But Salvatore proved he was a better author than George Lucas in His novelization of attack of the clones. The book was many million of miles away from being stellar, but he clealry understood the human element better than george. George only knows how to do dumb action movies. Without his ex wife Marcia, without Kasden, Kershner, or Kurtz, or the Huycks he could not write his way out of a wet paper bag in the middle of a blizzard.
Lucas largely wrote the Story for Crystal Skulls, a movie that is as ludicrous as an episode of Chuck Jones road runner and wild e coyote, except that stuff was funny and crystal numbskulls ruined Indiana Jones.
I mean maybe Lucas should be doing cartoons for the kiddies. Clone wars 2008 for instance is right up his alley for Childish banter and throw away dialogue and relentless action without a point. Except that it is a commercial to sell videogames and action figures.
Since Episode 1 he ceased doing star wars movies and started doing cartoons. Jar Jar was straight out of a film like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, except that was supposed to be a genre parody and Phantom Menace was supposed to be taken seriously as the beginning of the saga.
Anakin Skywalker's humanity a plot point essential to the story of the prequels was largely left out of the films. You get a better sense of his character from the novelizations from Terry Brooks, R.A. Salvatore, and Matthew Stover. Even Haden Blackman in the republic comics breathed some essential humanity into his character, hell even the novelization of the awfull 2008 film of clone wars did.
Lucas without good writers and artists is nothing but an idea man and about half his ideas have been bad ones.
I don't care what Lucas thinks the prequels are as much EU as everything other writers have written since Return of the Jedi. I don't even consider the special editions as EU, they certainly are not canon either. They are a bizarre blending of the two.
The prequels being EU in my estimation are not even the best of the EU. That goes to Tim Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy.
Well at least the star wars expanded universe is not as bad as the Indiana Jones Expanded Universe. Look at everything that has been done since after Last Crusade was made, lol.