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8/19/2014 3:42:47 AM
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New Star Wars stories are Bad (maybe)

So Ive been keeping up with all the latest on the new star wars movies as well as the new star wars battlefront game. I have no issue with the game or really with the movies so far, but its the "leaked" info that is scaring me. Until like a month or two ago, fans had created a unique and colorful Extended Universe. But that all changed as Disney/Lucasfilms announced that everything but the six movies are non-canon. At first this pissed me off but I kind of brushed it off. Then a few days ago I got to thinking about it. The stuff that I had accepted as common star wars knowledge before, during, inbetween, and after the movies that wasnt the movies, might be totally false as they create a new story. For example, the Star Wars the force unleashed games were about how StarKiller, the sith apprentice of Vader turned Jedi (kinda) helped establish the first bits and pieces of the Rebellion. That was cool. You got to meet people like Bail Organa who supported the opposition to the empire. But now they have another stupid TV show with bad animation and cheesy lines since its a kids show, and its going to make what could have been a great story, a complete joke because Disney had to make something for their younger demographic. Oh and now its possible that the empire stayed in power for another 30 years after the sixth movie rather than Luke forming the New Republic like in the Extended Universe. That possibility scares me. Its like now that Disney made everything else false, they are struggling to come up with something better than what a bunch of writers and game developers did all the years. I dont mean to sound like some over zealous star wars nerd, Ive just picked up pieces of the extended universe over the years. Mainly by games and a big book that pretty much told about everything about the star wars universe. So after reading this novel, what do you guys think? How do you feel now knowing that everything you knew about what happened after the movies, is now false and may be replaced by something really stupid or not as good as the EU.

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  • I agree I love the extended universe, especially the story of Starkiller and Lord Revan etc. How can they just throw that away.. I hope they at least take some notes from the Thrawn series. And I really hope they dont make it too kid friendly and have good scripts(or at least better than the prequels scripts). I am glad that Lucas is still a creative consultant though, and that they have more props instead of almost all CGI. I'm sure they will be good movies and pleasing for us star wars fans. I just really hope if they ever make any spinoffs about the Old Republic they dont dismiss all the legendary characters and stories people have written like Revan and Malak or Darth Bane etc.

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