JadedSkywalker said:
Dark Empire supposedly ruining the chosen one story and Saga of Darth Vader doesn’t bother me, because neither of those things existed before the prequels.
Since I hate the Chosen One horseshit, that only makes me like DE even more.
For me the easier critique it’s out of character for Luke, he faced his trial in Return of the Jedi and did not go over to the Dark Side. Veitch, on the other hand probably thought well Luke got a taste of the Dark Side in ROTJ why he wouldn’t go over.
I think it’s a misreading of DE that Luke embraces the dark side in the story. Luke is attempting to understand the secrets of the dark side, both to understand why his father turned and as a means of conquering the dark side from within, but he underestimates the sheer oppressive nature of the dark side and comes dangerously close to succumbing to it, but Leia comes in at just the right moment to pull him back from falling into that abyss.
A lot of EU has to do certain things like the Rebellion can’t be victorious on Endor we can’t have a happy ending. We need to have decades of further conflict, Sith and Jedi wars, Vong. A second Galactic Civil war.
Yeah. Part of the reason why I regard the Hand of Thrawn duology as the concluding chapter of the Expanded Universe.
What would a post 1998 EU look like I often wonder if the prequels were wiped from the timeline and Dave’s clone wars never happened.
Bantam solution for everything was Superweapon of the week. What would have happened if Del Rey did not get the book license for everything except the Han Solo trilogy by Daley, The Lando books and the novelizations of SW, TESB and RotJ.
I believe we would’ve still gotten some version of the NJO, though the details would’ve been different.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Horse_invasion_storyline
And presuming Lucas finally allowed EU writers free reign of the prequel era, we would’ve gotten something like the Clone Wars multimedia project, perhaps with Zahn and Veitch onboard. Perhaps Atha Prime from Kenner’s unrealized “Power of the Force” toyline would’ve been folded into the canon.