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philraid
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What do you HATE about the EU?
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10-Jun-2024, 5:45 PM

The Callista Trilogy was really bad. Especially Children of the Jedi, that might be the worst EU book that I’ve read. I can’t believe they almost made Luke’s wife a ghost of a dead Jedi that took over the body of another dead Jedi. Thank fuck they wised up and had him marry Mara Jade instead.

I didn’t like the Legacy of the Force series. It reminds me a lot of the sequel trilogy where there were too many conflicting visions going on and it messes up the previous series. Sacrifice I especially disliked because of what happened with Mara Jade. My headcanon basically stops after the New Jedi Order books.

Champions of the Force was pretty bad. Jedi Search and Dark Apprentice were cheesy, but kind of enjoyable due to some of the ridiculousness, but Champions of the Force was just boring. They put Luke in a coma for most of it. So bad.

The Glove of Darth Vader and The Crystal Star I probably don’t have to get into. Batshit insane books those ones are.

Splinter of the Mind’s Eye I never liked. It’s only interesting as a curiosity, the actual story is crap. Never liked the depiction of Vader in it. They made him too bumbling. The Luke and Leia stuff is really hard to read in hindsight.

The Courtship of Princess Leia I thought had a really bad plot, and it introduced things into canon that I wasn’t really into like the Nightsisters and Dathomir. Thankfully it was just a weird one-off.

Dark Lord: Rise of Darth Vader was really disappointing for me. Most of it was surprisingly not about Darth Vader, despite what the title said.

The problem with a lot of EU books also is that the three main characters felt off to me in a lot of them. It’s like they wrote some other sci-fi books and then copy pasted a few Star Wars terms into them and called it good.