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Not sure what you mean by "too much logic"?

Also here's another alien to add to the list. How are they different in appearance to the Chitauri from The Avengers?

 

By the Force! From this angle they look very strikingly similar:





Orcs...in space!

The vorcha in Mass Effect also resemble the Vong.

 

It wouldn't surprise me if the above picture was based on that same shot from LOTR.

 

Even so, the Yuuzhan Vong's appearance are very uninspired. That said, the White Walkers look nothing like the Vong. The Yuuzhan Vong look more like Skeletor, if anything.

 

It's not logical to say that it's a good thing to say the Vong look like every other fantasy bad troll guy ever. The entire Vong concept is insipid, uninspired, and downright hacky. It was an invasion from a completely different genre that didn't mesh very well with the Star Wars universe. I am totally okay with the entire NJO era, concept, ideas, etc. getting the heave-ho.

 

Funny thing is, this only covers half of the amount of **** that happened leading up to the New Jedi Order series.

 

Bad movie title in that vid
InterestingLurker Its not like A new hope had to list the 50 years of **** that happened before it.

 

Did anyone post this about MJ in Rebels and EPVII?
http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/27/star-wars-episode-7-to-have-strong-link-to-star-wars-rebels-4278341/

If this rumor is true, then does this mean that maybe the EU is still alive and may actually survive the feared EpVII purge?

 

For the last time, that rumor is bunk.

The article's source (Star Wars 7 News) just took a random comment (they even said so themselves) from one of the comments sections of the older articles on the site and made an entire article about its assertions. Assertions, I should remind you, that can be made by ANYONE on the Internet. The writer of the article has as much authority as anyone else on this forum. I can make a comment right now saying the enemy of Star Wars Episode VII will be an entire army of clone Jar Jar Binks; doesn't mean someone should make an article about it like it might hold the answers to the content of Episode VII.

As I have said before, this is hack journalism and should be taken as nothing more than hearsay.

 

I think you've posted this in every thread.

 

Ok...

So if the article is bunk, what do you think about the general gist of the article?

Without having much confirmed or denied info, we are left to speculate, and as such, how would you feel if MJ did appear and became a major part of EPVII?

 

Nope, just this one and the casting rumors thread as I felt it would apply there as well. Thanks!

 

Has anyone noticed StarWars7News's update?

"UPDATE!
After the article was posted we received some more tips that there's definitely some truth in this. It comes from people close to the production. And here's something more - not only Star Wars: Rebels will have a connection with the new trilogy but also some of the new upcoming Clone Wars bonus content..."

 

Uh before I start getting excited...then again, it's already too late. Can they say their reliable source?

 

A thousand apologies oh mighty Chorus. In the future, I will endeavor not to be the recipient of further disapproval.

 

By Obi-Wan's Beard... The Yuuzhan Vong truly ARE uninspired!

 

Still better than the 50th rendition of the Sith.

 

But the Vong didn't first appear until NJO or Crimson Empire around 1998. The first LOTR came out in 2001

 

That photo is from 2012:



this is from the LOTR series, Two Towers, I believe, much much earlier than that photo, which the artist probably used as reference



The Generic Angry Fantasy Orc design looks fairly similar all around (of which the Vong are definitely a part of) but those early books like Vector Prime don't really have a visual reference. (see that cover? Don't exactly look like how they're mostly portrayed now) Visually consistent representations of the Vong "style" become more widespread around the time of the LOTR flicks.

The point is they're Space Orcs, basically. Not what I signed up for when I pick up a Star Wars novel. Pass. Go away. Done.

 

I signed up for an entire galaxy full of diverse foes that was not just Sith or Force-users[/quote]

 

Misquoting aside, you can like what you like, I can like what I like. I draw a line at Space Orcs and Wookie Moon dropping. the NJO (and basically the entire Del Rey post ROTJ period) is total bunk to me. Bantam novels 4 life!

 

Is that the Bantam run that basically had the same plot in every book/ Evil Warlord with Super weapon who kidnaps the Solo kids before being beaten by the Chuck Norris in space brigade!

It got so bad that 2 authors (Zahn and Stackpole) actually ripped some of the other books to shreds in there own books