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?
The EU was awful, in more than a few places, while good in others. The Yuuzhan Vong is still the single stupidest plotline I've ever read in my entire life.
Disney's version of the franchise is still far worse. But arguably they were never trying to be good.
Even EU novels' worst stories were at least respectful to the franchise. I never read New Jedi Order, but it's hard to imagine getting worse than I, Jedi (and I read that because it was a solo adventure of one of my favorite EU heroes).