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EU Star Wars was a big part of growing up for me. Obsessed with the books and games, especially KOTOR. Countless nights on Wookiepedia just reading articles. S
by latentcall 3y ago
EU Star Wars was a big part of growing up for me. Obsessed with the books and games, especially KOTOR. Countless nights on Wookiepedia just reading articles.
Sad what Disney did, but remember the EU content didn’t disappear. You can still read the books and play the games and pretend Disney never happened. :)
- havblue 3y agoPart of the fun was imagining a canon of episodes 7+ and how great the movies will be when they get around to filming Heir to the Empire. So now that Disney has created a canon that invalidates it, the old material just reminds you of how great you used to wish the new material would be. Asking, "wouldn't it have been great?" isn't exactly as fun.
- sircastor 3y agoI don’t think there ever was an alternative to how they’ve handled it. There are times in the recent Disney SW material where I’ve thought “what the heck Dave Filoni!?” And realized that my understanding and version of Star Wars growing up was different than his. This was the same schism that classic trilogy fans encountered when we all sat down in May of 1999 to watch The Phantom Menace. We were suddenly shocked with a different version of Star Wars than the one we’d constructed in our minds. The trouble of course is that we all settle into “the way things are.” The EU was massively complex, and had its own bizarre establishments that I personally didn’t care for. But then, I wish they would’ve obviated a lot of the prequels too. I’ve noticed that there’s an entire generation of now-adults who love the prequels, and don’t care much for the original. Which feels bonkers to me. We’ve reached saturation. There’s a Star Wars for everyone, and that means there’s a Star Wars for everyone to hate.