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Sorry, I missed the part where this became a court of law.
Next you’ll be asking for signed affidavits from every Star Wars fan.
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What do you HATE about the EU? — Page 39
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Seems to me that most casual fans like the films and the Filoni shows – at least the younger ones. *shrug*
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The fact that there’s just so much EU material and none of it ever interests me much when I see shelves full of it at bookstores. It’s mostly PT era stuff (like Darth Bane and Plagueis and other crap I don’t want to read). I can’t ever find many OT related books.
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I’ve been seeing how long I can keep up with the nuEU mostly because I came to the old one too late to ever have a chance at being reasonably familiar with the bulk of it and I kind of always felt like I’d missed out. I’ve been getting lazy about picking up the comics, but I’m only maybe a month behind. I’ve read all the novels except the Ventress one, the Battlefront tie-in, and that YA TFA prequel. I’ve got a handful of friends who are also reading the comics, but I don’t know anyone who’s picked up the books. Back in the day we all played the video games religiously and read whichever Bantam novels turned up on the grocery store paperback rack but I didn’t know anyone reading the comics. Myself and everyone I know who was into the EU drifted away from it around the time of the first few NJO books. So uh. Yeah. In middle school I knew maybe fifteen people who were following stuff outside the movies, and now I know three. There’s some EU readership data for you.
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I’ve been seeing how long I can keep up with the nuEU mostly because I came to the old one too late to ever have a chance at being reasonably familiar with the bulk of it and I kind of always felt like I’d missed out.
That’s a misconception you must divest yourself of.
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That there’s other squadrons and even capital ships participating in the Battle of Yavin.
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From SkyeWalkers: A Clone Wars Story:
“I feel pretty kriffing Class-D’ed myself,” Halagad said between huffs and spits of dross.
Class-D disintegration … otherwise known as transcendental annihilation. The invention of “absolute” disruptor technology, by the mysterious fatalists of Plootark IX, introduced a form of pure death so unique in heinousness the alien science had been outlawed the galaxy-over. Believed to target midi-chlorians, matter thus atomically eradicated was said to disappear even from detection in the Force—the ultimate affront to life.
In the everlasting words of Frank Booth, “Fuck that shit!”
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Luuke
Luuuke
Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuke
^I’m not familiar with those last two clones.
Made me lol. I had the same thought as Frank. Good one, Frank.
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I don’t care for the Nightsisters. I didn’t care for them pre-TCW, I don’t care for them TCW-onward. They’ve made too many appearances – been referenced too many times – in the EU that they quickly wore out their welcome for me.
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The Nightsisters at least made great adversaries and loot after taking them down in Star Wars: Galaxies Pre-CU 😃
The Rise of Failures
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The Nightsisters at least made great adversaries and loot after taking them down in Star Wars: Galaxies Pre-CU 😃
Haha, nice!
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I don’t care for the Nightsisters. I didn’t care for them pre-TCW, I don’t care for them TCW-onward. They’ve made too many appearances – been referenced too many times – in the EU that they quickly wore out their welcome for me.
I’ve only ever seen them in TCW, but I agree. The whole “witches” and “magic potions” thing feels out of place in the SW universe, IMO. I suppose it’s just the force, I just take issue with the way it’s presented.
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Obi-Wan told Luke about the Order of the Terrible Glare yet didn’t tell Luke about anything that happened in the prequels or TCW.
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The children of Han and Leia. The Yuuzhan Vong. They always seemed like something that belonged in the Star Trek universe.
Of course I grew up reading the Marvel Star Wars comics which featured a 6 foot talking green rabbit. So who am I to judge?
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The children of Han and Leia.
That might be canon soon 😉
The Yuuzhan Vong. They always seemed like something that belonged in the Star Trek universe.
Agreed.
