Some time I'd like a thread about what we don't like in the EU. That would be fun. I'd get to go on about all the annoying Boba Fett worship that goes on in the EU.
Anyway, the Kotor and Legacy comics are good. Liam Neeson's performance in TPM is good (the PT is EU by any proper standard). The old Marvel comics have a place in my heart. Despite the odd giant rabbit, they were much more true to the Star wars spirit than the later EU stuff.
Oh yeah, one thing I hate in the EU is this whole crap that the imperials have a perspective worth paying attention to and that they're kind of altruistic and principled and care about the citiizens of the empire. That keeps popping up in the EU. Total revisionist crap. Star Wars is not supposed to be Battlestar Galactica. The bad guys are the bad guys. They even have the rebels doing suicide attacks on civilians. Wtf? I hate it when the EU does some revisionist take on some classic Star Wars thing. And the EU is sometimes even worse than Lucas in making the Jedi into idiots. It's the EU that came up with the Jedi code saying "There is no emotion" and "there is no passion".
I hate how Brian Daley does the character of Han. He makes him more ruthless than he was in the films. Like Han wanting to leave the others behind on the Death Star. The radio dramas have plenty annoying bullshit stuffed into the story (not just about Han). And I'm including Daley's portrayal of Han in the Han books too. I think the life debt thing started off there too and some people have pointed out how that doesn't work well.
Most of the EU I'm a bit suspicious of. The 90s onwards EU was founded on a revisionist take on Star Wars. It doesn't seem terribly real to me.
Bringing the Emperor back to life was annoying. He should have stayed dead and it stretched plausibilty. Once you start resurrecting characters you lose something.
Tales of the Jedi had a good storyline but the execution wasn't all that great.
The Republic comics did some ok stuff, but the bulshittiness of the prequel era brings them down.
Zahn's trilogy books were ok.
Boba Fett should have stayed dead. In fact, he did stay dead -the EU's resurrection of him is just a pack of lies. Stupid overrated wanker.
Shadows of the Empire really pissed me off.
The Yuzhaan Pong invasion was a stupid idea.
They keep churning out all these endless books. Endless "novels" and "Essential Guides" which aren't essential and cross sections and worlds of and all that. Not to mention a multi volume encylopedia. It looks very money-grubbing.
There's this one shot comic called A Valentine Story or something like that which has really good character portrayal of Han and Leia, with good interaction. It's in the Heart of the Rebellion trade paperback. Most EU is not terribly good at getting the film characters well.