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With most of the Expanded Universe declared officially non-canon, the Universe is relatively open and unexplored. Disney publishing along with Lucasarts have announced 20 new stories to fill in some of the details before the new movie is released.
Some love all the extra background material, while others never bothered. Are there any of the EU stories that you felt made for a better setting overall, and why? What might they do better this time around?
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Remember the good old days, when CPU was singular?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday March 13 2015, @05:36PM
> some day in the future I imagine people are actually going to be nostalgic for the bumblingly inept and stupid prequels
The scary thing? Talk to a 20 year old. A lot of them love the prequels more than the originals because the light saber fights are "awesome".
I don't know, maybe I'm a freak. I mean, if you asked me to name my favorite fight between a master and a former apprentice who changed sides, it sure as hell wouldn't be the tedious CGI extravaganza at the end of the 3rd prequel.
Hell, add in the qualifier of "my favorite fight *involving lava* between a master and a former apprentice who changed sides" and it's still below both the Darths & Droids version of the same scene AND the fight between Logray and Morag in the Ewoks cartoon "Sunstar vs. Shadowstone" (which I thought was actually pretty good).
> But they won't like the fiction. I love what the link says about SW:TOR making the guy want to read the novels, and then the reaction he had. I hope he had a barf bag handy.
I've never been brave enough. I read some spinoff fic for other franchises when I was a book-starved teenager. Even though teenage-me had both more patience for crap and less ability to determine a good book, I eventually switched to tracking down fanfic on the pre-Google Internet because while it was more uneven in quality it somehow still had a better average.