skyjedi2005 said:

What i like about the EU, other writers getting to write star wars, not just Lucas.

Who pretty much since Return of the Jedi has controlled the entire show, even though then he had input from Marquand or Kasden.

Then starting with episode 1 he decided to write and direct the rest by himself without any help except the art department, huge mistake in my opinion, other fans think it was a plus since he finally achieved his vision.

But if the prequels were the vision he intended for the oot then i would have never become a fan, and Lucas would not be a household name and a visionary to so many.

So what you like about the EU is that it isn't the prequels?

Shocking.

Empire's End?

I have lost some respect for you, ken.

(And this coming from a Dark Empire apologist)

xhonzi said:

I have lost some respect for you, ken.

I have lost some respect for you, xhonzi. ;-)

Hey, what did I do?

You had respect for Ken!

;-)

I never said I had any.... I just said I now had less. 

Twice.

Is it possible to have less than zero respect for someone?

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On second thought, nobody answer that.  Unless you have less than zero respect for the EU of course.

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Unless you're talking about the European Union, of course...

From the opinions here and the Amazon reviews, it's not something I'll rush out and get.  I might just get it and toss it in my luggage.  I always have a paperback or two in my carry-on for the several flights I make a year.  Something I don't mind getting banged up from the abuses of traveling. This might be good for that.  If I don't dig it, I'll donate it.

timdiggerm said:

TheBoost said:

not true, but would make a good EU novel.

I suppose it is a sad commentary on the EU that you actually fooled me.

Right there with you, man.  Didn't even consider that he might be joking.

I used to like the EU when it first started with the Timothy Zahn novels, jedi academy, black fleet crisis, x-wing rogue squadron, tales from the mos eisley cantina, tales of the bounty hunters.  And then there was the comics. I collected Dark empire I and II along with tales of the jedi series. 

I liked EU before the stupid Yzan vong or whatever they're called.

Dark Empire I and II was cool.

Favorite things about the EU.  That there is star wars beyond return of the jedi, my favorite characters from  the oot films are represented, it moved the story beyond ROTJ and not backwards.

That Luke actually becomes a Jedi master and grows as a man, and a character. 

That people actually die and get old.  That even if it is not talked  adults in the EU universe do have sex.

Jedi men can love women, and not go evil.

They deal with issues like death, politics and religion and are far less juvenile in content than the films, well sometimes.  Other times the EU books are just as bad if not worse, even giving Lucas some of his bad prequel ideas.

skyjedi2005 said:

Favorite things about the EU. That there is star wars beyond return of the jedi, my favorite characters from the oot films are represented, it moved the story beyond ROTJ and not backwards.

Until the Legacy era, anyway. For there on out it's just rehash, rehash, rehash.

Anchorhead said:

I'm going to stop on the way home today and look for Tales From Mos Eisley.  If it's not at Borders, I'll just order it from Amazon.

 

Update;  I bought Death Star.  Won't start it until maybe later this year. If it isn't too bogged in prequelism, I'll be ok-ish. If not, I'll bail.

I had to order Tales From Mos Eisley.  I keep a small group of books & DVDs in our Amazon wish list for whenever we need to spend a few bucks to push an order over to free shipping.  I had Tales in there.

A couple of days ago my wife called me at work.  She needed to spend a few dollars more on an order so she asked me what I had in the wish list.  Her work machine didn't have the list saved.

I told her the title and she looked it up while I was on the phone so she could verify it was the right book.  When she saw it, here is her reply, verbatim; "Is it the mass market paperback with a bald guy shining a big flashlight on E.T, and a green armadillo is standing next to him?"

Star Wars looks totally different to non-nerds.  ;-)

Literal actual LOL!

WTF? Ol' Momaw looks nothing like ET!