Jaden Quade Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 i agree! it'll just piss me off if SW turned out like Star trek... It goes against everything i live for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 Originally posted by Boba Rhett ... and the NJO is the worst thing to happen to the star wars universe ever. I'm going to kill you. *gets lightsaber* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 Originally posted by Boba Rhett NJO is the worst thing to happen to the star wars universe ever. nah..the worst thing to happen to the star wars universe was the death star being designed by an alien species. either that or jar jar binks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 Originally posted by Rogue15 nah..the worst thing to happen to the star wars universe was the death star being designed by an alien species. either that or jar jar binks. The Genosaians are actually an extremely smart species, and I'm sure it wasn't made just by Genosians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 hehe the worst thing was the sarlaac's beak, making people pissed off cause of boba fett and eu.....damn you lucas!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaden Quade Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 hehe the worst thing was the sarlaac's beak, making people pissed off cause of boba fett and eu.....damn you lucas!!! so true..... much of the EU was destroyed when the enhanced ROTJ came out!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro The Hutt Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 How about the combined strenght of the Death Star not being thought up by Tarkin, the sarlaac beak and the NJO being the worst things to happen to the Star Wars universe lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi_Monk Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 I'm going to kill you. *gets lightsaber* You'll have to go through me, first! The worst thing to happen to Star Wars was Timothy Zahn, period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 Originally posted by Jedi_Monk You'll have to go through me, first! The worst thing to happen to Star Wars was Timothy Zahn, period. o_O What are you talkign about? I just read Dark Force Rising, I love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XERXES Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 perhaps he doesnt wany anybody to outdo him again, like they did in ESB and ROTJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 Originally posted by Jedi_Monk The worst thing to happen to Star Wars was Timothy Zahn, period. You either don't like to read, or just sucking up. Zahn's books are some of the best in the EU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katarn07 Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 Originally posted by Jedi_Monk You'll have to go through me, first! The worst thing to happen to Star Wars was Timothy Zahn, period. Actually, Alan Dean Foster's Splinter of the Mind's Eye was the first EU and very inaccurate to both the films and EU. Enjoyable if you make things up to tie it all in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi_Monk Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 Zahn's Trilogy is technically incredible. It has a great story, memorable and likable characters and a good villian. Dark Force Rising was the worst book of the trilogy because it dragged; felt like filler, to me. Zahn's Trilogy is comparable to Batman Forever. After I saw it, I thought it was a great, fun movie, and considered it the best of the Batman franchise. And then Batman and Robin came out, and I saw how terrible it was, and I noticed the seeds of every awful thing that happened appearant in Batman Forever. Batman Forever started a trend in the franchise that resulted in the monstrosity that was Batman and Robin. I compare Zahn's Trilogy to Batman Forever because it did the same thing to the Star Wars book franchise that Batman Forever did to the Batman movie franchise. After you read Zahn's Trilogy, you think that this is an awesome story arch. And then you go on to read Anderson's Jedi Academy Trilogy, and then Hambly's books, and on and on as the franchise just sinks lower and lower in quality and imagination. Zahn changed the essence of Star Wars in his books, and subsiquent authors followed this trend. Zahn wrote Star Wars as straight science fiction, not as science fantacy, not as an apendage of the monomyth. The Star Wars movies are classics not because they're just sci-fi, but because they reflect universal themes. Sci-fi is always novelty, but the monomyth contains objective truths about human nature and the journy through life. And that is why I say Zahn was the worst thing that happened to Star Wars. He was the first person in almost a decade who was allowed to write Star Wars; the first allowed to write about what happened after Return of the Jedi. And he started the trend toward sci-fi. Actually, Alan Dean Foster's Splinter of the Mind's Eye was the first EU and very inaccurate to both the films and EU. Enjoyable if you make things up to tie it all in. Foster's Splinter of the Mind's Eye is my favorite EU novel. I don't care that it doesn't square with the movies, or the rest of the EU. What matters to me is that it captures the kind of pulp-fiction, science-fantasy sensibility that has the movies, and so more fully captures the essence, the feeling, of Star Wars than any of the other EU novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 Originally posted by Jedi_Monk Zahn's Trilogy is technically incredible. It has a great story, memorable and likable characters and a good villian. Dark Force Rising was the worst book of the trilogy because it dragged; felt like filler, to me. I'll agree, lots of little bits of useless info, but so much is based off of the Thrawn Trilogy, and it is a good story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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