What do you LIKE about the EU? — Page 36

Palpatine telling Vader that he didn't need his saber either of the two times he used it in ROTS.

Speaking of which, Stover and Luceno are the two best things to happen to the prequels.

Freedon Nadd. Created a Sith dynasty.

Yavin as a Jedi base.

It's a pity the Clone Wars cartoon wasn't included in the EU dump.......

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.....and the Prequels ;)

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......Ahh balls!!! forgot about that!!

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Tobar said:

Really curious as to how TFN is reacting to this. 

http://boards.theforce.net/threads/disney-wars-episode-7-and-the-eu-old-eu-rebranded-as-legends-rebels-starts-new-continuity.50004776/page-499

Well, up until this post, everyone seemed fine with it (I'm not following along, I just looked it up now).

http://boards.theforce.net/threads/disney-wars-episode-7-and-the-eu-old-eu-rebranded-as-legends-rebels-starts-new-continuity.50004776/page-486#post-51474665

LOL

Harmy said:

Well, the existing EU is officially being discarded:

http://starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page.html

 I thought it was just post-ROTJ EU. Is it not?

EDIT: Never mind.

Folks at TFN aren't happy about the entire EU being discarded.

I find joy in their sorrow.

If the folks at TFN don't like it, then there is a pretty good chance it is a good thing.

KilroyMcFadden said:

If the folks at TFN don't like it, then there is a pretty good chance it is a good thing.

Correct.

As I'm reading through the above reference Lit thread, I'm noticing the TFNr's have talked themselves into believing that anything that isn't directly contradicted is canon.

When it comes to the EU, the TFNers are as in as much denial as Homer Simpson was in regards to a certain flying pig.

The policy I was kinda hoping LFL would take is to just "ignore" whatever's happened since RotJ. That is, don't bring it up, but don't directly contradict it either.*

I haven't closely followed the EU, but the mere fact that Han, Luke and Leia are still alive after 40 years seemed reason enough to keep Episode VII within the existing continuity. I guess the problem would be forcing Abrams and Kasdan to suddenly step into the EU "as is," whereas I'm sure they had their own idea for Episode VII independant of where the EU has taken things.

*Which, for all we know, could still be what they're doing. Chee and Hidalgo might've had a meeting with the new people, sat them down and said "this is where things currently sit, Chewie's dead, Ackbar, Mon Mothma and Crix Madine are dead, two of the three Solo children are dead and the surviving one has a husband and kid, Luke's son is now in his late teens but the wife Luke had him by is now dead, etc, etc." A meeting like this could have happened for all we know, and for all we know the new people found all of this interesting, a cool place to jump off from .... or they said "screw it, we're starting over from scratch."

If the EU is dead, Plagueis might not have ever existed, and if Plagueis never existed, he can't be the villain of episodes 7-9. 

What would be the reasoning for him never existing? Palpatine mentions that story to Anakin in RotS. Granted, he does call it "a Sith legend," meaning even if he'd heard it secondhand (and not just completely made it up himself) it still might not be true.

But are people saying now that because the Darth Plagueis novel is non-canon Palpatine might've completely made him up?

A tweet from one of the SW higher ups confirmed Plagueis still exists same with Bane. I'll post the tweet if I can find it,  also remember he was mentioned in ROTS so he exists/existed by virtue of that in order of the new cannon

It would make sense for Bane to make the cut, as I'm pretty sure he's an idea of GL's that made its way into the TPM novelization but not the movie itself.

I just re-read the article yet again. All they technically said was "VII-IX won't tell the same story as the EU" (italics mine). For all we know, they're simply clarifying that this won't be an adaptation of any existing storyline, which is fine by me because I was never expecting a sequel trilogy to do that anyway.