I finally saw it yesterday, and I enjoyed it.
I can fully understand Disney chopping the EU. For every bit of Cool stuff in the EU, there was also a piece of Stupid stuff, and they were all interlinked like 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon Anakin Skywalker. To reuse an example I posted on another forum:
SW-supernerd: You used element A from book V, which means element B from
Book W, and plotline C from book X must be true, and Element B ties in
Character D (who's so awesome, you have to use them!) from book Y, who
went to Planet E in book Z and got bullshit techno-McGuffin F. (and so on)
This they can still farm the EU for ideas while not having to use all the associated junk. And it's a lot easier to fit new stuff in when you don't have to work around decades of accumulated stuff (good , bad, and meh)
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin
I can fully understand Disney chopping the EU. For every bit of Cool stuff in the EU, there was also a piece of Stupid stuff, and they were all interlinked like 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon Anakin Skywalker. To reuse an example I posted on another forum:
SW-supernerd: You used element A from book V, which means element B from
Book W, and plotline C from book X must be true, and Element B ties in
Character D (who's so awesome, you have to use them!) from book Y, who
went to Planet E in book Z and got bullshit techno-McGuffin F. (and so on)
This they can still farm the EU for ideas while not having to use all the associated junk. And it's a lot easier to fit new stuff in when you don't have to work around decades of accumulated stuff (good , bad, and meh)
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Spoiler"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin