Tatooine Ghost features a strong emotional arc for Leia’s character: she learns more about the Skywalker side of her heritage through Shmi Skywalker’s holojournal, and she begins to come to terms with her father’s identity. She has to forgive Darth Vader so that she can move on with her life and not follow her father down a similar path. This also ties pretty well into the Thrawn trilogy, giving the reader the first inklings of what Thrawn is capable of. But at the same time, the beginning setup was decidedly clunky, I disliked the Squibs, and I had some questions about the timeframe of the Vader revelations in the postReturn of the Jedi era.

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00:00 Intro
02:11 Brief timeline disclaimer
02:50 The setup
05:12 Bridge to the Prequels
05:52 Han
07:31 Chewie & C3PO
08:12 Leia's emotional arc
09:39 Leia's opposition to children
10:36 Leia's forgiveness
11:06 Resolution of the "children issue"
11:43 The Squibs
12:01 The Imperials
12:22 Issue 1: Clunky setup
14:06 Issue 2: Hokey journal entries
14:37 Issue 3: Pace (especially second half)
15:21 Issue 4: Timeline of Vader revelations
17:38 In Short