Lit Vampires in The EU

They could even do it with a relatively weak Dooku doppelgänger, to explain both why he disintegrates into mush and why Tarkin is a match for him.

 

Well the movies can at least be entertaining if you let yourself laugh at their absurdities instead of going with your initial react of being personally offended.

Plus sometimes you will find a moment where it seems like one of the actors or the director was actually trying to achieve something genuine, and it's a nice little bittersweet counterpoint to the surrounding schlock.

The books are just joyless, though. My friends tried to make me read them but I couldn't do it, they were too dull. I ended up just letting Alex Day explain what I was missing out on.