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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9761355" data-attributes="member: 6671663">I’m mildly interested in that. Are there any particularly good starting points?I’m one of those people who’s sort of a hardcore fan of a Star Wars that never quite existed. I thought at the time that Empire went off the rails with the Skywalker family stuff, which undercut the kind of drama it had alongside the action. It’s the difference between WW1 and WW2, in some ways: the Kaiser and the Czar were part of a family web, but the Fůhrer and the General Secretary weren’t,and the drama of their conflict wouldn’t be improved if they were. But I liked most of Empire and Return anyhow.There’s a surprising amount I do like in the prequels, but you can’t get from there to the parts of the originals I like without drastic contrivances. (Which reality does dish up sometimes. But drama doesn’t get to use “that’s reality” as an excuse.) I really, really like The Last Jedi. Mostly I’d already tuned out, though - I still haven’t seen the final sequel movie and very little of the TV. My last peak period was when things like Michael Kube-McDowell’s Black Fleet Crisis books were coming out, before the Yuong Vozh or Zhodani or whatever they were.Since the 2000s, I’ve been pretty casual. I liked Rogue One and respected its obvious desire to grow up to be a John Woo movie. I like John Ostrander and jam Duursema’s Star Wars: Legacy. And so on. But it generally gets me a lot to divert attention away from other things that suit me better. And that’s fine. I have fun with what I have fun with. I want others to have fun with what they have fun with, too.</blockquote>

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