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Very good article, Dancelittleewok ^___^ (and I love your name ! )

I loved Jacen. He is my favorite fictional character, my hero, my first crush (yes really ) He means a lot to me. His death is very sad for me and I'm still to get over that he is dead

I don't have a problem also, with Jacen falling. In my opinion Jaina is the more logical choice, but yes I can see Jacen falling. He has always been in my opinion different and an outcast of sort. He also believes what he does is right and nobody else knows how/can do the right thing. He did suffer a lot, not just that at Vergere, but the loss of Anakin, his friends, their innocence and stability. Even if you can survive an experience and become stronger for it, I think there still must be a wound from where it was originally made. I imagine a terrible experience can be overcome in time, but not complete forgotten. His character was much changed since Traitor, but even before that since he develops from unwilling to kill a living creature, to killing when it is necessary. He still keeps his pacifist values, but is a step further. Killing when necessary lead even further to killing when it would help/prevent a situation. His justification for this is saving innocent lives. However it is to the point where it is not clear if what he is trying to prevent would happen.

I suppose you can say he has been walking to the dark side for a long time. I can see him making the deal with Lumiya to protect Luke, but... I didn't understand why he had to murder Nelani for that.

I wish he had just stayed like in dark nest, he was a little creepy... but gray area characters is interesting. Cackling cartoon villians that get their arse kicked repeatedly by the disadvantaged heros is painful to read  The worst thing is, from what I read it isn't even a fair fight. Jacen has all the advantages and he still gets his arse handed to him everytime. That is why I have been so hesitant to starting this series

I really don't understand how the relationship of Luke to Jacen became so bad. In Dark Nest Luke is so trusting of Jacen, and they seems like very good friends. He is horrified when he thinks Jacen might be dead (in TSW I think) Now Luke hates Jacen and everything he does... and Jacen isn't evil yet. In Betrayal after Jacen's car was hit by a bomb, and he and Mara are waiting for his name on the screen showing the dead. When Jacen is ok, Luke thinks more like "he is showing off" not "thank god he's alive". I thought that was very strange (and horrible)

So from the book point of view, Jacen is a Sith and nobody knows... so why has Luke a reason to hate him ? (unless the authors is forget he is not meant to know)
When Jacen came back in dark nest, Luke has not seen him for 5 years, Jacen has changed. So he is a much different person. I think to look at it from Luke's point of view, Jacen is now a very different man that Luke does not recognize. Some things Jacen did in that books made Luke not trust him, but at this point he does not hate him, as he seems in lotf to not just lose the trust, he wants nothing to do with Jacen. I wonder why if the impression is meant to be that Luke does not trust him, he lets Jacen train Ben  However, he is used to the new Jacen quick in Dark Nest, when he asks for his advice. Actaully I think there is much bad characterization of Luke as much as Jacen. Apparantly it is forgotten that they love and respect each other.

Another problem is , it is often said Jacen is the most powerful Jedi/Sith, can not be beaten... but I also hear he is beaten up a lot  It is not giving the impression he is very strong. I also hate that he sounds like a madman, not like creepy insane like Alema Rar, but like the cackling cartoon villian. I suppose if he can justify murdering and torturing people then yes, he is mad. I wish it was more consistent with his character.

I understand Luke does not want to redeem Jacen because he murdered his wife, tortured his son, slept with his ex-girlfriend
that last was a joke, but serious, I don't imagine Luke would want Jacen back with the Jedi. May be he wanted him dead ?

If Jacen did change so much then I agree something has been missing and we need another chapter, just for clarification to all Jacen's fans. we need to know why whhhhyyyyyyy did this happen 

Wooooow that's long post. sorry. I have more opinion about it than I realize. And I have not read most the books yet (I read Bloodlines first  and start to read Betrayal)