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Post #1199279

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DominicCobb
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Star Wars "Official" Canon Content Thread
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22-Apr-2018, 2:14 PM

Tyrphanax said:

Also it’s pretty clear to me (at least) that the Story Group isn’t really vetting stuff and is just signing off on broad strokes, so it’s literally just the old EU rubber stamp strategy applied to what is mostly garbage again. Sure, we had some good stuff, but for every Thrawn Trilogy, there was a Children of the Jedi and a New Jedi Order and a Courtship of Princess Leia. Yuck. I felt like they were saying they’d be really closely looking at stuff to ensure it all jived and made sense and that would mean there would be a quality control element and we’d have a new EU that was mostly good with some bad, but I suppose not.

Is Last Shot bad though? This just seems like a really nitpicky complaint to me. Doing a quick Google search, it seems like the reviews for the book are largely positive.

I haven’t read a bad book or comic from the new canon that I thought was bad. Well, I guess Heir to the Jedi was forgettable, and Shattered Empire and the Leia miniseries felt rushed. But on the whole I think it’s been pretty good. Even with the one or two goofy aspects, the Vader series was great. The Aftermath books were really good too and actually better than most of the old EU books I’ve read. I don’t know. Seems like the complaints are a little off base. The story group seems to give the creatives a lot of independence and freedom, and only step in when they need to or the creatives want them too.