Star Wars Expande Universe to be severely culled from canon.

[Zabel Zarock]

If 95% of the pre Vong stuff stays I'm cool wiht it, if all of it's gone f*** this shit.

[kolani]

Good riddance to all of the EU, especially Thrawn. Poorly written villains are never welcome, especially when they're undone by one of the things that they've spent three books claiming to be his strength. With all the revisionism about him in later EU books, I was almost certain he'd become a secret Jedi spy by the end of it all just so he wasn't a bad guy.

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Jan 16, 2014 16:22:53 GMT -5 Dr. T is an alien said:

Jan 16, 2014 16:08:28 GMT -5 @knapp said:

I take this to mean that the Yuuzhan Vong crap is gone. If so, I am pleased.

Honestly, the farther away they got from ROTJ the worse it got. I enjoyed the earlier stuff mostly (DARK EMPIRE, the Thrawn trilogy, DARKLIGHTER, the initial X-WING books and the comic series, and KJ Anderson's first couple JEDI ACADEMY novels) but when the whole universe started to become unrecognizable because of age and calamity, I drifted away.

Thrawn is the one thing that I think can be spared in large part, because he was the 1st and arguably the most popular/critically acclaimed part of the post-ROTJ expanded universe. Mara Jade probably gets spared by being in the wake of his influence (in her original "Hand of the Empire" state; not sure she ends up with Luke, honestly), but I can't think of a bigger geekgasm the EU could provide in any Episode 7 trailer than seeing his blue face and red eyes on screen....

You actually liked the Anderson novels? I liked a few characters (Daala and Durron), but as a whole I thought that those novels were not very good. I did find the flashback of Tarkin to be badass, though.

Oh gosh, I love the Anderson books, and I love that this schism in fandom still exists all these years later. I remember being a lone soul for a long time in my appreciation of DARKLIGHTER.

He visualized stuff in his writing very well, IMO, and I could translate it somehow to be more enjoyable than most. DARKLIGHTER was an incredibly visual book for me.