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His chances at getting content in the nucanon are even lower, with the PT moving out of focus for now. A solo Dooku book would make me one happy Star Wars fan.

 

It shouldn't be ambiguous to whether Rey is a Skywalker. Before I go on, I should explain that I'm not one of the "Mary Sue complaints" crowd, Rey's development is as believable as Luke and Anakin. I just think that she should have had a similar role that Ben Skywalker/Jaina Solo had in Legacy of the Force, with her being either Leia or Luke's daughter. The episodes belong to the Skywalkers!

 

Rogue One was not that exciting

 

But why do you think it should not be ambiguous? Why must her heritage unfold in the order that you've seen it before?

 

Because Star Wars is about the skywalkers, at least the episodes. As for why in that order, purely because of EU nostalgia.

 

Most people like it. Hence the title of this thread.

 

Vader's true identity wasn't revealed right away or even confirmed until another movie after that. It was only then that being a Skywalker, and the force running strong in that family, truly became a thing. Prior to this it was just because Luke's dad never got a chance to raise his son in the ways of a Jedi that made the Skywalker thing significant.

Deferred lineage exposition is perfectly valid and familiar to the whole saga. In fact the first trilogy was somewhat characterised by it.

 

Here goes.

On the whole, I'm fine with the old EU being gone.

While there were some stories and characters that I loved, generally it was a huge mess and some of it, frankly, was absolute drivel.

I have found that I can happily still enjoy my favourite EU stories even though I have accepted that they aren't canon anymore.

 

I wish Star Wars video games would stop using musical tracks from the movies. I understand that there's a wealth of quality music within their copyright but it cheapens the music and robs the games themselves of freshness.
The 2 KOTOR games are the most prominent exception to this rule (particularly the first). They are both able to feel sufficiently Star Warsy without needle-dropping.

 

I liked R1, but I don't think it really works as a direct lead in to ANH. I just think of it as an old EU novel adapted into a modern blockbuster.

 

I also liked R1. Does it change my perception of ANH or the OT in general? Not really.

 

I wish Cassian Andor could have been Biggs Darklighter like the early rumors suggested.
They literally packed RO full of every other element of ANH fanservice imaginable, so like... why didn't Biggs get any love?

The "Biggs talks to Luke on Tatooine" scene was deleted and not canon (unless it's in the novelization), so they could have changed his backstory any way they wanted to.

 

It got recanonized by the databank, some time before RO came out, which made heavy use of it for Biggs's biography.

 

100% agree with you.

 

The music in the KotOR games was great and suitable considering the setting was so far removed from the films, but I think in games like Battlefront, which are specifically trying to recreate the feel of the movies, John Williams's score is essential. I find the original score in the new Battlefront, which imitates John Williams with limited success, to be extremely jarring.

For more story-oriented games I agree that a well-executed original score is generally superior as it can be tailored to the context more appropriately.

 

I don't like how self contained Rogue One is. It has a lot of potential for either prequels or sequels that obviously would take place after A New Hope.
Also, I saw some of the animated Ewoks series when I was younger and it was decent for a kid's show (nothing like The Clone Wars).

Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman each have some pretty good scenes in the prequel trilogy, and now that I've re-evaluated each of the films, The Phantom Menace has a very sweet charm that for me, puts it only under A New Hope.

I hated the droid from Rogue One.

 

Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter is the best EU novel, and would make a fantastic anthology film.

 

May I ask why you hated K2SO?

 

I prefer the SE Jedi Rocks sequence to the original Lapti Nek scene.

 

TFA is a better made film than R1 but R1 is a far better piece of SW entertainment by miles.

 

You phrased that so concisely and I completely agree!

 

Agreed. Lapti Nek sounds too much like the 70/s and 80's electric disco garbage that Lucas specifically wanted to avoid. It's way too earth sounding, like somebody transcribed some random disco song into Huttese. The made up Huttese words in this don't sound like an alien language at all. The only shot in Jedi Rocks I could do without is the shot down the hairy dude's mouth.

 

I just think his humor was forced, more so than Jar Jar. His jokes didn't seem to fit and he seemed to be there just as the obligatory goofy sidekick. Rogue one itself is awesome though.