• @[email protected]
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    124 months ago

    To be fair, if you look at the original movies, most of the universe info is not contained therein.

    There are books. You can, for example, pluck a trilogy on Han Solo’s backstory off the shelf at Barnes & Noble. You could do that 15-20 years ago. The books are all written by an array of different authors though they all take place within the Star Wars universe. What is that if not professionally written fan fiction?

    FF isn’t my thing, I’m not endorsing it, just stating what I encountered when I tried to read a book or two engaging the Star Wars universe in the past.

    • @[email protected]
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      184 months ago

      They all had a stamp of approval from George Lucas though. Once Disney bought the franchise they said fuck all that and made it “not cannon”.

      • scops
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        184 months ago

        More importantly, they had someone dedicated to maintaining the canon and keeping the various authors from contradicting each other too much

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          4 months ago

          Thrawn came entirely from the books. The hype would not have existed for his appearance in the show had the books he was in been on the quality level of the sequels.

          Hell, the sequels should have been based on the Thrawn trilogy

          • scops
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            84 months ago

            I still think Disney would make bank if they’d just declare Legends a separate canon, re-cast Han, Luke, and Leia with up and comers, and start adapting old EU novels.

            • @VelvetStorm
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              24 months ago

              They need to do the Republic Commando novels and they need to finally make the Starwars 1313 game. I will never not be salty about that.