DuracellEnergizer said:
SilverWook said:
Can't the EU continue on it's merry way while the new films come out?
AFAIK, this isn't even an issue with Trek fans, and that particular EU has been around a lot longer.
Ah, but the Star Trek EU isn't canon, isn't meant to be canon, and makes no pretentions of being canon, unlike the Star Wars EU, which has had The Rod of Continuity rammed straight up its backside by elevated, anal-retentive fanboys who can never see the forest for the trees.
It's had it rammed there by Lucasfilm. All the while, Lucas himself was saying "there is no Episode VII" and that RotJ is The End of The Story as far as he's concerned, meaning the EU stuff never really happened in his eyes....
....Except now there is an Episode VII, which means RotJ wasn't the end and, well, y'know....
Look, I've barely read anything that takes place post-Jedi. Reading wookieepedia timelines and such has been the farthest extent I've kept up with the story. Since I don't have much invested in it, it wouldn't be the biggest dissapointment if it were to be rebooted.
That said, I think it would be a bit hypocritical of Abrams to ignore Chewie's death after chaining himself to the death of Kirk in Generations as the reason for not including Shatner in the new Trek movies. It would also be kind of a dick move on the part of LFL and Disney to just go "Hey, remember how we killed off Chewie and it was a really big deal? Well, we need to maximize our profits on these new movies, so, guess what? It never happened! Sorry!"
To me, whether or not Chewie is in the movie has absolutely zero bearing on how good the movie will actually be.
As has been stated in this thread by myself and others, hopefully we'll find out soon.