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SPOILER Continuity concern in Lords Of The Sith

Discussion in 'Star Wars: Books & Comics + Legends' started by NDCAtokR, May 4, 2015.

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    I am at the point int he book where Vader and Sidious get attacked for the first time, right after setting up the communications array. At this point in the story, there is Vader, Sidious, and 2 royal guards: a Captain, and a regular. (Remember Sidious' comment: "And now there were four"

    So, during this attack, one of the royal guardsmen is hit by a blaster from the Rebel freighter and is vaporized, but on the very next page he is alive and well.

    For those interested, the problem occurs on page 169.

    Thoughts?
     
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    I'm surprised that the storygroup hasn't noticed this!
     
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    Noticed
    I've just finnished it and noticed a lot of mistakes. Even some phrases repeated
     
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    Same here. I've been really disappointed in some of the editing.
     
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    I noticed this as well when reading the book.
     
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    Great. Just started reading but now I can look out for these mistakes.:)
     
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    I wouldn't necessarily call it a continuity error, but just a general error. I was likewise irritated by it though and with the numerous grammatical errors!
     
    #7 Jordan Of Alderaan, Jun 3, 2015
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    Did you read a physical copy or digital?
     
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    It was a physical preorder copy! I'm not denying the error at all - it was definitely there along with countless grammatical errors! Thinking about it, it is a continuity error in the same way as the jumper in Dawn of the Dead that gave birth to the screwdriver scene, I just always think of continuity errors being between two items of canon, but I suppose that's not exclusively true! I do apologise!
     
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    See, I read a digital copy and saw grammatical errors as well, I was just wondering if they appeared in the physical hardbacks as well as the digitals. WOW. Thats sad.
     
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    I read the book and what really bothered me was that they referenced clones like Rex, Cody, Echo and Sixes.

    Sixes.

    IT'S FIVES!
     
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    Yeah, I'm a little annoyed myself since I paid a fair bit for the hardback! I wouldn't say it's Kemp's fault though, more his editors (although mistakes like "sixes" as ZebroGodilla pointed out should have been avoided by Kemp).
     
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    Man, I'm glad I didn't catch that when I read the book. I'm fairly new to Clone Wars so I guess it didn't register with me. This, unfortunately, is a problematic book throughout.
     
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    Fives is up there with my most favorite Clones of all time. He's so awesome he even got his own arc that was very important for ROTS. Seeing the mistake in the book crushed me.
     
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    Yeah, this one is pretty unforgiving, given the recent importance of him.
     
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    This seemingly erroneous statement jumped out at me as well. And then I re-read it and realized that I missed something. The emperor says there are four dead in the ship after they crash. Upon investigation the pilot and co-pilot are found dead (that's two) and the four guards are found in disarray. Two of the guards were strapped in and these two are told by Vader to get up and they do so with wobbly legs. The other two guards remain on the floor...one is completely dead and one is found to have some life left in him. Vader tells his master there are only three dead and not four since this man is still alive. Almost in an effort to chastise Vader for questioning him, and seeing that this man is of no further use, he has him killed. "And now there are four." There were six to begin with. Three died during the crash, one shortly after, and two survived (these are the two that travel with the Sith lords thoughout the book. On second read through, I find no contradiction here. However, I do agree that there are multiple spelling and grammatical errors (i have a digital copy) as has been with all of the new novels. I hope we get more attention to correcting these errors in the future. Spell-check doesn't cut it when you're writing novels of this magnitude. Let's hire a couple people to actually read through the thing. As for the name "Sixes"...my digital copy actually says "Fives" so I don't know what to say about this error. Was this found in the physical print or something?

    Correction: Ok. I found the error and I stand corrected - The problem was not in the initial crash but the fact that there are two left and one gets vaporized in the next scene, leaving two. What?!

    Remember - two guards are left at this point...

    The freighters opened fire, writing thick lines of plasma onto the air. The shots churned the ground, destroyed trees, heated the air of the clearing; one slammed into the chest of a Royal Guard and vaporized all of him save for his helmet.

    2-1 = 1

    A few pages later we see that there are still two guards... WTF?!

    So yeah, I agree this is a big error, but I still don't know about sixes...
     
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    And also a few pages later when Cham and his team are investigating the crash site where there were 4 bodies like you stated now has only 3 bodies including only 1 Royal Guard instead of 2.
     
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    It's like Kemp had one draft going where the guy survived the crash and was vaporized later and then had the idea to have the Emperor kill him instead, but forgot to re-write the draft, and just added that in there. So now the poor guy dies twice.
     
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    I was thinking that too when I read it. Not completely finished yet but probably more mistakes coming. But yet this is something I figure the editor should have caught when they proof read this book if they even did.
     
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    I have found that most books today have at least one or two spelling or grammatical errors so that is understandable, but this was certainly a glaring mistake and I'm curious to see how much of this will happen in the future. Anyways despite this, I enjoyed the book. Some have mentioned that clone trooper "Sixes" was referenced, but mine says "Fives". What does yours say, @JeffG. ?
     
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