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They needed something to put their grief into. I have my disagreements with it, in the sense that they still have three other kids who lives they really aren't that involved in and that dedicating most of your waking time and constantly talking about suicide and self help methods isn't healthy, but they are helping people and forming a little community. There are a lot of worse ways they could've handled it.
I think at this point she's over the worst of it. She's genuinely gotten a lot better these past couple of days, went out to eat today and going to the store yesterday. If she was going to go to the hospital it would've been Thursday or Saturday which was the worst. But girls, it sounds like you're getting good at getting responses just not good at keeping them.
Writing a sex scene right now actually. Trying to mix domestic bliss/family life with horror undertones is actually kind of difficult. Although making sure Charlie has an appropriate amount of snark and care is also pretty challenging. Go to far in nice she sound too sacrine, to far snark she sounds cruel.
Although speaking of reading's, I did end up getting the Revenge of the sith novelization. It's a little flowery and could use some much needed edge, but it is very good. It's a hard balancing act incorporating George's very Shakespearean style of dialogue without it sounding too cheesy or devoid of emotion but the authors making it work so far.
The prose is pretty good, but like I said with it lacking edge sometimes, they talk about war and they talk about both sides committing atrocities and all these horrible things Sidious does but they don't really show it on screen so to speak. I'm still pretty early in, but a great example is the duel with Count Dooku. Some fun stuff, of him slowly realizing he was a pawn to Sidious the whole time.
That Anakin was going to be Sidious's true apprentice, not him, and their dreams of building a human centric empire and transforming the Jedi into a new Sith order was all bullshit. That this entire time he was just a tool to get Anakin angry enough he dips his toes into the dark side for the first time. Some really cool stuff about realizing he had wasted his life on a lie.
But when it describes what it's like for his hands to get cut off, they literally only give it two lines. Lol. They give more lines describing how many fans Anakin and Obi-wan have on the Star wars version of the Internet. Again it's surprisingly bloodless despite the very dark undertones.
I think it's called the Holo Web? And it's kind of like the internet but not really. It's based off of 80's/90's idea of what they thought the internet would be, so rather than a big interconnected web like we would imagine now, it's a bunch of smaller more localized chat rooms, forums, and a bunch of inaccessible private servers. Kind of cool to see how people's idea of the internet has evolved.
But with the Clone troopers they aren't beating you over the head with it, but there's plenty of moments that show how fucked up it is. It's like there was a scene where Anakin and Obi-Wan were about to enter the ship to go rescue Chancellor Palpatine from Count Dooku thus setting the stage for their duel, but to reach it they had to dog fight their way through a separatist fleet.
Which almost ended up killing them, but thankfully they were saved by a squadron of Clone's who were able to distract the separatist long enough for them to slip in to the main ship. And Anakin has the moment of hesitation where he says if they don't help the Clones beat back all these ships, they're going to die.
And Obi Wan just said, they would happily give their lives for the mission and asked Anakin if he felt like saving them was worth risking the Chancellor's life. To which Anakin reluctantly agreed, their lives were less important.