I love the EU, but things are going to get rough for it as more and more live action projects are made for the New Canon, and the excellent EU videogames become more and more inaccessible to young fans.
The Canon is going to be seen as the strict default to everyone except hardcore old fans. It's an inevitability.
When you destroy the legacy of Luke, Leia, Han, etc., nothing else matters. The rest is just fluff. Star Wars was always a story about a family first and foremost.
You are missing the point I'm trying to make. The death of these characters will have far less weight to fans who were introduced to the franchise through Din Djarin, Ahsoka Tano, and protagonist after protagonist that is going to be introduced over the years. Luke Skywalker having an awful death isn't in a single trilogy won't matter as he slowly becomes one of the many characters told through dozens of different live action stories, each with their own importance to the continuity.
I agree. But when it comes to novels, which is already hell of a niche part of the fanbase. EU classics like Thrawn/Darth Bane will still be there
And Empire at War will remain alive unless they somehow decided make another SW RTS
None of it. I tried getting into EU but the the legacy characters don't act and talk like they do in the movies and it kept breaking my suspension of disbelief.
I just pick and choose. Most SW periods and genres are a bit shit honestly and it's a matter of discarding the ones that do not interest you, and acknowledging the ones you like. Even the Disney era works like that (although the number of stuff to discard is quite sizeable)
Filoni already showed the seed for it with the world between worlds on Rebels which is also going to feature in Ahsoka
Although I still kinda hope he uses it to retcon the sequels
They still haven't 100% set up how it works so who knows. Ezra prevented Ahsokas death so who knows what happens if someone goes and prevents Luke from acting like a moron and trying to kill Ben
Ahsokas death was prevented by Ezra before he even entered the world between worlds.
It's closed loop time travel. >Invent time travel because you find an instruction manual >Travel back in time >Place that instruction manual so your past self can find it and invent time travel >So on and so on in an endless loop
Make sense? If Luke was prevented from activating his lightsaber, it would have happened already because it's only one timeline.
I was addicted to the EU between the ages of 11-14, but looking back as an adult I think most of it is worthless. The Thrawn trilogy, which is usually submitted as the best example of its kind, is really little more than a reworking of the original film trilogy. Thrawn kills his own men like Vader while exhibiting the slick officer class suave of Tarkin; prostituteass Booth is a bargain basement version of the Emperor; the old gang get back together and resume their former roles; and so on. The clone Luke (Luuke) is something new, I suppose, but it's also laughable crap.
I went back to the EU when I was in my late twenties and looked at some of the things that had come out during the interval. I actually enjoyed the Darth Bane trilogy because it was a new story told from an unsual point of view. Most EU media couldn't get away from recycling the popular parts of the originals again and again and again, and Disney has had this exact same problem.
EU Zahn’s real talent is getting the Star Wars feeling down, giving everyone in the cast something meaningful to do, balancing the mystical plus military plus underground culture elements of SW, writing the type of interweaving-battle climaxes as RotJ, and not doing too much moronic along the way (Luuke is dumb, but he’s only there for like five pages as a miniboss). He provides the same feeling as watching Star Wars and balances all the parts of it well, whereas other writers usually focus too much on Jedi or pilots or some other facet.
Disney Zahn has lost that. I’m not sure whether Disney isn’t letting him play with the bigger universe, or if he told them that he only wants to write in his Wild Space sandbox, but he’s just writing military sci-fi OC stuff without the mystical or under culture balance.
Just cherry pick the stuff I enjoyed like I always did with Star Wars.
Now we are talking
This. They can't take my old republic novels from me no matter what new shit they do with the characters.
The real star kino
New canon is a bad copy of the EU so EU.
I love the EU, but things are going to get rough for it as more and more live action projects are made for the New Canon, and the excellent EU videogames become more and more inaccessible to young fans.
The Canon is going to be seen as the strict default to everyone except hardcore old fans. It's an inevitability.
>The Canon is going to be seen as the strict default
*blocks your path*
Drop in a bucket. Nobody will care when there are so many other projects to be paying attention to
When you destroy the legacy of Luke, Leia, Han, etc., nothing else matters. The rest is just fluff. Star Wars was always a story about a family first and foremost.
