- ahh , I think you are right about SW 17 , I got my wires crossed between that and the ROTJ novel. and yeah ,I think you are right about everyone in that era trying to guess how everything connected . That is part of the charm of that era , where there was only one movie and things could go anywhere without having to be rigidly interconnected .
Yes, as much as I love the later EU, the early years did have much more unrestrained creativity, resulting in some really crazy, but fun stories. It got a bit too weird at times IMO, but I much prefer that over the rigidity plaguing a lot of the new SW stories.