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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 6040270" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>Well, as far as I'm concerned, the new movies would be moot instead. I probably won't even bother with the new movies if they completely disregard the EU and/or "invalidate" it. </p><p></p><p>The Expanded Universe is why I'm still a fan after all these years, and why I'm a fan of Star Wars.</p><p></p><p>You see, when the Thrawn novels, and everything following on from them came out through the 90's, I was amazed at how well they all hung together coherently. The big, elaborate setting they created was a huge thing for me.</p><p></p><p>I used to be a trekkie. Used to be. Star Trek has always had a much more relaxed view of continuity, both within the official works, and among licensed works. In High School I would read Trek novels, but it got harder and harder to swallow each new novel since they were all just stand-alone tales, none could ever change the status quo, they could never have any continuity with each other (you'd almost never read a novel that referenced another novel, apparently Paramount insisted on that), the quality of the novels themselves were (at best) hit-or-miss with a few gems and lots of junk, and the fact that the shows and movies themselves had huge continuity gaffes themselves was another downer. It was hard to stay a fan of a property that couldn't even take itself seriously, so I really lost most of my affection for Trek.</p><p></p><p>At the same time, I saw Star Wars and its big, coherent, consistent universe telling an epic tale that stretched for thousands of years. I could read about a character in an RPG book. . .and see him referenced later in a novel, and those events would be talked about in a comic book, and it would all be the backstory to a scene from the movie. It felt real, with a verisimilitude of setting I've felt in very few other fictional universes. </p><p></p><p>They have spent 20+ years building this vast coherent setting, only to trash it to stamp out movies in a moneymaking grab? Lucas had said consistently for many years he never intended to make anything after VI, most recently in an interview in May '08, when he said he left explicit instructions to his heirs to never EVER make any more SW movies, that the movies were done and it was in the hands of other authors (and Lucasfilm had set up an elaborate system, and full time employees, to make sure those stories were consistent).</p><p></p><p>So, more movies can't be seen as a natural growth of the setting and invalidating decades of continuity because Disney wants to see a billion-dollar box office take seems like a slap in the face to two decades of being a Star Wars fan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 6040270, member: 14159"] Well, as far as I'm concerned, the new movies would be moot instead. I probably won't even bother with the new movies if they completely disregard the EU and/or "invalidate" it. The Expanded Universe is why I'm still a fan after all these years, and why I'm a fan of Star Wars. You see, when the Thrawn novels, and everything following on from them came out through the 90's, I was amazed at how well they all hung together coherently. The big, elaborate setting they created was a huge thing for me. I used to be a trekkie. Used to be. Star Trek has always had a much more relaxed view of continuity, both within the official works, and among licensed works. In High School I would read Trek novels, but it got harder and harder to swallow each new novel since they were all just stand-alone tales, none could ever change the status quo, they could never have any continuity with each other (you'd almost never read a novel that referenced another novel, apparently Paramount insisted on that), the quality of the novels themselves were (at best) hit-or-miss with a few gems and lots of junk, and the fact that the shows and movies themselves had huge continuity gaffes themselves was another downer. It was hard to stay a fan of a property that couldn't even take itself seriously, so I really lost most of my affection for Trek. At the same time, I saw Star Wars and its big, coherent, consistent universe telling an epic tale that stretched for thousands of years. I could read about a character in an RPG book. . .and see him referenced later in a novel, and those events would be talked about in a comic book, and it would all be the backstory to a scene from the movie. It felt real, with a verisimilitude of setting I've felt in very few other fictional universes. They have spent 20+ years building this vast coherent setting, only to trash it to stamp out movies in a moneymaking grab? Lucas had said consistently for many years he never intended to make anything after VI, most recently in an interview in May '08, when he said he left explicit instructions to his heirs to never EVER make any more SW movies, that the movies were done and it was in the hands of other authors (and Lucasfilm had set up an elaborate system, and full time employees, to make sure those stories were consistent). So, more movies can't be seen as a natural growth of the setting and invalidating decades of continuity because Disney wants to see a billion-dollar box office take seems like a slap in the face to two decades of being a Star Wars fan. [/QUOTE]
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