C3PX said:
The Trawn trilogy was early '90s, and yeah, it was quite good. I think there was a lot of early EU stuff that wasn't half bad. There was also a lot of it that was total crap.It was fun because it was based off of Star Wars, and gave you a way back into that universe, sometimes with stories not even involving Han, Luke, or Leia. You could take what you wanted and leave what you didn't. I'd check them out from the library, usally two or three at a time, since some were ridiculously silly, if I started reading one that was crap, I could just put it down and grab the next one. After a while most of us learned which writers were worth reading and which ones were not.

So, I myself would not condemn everything post 1983, because I have enjoyed some of it very much.

Well, the genuinely early EU, from 76-86 or so, includes stuff from the period of the films and stuff extended from that, and that has two virtues later stuff doesn't have. A) It's from the era of the real Star Wars, often picking up on the mentality of the films in a way only something from that time can do. And B) It's what we remember from way back -the nostalgia factor. Some of the stuff from back then matters to me quite a bit. But I still don't count it as real Star Wars.

The later EU includes some ok stuff, but I don't take it very seriously. But that's not screen fiction. The EU screen fiction in more recent times has been the original Clone Wars show, with its one-Jedi-takes-on-an-army lunacy and its run-on endless meaningless battle scenes. I never saw the point of that show.