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Butchering the EU further. YAY!!!

 

The EU was always going to be strip mined of anything once it was decanonized.

 

They were butchering it even when it was canon. Remember that Maul game?

 

Vaguely. Though that was more Lucas doing-didn't he come across a statue of Maul and Talon and not understand the timeline difference?

 

I think it was more that Lucas didn't care. I am sure he understood it alright. He seems to have more time in going through the comics and using concepts from them like Ventress, Aayla. or Vos.

 

Don't have to tell people to go read a book to find out what happens to Luke. The overall gist of what happened in Legends post-ROTJ is just "Luke helps bring peace to the galaxy, they lived happily ever after, the end". Is it really that outlandish to just turn the page on the OT and start anew with a completely fresh cast of characters? I mean, otherwise we'd have to have Episode X pick up where IX leaves off just so we can see how Rey's actions inadvertently helped sow the seeds of yet another conflict.

 

Considering we don't know the facts you were making a lot of supposition about what might have happened, and seemingly why it doesn't matter even if he did receive threats.[/QUOTE]

Not really. What you call supposition was based on interviews with Salvatore. The oversimplification that I criticised was made by other people.

 

Considering we don't know the facts you were making a lot of supposition about what might have happened, and seemingly why it doesn't matter even if he did receive threats.[/QUOTE]

Also in no way did I suggest that the threats did not matter.

 

I really wish we'd get a 20th edition of vector prime. I know we won't. But an important Star Wars novel and the 20th anniversary of its release is fast approaching.

 

That would be amazing. Maybe B&N would do something. They did for the Han Solo trilogy.

 

Could they have? Very easily. But why? Putting aside any personal love for the EU, can you imagine the confusion and outrage if Disney had announced the sequel trilogy, with the original cast at the right age to play the mentors/pass the torch, and instead set it a few hundred years in the future with all new characters? What would even make that a sequel trilogy? It would just be a new, unconnected, trilogy. Even Lucas' outline was for the OT heroes and the next generation and Disney is in the business of making money. Bringing back the OT heroes makes them far more money (and is a vastly more popular direction) than avoiding them so they don't contradict existing books/comics that the vast majority of their audience has never read.

Plus what happens when they start wanting to branch out more (like they are starting to now). The EU covered almost everything that would make the most obvious movies - adventures of the OT heroes and their off spring/the next generation, the Old Republic and the origins of the Jedi, 100 plus years into the future, back story for almost everyone, Death Star plans. So much of what we're getting now has been done in the EU. Yes, it was done differently but it was done. They could not let the tail wag the dog. The films had to come first.

 

Can you imagine how different the saga would be if The Empire Strikes Back was made having to account for Splinter of the Mind's Eye? And that's one book.

 

Yeah, it ushered in one of the most ambitious projects in the franchise in terms of both thematic depth and scope so an anniversary edition would be most welcome.

 

I actually liked the idea of the Maul/Talon Legacy-era game. Given that TCW already had Maul come back from the dead, that genie was already out of the bottle. We knew Palpatine was researching immortality, and the Legacy-era Sith worshiped Maul enough to copy his tattoos. Put it all together and there's enough scaffolding there for it to work (inasmuch as it builds off the already-established ridiculous stuff).

 

That seems really unnecessary convoluted and just bad from a story POV. But I guess could work from an integrated marketing one

 

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bosbit_Matarcher

 

The guy only appeared in one holonet article.

 

Still a way to get a character from one point in time to a future point.
Or what happened in Crosscurrent or Exar Kun surviving on Yavin 4 for 4 thousand years.

 

I guess. But it's a hackjob method of doing it.

 

You are all forgetting the canon way of getting one character to a future point--alien lifespans! "Maz has run this place for a thousand years"--literally a throwaway line, that's how canon handles things.

So... has anyone ever nailed down Zabrak lifespans? If not, Maul can appear a hundred years later with Talon, no questions asked.

 

His Wookieepedia article is twice as long as his only appearance.

You're right, we should learn these things the proper way, a line in an RPG sourcebook.


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I didn't have a problem with this-it was one extremely minor character experiencing relativistic time travel.

 

Minor character is a bit of an overstatement.