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Post #396161

Author
Timstuff
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Reboot the EU
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Date created
5-Feb-2010, 9:37 AM

I agree that the EU needs a reboot. I mean, think about it-- in the 100 years following ROTJ, there are more catastrophic wars and bloodshed than the entire movie saga combined. Talk about an epic fail--- for 1000 years the Republic existed peacefully, and yet the New Republic / Galactic Alliance somehow managed to eff things up badly enough that we got the Yuzonn Vong War, the Second Galactic Civil War, the Palpatine clones, Darth Caedus and Kevin J Anderson (amongst many other writers of BS) all within 40 years ABY. The EU has turned into a soap opera of galactic proportions.

However, the silver lining to all this is that I have thought of a perfect escape clause from all this nonsense: Star Trek was able to successfully reboot by using time travel, so Star Wars could do the same thing, except in reverse. In Star Trek, the rebooted continuity is the result of Romulans traveling to the past and creating the new time line. In the Star Wars EU, the explanation could be that sith from the future have been using the force to travel through time and have been mucking things up in the post ROTJ period, causing war and destruction. A good Jedi Knight could travel back from the new Jedi Order from some time around 130 ABY during the second Sith war, and with the help of Luke Skywalker manages to create a new timeline and prevent all the dumb crap from the EU from ever happening.

The big question though, is what multi-media project would warrent such a large-scale house cleaning in the Star Wars EU? It can't be to just create new novels, or else it's only a matter of time before we end up in the same rut we were in in the first place. Personally, I would say a reboot would be ideal for a Star Wars TV series (or even a new trilogy of movies) that takes place after Return of the Jedi. Even if in this new work they just ignore the old post ROTJ continuity's crappiness, but they could make an expanded universe story that chronicles the time travel muckery that caused the original post-Trilogy fiction to be rebooted.