Lit A/V The Force Awakens and the EU [TAGGED spoilers.]

Matter that should not. Attached to these feelings you should not be.

 

Well, the hope is, I think, that there's enough champions of the EU still there at LFL - and that Lucas is no longer going to be override everything on his personal whim that there's an outside chance things will actually improve (and on the non-EU front, maybe Han will get his shot back! )

 

It's not about feelings, it's about profit

 

Nice, juicy, fat, warm profit.

 

Disney already has said they will not be making video games. They said if there are Star Wars games then it will be made by other companies.

 

Maybe LucasArts will get shaken up too - Warren Spector working on a Star Wars game, perhaps?

I mean, Disney already made a movie version of Monkey Island...

 

The best thing is the new EU books will have a more interesting backdrop, especially politically, being based around movies. The current EU is just hard to imagine and keep interest in.

 

If only we'd had EU based around movies before.

 

I just don't want to lose my X-Wing books!!! They'll always be canon. PERIOD.

Deke

 

Obviously referring to the post NJO time periods

 

Even if Leia were able to take Vader and Palpatine all by her lonesome (which I really doubt in the first place; she's definitely not going to be redeeming Vader), she's going to be utterly screwed by the time Dark Empire rolls around

And sure, Owen had his gun, but I don't see him fending off Krayt and his hundreds of Tuskens by himself. I don't want to doenplay Owen and Beru's role in Luke's development (loving families couldn't have been easy to find on the eve of the Empire), but Obi-Wan did give up everything he previously knew for Luke, so it's not like he was just that perverted old man down the street...

 

No, that's just Ben Burtt misspelt.

 

what did he give up? He had nothing to begin with

no money, no Order, no job, nothing but survival and hiding himself after the Jedi Purge! so he hardly gave up anything. He did the same as he would have without Luke: Hide, cook, go shopping, took krayt mating call lessons, etc.

All he did to secure Luke was play stalker or listen to the Force tune to alert him if danger is around.

Also I doubt Krayt was that much of a threat.. they'd probably have hurt Owen and Beru but kept Luke alive and take him into the tribe like they did with Tahiri! so?

as for Leia taking down the Emperor.. well, sure not all alone. Starkiller can help her

 

I guess I'll be the one to bring up the latest Episode 7 rumor, that it will feature some sort of resurrected Vader.

I'm honestly not breaking a sweat over it. We know that at least the basic story concept comes from Lucas and he was against a Vader-impostor in DE and in a more recent interview specifically said "Vader is never cloned after ROTJ". Now granted this is Lucas so who knows if he's changed his mind but still, it seems like something he'd stay away from.

 

It does, however, make me wonder if Hayden Christiansan would ever appear as an Anakin ghost. Didn't he offer to voice Anakin in the TCW movie and Lucasfilm cold-shouldered him?

 

Honestly it's so ridiculous that if it turns out to be true, in the immortal worlds of claymation Robot Chicken Luke Skywalker, "If you're not going to take this seriously..." I'd probably laugh for about three days and then not bother going to see the movie.

On the plus side, it'd be so ludicrous and surreal I might actually be so amused I wouldn't have time to be upset.

But honestly, I would be actual money it's not true.

 

I think that rumor was misread. The one I am seeing says that 7-8-9 will be whatever they do post Jedi.

10-11-12 would then be about Vader and that 2 decade span, and they could include a young Han Solo and Lando as teens joining the Imperial Navy before ending up the smugglers they would become. A much more interesting idea, given that they could then recast those characters, as well as open Boba Fett back up. (something Joe Johnston has wanted to do for a long time, and he may have his chance here someday)

This is what I found the other day:

Notice is says fourth trilogy, not the upcoming movies.

 

I can't help but just find all the talk about Post-ST films amusing. Lucas talked about sequels once too... and look how long they've taken. I don't see Disney making any concrete commitments until they actually see how the ST does. And already working on the story for Trilogy 4... hah. If stories stayed the same for that length of time, Leia still wouldn't be Luke's sister.

 

For me, personally, books like Labyrinth of Evil, Cloak of Deception and Plagueis were great because of the political backdrop set up by the prequel movies (not least because of who wrote them aswell), whereas the politics and organisation of the galaxy post NJO with the "New Republic" and "Galactic Alliance" will never feel as real. But that's just me.

 

You're not the only one, I have only read Labyrinth of Evil, and plan on reading Cloak of Deception and Darth Plagueis, yet can't even bring myself to read LotF and FotJ.

 

Yeah, I call total BS on that story's "insider".