Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
he even ruined the eu by his jealousy of zahn and killing off a character he did not create, the writers wanted to kill off luke so he had them kill mara instead.

The rest of your post is simply a rant, but I thought this needed addressing. Any writer stupid enough to even consider killing off Luke should be taken off all Star Wars projects, period. Luke is the single untouchable character. I believe his name came up for dying in Vector Prime and Lucas pretty much said "Anybody but Luke". Whether or not it's a good idea doesn't matter.

This brings up an interesting point though. The writers keep killing off these great characters to bring "realism" to Star Wars. Since when has Star Wars been about realism? It's a fantasy set in space. I should be able to read it and escape to that galaxy far away and not have to worry with every page if my favorite character is going to die.

I really doubt it had anything to do with the character not being of his creation. He let them kill off Chewy before. Zahn killed Thrawn himself. There's no reason to believe that Mara was killed off for any reason other than they felt the need, again, to eliminate another major character. Something tells me they won't be killing off anymore movie characters, no matter how much they want to.