{"id":29495,"date":"2015-11-20T16:43:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T21:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=29495"},"modified":"2015-11-21T04:30:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T09:30:38","slug":"knights-of-the-old-republic-ep33l-non-stop-action-gameplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=29495","title":{"rendered":"Knights of the Old Republic EP33: Non-stop Action Gameplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it was rough earlier this week when we sat through a 15 minute expositional dialog, but we&#8217;re finally past that stuff and back into the space-fights and lightsaber battles. <\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K4LNqLmSsZM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K4LNqLmSsZM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Ha ha. I tricked you. It&#8217;s actually just more talking. You&#8217;re far too trusting. <\/p>\n<p>In this episode I unfairly picked on the Extended Universe novels. This was based entirely on the things people have told be about them. (I think? Maybe I&#8217;ve read some? Back in the 90&#8217;s I read a bunch of Trek novels and I might have thrown some Star Wars in there. In any case, if I did read some, I don&#8217;t remember the details.) <\/p>\n<p>Anyway. So now I&#8217;m curious: What&#8217;s good? I don&#8217;t mean &#8220;which books?&#8221; I mean: <em>What new ideas did the books introduce that made for good stories and fit within the pre-existing framework?<\/em> (EDIT: Any media or time period is good. I&#8217;m just curious what EU ideas have resonated with people.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it was rough earlier this week when we sat through a 15 minute expositional dialog, but we&#8217;re finally past that stuff and back into the space-fights and lightsaber battles. Link (YouTube) Ha ha. I tricked you. It&#8217;s actually just more talking. You&#8217;re far too trusting. In this episode I unfairly picked on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[84,513],"class_list":["post-29495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-bioware","tag-kotor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}