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That's basically what it feels like at times, so that's a good insight.Having never actually read any Star Wars novel (nor for that matter, properly ever gotten into either DC or Marvel), personally, I cannot help but feel that there is a certain richness to the whole idea of a collaborative mythos where it's just become impossible to establish any sort of chronology that can incapsulate everything ever written, or even most things written. When you get to that point where you inevitably always keep running into contradictions and everything, I feel that says that the characters and the setting have truly taken on a life of their own, just like in Greek or Norse mythology, and have become independent of editors and authors.
I haven't, but I should at some point. One of my upcoming articles is about an EU trilogy I never read at the time but was very impressed with on reading it now, though.Good stuff! I look forward to more EU articles. (And if you’ve never read the old Lando trilogy, you really should - it’s very very eccentric.)
Having never actually read any Star Wars novel (nor for that matter, properly ever gotten into either DC or Marvel), personally, I cannot help but feel that there is a certain richness to the whole idea of a collaborative mythos where it's just become impossible to establish any sort of chronology that can incapsulate everything ever written, or even most things written. When you get to that point where you inevitably always keep running into contradictions and everything, I feel that says that the characters and the setting have truly taken on a life of their own, just like in Greek or Norse mythology, and have become independent of editors and authors.
I'm going to discuss Allston and Crispin's more successful efforts in future articles. The point here is that Stackpole was the first to try to link things together into a coherent whole, even if many of his efforts were misguided and sometimes made things worse.Honestly I find this one baffling. Stackpole was part of the problem. The only work of his that I would put in the FixFic portion of the 90sEU would be I, Jedi. And even that was a sloppy mess only an improvement over Anderson.
Allston, Crispen, And Zahn are the people who actually detangled the mess.
Kevin J. Anderson often comes in for criticism, not all of it unjustified, but one cannot help but feel sorry for him when he was reportedly told AFTER plotting much of his “Jedi Academy” trilogy that two of the planets it was set on had got smashed up in the questionable “Dark Empire” graphic novels set a year earlier – which did “the Emperor comes back as a clone in a stupid way” years before “The Rise of Skywalker” made it cool.
Yes.Also, on one point:
Back in 2007 (I believe it was), I had this one mate who found those novels about the Emperor returning in audiobook format at Malmö City Library, and so, naturally he borrowed them and listened through them. And I asked, of course, "So, how were they?", and he went, "Oh, you thought the prequels were bad? These are much, much, so much worse!" and he went on about how the Emperor not just comes back, he apparently has a space station just full of clones floating around somewhere that his "soul" can access any time he gets killed, and, for some strange reason, despite the events of The Return of the Jedi, the Emperor is able to persuade Luke to turn to the Dark Side after all, and, yeah, it all sounded very horrid.
So when they were making the sequels, I was just sitting there going, well, they better not be dumb enough to bring the Emperor back. And, well, as much as I found The Force Awakens to be rather derivative and The Last Jedi to be remarkably lacklustre, at least I could take some comfort in that, you know, they hadn't brought the Emperor back. In fact, I felt a little silly for having even felt there was a risk for that in the first place.
Of course, they would never have brought back the Emperor!
I mean, they had actually tried that once, they had "run the tests" on that storyline, so to speak, it was obvious that it didn't work, was ridiculous, just negated the rewards of the original trilogy, obviously that possibility had never been on the table!
Silly, silly me!
And then, the trailer for The Rise of Skywalker.
And that laugh.
...
It genuinely felt like he was laughing at me.