What people argue on Wookiepedia is immaterial; GL has reiterated this point multiple times, as has Chee. Now maybe it's outdated now, but it's more than just one quote from 11 years ago - I just picked one.Last_Jedi_Standing wrote:Given that Lucas has spent the years since then hiring people to make more EU, and employed (Or did until a few days ago) Leland Chee specifically to manage all this and keep conflicts down, I'd say the 11-year-old quote is kinda irrelevant. There's a lot of debate on Wookieepedia about levels of canon and so forth, and essentially that just isn't true. Canon is.
It's just my opinion it's crap; you can disagree, totally fine. I was quite into it for a very long time, too, then came to dislike where it had all gone. I still love the original trilogy (I still have a lot of original figures mint in package . . .), just not the EU.Last_Jedi_Standing wrote:The EU is not crap. Not in any way. I have spent nine years working with this stuff. Karen Traviss did indeed stop working with Lucasfilm because the Clone Wars overrode her entire five-book series, and she didn't want to rewrite the entire thing to conform to the new canon.
But I still remember some fondly. I think my favorite books were the Aaron Allston X-Wing books; he had a great blend of humor and drama. That and the Han Solo trilogy (the newer one, not the really old one). Actually, I thought the novelization of the Force Unleashed game was great; I feel like the author (whose name escapes me at the moment) was one of the few who had a real consistent idea of how the Force worked. Again, though, that's just my opinion.
I can see how it would be upsetting, but we've known for some time that it's basically another universe very much like the original. The Clone Wars show may very well be contradicting a lot of the CW-era books and comics and things - even if just because of the impossibility of these characters being in so many places over such a relatively short period of time.This is what I'm afraid of. If they do this, they will effectively destroy hundreds of books, comics, and games, things that I and every other serious Star Wars fan have put thousands of hours into. That would be very, very bad, and I think it's going to happen.
C'est la vie. It doesn't make those works less good, if you like them.
I agree. I just wasn't phrasing it as strongly. But if they're at least competent and entertaining it will help get rid of that foul taste the prequels left in my mouth.There's no way they'll be as good as the originals. That's just not gonna happen.
