Everything Star Wars!!! Even the new Disney Bantha food. That's not Star Wars, but oh well*

With the exception of the Darkhorse comics and the novels written by Zahn and Stackpole, the rest of the EU sucked ass.

Old Expanded Universe was full of nonsense. New "canon" isn't any better. Episode VII wasn't really that great, looking back at it. The original 3 films are good enough for me.

Stackpole? Really? His novels were pretty bad.

That Super Star Destroyer taking off from the Imperial Center remains to my eye one of the most profound moments in the entire EU.

I was disappointed in that scene. I thought it was going to be Luke who caught the lightsaber when it started flying away.

The EU is also home to my favorite Master and Student relationship in Star Wars.

Its fascinating to see a 10 year transform from a little girl who felt the call of the Dark Side to a hardened and ruthless Sith Lord.



How they basically lived together for decades, planting the seeds of the Order of Sith Lord's eventual victory, grew stronger in the shadows as they slowly caused the Republic to begin its eventual ruination millennia later.

All ultimately culminating in...

If nothing else, the new movie makes for some really funny memes / gifs....


also, seriously, where is QMR? this is her dream thread.

^Right the storm troopers backing away slowly was the only redeeming feature of that temper tantrum scene. On the other hand, it makes you wonder if you are actually watching Robot Chicken.

Oh and I thought the storm tooper nightstick guy was absurd. Would have been better if Fin (aka FNG) just took out a blaster and shot him Indiana Jones style. But I guess Fin is no Indiana Jones.

Also the EU made the conflict between the Rebel Alliance/New Republic and Galactic Empire far more believable.

That conflict raged for nearly twenty years, eleven of that was post Endor. A Galactic Superpower made up of a million or more worlds, hundreds of fleets, billions of soldiers did not crap out merely after losing its leader. New leaders rose, the war raged onward, billions died in the bloodiest modern conflict in the universe.



By the new movie's timeline, if we went by the EU? Peace would have come by then, but the Galactic Empire would still openly exist. The Galaxy more or less divided between them and the New Republic.

The New Republic also wasn't apparently one-shotted by Death Star 3.0 (now with even more deth!!!!1 spelling deliberate) while seemingly doing nothing to fight the neo-Nazi First Order, requiring an inexplicably separate "Resistence" to be new Rebels, complete with hilarious underfunding and technology and tactics from 30 years ago.

Nice, but I don't think Bane fits the Chaotic Evil. Yes he overthrew the Sith Order of his time, but was as devout to his own rules (i.e. the Rule of Two) anyone can be.