DuracellEnergizer said:
I think they went too far with actually killing Chewie off, though. They could have done anything short of killing him or any other major character from the films and still acheived their goal.
I gave up the EU for years after the death of Chewie (but the reason was the book was awful).
But I understand why Chewie died. How exciting is a series of books where you know for a fact no matter where the story goes and what happens, the status quo for the core dozen characters will never ever change?
By the New Jedi Order series there were the film characters in their 50s who after 30 years of fighting had never suffered anything ever.
Now Chewie's dead, a couple of Han's kids are dead, Luke's wife is dead. While I don't think these have improve the EU much I can at least read a book and no longer know exactly how it's going to end.