What do you HATE about the EU? — Page 9

The EU also seems to be holding to prequel-style universe-shrinkage nowadays. Attempts were made to make these guys

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bedlam_Spirits

and this guy

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Pomojema

all a part of this little group

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Immortal_Gods_of_the_Sith

All the revisionism that canon nazis use. 

imperialscum said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

^That must explain why crap like this

keeps showing up, regardless of the fact that it contradicts stuff like this

It does not contradict anything. The first picture describes the arrival of exiled Jedi on Korriban centuries before the events of the second picture took place. In fact the first picture shows the reason as to why one of the guy on the second picture is half human.

*sigh* In The Golden Age of the Sith and The Fall of the Sith Empire, it was heavily implied that when the Great Schism between the Jedi occurred, lightsabers hadn't been invented yet, and therefore the Jedi/Dark Jedi of that era used alchemically-forged swords. The Jedi only took to using the first archaic lightsabers after the Dark Jedi who became the Sith Lords were exiled from the Republic; as a result of this, the Sith were never initially exposed to the lightsaber technology and never developed it on their own, only coming into contact with lightsabers when the Great Hyperspace War occurred.

So that means that showing any Force-user of the era weilding lightsabers of any variety -- archaic or modern, single or double-bladed -- conflicts with the history portrayed in those above mentioned storylines.

(Yes, I know -- in some of the earlier Tales of the Jedi comics, Jedi from the time of the Great Schism were depicted using modern lightsabers. Since these depictions are few in number and were shown only as holocron recordings and flashbacks, though, I feel they can be chalked up as being poorly-researched recreations of actual events and/or the results of artistic license.)

A side note: the second picture is visually crap compared to the first. At least the first feels like it could be something from Star Wars while the second one looks like some from a cheap superhero comic book.

Yes, the art from The Golden Age of the Sith and The Fall of the Sith Empire isn't very good. Frankly, though, I don't care, as the visual design of the Sith, their clothing, their architecture, and other various aspects of their culture more than makes up for it (that's more than I can say for the uninspired, black hat "anti-Jedi" look).

And JFTR, the second image does not look like it comes from a "cheap superhero comic". It brings to mind sword-and-sorcery comics, if anything.

RicOlie_2 said:

re-occurrence of the Sith who had been thought to be extinct.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If the Sith keep coming back, why do the Jedi keep thinking that they're extinct?

darklordoftech said:

RicOlie_2 said:

re-occurrence of the Sith who had been thought to be extinct.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If the Sith keep coming back, why do the Jedi keep thinking that they're extinct?

 http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Is-the-SW-Universe-an-Idiocracy/topic/15439/page/1/

DuracellEnergizer said:

darklordoftech said:

RicOlie_2 said:

re-occurrence of the Sith who had been thought to be extinct.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If the Sith keep coming back, why do the Jedi keep thinking that they're extinct?

 http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Is-the-SW-Universe-an-Idiocracy/topic/15439/page/1/

What I'm talking about is far stupider than what they're talking about in that thread. 

Force ghosts not being permanent. It undermines the whole point of Force ghosts.

I think that could be considered a good thing, actually. Force ghosts can use the force and imagine if you had a bunch of dark side force ghost roaming the galaxy...unless you think only Jedi should have force ghosts.

I consider the whole state of being a Force ghost akin to being a "real world" ghost -- ie. a spirit unnaturally trapped on the physical plain. While here, they may exist for a long, long time, but they aren't truly immortal and can eventually die/be destroyed.

I think that the only way a Force ghost can achieve true immortality is if he/she/it leaves the physical world completely behind (no more chatting with old apprentices) and completes the journey to the afterlife (becomes one with the Force, in other words).

Darth Caedus. Did we really need another fallen Jedi?

And what's with the whole "balance to the force" thing? It seems to be contradicted all over the place and nobody seems to know what it actually means.

RicOlie_2 said:

And what's with the whole "balance to the force" thing? It seems to be contradicted all over the place and nobody seems to know what it actually means.

It's as if the EU was trying to outdo the badness of the prequels.

The older look of Orbalisk Bane and Bane in the trilogy has been retconned and replaced with a CGI Shredder clone.

[img]http://starwars.com/img/explore/the-clone-wars/slideshow/ep613/conceptart/darth-bane-clone-wars-613.jpg[/img]

Bane now wields a halberd type weapon

Carthage said:

The older look of Orbalisk Bane and Bane in the trilogy has been retconned and replaced with a CGI Shredder clone.

Bane wasn't born with Orbalisks and he didn't die with Orbalisks.

Carthage said:

The older look of Orbalisk Bane and Bane in the trilogy has been retconned and replaced with a CGI Shredder clone.

[img]http://starwars.com/img/explore/the-clone-wars/slideshow/ep613/conceptart/darth-bane-clone-wars-613.jpg[/img]

Bane now wields a halberd type weapon

I actually like this look. It's like something that would have shown up in the Tales of the Jedi comics.

And it if that image is accurate enough, it means his weapon has an orange blade rather than a red one; suffice it to say, that would please me immensely.

Anyways, it's a far better look than that stupid "bald Alice Cooper" look he's been sporting for the past couple of years.

imperialscum said:

I heard that Lucas changed Korriban name to "Moraband" in TCW (I don't watch TCW anymore). I think that kind of actions are just lame.

I thought you don't about canon and what contradicts what.

"Moraband" does sound more like the name of a brand of band-aids than a name for a planet, though.

I kind of thought it was meant to evoke the word, "Moribund"

imperialscum said: I just think it is lame.

What's lame about it?

I thought it was established a few months ago that canon is the 6 films, and everything else is going to be decided at a future point?