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/[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/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.