>Star Wars is just about Skywalkers!
no
You are missing the point I'm trying to make. The death of these characters will have far less weight to fans who were introduced to the franchise through Din Djarin, Ahsoka Tano, and protagonist after protagonist that is going to be introduced over the years. Luke Skywalker having an awful death isn't in a single trilogy won't matter as he slowly becomes one of the many characters told through dozens of different live action stories, each with their own importance to the continuity.
Their many other projects are also shit and nobody cares about them, see High Republic.
n all her hardcore coke binges and general debauchery how come she never went fully nude?
I agree. But when it comes to novels, which is already hell of a niche part of the fanbase. EU classics like Thrawn/Darth Bane will still be there
And Empire at War will remain alive unless they somehow decided make another SW RTS
The issue is that nobody actually reads the novels
Finished New Jedi Order. Little exhausting to read (19 books+Different authors) but it was a fun read. Real Sequels if you ask me
I unironically recommend the High Republic if you like that large-scale format
I've grown to be quite fond of EU universe so I doubt I can invest myself into Nucanon novels, no matter how good they are
Complete canon: 4 -> 5 -> 6 (despecialized)
That's all
EU. Nu Canon is fricking dumb and a mismatch of Clone Wars garbage, EU knockoffs, and blatant Original Trilogy rehashes.
EU, broski. But I am picky.
None of it. I tried getting into EU but the the legacy characters don't act and talk like they do in the movies and it kept breaking my suspension of disbelief.
I just pick and choose. Most SW periods and genres are a bit shit honestly and it's a matter of discarding the ones that do not interest you, and acknowledging the ones you like. Even the Disney era works like that (although the number of stuff to discard is quite sizeable)
i hope everyone's ready for the star wars multiverse
you know they're gonna do it
No they aren't
Filoni already showed the seed for it with the world between worlds on Rebels which is also going to feature in Ahsoka
Although I still kinda hope he uses it to retcon the sequels
That's not how the world between worlds works
They still haven't 100% set up how it works so who knows. Ezra prevented Ahsokas death so who knows what happens if someone goes and prevents Luke from acting like a moron and trying to kill Ben
Ahsokas death was prevented by Ezra before he even entered the world between worlds.
It's closed loop time travel.
>Invent time travel because you find an instruction manual
>Travel back in time
>Place that instruction manual so your past self can find it and invent time travel
>So on and so on in an endless loop
Make sense? If Luke was prevented from activating his lightsaber, it would have happened already because it's only one timeline.
Ahsoka is going to see the future and unironically become a catalyst for the events of the ST just to make it even worse.
I'm anticipating those orange lightsaber Jedi in Ahsoka somehow being Revan and the Exile.
Bane
EU
I was addicted to the EU between the ages of 11-14, but looking back as an adult I think most of it is worthless. The Thrawn trilogy, which is usually submitted as the best example of its kind, is really little more than a reworking of the original film trilogy. Thrawn kills his own men like Vader while exhibiting the slick officer class suave of Tarkin; prostituteass Booth is a bargain basement version of the Emperor; the old gang get back together and resume their former roles; and so on. The clone Luke (Luuke) is something new, I suppose, but it's also laughable crap.
I went back to the EU when I was in my late twenties and looked at some of the things that had come out during the interval. I actually enjoyed the Darth Bane trilogy because it was a new story told from an unsual point of view. Most EU media couldn't get away from recycling the popular parts of the originals again and again and again, and Disney has had this exact same problem.
Thrawn has exactly one imp executed in the entire trilogy.
EU Zahn’s real talent is getting the Star Wars feeling down, giving everyone in the cast something meaningful to do, balancing the mystical plus military plus underground culture elements of SW, writing the type of interweaving-battle climaxes as RotJ, and not doing too much moronic along the way (Luuke is dumb, but he’s only there for like five pages as a miniboss). He provides the same feeling as watching Star Wars and balances all the parts of it well, whereas other writers usually focus too much on Jedi or pilots or some other facet.
Disney Zahn has lost that. I’m not sure whether Disney isn’t letting him play with the bigger universe, or if he told them that he only wants to write in his Wild Space sandbox, but he’s just writing military sci-fi OC stuff without the mystical or under culture balance.