The best answer is to decanonize the special editions and the prequels, and go back and use the original films as inspiration for new EU material.
The modern stuff comes from the bad prequel mentality.
Hell i even prefer Jaxxon the Bunny over Jar Jar Binks.
Jar Jar was bad enough but Hayden Vader/Anakin and dumb Padme were enough to make me want to throw rocks at the theater screen.
Any star wars projects Lucas has had a direct say in or connection to have sucked since post return of the jedi. I mean it might sound wrong but the dude needs to be fired from his own creation since he is the problem.
To me the Zahn Trilogy was a great era for the EU. I made me want to see more star wars films. Instead my childhood memories were trodden upon with garbage looney tune style characters, bad cgi and even worse 1 dimensional characters and nonsense plots, and a almost deliberate break from continuity of the oot. If there was anything i could undue in star wars it would be the special editions and the prequels. Made star wars into a fucking joke and for what to make money?
If not for the Legacy comics and Kotor series and sometimes a good eu novel here or there i would have parted ways with star wars forever because Lucas is still destroying star wars. With the Clone Wars cgi toon, the upcoming live actions series and that awful force unleashed and its sequel. Everything now is a branching off of the bad prequels even the EU.
Star Wars is forever ruined and tarnished. Its deserved legacy is compromised, if that is not bad enough the real original films are buried never to see the light of day again, ever.
Other fans probably have developed an imaginary time machine in their minds where they can go back before 1997 and unruin star wars.
Me i will never forget. Lucas destroyed his own legacy. Now his legacy is cgi. lets see if that lasts 30 years or more,lol.
This thread should be called erase the Prequel Trilogy from Existence, that would solve the EU problem halfway already.