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A More Civilized Q&A - December 2025
🕑 Added 2025-12-30 07:36:04 +0000 UTCHappy Life Day to one and all! Today, we're dropping an extra long Q&A episode as we head into the final days of 2025. Why is it extra long? Is it because we dive deep into the inbox? Yes, totally. And is it because we finally talk about some important trailers that we haven't discussed yet? Yup.
But is it also because we have probably the highest rate of distractions that we've had on this show in years? Abso-LUTELY it is.
So sit back by the fire, sip some warm blue milk, and enjoy as we delve into your questions about force severance, how people celebrate in a galaxy far far away, and who we'd cast KOTOR Holiday Special.
See you all in the new year as we dive head first into the Revenge of the Sith novelization!
Show Notes
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic Teaser Trailer
The Saga of a Star Wars KOTOR II false advertising law suit... | Gamefile
Mysterious Video Austin Mentions (don't click if you want to play along)
The Mandalorian and Grogu Trailer
Comments
I-Hsien Sherwood
You get a lot of Chandrilan culture and custom in Andor S2 (plus Mon and Perrin in absolute drip).
Emily
When Lumpawaroo grows up he starts a jizz band call Lumpy and the Banthas
Daniel Maldonado
I still dream of the world where Luceno and Stover take over the next logical world building steps of that old canon as opposed to Denning and co.
Patrick Kay
Please let Natalie explain the fascinating, hubristic Disney Parks Star Wars lore. Also, you should read new canon books despite how silly they sound! Love the pod!
Harper Jay MacIntyre
To actually answer the Vong question and make a rare appearance in the Patreon comments: they are not truly outside the Force. A big part of the NJO for Luke (and Jacen Solo especially) is understanding two seemingly contradictory ideas. One is that "the Force contains all life" and the other is "we can't sense the Vong in the Force." and reconciling what this means. For many of the Jedi at first, this "otherness" and "outsideness" is taken as a sign that the Vong are an aberration and therefore evil. The final conclusion that the series comes to is that this is wrong. It is the Jedi's *perception* of the Force which is limited and they are simply being faced with people who are, lacking a better shorthand, operating on a different frequency from what they know. Of course the Vong are part of the Force. They are living beings. And the Force isn't selective about who is included in that category. All life is contained in the Force. Even the Vong. And in the face of what was (for the old canon) maybe the most broadly *violent* war in galactic history, the big test for the Jedi is ultimately one of empathy. Learning to understand a strange new thing. Learning to "see" the enemy. This leads to a lot of changes but one of them was that at the end of the war, Luke sorta calls on the Jedi to become wanderers again and to do works *among the people* and avoid the mistake of the old order. "I'm no longer convinced that we're meant to police the galaxy.." he says. So naturally, the few next book series ignore pretty much all this stuff about empathy and love, turn Jacen Solo into a Sith, and make Luke's order operate exactly like the Prequel order..
