Books "Sword of the Jedi" trilogy would be over by now...

That is exactly why I am depressed over the future of Star Wars.

 

Oh well. We have fan-fic. Plenty of great stories left to be told.

 

The novelization even reinforces that. From the chapter break where she tells Finn she thought Luke was a myth:

Finn gaped at the girl. Was she serious? It was true that Jakku was a backwater world, but still...
"Really?" was all he could think of to say.


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Ahh. I have the TFA book but havn't read it yet. I like reading brand new stories. Heard the novel doesn't really add a whole lot either.

 

I heard that a picture of the TFA novelization will be included next to the word "skippable" in future editions of Webster's Dictionary. Or possibly next to "pointless;" they haven't decided yet.

It's true that the EU still had a lot of potential, but considering that we were getting garbage like Dawn of the Jedi and Legacy Volume II from Dark Horse and even hotter garbage like Fate of the Jedi from Del Rey, I'm not confident that any of that potential would have actually been realized. I mentioned it before in this thread, but Allston's final novel was a harbinger --- the death of the EU ended up being a mercy kill.

 

Yeah, I loved that series, too (although I still need to read the second and third graphic novels). I've recently started collecting the Knight Errant trade paperbacks and am remembering why I wished that they had done more with it than one short story, three graphic novels, and a prose novel.

So, you mean like "what if" stuff, like they did with the Infinity comics? Maybe I'd go for that.

Well, it ran for nearly, what, thirty-some years, and created an interconnected timeline that spanned thousands of years built across different medias? I think Legends did live up to its potential.

I am reminded of an old Dr. Seuss quote: "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." I can get that people are disappointed that it's been put on the shelf, but maybe the time has come focus on the good that it did and why we still like it, even though it's no longer part of "reality?"

I've read all the TFA novelizations to date. They do add some extra details, backstory, and info, so they're not really pointless. I will say that the jr. novel, by Michael Kogge is the best, and would argue it's a must-read.

(The adult one, by Alan Dean Foster, adds a lot of Resistance material that was happening in the early parts of the movie, and even has some very important tidbits about the finale on Starkiller Base. The Rey's Story jr. novels is probably the most skippable, but it does retell the movie in a very interesting way.)

 

I am dreaming of a better world where the EU continued, Denning's pernicious influence never existed and everything was made right.

 

For me it would be a world in which Anakin and Jacen Solo and some others would be still alive....

 

Anedon there is a fanfic called Only Right by an author known as Adahn-I wholeheartedly recommend it to you. It is how legends should have ended.

 

Thank´s I will check that one out.
I´ve written one myself beginning after LoF with Jacen alive.

 

I wish Dawn of The Jedi had been written in 2003. That way it could capitalize on KOTOR's popularity and have a long run and Xendor would be the founder of the Sith like he was supposed to be until 2005.

 

I don't mind Xendor being around 18,000 thousand years prior, it gives a sense of eternality that the Jedi have fought dark side schismatics prior to the Sith.

 

My dream-better-world basically branches off from reality after 2005. Better post-NJO, and diving headfirst into the Dark Times instead of doing Clone Wars retreads for almost a decade.

Yeah. I don't mind the Jedi fighting dark siders - I just wish they weren't almost always Sith.

 

Well Xendor wasn't

 

A Destiny Altered by An Orgami Fish was very good.

I so wish that TCW was a Dark Times series. I like Rebels and all but the momentum was lost years ago imo.

Non-Sith threats would be nice.

I still have plenty of EU stories to collect, so its not over yet. And there are many more thousands of years of stories left to be told.

Actual alternate realities where the main EU characters end up in and have to make their way back from.


The NEU has a lot of potential but TFA leaves a lot to be desired. Start over just to jump back to the mess that is LOTF? No thanks.

The EU has been part of my frame of reference for so many years that I just can't fully let all of that knowledge go.
So everything new from the NEU or similarities between the NEU and EU just jars me. Doesn't work for me. I'll accept NEU characters, planets, ships, groups, etc in the old EU but full on reworking of characters backstories? Not a chance.

There is fan-fic at least. Make my own story.

 

If I haven't warmed up to the ST by the time it's done I doubt I will continue to invest that much emotionally and financially in Star Wars. The EU was just so amazing-the only fictional world that surpasses it is LOTR-and that's because Tolkien is the master. However Tolkien is dead(may he rest in peace) and the legendarium left standing, the EU ideally could have continued for decades continually expanding continually getting richer.

All of that came to...nothing.

 

I have the NJO series as my ST, so my fandom is not riding on TFA and sequels being the main story after ROTJ.

The other books and comics will probably keep me entertained even if TFA and sequels aren't as liked by me.

 

I honestly just want Legends back, I don't care that much about the ST or the NuCanon, I just want Legends back.

 

Even in KOTOR wasn't Ajunta Pall supposed to be the first Jedi-turned-Sith?

 

KOTOR only said that Ajunta Pall was part of the group of Jedi who started the Sith, never that he was their leader.

 

In Legends Canon though wasn't he basically the head honcho among the exiles? Or was that Xoxaan?

 

Legends sources published after KOTOR made Pall the leader of the exiles, but it was never stated in KOTOR itself.

 

I wish they had explored that era more thoroughly-the birth of the Sith, that period in the republic, various Jedi, I think it was cool era for stories.

 

Depends on how much enthusiasm there is-on the fanfic part of the boards I wrote I pretty exhaustive wish list.

 

I don't know how giving credence to the false notion that Legends was fan fiction helps matters.