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Post #536377

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Bingowings
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Does anyone care about the 'extended universe'?
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15-Sep-2011, 7:25 AM

I haven't really got the time to explore it much.

I've become more engaged with the Doctor Who 'stuff that isn't on screen' (largely because of getting hooked during the television wilderness years) and I prefer it's 'anything goes' attitude to canonicity (it's very difficult to get into an internet discussion about Star Wars without someone bringing up an implausible Z Canon reference to prove how foolish and ill informed I am).

I got and devoured the Zahn trilogy, rather liked Dark Empire and the Jedi Academy Trilogy (even though they weren't as good) and I got some of the Dark Horse comics.

Other than that it's just my memories of the Radio Adaptations, the Marvel and Goodwin/Williams strips and Splinter Of The Minds Eye until both incarnations of The Clone Wars series started.

I really like much of the current Clone Wars stuff, it reminds me of the Marvel strips between 1977 and 1980 and it often feels more like Star Wars than the PT films but I don't foam at my mouth when it drops in quality because there is so much of it.

A Star Wars film episode should be a special occasion which is why I find the PT and ROTJ currently such a let down.