TheBoost said:

georgec said:

I haven't played The Force Unleashed but know that the main character in the game challenges Vader for his seat with the Emperor or something like that. You have all these super powerful, important characters that seem to come along every week in the EU timeline but it's all inconsequential because what you have in the OT is all that matters (at least to me).

Isn't that a little circular? You dislike the stories that aren't the OT because they don't matter because it doesn't matter because it's not the OT.

Your sentence doesn't make sense and I never said that. The OT is self-contained. The EU is like the prequels in that it much of it seems to go back to trying to fit in with the OT in some way, to explain some little detail that isn't necessary for understanding the story/characters.

I don't care much for the EU because I think everything you need to know about the characters is in the OT. There's good stuff out there, no doubt (Thrawn trilogy, for example), but personally I'm not that interested anymore to fill in all the cracks. The younger me needed a SW fix but now I'm older and, quite frankly, see SW fans' obsession with everything EU as a waste of time. Moderation can be healthy but SW is just so bland and diluted that there is much more garbage than solid story-telling out there in the EU.

Just look at Vader - that character's strongest traits diminished in many eyes because of the prequels. Yes, the prequels aren't EU, but it shows that sometimes less is more in creating memorable characters and stories.

I'm not saying people can't enjoy the EU. It's just my own personal feeling. I don't need that SW fix anymore like when I was 12 years old (and that's not mean to be condescending or imply people who like the EU are immature or childish). I just mean my own tastes have changed.