Tk421 why aren t you at your post serial number#
Tk421 why aren t you at your post free#

I just know if the story was between a male officer and a female subordinate, the author would be crucified. I guess because the author is gay he can do what he wants, and he'd know where the line is far better than I would. TK-421 is basically a gay guy bestie from Sex and the City (oh, my pores are SO HUGE! Ugh, he really MANHANDLED me. Hundreds of lines of text over the course of the story, for sure.Īnyway, yeah. Reading it might have been better, but the audio book was unlistenable because the mouse droid does a lot of stuff like:Īnd they read ALL of it. Ultimately, TK-421 is dead and the story goes on about other stuff involving the mouse droid but I had to eventually turn it off.

After the exchange where Tarkin announces the Senate has been dissolved and Vader chokes out Motti, Tarkin is all fired up and wants to boink so he sends the droid to get TK-421. Tarkin moves TK-421 up the ladder so he can have better access to him, which is how he ends up on guard duty at the Falcon. They talk about how luxurious the carpet is. When he gets to the quarters, Tarkin sets him to some task that requires him to remove his armor. TK-421 talks at great length about how butch he needs to play it for Tarkin so he can sleep his way up the ladder. Note that they have never met and Tarkin doesn't even know if he's into dudes. But it's seriously like some scented bodywash or lotion or something that indicates that he wants to have sex with him. (Again, a Stormtrooper who is for some reason a mechanic.) Tarkin sends him something as well. He sends the droid back to TK-421 to coerce him to come to his quarters to fix something. The damaged mouse droid displays some holo of TK-421 and Tarkin notes how beautiful he is and lusts after him. After the delivery, Tarkin trips on it and falls in the hallway. Said mouse droid was running a replacement part to the torture droid intended for Leia. He has a favorite mouse droid that he has suped up to be really fast that he hopes to race someday. Has his armor and everything, but sits down in the guts of the Death Star working on droids. TK-421 is a Stormtrooper who doesn't work as a soldier at all, but in droid maintenance. The mouse droid really is the main character, as everything is told through its perspective. The major characters are Tarkin, TK-421, and the mouse droid that Chewbacca scares away on the Death Star.

Tk421 why aren t you at your post free#

Feel free to red flag every major problem you see: The basics of the story, before I turned it off, are like this. Of course.įortunately I think From a Certain Point of View is just a coffee table 'read this and then never worry about it actually impacting any other parts of canon again' book.

Tk421 why aren t you at your post serial number#

I mean, of COURSE Tarkin's lover has to be the one stormtrooper who happened to have his serial number said out loud in A New Hope. I'm going to ignore whatever social/political statement anyone wants to make about retroactively making characters gay, but that just reeks of the lazy 'everything must be connected.somehow.' philosophy Lucasfilm abused so much during the prequels. Wait, that's an actual thing in From a Certain Point of View? I've only read the first few stories so far. Maybe the only one that was TERRIBLE.įor comparison, I thought Sinjir (who I assume you're referencing) was very well written. It's by far the worst story in From A Certain Point of View, just in its execution and story and everything. Older dude using his position of power to exploit his boytoy in a way that if TK-421 had been a female, the Internet would be on fire with rage at the aggressive, exploitative behavior. He's super creeper gay, too, to the point that surely it offends some people. What is it with these authors making imperial officers gay? Tarkin was very upset to lose his gay lover.