Something, something, something, Dark Side said:

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Palpatine is reborn as a bunch of mannequin-clones, The Empire never goes away, there's plenty of angsty villians, and despite the main characters being 70-odd, they still go on their amazing adventures.

Asha said:
Yeah, at least half of the EU makes for pretty bad fiction (Palpatine clones etc.).

Dark Empire wasn't always well done (especially as it went on in Dark Empire II and Empire's End), but I see the Palpatine clones as one of the best ideas in the EU. It does seem that I'm quite in the minority there... but George Lucas disagrees with me, so I can't be all wrong. :)

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