Geek moment: I think the thing about the old EU is that you could pick and choose, and it was so extensive that “contradictory canon” didn’t matter so much…
Rise of Vader clashes with Jedi Academy which clashes with The Force Unleashed??
Oh well, I don’t really care, because they don’t affect the canon of the movies, and work as self-contained stories…
Also, my three favourite EU eras are KOTOR and before (which is by far the most interesting), pre-Phantom (so young Obi-Wan, essentially), and 100ABY (Legacy, in Dark Horse), so none of those drastically impacted canon anyway, lol…
This… Is not that. This is, in a sense, the exact opposite of that…
This is a direct consequence of Disney killing the EU, and trying to force the entire… “Universe” into a woke parody of itself…
Read Dark Horse’s KOTOR and Legacy before they erase them from history, guys… They are truly brilliant. As is Empire, also by Dark Horse…
I always treated the games as the least canon things (or not at all in some cases, for obvious reasons). Basically a 'what if' story, because TFU was all sorts of fucky from a power perspective, not to mention impacts on the story.
Geek moment: I think the thing about the old EU is that you could pick and choose, and it was so extensive that “contradictory canon” didn’t matter so much…
Rise of Vader clashes with Jedi Academy which clashes with The Force Unleashed??
Oh well, I don’t really care, because they don’t affect the canon of the movies, and work as self-contained stories…
Also, my three favourite EU eras are KOTOR and before (which is by far the most interesting), pre-Phantom (so young Obi-Wan, essentially), and 100ABY (Legacy, in Dark Horse), so none of those drastically impacted canon anyway, lol…
This… Is not that. This is, in a sense, the exact opposite of that…
This is a direct consequence of Disney killing the EU, and trying to force the entire… “Universe” into a woke parody of itself…
Read Dark Horse’s KOTOR and Legacy before they erase them from history, guys… They are truly brilliant. As is Empire, also by Dark Horse…
Disney will never, ever surpass that.
I always treated the games as the least canon things (or not at all in some cases, for obvious reasons). Basically a 'what if' story, because TFU was all sorts of fucky from a power perspective, not to mention impacts on the story.
True. Though, uhh, some of those novels are probably worse…
Shit got real weird real quick, especially in the early ones (also the early comics)…
At least the games are generally recognizably Star Wars, lol…
Arguably some of the stuff released before the mid-90s… Is more fanfic than anything else.
It’s fun. It’s just very weird, at times…
Oh yeah. Some are for sure.