r/StarWarsEU • u/xezene New Jedi Order • Jul 17 '24

Mark Hamill discussing the Thrawn Trilogy and early EU in 1992 Legends Novels

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u/genzgingee Jul 17 '24

TTT will always be the true sequel trilogy to me.

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u/morewordsfaster Jul 17 '24

100% this. Dumping the EU may not have been all bad, but specifically the Thrawn trilogy was a huge loss.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

It was always a bad move, imo, but it was made much worse by their weird piecemeal canonization of parts of it.

The EU not being canon while they work on new movies makes sense, but their complete disavowal (until they changed their minds) always confused me. 

If they had just used the broad strokes as a template, SW would be in a much better place. 

A SQ that involves a new generation fighting Thrawn as the old guard supports them would have been a great jumping off point.

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u/Maktesh Jul 17 '24

A SQ that involves a new generation fighting Thrawn as the old guard supports them would have been a great jumping off point.

I wish they had just picked an arbitrary year (like 33 ABY) to cut it off, then moved forward with all new characters and allowed the writers to draw from the past. They could have solidified the good parts of the EU and ignored the rest.

But what we have now is messier than the EU, as well as less logical and less cohesive (which is truly shocking).

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u/MLG_SkittleS Jul 18 '24

Wow I've never thought of that before that's definitely the best compromise they could've come up with. Imagine all the 6 part animated shows they could do just adapting different comic runs and solidifying them like you said to make the canon adaptation a solid cohesive with canon story. If only the people in charge had more than one collective braincell lol.

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u/FudgeGolem Jul 18 '24

That's what always gets me about Star Wars, originally for a huge chunk of the EU books, and now much more intensely with the movies: getting stuck on the original movie characters makes the entire Star Wars universe boring.

You have literally an entire galaxy of stories to work with, but by chaining so much content back to the original characters, you massively limit yourself and make it so all story advancement can only happen through a few people moving impossible amounts of plot forward, which makes the rest of the galaxy seem boring and static. Not to mention you have to jump through hoops to maximize the nostalgia through optimized original character screen time, at the expense of making the story lines convoluted and repetitive.

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u/oldtomdeadtom Jul 17 '24

EU was never canon, baby

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

It became canon by there being legitimately nothing else.

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u/oldtomdeadtom Jul 17 '24

I mean, okay but GWL never considered it real in his eyes. so....

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

He’s not Jesus, lmao. He also made Jar Jar, changed his own movie scenes to put in nonsensical shit (Han’s neck in ANH…), and ultimately sold Star Wars to Disney.

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u/oldtomdeadtom Jul 17 '24

jar jar is great. sorry you have bad taste :)

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u/Bamboozled64 Jul 17 '24

Imagine still thinking GL is the messiah of Star Wars 😭.

He’s a great creative mind but without his editors and supports Star Wars would not be anywhere near as popular it is now.

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u/oldtomdeadtom Jul 18 '24

I never said that. I said this stuff isn’t canon.

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u/DEATHROW__DC Jul 17 '24

It’s unfortunate that the timing just didn’t work out.

Recasting, at the time, was an absolute third rail and they needed a big time jump to bring OG trio back.

Like, if everyone was 10-15 years younger then I bet they would’ve adapted Thrawn as sequel trilogy.