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Seeing Willow in the theaters when I was ten was another landmark event for me. This was a movie that proved to me that imaginative, creative films could be made that really made you feel like the magic was actually taking place on screen. On top of that, the story was actually pretty decent (although Lucas had already had a shot at very similar stories in the Ewok Adventure movies, so he'd had plenty of practice perfecting the formula). Reading Wayland Drew's novelization later that summer only made me hungrier for more, since the book included incidents and trivia that had been cut from the movie. So it was that when I learned Willow would be continued in a follow-up series of books, I was ecstatic. Until I read the second chapter. After the second chapter, it took me most of the rest of the book to forgive George Lucas and Chris Claremont (of X-Men fame). Nevertheless, this book stands as one of the most enjoyable fantasy stories I've read in a long time, and I've since returned to the series a few times. Definitely worth the few hours it will take to read through.

2022-11-14 16:25