bkev said:
Vader, I take it you haven't checked ou the EU. I'd recommend the Thrawn trilogy by Timmothy Zahn; not to recent, but definitely past '83.

I've read various EU things. The Thrawn trilogy was ok, didn't make me feel strongly either way. But the EU isn't real for me. The Thrawn trilogy never felt to me like it was real Star Wars, none of these EU things do. And I was talking about what was on the screen because that's what was relevant here, that's what's most relevant to the question of what they're going to do screen fiction like. AOTC, ROTS, the original Clone Wars show... seriously didn't impress me. And if you go back in time, Ewoks, Droids, the Ewok movies were hardly up to standard. Wilfred Brimley was good in the second Ewok movie but overall the quality was seriously substandard. There hasn't been good Star Wars screen fiction since the OOT and that makes it highly unlikely that quality is suddenly going to start up in an animated show with nightmarish animation, aimed at kids, and set in the awful prequel universe with the prequel universe's pain-in-the-ass characters. And if I have to see one goddamn more modern day overdone isn't-it-cool lightsaber battle I'm going to puke.