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You must live in a black and white world, then.

I absolutely adored Nom Anor and, to a slightly lesser extent, Tsavong Lah. Both of them died, and the latter pretty much got the huge shaft when it came to his death scene. That said, I found both deaths to be appropriate to move the story forward. Especially Anor's. And Nom Anor wasn't some character who was in a few books, he was a character I grew to love over the course of five years. It's not that people don't care when someone else's favorite character dies. It's when those people overreact and whine and bitch and moan and utterly refuse to move on. Anakin Solo is dead, and he's been dead for a LONG time. People can still lament his death, but to whine and cry over it for as long as they have, it's utterly ridiculous and it shows the complete lack of time that they apparently have to get so uppity over a fictional character in a fictional universe.

If the Boba Fett novel (and I use this as an example because he's my favorite Star Wars character) were to be in the Blood Oath situation, and the only assurance I had was that he survived or that the events were still canon, sure I'd be disappointed. I wouldn't make all these ridiculous sweeping generalizations you'll find in this thread like how it was the most anticipated book of the year(!), but I'd be genuinely sad that a book that I'm very much looking forward to had been canceled. And then I'd move on, because at the end of the day, it's not going to make me stop reading Star Wars. And this book's cancelation won't make anyone stop reading the series, they'll just be irritated for the time being. But like anything else, most people will just get over it.

So.... so.... there's like... a time limit of how long I can mourn my fictional heterosexual man crush AKA Jacen Solo?

*blubbers*



Just kidding. I actually think you put that rather eloquently/side-splittingly funny, Boba, which is what you're awesome at. I will promise at the designated time that I will personalise all my feelings of unrequited Jacen-ness and never speak of them again. Mad props for also using Nom Anor and Tsavong Lah as your examples in the way you did. Tsavvy totally did get shafted for being such an uber-badass villain.

I also agree with JV7 in the sense that in-universe it IS odd that no one has mentioned Zekk. Out of universe we know the reason is that they cannot spoil the dramatic tension of the upcoming Blood Oath (well... when it was upcoming... or whatever), but still, one would think that in-universe they could've found a way around it. Like have Jaina say to Jag, "Oh yeah, I'm going to visit Zekk now." Taken at face value that could mean she's popping over to his apartment to get drunk with him or whatever, but taken BEYOND face value, "I'm going to visit Zekk" is just another way of saying, "I'm going to visit Zekk. Who is dead and buried at the Temple grounds and I will be visiting Zekk AT HIS GRAVESITE."

By this silly example, I'm trying to illustrate that I do believe there could have been ambiguous ways around it where characters could have mentioned Zekk but not given away any spoiler alert info from BO. Like how in Outcast they totally made us all question exactly WHAT happened between the Hapans and Imps without actually telling us what happened. They just inferred and made ambiguous comments about it.