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Sep. 9th, 2021 09:56 pmSome top moments from Medstar II: Jedi Healer, the sequel to Medstar I: Battle Surgeons, the second Star Wars tie-in novel about overworked and stressed-out medical professionals on a backwater yet highly contested jungle planet during the Clone Wars:
- the ongoing subplot about doctors stealing doses of the miracle drug produced on-planet, which is not allowed to be used on-planet because of how valuable it is, to secretly use on dying clones and low-level personnel
- the loving description of Barriss Offee's lifetime-guarantee spun-plastic boots
- the Doogie Houser wonder kid prodigy who shows up at the beginning of the book to replace a beloved dead character and does nothing plot-relevant throughout the book except continue being annoyingly good at surgery
- "she couldn't talk to any of her colleagues -- what was she going to say? Hey, Jos, I just became one with the entire galaxy ... and how's that case of Ortolan rhinorrhea you've been dealing with?"
- the moment the book briefly tried to red herring the audience into thinking a different character was the enemy spy than the one who was obviously the enemy spy; as a red herring it was not particularly effective but it did make me look back and appreciate the surprising skill with which the authors avoided gendered pronouns in the spy's POV sections throughout both books in the duology
- I-Five the droid, staring with dramatic reverence after a new female-coded droid who's just been brought in to work the cantina: "She's beautiful!"
"I-Five ... are you saying you're attracted to Teedle?"
"No. Had you wondering for a second, though, did I not?"
- "From what I've studied of popular culture, I think this is the moment where I'm supposed to remind you of all the wonderful advantages you, as an organic, have over me, a mechanical. Unfortunately, I really can't think of any."
- ( spoilers )
- "somehow, during his sojourn here, [the hard-boiled three-foot-tall war reporter] had become infected with a germ more deadly than any bug to be found in Drongar's pestilential ecosystem: a conscience"
- ( more spoilers, these books really did understand the brief )
Apparently there are further tie-in novel adventures of the three-foot-tall war reporter and his best mean droid friend and, on the one hand, they will not be about overworked doctors, and on the other hand, I might read them anyway?? Unfortunately this now appears to be who I am.
- the ongoing subplot about doctors stealing doses of the miracle drug produced on-planet, which is not allowed to be used on-planet because of how valuable it is, to secretly use on dying clones and low-level personnel
- the loving description of Barriss Offee's lifetime-guarantee spun-plastic boots
- the Doogie Houser wonder kid prodigy who shows up at the beginning of the book to replace a beloved dead character and does nothing plot-relevant throughout the book except continue being annoyingly good at surgery
- "she couldn't talk to any of her colleagues -- what was she going to say? Hey, Jos, I just became one with the entire galaxy ... and how's that case of Ortolan rhinorrhea you've been dealing with?"
- the moment the book briefly tried to red herring the audience into thinking a different character was the enemy spy than the one who was obviously the enemy spy; as a red herring it was not particularly effective but it did make me look back and appreciate the surprising skill with which the authors avoided gendered pronouns in the spy's POV sections throughout both books in the duology
- I-Five the droid, staring with dramatic reverence after a new female-coded droid who's just been brought in to work the cantina: "She's beautiful!"
"I-Five ... are you saying you're attracted to Teedle?"
"No. Had you wondering for a second, though, did I not?"
- "From what I've studied of popular culture, I think this is the moment where I'm supposed to remind you of all the wonderful advantages you, as an organic, have over me, a mechanical. Unfortunately, I really can't think of any."
- ( spoilers )
- "somehow, during his sojourn here, [the hard-boiled three-foot-tall war reporter] had become infected with a germ more deadly than any bug to be found in Drongar's pestilential ecosystem: a conscience"
- ( more spoilers, these books really did understand the brief )
Apparently there are further tie-in novel adventures of the three-foot-tall war reporter and his best mean droid friend and, on the one hand, they will not be about overworked doctors, and on the other hand, I might read them anyway?? Unfortunately this now appears to be who I am.
