Lit Will people still read the old EU?

Yeah, though the setting she’s playing in will restrict some of what she could adapt to screen. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Exar Kun or Naga Sadow got namedropped or cameo’d in some capacity.

 

I mean if any show is a way to bring back some good old fashion ancient Sith Lore from Legends it will be this show.

 

There's also whatever that

Spoiler

Tales of the Jedi

project is...

 

That too.

 

I suppose it’s possible, with the advances in home video and other forms of decentralized media technology-there could be “unauthorized” legends adaptations in an animated style.

There might be a small core of legends fans that remain, well past a decade from now, but eventually that will fade unless somehow legends works get some other form of adaptation and exposure(even say a fan made Thrawn trilogy), which could change things. But the current trend is clear.

 

I doubt legends fandom ever goes away. The internet keeps ANYTHING alive, it will be very niche and small. But it will be alive.

 

Eh…there are dead fandoms. Or mostly dead fandoms. The Inheritance Cycle for example, no longer has an active fandom.

 

I consider my original print Expanded Universe hardcovers to be some of my most precious treasures. It's taken me years to assemble my collection, a collection without a single book bearing the "Legends" banner that all the reprints bear. I hope with the reprints, Legends will continue to be popular. For me, I consider the Expanded Universe to be the original tale of what happened after Return of the Jedi, before the Phantom Menace and all the years in between.

The new, rebooted Star Wars is a parallel universe to me. A second Star Wars universe where things went differently in several key areas.

@Sinrebirth I have sadly abandoned the concept of the One Canon to which I once subscribed. To me, the GFFA feels far richer to me if there's two parallel universes, where we can see the same character take two very different paths. Reality is like a river that splits off into many parallel tributaries.

Take Boba Fett, for instance.

I see Legends Fett and Disney Fett as the same core character whose path has split in two different directions, each as legitimate as the other. That is my viewpoint and it's taken me several years to reach it.

 

So if we lump the whole Disney Era as one thing then a whole Generation will pass in the year 2037. I decided to go with the idea 25 years is a generation

It was easier for me since I am pretty much used to reboots and multiverses versions of things being a thing.

 

I was never a fan of the multiverse concept. But the newest Spider-Man film finally won me over.

 

It’s less multiverse and more the idea every story told with the same set of characters must all take place in a singular sacred timeline was honestly something that most other franchises don’t do regularly.

 

@Sinrebirth

Also to go back to what you said a few pages ago, you've been around since 2004, i'm sure you seen the change of discourse over the years as fans have come in and out of these threads alone.

 

Once upon a time Sinny was a new poster.

 

Technology becoming more conveniently available has its pros as well as it's cons. Back in the day you had to sit down at an actual computer to take part in a community like this. Requiring that amount of additional effort would by default make some less interested in participating.

 

Its funny thinking about the generational divide that could, in theory, limit interest.

But then, I am passionately in love with movies that came out decades before I was born.

On other forums, every single day, there are threads and threads of newcomers asking where to start with the original EU. They come because of curiosity, they come because of dislike of the mismanaged and poorly executed ST, they come for good stories.

The EU interest lives on.

 

Lol, advise them not to read anything past NJO then. The post NJO had a very similar reception amongst readers as the ST did.

 

There are folks who like post-NJO just the same as there are people who like DisCanon.

 

I would be genuinely curious to know if there is a bit of a generational divide between people who came into the EU post NJO and like/dislike it.

Time normalizes things and I feel like anyone coming into it now just kinda knows Jacen Solo became a Sith Lord and are sorta expecting it instead of the big suprsie/betryal/story point.

 

I don't know if it was a generational thing but more along the lines of what kinds of stories people were willing to accept/not willing to accept.

The post NJO got a lot weirder then the stuff previously. The one thing though I noticed about the EU and which characters people latched onto the most is that many of the more popular characters (aside from the movie characters and those who were directly intertwined with the movie characters) had their start in video games.

 

IDK time normalizes thing and generations growing up with those weirdos stories around all their lives are far more likely to be accepting of them than this directly experiencing those things fo the fist time.

 

I think you're underestimating the power of good stories.
Take Star Trek for example. Deep Space 9 is 21+ years concluded and people, to this day, still treat it (alongside TNG) with the upmost respect, arguably moreso than modern shows like Star Trek: Discovery or Picard. The SW EU has likewise has plenty of excellent stories, and those who grew up with the Prequels are primarily familiar with the EU (often through the Old Republic games or TCW material). That generation will be around for another 30 years at least. I don't see the reverence for the EU/Legends atrophying with time, quite the opposite in fact.

 

Well see that is a major difference. You can watch DS9 and TNG on Netflix(though Voyager and Enteprise require a paramount subscription). You can’t just turn on the TV to show an adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy or the NJO.

Being books, the EU is a lot more inaccessible. You have to really want to get into it, and put in a lot more effort.

 

And Force help yuh if you wanna get into things that never get re-published .

 

Discovery I didn't mind much across seasons 1-2, then it went over the edge in season 3...

I have seen - and see the merit to - the argument that the Denningverse works far better without having read NJO. It might be suggested that the ST works similarly with the OT.

The problem for both, as stories in a shared universe, is if a story has to rely on previous major ones being ignored in order to work, then does it work ar all?