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Posted February 26, 2016
Yay or nay? We've discussed Episode VII at length, how about the new Extended Universe?

Rebels, is struggling and uneven, but every few episodes it shows something that makes me stick with it. If only we got some proper story arcs this could be a really good show. It's the tedious "mission of the week done in 20 minutes" thing that's constantly bringing it down.

The comics- I've only read the first storyline from Star Wars, Darth Vader and Princess Leia. Star Wars was actually really good, I have to say. Made me excited to read the others. Unfortunately, Leia was mediocre at best, and Vader was just terrible. Laughable in fact. Uneven tone, silly idead, the whole thing was a mess.

The books- they exist. That's pretty much all I know. I have not read any of them yet. Are they any good? They look... lame. I don't know. For one thing, I never was too interested in Star Wars novels. I guess Star Wars is very "visual" to me, so a novel just feel "wrong" somehow. But those new novels just look and sound rather uninteresting. I can't put my finger on it. Maybe I'm totally wrong.

The games- Battlefront has no story whatsover as far as I know, except for showing us the Battle of Jakku as one of the maps. And since Battlefront is all we've got, that's it. Yah. Pretty sad.
Posted February 26, 2016
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Breja: Yay or nay? We've discussed Episode VII at length, how about the new Extended Universe?

Rebels, is struggling and uneven, but every few episodes it shows something that makes me stick with it. If only we got some proper story arcs this could be a really good show. It's the tedious "mission of the week done in 20 minutes" thing that's constantly bringing it down.

The comics- I've only read the first storyline from Star Wars, Darth Vader and Princess Leia. Star Wars was actually really good, I have to say. Made me excited to read the others. Unfortunately, Leia was mediocre at best, and Vader was just terrible. Laughable in fact. Uneven tone, silly idead, the whole thing was a mess.

The books- they exist. That's pretty much all I know. I have not read any of them yet. Are they any good? They look... lame. I don't know. For one thing, I never was too interested in Star Wars novels. I guess Star Wars is very "visual" to me, so a novel just feel "wrong" somehow. But those new novels just look and sound rather uninteresting. I can't put my finger on it. Maybe I'm totally wrong.

The games- Battlefront has no story whatsover as far as I know, except for showing us the Battle of Jakku as one of the maps. And since Battlefront is all we've got, that's it. Yah. Pretty sad.
OK Finally I can come out and say. The old expanded universe is MUCH more interesting and dare I say it better than whatever we will expect with the new Star Wars movies.

Games like Star Wars Rebels, Dark Forces/Jedi Knight, and the X-Wing/TiE Fighter games better captures the feel of the Original Trilogy than The Force Awakens.
Posted February 26, 2016
I like some of the stuff I read ABOUT the expanded universe. But it all looks rather tame and uninteresting if you actually read through one of the books.
Posted February 26, 2016
Does it have dancing elephants or talking mice yet?
Posted February 26, 2016
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nightcraw1er.488: Does it have dancing elephants or talking mice yet?
Yes. And they all carry cute little pink lightsabers that they play with. No one gets hurt, of course. We like to play with our little cute pink toys and talk to each other about the dangers of guns and drugs while asking our parents for credit card money to go buy worthless plastic junk to fill our worthless plastic lives with. We are happy little workers. And we have always been at war with East Asia. All hail big brother... er, I meant the Emperor... er, I meant the president... er, I meant the wonderful diverse characters and global citizens of the Star Wars universe.

Namaste, you filthy swine.

Jaded much? Nah.
Posted February 27, 2016
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nightcraw1er.488: Does it have dancing elephants or talking mice yet?
No, but it does have evil black C-3PO and R2D2. And a lizardman with lightsabre claws. And Han's first wife.
Posted February 27, 2016
Its not that interesting. Everything surrounding the new movie has been a disappointment.
Posted February 27, 2016
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darthspudius: Its not that interesting. Everything surrounding the new movie has been a disappointment.
Well, "disappointment" implies expecting something good, or at least better. I can't say I was expecting anything good out of it at all. Actually, given how low my expectations were for anything Star Wars at this point, Rebels was quite the positive surprise. Though Rebels wasn't part of "sorrounding the new movie" exactly.
Posted February 27, 2016
read expanded universe stuff in wiki, concise and good history lesson
Posted February 27, 2016
there's a new EU?

news to me.

did the YT-2400 get the axe, too?

fuck that nonsense.
Posted February 27, 2016
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johnnygoging: did the YT-2400 get the axe, too?

fuck that nonsense.
Actually it didn't, as it did appear in the background in one of the "special editions" of the orignal movies. Though that single sentence is pretty much all that remains of it in canon.
Posted February 27, 2016
I tried to read Aftermath (which I believe is the only post-Endor book in the New EU so far), but it's almost completely unreadable. When present-tense narration, may it and (almost) all authors who use it burn forever in a hell of scorpions, is the least of your prose's problems, you really shouldn't be a professional writer.
Posted February 27, 2016
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BlackMageJ: I tried to read Aftermath (which I believe is the only post-Endor book in the New EU so far), but it's almost completely unreadable. When present-tense narration, may it and (almost) all authors who use it burn forever in a hell of scorpions, is the least of your prose's problems, you really shouldn't be a professional writer.
Yeah, pretty much all reviews I've seen of it range from mediocre to downright scathing. And that's saying a lot, seeing how almost everything Star Wars related even the god-awful Darth Vader comics, gets great reviews, riding the hype wave of the new movie.

There actually is another pos-Endor book, Lost Stars. It's supposedly for "young adults" (a term that always confused me), but it's generally regarded as far superior of the two. It's actually the only one that I might pick up when it's published here, depending on the price.
Posted February 27, 2016
I was into the old Officially Licensed™ novels from when Timothy Zahn's trilogy first came out, and I continued to read the various novels on and off through the Nineties, and probably sporadically in the early '00s as well. To be honest, even if I had faith that the new novels -- which I know almost literally nothing about -- were any more consistent in quality than the old (I do not), I wouldn't have the patience to read and assimilate all the new lore, replacing, wherever necessary, my knowledge of the old lore for a given thing. Particularly since it could all just be wiped clean again in ten or twenty more years when the web of contrivances and continuity problems becomes too gnarled again.
Posted February 27, 2016
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johnnygoging: did the YT-2400 get the axe, too?

fuck that nonsense.
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Breja: Actually it didn't, as it did appear in the background in one of the "special editions" of the orignal movies. Though that single sentence is pretty much all that remains of it in canon.
I didn't know that saved it. Well good. Nice job whoever snuck that in. That was a nice piece of Star Wars was the YT-2400. Always wanted one of my own.
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