Precipice
Author: Chris Cassidy
Medium: Short story
Publication date: April 23, 2008 on StarWars.com (republished on Unbound Worlds)
Timeline placement: 22 BBY
Do you remember that scene in Attack of the Clones where Obi-Wan is captured by the bug guys and he's floating in that electric thing for some reason and Count Dooku comes in and talks to him for like two minutes? This story is just that scene again, with the same dialogue from the movie and everything. I have no idea what the point of writing it was.
There is a new element added where Dooku is mind-raping Obi-Wan while they mindlessly repeat George Lucas's dialogue, psychically rifling through his memories and telepathically reiterating everything he's saying out loud, but it's completely pointless and contributes nothing besides making you wonder why this didn't come up in Obi-Wan's internal monologue in any of the novelized versions of this scene. The writing is kind of uncomfortably suggestive so maybe the author was working through some things with this one, I don't know. I appreciate the little Jedi Apprentice references but Dooku/Obi-Wan slashfic doesn't do it for me.
0.5 out of 5 Death Stars.
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