Star Wars Expanded Universe Fans/Cultists - I HOPE YOU LIKE STAR WARS AUTISM

[Saney]

I'd have to say she didn't give a flying fuck about the limitations seeing as how she killed off Mara Jade without permission.

And the way she did it was obnoxious. She falters when Jacen creates an illusion of her son, even though she used to be a highly trained assassin. It's even worse when Jacen tried the same trick to some random Mando who's chasing him a few books later and who doesn't fall for it at all and then hamstrings him. I'm not even a Zahn fan and I found that ridiculous.

 

[Judge Holden]

I always thought they were more like aircraft carriers, but maybe I'm wrong. I've seen the movies and read Shadows of the Empire, but that's as far as my knowledge goes.

Oh actually, I read another Star Wars book, and it was absolutely horrible:

Anyone else read this piece of garbage?

I BRING YOU DARK GREETINGS AUTISM420!!!!!

dear god this book sure is a hillock of spastic

also just for funzies I will start a brief array of "things that are more canon than the entire EU"

Itchy masturbating to Diane Carol.....

Is more canon than the ENTIRE MANDALORIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE AND ALL OF BOBA FETT'S BACKSTORY! (save snippets in CloneWars which retconned much of it anyway)

 

[Meowthkip]

Oh, shit. I just found the version of Lando dcisp is talking about....
...and it is fucking lame.

Spoiler: Don't click If you don't want to be cry-sad in the pants

I dunno, it's so ridiculous I kind of like it.

 

[Mrs Paul]

Traviss (along with Kevin J. Anderson and Barbara Hambly) is basically the lolcow of the EU.

 

[Saney]

Traviss (along with Kevin J. Anderson and Barbara Hambly) is basically the lolcow of the EU.

I'm not too familiar with Anderson or Hambly, what have they done? And do they have any supporters?

 

[exball]

Oh, shit. I just found the version of Lando dcisp is talking about....
...and it is fucking lame.

Spoiler: Don't click If you don't want to be cry-sad in the pants

I think you mean fucking awesome. It's so dumb it manages to curve back into awesome territory. He looks like an 80's pop star.

 

[HarryHowler]

I'm not too familiar with Anderson or Hambly, what have they done? And do they have any supporters?

Anderson wrote a lot of really dumb stuff in the early years of the novel range - in fact, I think he was actually its most prolific writer up until the late 90s - including a story where that droid assassin from Shadows of the Empire nearly conquered the galaxy by uploading itself into the Death Star II's computer core, along with "Darksaber," which more than a few regard as the absolute worst Star Wars novel ever written.

In fact, I'd say that Anderson probably still just beats out Traviss as the most hated Star Wars author, even though he hasn't written anything Star Wars-related since about 1998 and IIRC never attacked fans in the same way that she did. Then again, in my experience Star Wars shares a lot of fans with the Dune series, where he's allegedly committed far worse atrocities than anything he did to Star Wars.

 

[Saney]

Anderson wrote a lot of really dumb stuff in the early years of the novel range - in fact, I think he was actually its most prolific writer up until the late 90s - including a story where that droid assassin from Shadows of the Empire nearly conquered the galaxy by uploading itself into the Death Star II's computer core, along with "Darksaber," which more than a few regard as the absolute worst Star Wars novel ever written.

I think I've heard of Darksaber. Is that the one where the Hutts try to build their own Death Star?

 

[Nom Anor]

I think I've heard of Darksaber. Is that the one where the Hutts try to build their own Death Star?

Yes. It also features our favorite commander Admiral Daala teaming up with Pellaeon to blinding attacking the New Republic without any sort of real plan again. It also featured Callista from Hambly's Children of the Jedi book, who's still in an awkward love relationship with Luke that had no chemistry whatsoever.

 

[Slowboat to China]

Aw, shit, Anderson went to hell? I liked the Jedi Academy Trilogy, at least, and when I was a highly insecure preteen I thought Admiral Daala was the shit. Probably a good thing I never read beyond that trilogy, then.

 

[XYZpdq]

I always got the impression that Anderson writes whatever you want him to. Hand him a decent idea and you get the Jedi Academy stuff, hand him a pile and you get a pile.

 

[kobebyarlant]

Kyle Katarn confirmed as 100% platinum Lucas clad canon. Mandafags btfo.

Spoiler: Boba Fett is overrated.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

I think Luke may be autistic, at least he's got the deer-in-the-headlights stare down cold.

 

[Hodor]

Honestly, the only real losses of the EU being removed from canon are the 2003 Clone Wars, KotOR I and II, and the Thrawn trilogy.

And honestly, I wouldn't be terribly shocked if Thrawn wiggles his way into the new stuff.

 

[Mrs Paul]

Aayla Secura was originally EU, as was the name Coruscant.

 

[tlegg]

However, like all comics books, it does have some...questionable dialogue.

Spoiler

Eh it's comics you have to expect dialogue like the

Personally I'm still laughing at the reaction towards wonder woman using the word mansplaining

 

[Fareal]

I'll lolcow myself here and freely admit to have read pretty much all this shit, and to be genuinely disappointed that Jaina Solo no longer exists in canon.

The Callista thing was bizarre. If you're going to create a love interest for Luke... keep her as his love interest rather than throwing her over for Mara Jade. (Oh. There's no more Mara either. Sadness.) The description of Callista's lightsaber always sounded cool though.

The best thing about The Courtship of Princess Leia was the cover art. Actually the best thing about a number of these novels was the cover art.

 

[SU 390]

I always thought they were more like aircraft carriers, but maybe I'm wrong. I've seen the movies and read Shadows of the Empire, but that's as far as my knowledge goes.

Oh actually, I read another Star Wars book, and it was absolutely horrible:

Anyone else read this piece of garbage?

I've heard of it but never read it. Based on the title, I can tell its a stupid fucking book.

 

[SU 390]

I was always amused at the whole clone trooper thing.

"So, uh, Master Yoda, I kinda found an army. Of clones. Of the guy who tried to murder the Senator. They're all children in terms of age, but they're totally cool with murder and such, so that's swell. And apparently we're the ones who commissioned their creation. Well, not us, but this one Jedi who never told anyone anything about this, and then died under mysterious circumstances. But, uh, yeah, they're apparently totally ours and totally trustworthy, even though the guy who they're all cloned from literally just tried to murder me like half an hour ago."

"Legit, this sounds."

The Jedi were sorta asking for it.

Pretty much. If an army is cloned after a bounty hunter who's working for the bad guy, no good can come from it. So yeah, the Jedi dug their own grave in episodes 2 & 3.

 

[exball]

Can we just agree that those Ewok movies and cartoons are 100% canon?