Anchorhead said:
The novel had a feeling of everything must be viewed from a Prequel point of view.
This pretty much sums up the current state of the EU.
darth_ender said:
And the capital crime is the perpetual resurrection of the Emperor! Whose clever idea was it to actually have him come back again and again and again?
It was Lucas, believe it or not. Veitch originally planned to bring Vader back in the form of an imposter for Dark Empire, but Lucas thought that Vader as the antagonist had already been throughly explored and that it would be better to bring Palpatine back instead.