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skyjedi2005
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What do you LIKE about the EU?
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28-May-2011, 8:21 PM

TheBoost said:

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.

The book has only been out for like 3 days.

I finished it and it was neither the worst Star Wars novel i have ever read, nor was it very good, extremely mediocre, many parts felt overly summarized, and the character interactions felt weak and contrived, and it was more boring prequel -esque political nonsense.

Allstons Last and possibly worst entry. Golden's next with Ascension which will also probably be horrible, and then at least Denning can do the action stuff and not be boring if over the top to a ridiculous degree, the last book is called Apocalypse.

Sue Rostoni had made it plain Lucas won't let any of the mains die, so why even bother reading the series if there is no real danger or peril.

In fact the last time i felt the characters to be in any real peril was in the empire strikes back.

A real jumping off point would be to kill all the original characters off or jump the story well beyond their years to the future.

Seems to me they are just filling in the details  for the legacy era comics.

 

With little or no imagination in the details, a thin and boring skeleton plot.

 

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.