I started the NJO years ago and gave up. Tried the first of the Legacy series, and gave up. Then Mara was killed off and Jacen went to the dark side-hasn't this already been done before? How stupid could Jacen be to say: "Oh. I have to be a Sith so that everything will turn out OK and we'll have peace. All I have to do now is kill everybody." It sounds like Episode III!

What's with all these "epic series" of SW the Del Rey keeps putting out? Shadows of Mindor had its problems, but at least it was an attempt to return to the greatness of Han Solo at Star's End. I don't know if I'm even going to try Outcast. I'll probably try to go back into the NJO just to make sense of it all. I just don't understand why we've had to go into an EU where everything is upside down.