Has the Star Wars Expanded Universe "Jumped the Shark"?

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Yeah, but he wrote Fey'lya as a back-stabbing rat bastard and did so effectively. He was never relatable in even the Thrawn trilogy, he was little more than a pain in the ass. Which makes it far more effective when Talon Karrde outsmarts him and makes him look bad. It's no wonder the New Republic collapsed if he ended up running it.

The problem was he became downright incompotent and short-sighted. Comic-Book villain or stupidity. It got annoying, it was not entertaining or believable. There was nothing smart anymore in what he did. That someome like Karrde could play him is believable. But that he is basically responsible for making an effective war against the Vong impossible is ... straining it beyond credibility.