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zombie84
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What do you LIKE about the EU?
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3-May-2011, 12:19 PM

Yeah. That's the problem when you have a market as saturated as the EU is. That's why I liked the Tales of books--hardly even has the main characters. Why should every book be about Luke or Han? There are a million books about them if you are interested in that.

Ultimately the problem with the EU is that they produce books not because they have a good story in mind that they would like to tell, but because they simply have to publish something. They need a new novel out every month or so for each demographic; the selling comes first, and then they quickly plunk down something that will be ready for the release date they have pre-set. So, many of the stories aren't worth telling or don't fit in with continuity or seem out of character or whatever. But then they become part of the canon or chronology, so future books instead of coming up with a continuity that would be best, have to abide by a lot of the crap from the past. Over a long enough time, you get tied down by your own volume. It's what happens to comic books, and at a certain point they just sort of start ignoring things and starting over. Unfortunately, SW is sort of defined by its chronology and the concept of "Canon", so its difficult to break away and reset the clock.