Fang Zei said:
Back around 2009 when they decided to jump ahead a hundred years in the continuity for the Legacy comics, I figured part of why they were doing it was to provide a huge empty space should a sequel trilogy happen someday. Meanwhile, they continued to write the ongoing adventures of Han, Luke and Leia in the novels.
They could've set Episode VII within the existing continuity if they'd wanted to. They didn't need to address much of what'd happened in the intervening 40 years, just that Chewie had died at some point, Luke was a widower with a son, Han and Leia had a daughter and granddaughter, etc.
I honestly believe they could've gotten away with picking up Episode VII at wherever the books were up to and still told a fresh, engaging and original story that would please the movie-only fans.
There's no way in hell I'd have been able to enjoy an ST set in the Legacy era -- just knowing the movies were set in that timeframe alone would have ruined it for me.
"Oh, Luke, Han, and Leia are going on another adventure! Well, shucks, I already know it won't amount to anything 'cause in a hundred years the Empire will be back and the Sith will control the galaxy once again!"
Yeah, count me in among the many who are glad the post-ROTJ EU was jettisoned from the canon. It isn't worth keeping the Thrawn Trilogy, the Corellian Trilogy, and all the other various post-ROTJ EU stories I like in continuity if the Legacy era is also included.