Depends exactly on how you mean that.
For instance, there isn’t any true love triangle present at all - a villain has a crush on the girl, but she’s only freaked out because he’s a creepy madman who’s embraced the Imperial Doctrine to a truly disturbing degree. The drama in the romance is strictly between two people who were in love and end up on opposite sides afterwards.
There is an entire section set at the Imperial Academy, a bit like a twisted Hogwarts for Navy Officers and TIE pilots, and a full on dance scene very much like a prom. But, you know, it’s the Empire so there’s some genuine intrigue and a lot of the stuff being done there is so that the war part of the story feels a lot more developed when classmates start dying.
The thing wound up being adapted pretty faithfully as a manga, if that helps you pin down more of its mood and tone. Our heroes are highly ambitious “want to be the very best” types at first, and things get highly dramatic but dangerous; it’s melodramatic on the way a manga is, even in the book version.
As a dude who read Alex Rider as a kid then Red Rising as a young adult, Lost Star was highly entertaining to me... and the female fans I know love it as well, if that helps,
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While I was very happy to not have a true love triangle in this book, I do feel like it might still be YA in style... but well done, which can make all the difference in the world.
And I’ve liked it enough I now own a physical copy, a digital version of the manga adaptation, and an audio version.
I listened to it today while going to a job interview, and it occurs to me, it wouldn’t be that hard to adapt it to a TV show, if Disney ever wanted to try making a romantic Star Wars TV show.
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Yeah, I don’t see them doing it either - the last few years have strongly implied that LFL is usually more cautious when it comes to genre bending. Rogue One being a war film was the only real success they had at that, while their first stab at a smaller scale heist film in Solo lost money thanks to BTS issues, Resistance never took off as a racing show, and the ST saw a lot more infighting of what direction things should go than it did actual experimentation.
The Acolyte and Rogue Squadron might be their next real attempts at getting mildly out of their comfort zone, and even then, Star Wars has a long history of starfighter media and dark siders aren’t out of their comfort zone by very much.
A dedicated romance series would be something they likely wouldn’t see as a good use of resources... and that I wouldn’t trust them with given how lackluster they’ve handled it so far in this era.
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Idk about genre bending as a whole. I like seeing different ideas, although IMO the idea of "genre-izing" movies just makes them more prone to repeated tropes. But I would like to see Star Wars step out of it's comfort zone, especially with how massive the galaxy is. Maybe have an alien protagonist for once
But specifically with romance, I don't see it happening, for the reasons you pointed out. I'm not a huge romance fan so that doesn't bother me, although others may like this idea.
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I think maybe Zahn's reasoning behind that is that at that point in the films the Empire's starfleet is seen as entirely human (especially compared with ROTJ's version of the Rebels), and therefore in the EU was "speciest" but Thrawn was "close enough" to be given a shot.
This kind of thing sort of started to lose it's sort of canon with Palpatine having an alien Sith apprentice, as well as a good chunk of his staff/advisors/conspirators also being aliens and it's mostly been ignored by Disney I think.
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