The last series of the EU was some of the dumbest stuff ever. That weird immortal dark side cthulu monster was the dumbest of all the force stupidity in all the EU. And thats saying something. I loved the sci-fi stuff in the Yuuzahn Vong books though.
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The last series of the EU was some of the dumbest stuff ever. That weird immortal dark side cthulu monster was the dumbest of all the force stupidity in all the EU. And thats saying something. I loved the sci-fi stuff in the Yuuzahn Vong books though.
I could have been okay
with turning him into a villain, but then they killed him. I think villain!Jacen could have been a decent recurring villain. That was probably one of my biggest problems with the post-Bantam books. It actually felt that they were killing off more characters than they took the time to develop.
Everyone having a story of their own is one of the things about the EU I enjoy the most. It makes the universe feel big. I like the idea that having an adventure is not just limited to the named characters on the films; shit's going down all over the galaxy.
The stuff that I always found to be the worst was when writers would try to gin up the next big galaxy-wide threat that Luke and co have to go a thwart. Considering the bar has already been set at Death Star-level in the movies themselves, the EU goes nuts with the constant one-upping. People are tripping over superweapons left and right in the EU. Oh-no, it's the Prototype Death Star! And the Darksaber! And the Sun Crusher! And the Galaxy Gun! And now the Yuuzhan Vong are here and they're ruining everything!
I shed no tears that any of that stuff, especially the Vong, are gone from canon.
wow
I only now realize the importance of Janek Sunber. Imagine if he had killed Leia and Luke.
AbsolutBro
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I'll never get the love for Jacen required to hate his fall. I think only Cade is higher on my "do not give a fuck" list as far as main characters go.
The Vong were one of the worst EU ideas ever put to paper. I understand where they were coming from when trying to create them: When your protagonists have access to this mind bending world altering Force, how do you deal with that. "Make the new enemies immune" wasn't exactly a new (or great) idea, but the way they went about it was abso-fucking-lutely brain damaged.
Spoiler alert, I guess, if you're going to read that garbage.
"We're going to make them immune to the Force, because one dude is so Force Sensitive he can shield every single living thing (which includes all their armor, ships, weapons and gear mind you!) from the Force, at all times, in all parts of existence.
Do I even need to spoiler that shit? Does anyone even care? Because if they do, they shouldn't.
Bobby Roberts
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It does the opposite.
Affeinvasion
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Mara Jade was at Jabba's palace disguised as a dancer.
They were too afraid to go through with it, instead ignoring other characters and their past motivations to justify a shoddy ending. I would have liked what you suggested as well and for a while the potential was there - they simply wasted it.
OniBarubary
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No one said anything from the Thrawn series, Dark Forces I+II or Crimson Empire.
I find the taste in this thread...adequate
I find the taste in this thread...adequate
Limited Edition
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That's just it, the Emperor was supposed to be some all powerful Sith. So seeing that he had a backup plan that would take years to come full circle that required his full power of the dark side to pull off showed just how powerful he actually was. The man cheated death and damn near conquered the galaxy again in spite of all that the heroes sacraficed to stop him. It was an excellent end to his story all in all.
As for robbing them of their victory, in reality even with the Emperor being dead along with Vader the rebellion never should have stood a chance. So if anything 'good guys must win' robbed the Empire of the victory they should have had.
Because Thrawn Trilogy was top tier.
XANDER CAGE
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There's one thing I love about this and that it all seems to have snowballed from someone noticing that one of the stormtrooper helmets had a less-menacing rubber strap around the top.
Lokimaru
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this is too much, it is all just too much, help
Why create Kyle Katarn or Dash Rendar when you had this guy apart of cannon already? I want a Boshek game.
BreezyLimbo
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Remember Biggs Darklighter? One of Lukes childhood friends who died in the assault on the Deathstar. Remember that big scene Luke had in the movie where he mourned his death? Neither do I.
Zomba13
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this is too much, it is all just too much, help
BoShek has now become my favourite Star Wars character.
This guy is my second favourite. Or maybe joint favourite.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Boba Fett steals a mailbox?
Frozenprince
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He was gonna be the first Grey Jedi! It was awesome. Then they ruined it to literally just tell the movies again.
Ah yes, Abeloth. That's what happens when you take the Mortis arc from Clone Wars too literally and then mix in a bunch of stupid.
Another good thing to mention is Perek, the cyborgified body of Cronal/Blackhole/Shadowspawn who wanted to create an "empire of art" before Luke strangled him.
FO-totality
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Well, Luke does talk about Biggs a lot early on, and he was in he same deleted scenes as all the other Tattooine friends, just as that one friend who's gone away and left their little backwater world, which I give a pass to as it kinda paints in more familiar terms what Luke's life was.
For some reason I can never get the idea out of my head that BoShek should speak with an Australian accent.
PdotMichael
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People just hate because it was bad.
Zomba13
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Australian or Cockney.
Shotgun Kiss
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I'm assuming (and hoping) somebody else has mentioned it, but the novel Death Troopers. It's literally a zombie horror in the Star Wars universe. They even shoehorned Han Solo and Chewbacca into it.
Most of the ridiculous stuff in the Star Wars EU is from comics, games, cartoons, etc. The novels are fine for the most part. But Death Troopers is just crazily out-of-place.
