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As a child from a very difficult and abusive home, the star wars EU novels in the late 90's was a literal godsend. There were some great (but flawed) MMO's and
by JohnMakin 3y ago
As a child from a very difficult and abusive home, the star wars EU novels in the late 90's was a literal godsend. There were some great (but flawed) MMO's and video games that came out of it too that expanded the universe even further - when disney bought it and completely invalidated 30 years of canon, it really hurt on a level that I didn't think was entirely appropriate at the time but looking back it makes sense.
Nothing was "stolen," you can still go read the books and enjoy that IP... but it just felt like that and the acquisition by Disney as the final betrayal and sellout by Lucas, who really can only attribute his incredible success to the people around him who had better sense. The prequels were terrible because they gave him unlimited artistic control, and no one told him no.
- screenoridesaga 3y agoI think Lucas knows he’s screwed, he will be lambasted no matter what he does. Look at Game of Thrones, even the best written nerd series get torn apart by the nerd police. He understands that his business was always in nostalgia, it’s just his nostalgia for 50s serials, not actual Star Wars.
- pie_flavor 3y agoGoT was the best written nerd series until it ran out of best written novel to crib from, at which point it rapidly degenerated. The opinions both that most of it was good, and that the end was bad, are universal, including from people that never read the books - framing this as 'the nerd police' basing a decision on nostalgia is pretty dishonest. The show's scriptwriters just weren't good at plot and depended on it already having been written.
- stouset 3y agoFrankly, the last two released books in the series also experienced a notable drop off in quality, after (supposedly, as I understand it) GRRM stopped enlisting the services of his editor. The story is still great and I did still enjoy the books. But it’s surprising how much a change in editorial oversight had for both the Star Wars franchise and the ASOIAF series of books.