beatrice_otter (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
beatrice_otter) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
crack_van2007-07-22 07:36 pm
beatrice_otter) wrote in crack_van2007-07-22 07:36 pm
Entry tags:
Good Fertilizer by Jane Jinn (G)
Fandom: STAR WARS (EXTENDED UNIVERSE)
Pairing: none
Author on LJ: none known
Author Website: Jane Jinn's site or you can find her Star Wars fic at TheForce.net Archive
Why this must be read:
Star Wars canon has a lot of holes, inconsistencies, and things that just plain don't make sense, particularly if you take in the Extended Universe. Jane Jinn takes one of these holes, and makes it into something so completely right for the universe it's hard to imagine it not being part of canon.
In the YA series about a young Obi-Wan Kenobi, we learn that those children who are not chosen to be apprenticed by the time they're 13 get sent to the Agricultural Corps, to be farmers for the rest of their lives. These children, who've been trained as Jedi all their lives (and that must be some expensive training), get put on ships taking them out to AgriCorps planets in nothing but the clothes they stand up in, all alone for the first time in their lives. It seems like such a waste of material, if nothing else. Why? Why would the Jedi do that?
This story is an answer. It's not about failing to be a Jedi. It's about life, and living, and serving in a way that's different from, but no less important than, the service of the Jedi.
Good Fertilizer
Pairing: none
Author on LJ: none known
Author Website: Jane Jinn's site or you can find her Star Wars fic at TheForce.net Archive
Why this must be read:
Star Wars canon has a lot of holes, inconsistencies, and things that just plain don't make sense, particularly if you take in the Extended Universe. Jane Jinn takes one of these holes, and makes it into something so completely right for the universe it's hard to imagine it not being part of canon.
In the YA series about a young Obi-Wan Kenobi, we learn that those children who are not chosen to be apprenticed by the time they're 13 get sent to the Agricultural Corps, to be farmers for the rest of their lives. These children, who've been trained as Jedi all their lives (and that must be some expensive training), get put on ships taking them out to AgriCorps planets in nothing but the clothes they stand up in, all alone for the first time in their lives. It seems like such a waste of material, if nothing else. Why? Why would the Jedi do that?
This story is an answer. It's not about failing to be a Jedi. It's about life, and living, and serving in a way that's different from, but no less important than, the service of the Jedi.
Good Fertilizer