Honestly, Jarael from the comics is pretty much my favourite Star Wars chick ever, and Zayne and Gryf are pretty dope, too.
And as for the games, well... They're definitely going to ruin Revan, Malak and Bastila, that's a given... :-/ God I hope they don't ruin Mandalore, though. :-( Was coincidentally just thinking about this last night...
Honestly, though, if you haven't read the comics, they are even BETTER than the first game (in parts), which is... Quite something, given that I think that is my favourite game that I have ever played. Legacy is great, too. Also Thrawn, the Great Hyperspace War, and a couple of other series I can't remember... Mara Jade, too! Who Disney seems to have sadly erased from canon... :-/
Star Wars (under Dark Horse, at least) is somewhat odd, in that I would argue that the comics, some of the games, and indeed some of the novels, are better than most of the movies...
Weird, but I guess they are able to... Explore more interesting topics, and just... Generally be better? Take Lucas' general ideas, and make them even more fucking dope. Really can't complain about the EU, tbh... At least until Disney got it, and killed it. :-(
Fuck, my heavily repressed nerdy inner child is really coming out, here...
I didn't realise I still remembered so much about this stupid fictional universe, off the top of my head, apparently!!
I guess this is how some people feel about Marvel, or DC, or Trek... Huh. shrug
I actually had forgotten this, folks, but I did meet Stan Lee, once, just before he died...
I paid like $400 for the photo op, at a fan con, which I presumably still have, somewhere, and he literally wouldn't even talk to me, except to say "Excelsior"... Thoroughly disappointing, honestly.
I really wish I had gone over and met Milly Blobby Boring, before she was famous, instead, or bloody Tara Reid, who I hear was doing the circuit around that time... That would have been, uhh, fun...
Ah, sweet regret...
But hey, photo of/with "the man himself* before he died - can't complain too much, I suppose!!
Honestly, Jarael from the comics is pretty much my favourite Star Wars chick ever, and Zayne and Gryf are pretty dope, too.
And as for the games, well... They're definitely going to ruin Revan, Malak and Bastila, that's a given... :-/ God I hope they don't ruin Mandalore, though. :-( Was coincidentally just thinking about this last night...
Honestly, though, if you haven't read the comics, they are even BETTER than the first game (in parts), which is... Quite something, given that I think that is my favourite game that I have ever played. Legacy is great, too. Also Thrawn, the Great Hyperspace War, and a couple of other series I can't remember... Mara Jade, too! Who Disney seems to have sadly erased from canon... :-/
Star Wars (under Dark Horse, at least) is somewhat odd, in that I would argue that the comics, some of the games, and indeed some of the novels, are better than most of the movies... Weird, but I guess they are able to... Explore more interesting topics, and just... Generally be better? Take Lucas' general ideas, and make them even more fucking dope. Really can't complain about the EU, tbh... At least until Disney got it, and killed it. :-(
Fuck, my heavily repressed nerdy inner child is really coming out, here... I didn't realise I still remembered so much about this stupid fictional universe, off the top of my head, apparently!!
I guess this is how some people feel about Marvel, or DC, or Trek... Huh. shrug
I actually had forgotten this, folks, but I did meet Stan Lee, once, just before he died...
I paid like $400 for the photo op, at a fan con, which I presumably still have, somewhere, and he literally wouldn't even talk to me, except to say "Excelsior"... Thoroughly disappointing, honestly.
I really wish I had gone over and met Milly Blobby Boring, before she was famous, instead, or bloody Tara Reid, who I hear was doing the circuit around that time... That would have been, uhh, fun...
Ah, sweet regret...
But hey, photo of/with "the man himself* before he died - can't complain too much, I suppose!!