Flexor the Mighty!
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Cool! I hope GL does make them. I've enjoyed every Star Wars flick so far so three more would be a charm.
Exactly...doesn't bother me that much(heck, I'm GLAD we have an actual background for Boba Fett now) but if he were to completely invalidate a series of books I couldn't take it.Flexor the Mighty! said:If he did the Thrawn trilogy I could handle that. It was pretty good. The NJO is a steaming pile of horse dung though. There is nothing about it that make me feel, "this is Star Wars". Tatoo freaks with more piercings than your average nu-metal singer, with masochistic complexes ain't SW in my mind. But you know he won't pay the slightest bit of attention to that stuff.
I used to frequent some Star Wars BB's and I got so tired of hearing fans whine becuase he did something that went against the books, and how in thier mind "canon" was what the NJO or whatever novel said. For example, Mara Jade tells Skywalker that the Emperor cut off Vader's hand as punishment for the first Death Star debacle. Not true, Count Dooku cut it off so that is one part of Zahn's work invalidated. I don't think GL would even consider those stories when doing 7-9. I know Lucasfilm has said that everything that doesn't have the infinities logo on it is canon, but GL will ignore and invalidate what he wants to. He won't let E4-6 events get in his way, what makes anyone think he will pay attention to a novel?
I've found it to be the opposite...they're great books in general(at least the post RotJ ones) with a few bad apples here and there.Joshua Dyal said:That's one thing about Lucas that I do like; he ignores the continuity established in the novels and comics. Sure, there's a gem or two among them, but for the most part, they are so execrable that I've avoided the entire shebang anymore.
Ankh-Morpork Guard said:So that leaves about 1 book series...and a very good one at that. The X-Wing books. Those would be GREAT movies. Sure, not the same as the Thrawn Trilogy, but they're some of the best written Star Wars EU stuff out there.
The books I've really not liked are Courtship of Priness Leia, the Black Fleet Trilogy(probably the most horrible books I've read in a long time), Plant of Twilight, and parts of the Jedi Academy Trilogy. I don't really mind any of the others.Joshua Dyal said:What are some of the ones that you'd consider good and bad? I like the Zahn books well enough, which lead me leaping into another set which I disliked intensely (can't even remember which ones they were.) I haven't read any NJO books, but the very premise of the seems, as Flexor says, very anti-Star Wars in feel. There was one I read about a padawan doing her trials on Coruscant and running across Darth Maul that wasn't too bad, although it wasn't too good either.
On the comics front, I really like the Darth Maul trade paperback, and the Crimson Empire ones as well, but others, particularly the Sith Wars series, barely even resemble Star Wars at all, and that only in that they have lightsabers and use a few recognizable proper names like Sith and Jedi. The Knights of the Old Republic game, while obviously not either a book or a comic, was more Star Wars like than most of either.
All in all, I'd say the EU does more harm than good; frankly, the hit/miss ratio from my small sampling of it isn't any better than the last two movies Lucas has made, if not considerably worse.