One of my many nerd groups I’m is is one for pre-Disney Star Wars fans which is mainly an EU group and we were talking about how all these shill sites have so many good things to say about the EU now when I can remember them talking about how bad it was when Disney took over. Honestly that was my first awareness of the shill media because nerd sites who were pretty positive about the EU all of a sudden started crapping on it once Disney got rid of it.
Some of the guys see this as a positive sign but I guess I’m cynical because I think they just realize that the sequels and a lot of Disney Star Wars isn’t as popular as they want us to believe. Plus I hear the OT toys still sell pretty well.
So what do y’all think? Is this a positive sign or am I right to be cynical?
OG Star Wars merch does still sell pretty well. Not just toys and collectibles but also media. The sales of the Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor games as well as Battlefront are proof that the brand still has some life to it.
But I'm not convinced that reviving the EU is the best way to restore good storytelling in Star Wars. The early EU stuff was great: the Daley Han Solo novels, the Zahn novels and the comics were fixtures of my childhood. I re-read the Young Jedi Knights books so many times that my copies fell apart and I had to get new ones.
But the whole thing really went off the rails with the NJO, and I don't see how reviving the EU would put Star Wars in a better place when audiences will eventually have to put up with the Yuuzhan Vong and Darth Caedus. Frankly, neither of those storylines is any better than Rian Johnson at his worst.
I’m currently reading the last NJO book. I really like the series but I know a lot of people didn’t. I mean Kylo Ren is a ripoff of Darth Caedus. At this point I think you could do some good animated adaptations with some EU stories. Rian Johnson is so obsessed with subversion
I think the Yuuzhan Vong were the original subversion: a concept that had no place in Star Wars, inserted into it anyway by a bunch of proto-woke 2000s degenerates so that they could feature all of their weird fetishes in a bunch of YA/kids books.
Well I never saw it that way but there was a lot of the pleasure and pain with them.
I never read that far but I did get a book once that gave a synopsis of the entire timreline and even just that gave the impression that the whole thing jumped the shark with the Yuuzan Vong.
I likes the Crispin Solo origin story, and how it dovetailed around the Daley books.
It's so frustrating to see how they butchered Solo when so many obvious and workable plot-points were laid out for them.
Why is Solo such a good pilot and why is he familiar with Imperial ships and protocols?
He trained to be in the Imperial Navy.
Where did he meet Chewbacca and why is he owed a life debt?
Wookies were enslaved by the Empire; he got kicked out of the Navy for saving Chewie's life.
Why was he a smuggler and how did he know people like Lando and Boba Fett?
He was blacklisted and needed work so he flew for criminals, meeting various characters along the way.
Like, just really obvious and believable stuff that they could have run with. We'll never know what they were snorting when they cooked up squid vampires and robo-sexual life partners.
When I first saw they were doing a Solo movie I foolishly thought they would adapt the Crispin trilogy. Boy was I wrong. I thought Emilia Clarke would play Bria Tharen