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Star Wars EU Retrospect

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I love Courtship of Princess Leia for a few factors:

1. It gives me Tenel Ka's parents, and therefore, eventually, Tenel Ka. So win right there.

2. It's got the Witches of Dathomir and the Nightsisters. And I gotta admit, they're interesting Force sects. I love the whole chanting thing.

3. Threepio singing, "Han-what a man!-Solo" gets' me every time. :D

4. I rather like Hapes itself. Cool faction.

5. I know technically it falls under number one, but Isolder cracks me up. he's space!Fabio! he's got the long, flowing hair, the big chest, the accent! He's Fabio... in space!
 
Kira Carsen is amazing, 10/10 best wannabe Anakin, best waifu.
 
RK_Striker_JK_5 said:
2. It's got the Witches of Dathomir and the Nightsisters. And I gotta admit, they're interesting Force sects. I love the whole chanting thing.

4. I rather like Hapes itself. Cool faction.
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Space Monarchy with cool ships and semi-isolationism fits in better with SW than some of the made-up cultures that get added, and ditto the force witches. Who not only get canoned, but canoned *hard*, with Maul eventually being retconned into tracing her origins back to them.
 
Q99 said:
Space Monarchy with cool ships and semi-isolationism fits in better with SW than some of the made-up cultures that get added, and ditto the force witches. Who not only get canoned, but canoned *hard*, with Maul eventually being retconned into tracing her origins back to them.
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There's even a pretty decent in-universe reason why they can maintain their isolationism. Although... are you sure you meant 'her' with Maul, there? Or did I miss something with the Clone Wars?
 
Q99 said:
Space Monarchy with cool ships and semi-isolationism fits in better with SW than some of the made-up cultures that get added, and ditto the force witches. Who not only get canoned, but canoned *hard*, with Maul eventually being retconned into tracing her origins back to them.
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Hapes really shouldn't be as influential as it is in the EU, but its still a cool faction.
 
What are we counting as EU here? Anything beyond the movies or anything that didn't make the transition from the Lucasverse to the Disneyverse?

Because my gut answer is to go with Captain Hando but I don't know if he counts or not since I don't know if we're counting the CN Clone Wars series as 'EU'.

Renewal said:
He was definitely a recurring Councilor throughout the prequels, which is why he ended up being more prominent in the EU.
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He had bit parts in all three of the Prequels, if I'm not mistaken. He was part of the Jedi Council scenes in Episode I ("Your thoughts dwell on your mother"), he was in the battle at the arena in Episode II and may have been present at the beginning of the movie when Padme met with Palpatine, and was one of the Jedi explicitly being shown as gunned down by Order 66. He may have been in other scenes, too. Guy was definitely not limited to just the EU.

BONUS TRIVA: If I'm not mistaken, the guy who played Ki-Adi Mundi played two other characters in the Prequels, too - one being the male pilot from the opening scene who brings Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to Naboo then dies when their ship blows up, and the other being Nute Gunray.

RK_Striker_JK_5 said:
5. I know technically it falls under number one, but Isolder cracks me up. he's space!Fabio! he's got the long, flowing hair, the big chest, the accent! He's Fabio... in space!
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I'd never thought of it that way, but that sound hilarious now.

Also, I'm personally iffy on the way the CN Clone Wars series handled Dathomir. Part of me wonders how it's all supposed to fit together in the end or how what happened with the Clone Wars series affects Courtship of Princess Leia. What I recall reading from the early Essential Guides and that book don't seem like they gell well with what we got in the TV series.
 
Space Jawa said:
What are we counting as EU here? Anything beyond the movies or anything that didn't make the transition from the Lucasverse to the Disneyverse?

Because my gut answer is to go with Captain Hando but I don't know if he counts or not since I don't know if we're counting the CN Clone Wars series as 'EU'.
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Anything that didn't make the transition. Heck, even back in the day the CGI series, since it had Lucas involvement, was generally considered on a higher level close to that of the movies.
 
