What do you LIKE about the EU? — Page 6

doubleKO said:

And at the risk of getting flamed by at least one previous poster: I'm glad the EU re-appropriated Boba Fett and made him badass again after his lame inclusion and death in Jedi.

I actually really enjoyed the Boba Fett comics (Death, Lies, And Treachery, not sure if any new stuff has been released since then). I liked following the exploits of Boba Fett as kind of private eye with high tech gadgets (think Batman but in it for the money). I know a lot of fans cringe at that kind of stuff, but I really enjoyed it. I liked seeing smaller corners of the SW universe where everything wasn't high stakes, the Force, magical/scientifically explainable powers, and super weapons with the ability to destroy planets.

I also really liked the Dark Horse Droids comic series. Again, seems silly following the adventures of two dumb Droids. But I liked the low stakes smaller corners of the galaxy feel they had two them. The dangers they were in was always really minor things on the grand scale. It was refreshing to see parts of the SW universe that don't really matter and to read about things like pirates capturing a luxury liner, or an arms dealing forcing his robots to build weapons for him. 

Yeah, that looks like it. I bought them issue by issue when they first came out, and years later I bought a trade paperback with the first couple of story arcs in it. Keep in mind, I was around twelve or thirteen when these things were coming out and haven't read them in adulthood so I am not sure if you would like them, of even if I would like them if I only discovered them today, but I found them a lot of fun and my original screen name, C-3PX, was actually the name of one of the characters (a protocol droid reprogrammed to be an assassin).

I have enough love for them that I'd say give them a try, looks like the omnibus can be purchased from amazon for under $5, so you wouldn't have much to lose. While you're at it, if you can get your hands on this one shot comic by Dark Horse called "Tales from Mos Eisley" (doesn't resemble the later EU book of the same name), it is pretty cool. Just a collection of a few random short stories, I loved them because, again, they have nothing to do with the grander scheme of things in the galaxy, just individuals in their own person small plights taking place in the SW universe.

This is soooo far out, it's trippy!

Hey, it's me!

Hehe. That cover was obviously intended to sell comics. He never actually has that over the top badass who is trying too hard look in the comic book. Just a normal looking protocol droid with the x on his head (from being shoddily repaired) and concealed weapons built into his body. 

Funny fact, I actually had a portion of that picture I was going to use as my avatar when I originally signed up here (back in '05, I think...) before I discovered the old forum software wouldn't let us upload pictures at that point, so I grabbed that red eyed Ewok pic I used to use.

CP3S said:

Hey, it's me!

Not until you remember your password. :p

skyjedi2005 said:

Speaking of EU i will be reading Fate of the Jedi Conviction tomorrow

 I don't keep on the EU releases, I just grab anything that says "Star Wars" when it shows up on the library's New Release table.

Interestingly my library doesn't have this book yet, at any branch.

skyjedi2005 said:

The EU and Lucas universe are said to be totally different, in EU boba fett is a mandalorian, in Lucas universe he is just a clone of a random bounty hunter who stole a mandalorian's armor.

 

"No, no!" exclaimed the EUphile, his voice cracking with raw emotion. "George's universe and the EU are one and the same! I can prove it! The Outrider! Coruscant! Double-bladed lightsaber! Well-endowed blue Twi'lek babe! YYYYAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And that poor, sad, pathetic excuse of a man continued to jump through hoops all through the night.

DuracellEnergizer said:

And that poor, sad, pathetic excuse of a man continued to jump through hoops all through the night.

Chewbacca?

skyjedi2005 said:

The EU and Lucas universe are said to be totally different, in EU boba fett is a mandalorian, in Lucas universe he is just a clone of a random bounty hunter who stole a mandalorian's armor.

 

Are action figures considered EU? From the first sentence in the second paragraph below (cardback of POTF2 Boba Fett) I was expecting Attack of the Clones to have Jedi fighting a shitload of Mandalorians in Fett-style armour.

doubleKO said:

I was expecting Attack of the Clones to have Jedi fighting a shitload of Mandalorians in Fett-style armour.

Yeah, so was I and just about every other Star Wars fan I knew at the time. But that would have been extremely cool, and the prequels had this thing about trying hard not to be too cool.

The lightsaber fight at the end of The Phantom Menace set the cap for awesome imagery in the PT. For some reason nothing was ever allowed to surpass it (or come even close to it). An army of Mandalorian warriors fighting Jedi would have (okay fine, potentially could have, if done right) made that amazing scene at the end of TPM look completely underwhelming. Instead, nothing ever even came close to it.

CP3S said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

And that poor, sad, pathetic excuse of a man continued to jump through hoops all through the night.

Chewbacca?

I could never see Chewie being an EUphile ... unless he has suicidal tendancies; then it would make sense.

I'm collecting EU figures for my kids (when they're old enough... they're two and negative six months right now).

When you only have the main characters from the movies, there's a limit to how many stories you can play with your figures.

So far I have, Cad Bane, all three Starkillers, Xixor, Thrawn, and Talon Carde. Anything that looks cool I'll grab if I catch it at WallMart