Most of the ridiculous stuff in the Star Wars EU is from comics, games, cartoons, etc. The novels are fine for the most part. But Death Troopers is just crazily out-of-place.
That's a surprise. I wouldn't expect Boba Fett to be shooting blancs.
I think they are bzancs.
I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but from what I've seen, this:
https://youtu.be/M97knvfHKxs?t=1m4s
https://youtu.be/M97knvfHKxs?t=1m4s
Reading through this amazing thread, it seems like the majority of ridiculous stuff comes from the novels.
Seriously some of it got into 13-year-old-coming-up-with-sonic-character garbage.
THIS IS MY CHARACTER HE IS CALLED SPLASH RANKIN HE HAS THE FORCE AND CAN DO MORE FORCE THAN EVEN THE EVIL EMPORER EVEN. ONE TIME HE STOPPED ALL THE OTHER FORCE BECAUSE HE HAS SO MUCH FORCE ALSO HE HAS 4 LIGHTSABERS AND THEY ARE ALL EVERY COLOR BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH FORCE HE HAS. ONE TIME HE HAD A THUMB WAR WITH YODA AND IT BLEW UP YODAS HOME PLANET WHICH IS WHY YODA IS SO SMALL NOW AND YODA DOOESN'T AS MUCH FORCE ANYMORE. HE ALSO MADE THE 10 SECRET CLONES OF THE SECOND DEATH STAR AND HAS 8 DARTH VADERS.
THIS IS MY CHARACTER HE IS CALLED SPLASH RANKIN HE HAS THE FORCE AND CAN DO MORE FORCE THAN EVEN THE EVIL EMPORER EVEN. ONE TIME HE STOPPED ALL THE OTHER FORCE BECAUSE HE HAS SO MUCH FORCE ALSO HE HAS 4 LIGHTSABERS AND THEY ARE ALL EVERY COLOR BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH FORCE HE HAS. ONE TIME HE HAD A THUMB WAR WITH YODA AND IT BLEW UP YODAS HOME PLANET WHICH IS WHY YODA IS SO SMALL NOW AND YODA DOOESN'T AS MUCH FORCE ANYMORE. HE ALSO MADE THE 10 SECRET CLONES OF THE SECOND DEATH STAR AND HAS 8 DARTH VADERS.
TheSecondSpitter
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Force repellant monkeys.
I didn't like this part.
Also yeah the comics that are currently canon have been hit and miss. I haven't checked out Vader yet but from what I've heard there are already things I don't agree with
sassy sidekick? wut?
Han Solo's WIFE? But apparently not wife???
Cheap knock-off blancs! Boba, you're letting yourself down.
Beren the Empty-Handed
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The most powerful starfighter in the Galaxy: a 1969 Buick Electra aka Rudy's Car
Holy shit, my sides.
Thank you for this thread.
Atraveller
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I get the reference.
Atraveller
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He came back in a crap ton of stuff, I've read a comic he came back as *cant remember*, ended with emo Darth Vader killing him before saying something along "I hate myself more than you" and then sticked the lightsaber through himself and Darth Maul.Darth Maul came back to life with robot legs... And got killed by Uncle Owen with a shotgun.
Lifejumper
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They should do that in star wars rebels season 2
I just looked this one up, as far as I can tell it was from a parody comic so it's not so bad.
Fuck off with that shit. We don't call you Earth Human. Mind your pronouns, shitlord.
spookyfish
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Shadows of the Empire.
Oh, Han's frozen in carbonite! Don't worry, here's a generic Han Solo knockoff who you can idolize.
He even pilots a Millenium Falcon lookalike:
The Outrider (ship) appears in the special edition of Star Wars, so Space Kevin Costner is canon.
Oh my goodness Horseman had slain me. Too much.
On that note, Yuuzhan Vong. They are often brought up during discussions about EU, were already mentioned in this very thread and seem to be universally despised. I never followed EU, I only know they are some Force-resistant creatures from another galaxy, anyone would care to summarize why they are thought to be an atrocious idea?
On that note, Yuuzhan Vong. They are often brought up during discussions about EU, were already mentioned in this very thread and seem to be universally despised. I never followed EU, I only know they are some Force-resistant creatures from another galaxy, anyone would care to summarize why they are thought to be an atrocious idea?
That's not how it works. A ship looking like the Outrider leaving Mos Eisley is canon. That doesn't make the Outrider itself or Space Kevin Costner canon. It isn't mentioned by name anywhere nor have the creators specified that it's the Outrider.
They were responsible, or at least came along at the same time, as Star Wars EU kinda changing from its happy-go-lucky still-recognizable space-adventures-of-more-grown-up-characters-and-their-kids to "Entire Galaxy at War with Evil Aliens from Beyond Our Ken and are Force Null and also are gonna make everything Super Grimdark and Shitty".
Personally I have two books I really don't like, Darksabre and whatever book it is where Luke falls in love with a Jedi who got turned into a computer. I didn't read a whole lot of EU though, or at least I don't remember much of it.
Although Darksabre does have the original architect of the Death Star repeatedly being tortured, cloned, and brought back to life to get tortured, which I still think is a supremely dark concept.
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