As far as the idea that the Zahn books would have made a better movie than TFA is concerned, I reread Heir earlier this year, and while I still like the book an awful lot, it’s so much more flawed and bizarre than people seem to want to admit. A lot of what worked on the page in 1991 would not translate to the screen in 2016. And anyway, piss and moan all you want about the lack of originality, but the character dynamics in TFA are a whole lot more interesting than the Super Best Friends Club of the cherished early EU. I’ll take shell-shocked Luke and backsliding Han over their well-adjusted Legends counterparts any day.