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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JediSoth" data-source="post: 4868413" data-attributes="member: 13882">Yeah, I really gotta agree with you here. To me, Star Wars was always about epic, mythological heroism. Good vs. Evil, not gritty, let's-make-everyone-hopeless war. By the end of the Hand of Thrawn duology, I felt they could have given both the Skywalkers and Solos a "And they lived happily ever after" card. Luke and Mara were getting married after YEARS of building a relationship. Han and Leia had three kids and the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic finally had come to terms with each other. The characters needed a break.But now, with the NJO and later series, it just seemed like the Solos and Skywalkers are cursed to be some sort of nexus of catastrophe and evil. If I knew them, I'd make sure I was never anywhere near them, because if some bad stuff goes down, you just know it's going to be centered around them. Screw that. It's like on House, M.D.: if they ever start running diagnostics on you that, realistically, the team isn't qualified to do (sorry, diagnosticians do NOT do half the crap they do in House), you just know you're going to have a seizure or go into cardiac arrest or something. I wouldn't let them get near me with a 10' pole.On the other hand, it illustrates the great thing about RPGs: I can take a lot of things out of my continuity like Dark Empire (well written and compelling, but I don't think the galaxy needed the Emperor to come back and have umpteen superweapons again), and the entirety of NJO, LotF, and FotJ. I also choose to consider at least one element of The Clone Wars to be apocryphal: Mace Windu's bare-handed fight and victory against a droid army (including seismic tanks). That's just an embellishment 'cause the only witness was a little kid. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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