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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4862668" data-attributes="member: 8863">The Thrawn Trilogy rocks.  Zahn wrote three novels that really captured the feel of the original trilogy well, nade good use of existing characters, and introduced several EU characters that reamin popular.  Some of the immediate followups were pretty good, both Bakura and Courtship aren't bad, but not as good as Thrawn.  The Jedi Academy, not as good, which is unfortunate, because it's an important part of the storyline.  Problem is that KJA seems to like idiotically comical villains, and it does not follow Thrawn very well.  He also likes stuff that just feels absurdly silly which is a shame, because he's got some good ideas too (like the scene early in Darksaber where Luke tells Han about the culture of the Sand People).Those first two were pretty forgettable, and with Lucas making the Jedi more or less celibate in the prequels, Children of the Jedi doesn't really fit into canon in a way that makes much sense.  Doesn't bother me, because that book was boring as hell.  It could be totally ignored if it wasn't for all the stuff with Callisto which KJA continued in Darksaber.  Darksaber itself wasn't too bad, but it unfortunately had more silly villains.  And Daala was once again written badly.  It's hard to believe she's supposed to be some sort of master tactician when she consistantly blunders as she does, but she is better than the ridiculous Imperial warlords that appear in the book.I haven't gotten that far into the timeline. I kind of lost track of EU about 10 years ago, and it doesn't help the stuff is scattered across a number of different books, comics, and whatever else.  The furthest I actually read was the Corellian trilogy, and the latest books I have are the disappointing Black Fleet Crisis trilogy.  I say disappointing, because they had a lot of potential, the villain were more serious, but the story was structured badly, particularly in the second book.  The Lando/Lobot/droids storyline really dragged on far too long.I'd have to actually read some of the stuff.  I'm trying to look back at what I know of the post-Jedi EU as a whole instead of the individual books/trilogies/series.  Maybe it's not too bad, considering the storyline from Menace onwards: The Galaxy goes through a long civil war from the Clone Wars until the several years after Jedi when the New Republic finally emerges.  This war lasts about a generation or so.  Even as the Imperial remnants become less powerful and the New Republic becomes more stable, people are mistrustful of a strong powerful government from all of the abuses committed by the Empire.  Because of this, they're unprepared for the Yuuzhan Vong invasion when it does take place.  The devastation from these wars is so great that the galaxy has yet to rebuild, and estblish as lasting government.  The Legacy Era takes place, what about 100 years after Jedi?  It's not too unreasonable to assume that galactic civilization is still going to be pretty messy after just a century.  Honestly, I've always found the whole 25,000 lifespan of the Galactic Republic (and the 100,000 years of completely urbanized Coruscant) a bit hard to swallow, but I kind of just ignore it to enjoy the universe as a whole.  Possibly the EU does descend into dreck as the years go by though.I don't know if "Chewbacca dies" is a huge spoiler, given how much fan rage has been vented about it over the years.  I've never read the NJO books, but it didn't stop me from making this crack:</blockquote>

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