The Clone Wars TV series was considered just below the movies but above everything else.TCW is still canon. So we still got Vos, Republic Commandoes Alpha Arc Troopers, Arc Troopers, But we have more diversity among the Clones and have several Clones still alive in the Rebels era. Which considering that the youngest Kaminon Grown clones that fought where ten and Rebels takes place 15 years after Order 66. So the youngest Clone Wars Veterans would be around 50 years physically. Which they did show well for the series.
 
Hmm, favorite characters.... I honestly can't pick, I'm fond of entirely to many.
Melancholeric said:
Amen to that!
But I took the info from SWTOR itself, so.
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Here is the the thing: Drew Karpyshyn worked for Bioware as a writer. And yes, that includes SWTOR, or at least parts of it. There are all kinds of influences you can see if you even do a surface level read- especially the 'we will ignore basically everything KotOR II established' bits. And before you point at the Exile, I will simply say this: that is a cardboard cutout with the name of the Exile, and isn't particularly representative of basically fucking anything from the game.

So yes, I am going to remain rather pissed at the game and the book for their early handling of literally everything around Revan- from what I understand the expansion that revolves around him is significantly better. Well, with one exception: the mission series that lead up to his being freed was pretty cool for me, because I was going blind and avoiding spoilers, so the moment of 'wait, that's Revan. Holy shit' was great. It felt like a critical turning point in the game's narrative, and you were part of it. It was great... up until you realized they were going to piss it away to have Revan make genocide bots so the Imperial side had a Raid boss to kill, and there would be no impact on the story.

(Seriously. Genocide robots. Why the fuck did anyone think this was a good idea.)

Basing an entire expansion around Revan was so much a better idea I have no idea why they brought him back like they did to begin with.
Space Jawa said:
What are we counting as EU here? Anything beyond the movies or anything that didn't make the transition from the Lucasverse to the Disneyverse?

Because my gut answer is to go with Captain Hando but I don't know if he counts or not since I don't know if we're counting the CN Clone Wars series as 'EU'.
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Hey, I've talked about Rebels a bit- probably inevitably given how much its working to reinsert EU stuff back into canon. But I haven't talked as much about the CN Clone Wars series because it mainly did characters very well, and plot lines generally pretty well, but was a bit weak on the lore and world building side. It still did a lot, particularly around the clones, to the point the show basically defined them as characters, and the Mandalorians.

Overall, it was under the EU banner at the time, and the transition to Disney was what ultimately killed the show. So its basically canon for both EUs, which would have been hilarious if they had managed to get the episode with the Vong in it they were planing.
 
UbeOne said:
What? The Vong are to appear in the new canon?
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WERE. Before Disney, back in the Clone Wars, which leaned a lot more heavily on the EU. Revan and Bane were due to show up for Mortis, as an example- something I'm glad they ultimately scrapped, because I'm really more of a fan of Revan redeemed then of Darth Revan, and I just think the orablisk armor looks stupid on Bane. Given me his Darth Shredder look from when his ghost approached Yoda any day, or better yet his appearance in Jedi vs Sith.

But back in the EU, it was plausible- you had reports of the Vong showing up as far back as KotOR I, and Outbound Flight mentioned Thrawn had run into some, with... predictable results. As long as the Clone Wars kept them as a bit of a 'WTF even was that' thing (not that uncommon in Star Wars, especially in the Clone Wars series), it could work pretty well even.
 
Got to say one thing that was done right in TCW was clarification of why the Clones executed Order 66. A bio control chip in their brain was a great explanation. It sure beat the Contingency Orders that the EU used as a excuse for Order 66. Although it's funny that one of those Orders called for the removal of the Chancellor by the Clone Army. There was also rumors of a Order for Vader which lead to the death of Commander Vill of the 501st when he refused to answer Vader's question on the subject.
 
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CommanderBlade said:
Got to say one thing that was done right in TCW was clarification of why the Clones executed Order 66. A bio control chip in their brain was a great explanation. It sure beat the Contingency Orders that the EU used as a excuse for Order 66. Although it's funny that one of those Orders called for the removal of the Chancellor by the Clone Army. There was also rumors of a Order for Vader which lead to the death of Commander Bow of the 501st when he refused to answer Vader's question on the subject.
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What if the Chancellor forgets which Order and says "Execute Order 65!"?

:V
 
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