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I just finished reading the Splinter of the Mind’s Eye comic adaptation, and while it was okay, I hated how not only does it establish that Luke had actually fought Vader prior to The Empire Strikes Back, but that he was able to best him in combat? What!? How come he is better at fighting before getting Force training? Why do Luke and Vader never refer to this occurance in Empire? Also, why doesn’t Luke use the Kaiburr crystal or ask Halla for help in The Empire Strikes Back? It really messes with the continuity.
Not enough people read the EU.
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That’s very much how I feel. It makes more sense considering that SOTME was originally planned as an outline for a low-budget TV movie sequel to SW in case it did only middling box-office business.
In fact, Lucas’ specification to Alan Dean Foster was that this was Luke and Vader’s big climactic duel, so Luke actually killed Vader in the original pitch. That obviously got changed because of the massive success of SW on film, but it makes nonsense of the story in Foster’s book.
“That Darth Vader, man. Sure does love eating Jedi.”
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I was reading Lords of the Sith and why is it that the EU authors have the tendency to make Vader a whiny emo bitch inside? He does some cool things in the book, but then you have passages of him moaning- and this was one of the better ones.
It seems like people are really embracing the new characters. In fact, the big question people ask me now about Star Wars is, “Are Finn and Poe gay lovers?” And really how the f*ck would I know? My second husband left me for a man, so my gaydar isn’t exactly what you’d call Death Star level quality. ----Carrie Fisher
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I was reading Lords of the Sith and why is it that the EU authors have the tendency to make Vader a whiny emo bitch inside? He does some cool things in the book, but then you have passages of him moaning- and this was one of the better ones.
The Prequels happened. As a result people thought it’d be out of character for him to not moan.
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By way of Lucas, Hayden has ruined Vader, which is why I don’t bother reading Vader-centric EU anymore.
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By way of Lucas, Hayden has ruined Vader, which is why I don’t bother reading Vader-centric EU anymore.
I really have nothing to say except that I appreciate this distinction.
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I just finished reading the Splinter of the Mind’s Eye comic adaptation, and while it was okay, I hated how not only does it establish that Luke had actually fought Vader prior to The Empire Strikes Back, but that he was able to best him in combat? What!? How come he is better at fighting before getting Force training? Why do Luke and Vader never refer to this occurance in Empire? Also, why doesn’t Luke use the Kaiburr crystal or ask Halla for help in The Empire Strikes Back? It really messes with the continuity.
Splinter of the minds eye hands down is my most hated piece of EU. As a kid when I read about it in the pre-Disney ultimate visual guide, which detailed the events of the book. And I was soooo confused as a kid. It just messes with so much continuity! That hands down is one of the best pieces of EU that I love was made non-canonical.
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I just finished reading the Splinter of the Mind’s Eye comic adaptation, and while it was okay, I hated how not only does it establish that Luke had actually fought Vader prior to The Empire Strikes Back, but that he was able to best him in combat? What!? How come he is better at fighting before getting Force training? Why do Luke and Vader never refer to this occurance in Empire? Also, why doesn’t Luke use the Kaiburr crystal or ask Halla for help in The Empire Strikes Back? It really messes with the continuity.
Splinter of the minds eye hands down is my most hated piece of EU. As a kid when I read about it in the pre-Disney ultimate visual guide, which detailed the events of the book. And I was soooo confused as a kid. It just messes with so much continuity! That hands down is one of the best pieces of EU that I love was made non-canonical.
I showed my brother the Ultimate Visual Guide yesterday, and he was really confused as well. He was also befuddled that Luke got married to somebody not in the movies and that Han and Leia had children who weren’t Kylo Ren. I then had to explain to him that The Force Awakens takes place in a different timeline to the EU.
Not enough people read the EU.
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Star Wars and the concept of a multiverse never sat well with me. The multiverse is something good in Trek, and superhero comics, and various other franchises, but for whatever reason I don’t like it in Wars. I think of Legends/Canon/Personal canon as one of two things: stories that are true, and stories that are false. I’m okay with doing this because really they’re all false, I just imagine some being less false than others. It’s more fun that way, for me at least.
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