Brie/Dark Lady Lumiya from the pre-Heir to the Empire comics. As such, she's beneath my personal contempt.

Personally, I never liked Zahn's books. Brian Daley's original Han Solo trilogy are the pinnacle of the EU in my opinion.

[darkclown789]

Mara all the way!

What's EU stand for?

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[Ankhanu]

Expanded Universe... basically all material outside of the movies themselves.

[Reaper63]

Having talked to some of the EU authes personally,. I can tell you that Mara was always intended to be the one Luke Married. This was approved by LFL when Zahn first started writing the Thrawn Trilogy. And the idea was for it to seem like it would never work, and for MAra to just walk away at the end of the trilogy, Calista had always been planned as a filler girlfriend. adding more loss to Luke's life, getting him in a position to finally accept Mara as his true love.

I myself, like the character of Mara Jade, but feel that several authers have misused her. and the compliation of characterizations makes for a real mess.

Although I too pick and choose which parts of the EU I like to include in my personal SW timeline, LFL intended for everything, novels, comics, Videogames, the works, to be included in the official Time line. Granted there are some major problems in this, but it was the intention.
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[masque]

I actually never worried too much about Luke's love life. Every time they threw Luke into the books I viewed it as a distraction from what Han and Chewie were doing 8) .
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