So why can Star Wars have a truly interconnected universe where the side material is respected and even utilized in the...

>The old EU sucked ass
That's completely false.

>, the rest deserved the purge
>Kyle Katarn deserved a purge
Them be fighting words

>the MCU completely ignores all the TV shows?
Because the current tv shows aren't made by Marvel Studios.
But that won't be the case for long.

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It may be a controversial opinion, especially around Star Wars fans, but I don't mind it that much.

It's Yea Forums so most of us are (or should be) comic book readers and/or cartoon watchers. Let's take Batman for example,
>we have Burton's movies (and Schumacher's)
>we have Nolan's movies
>we have Snyder's movies
>we have Adam West stuff
>we have BTAS
>we have The Batman
>we have BTBATB
>we have Beware the Batman (anyone remembers it?)
>we have those new movies kinda based on New 52
>we have the main comic universe (is it New Earth now or Prime Earth? I never remember that)
>we have tons of Elseworlds stories
>we those big Crisis events that retcons or even loads of stuff or even reboot everything (CoIE, Flashpoint, etc.)
>we have many many more things

Think about Star Wars in the same way, only that we have just two (main) continuities. Give it another 20-40 years and we may have three or more. Like what you like, ignore what you dislike.

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I won't pretend it was all gold but even the shit could just as easily be ignored as some off canon derivative and the good more than made up for the bad.

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Its not like the EU is being completely ignored by Disney, they're pulling material for the canon books. Thrawn now has a trilogy of novels and they're hinting towards KOTOR (mandalorian war and clan ordo are canon)

>it's announced that Disney are retconning the Star Wars EU
>celebrate since all that garbage like C-3PX, Prince Xizor and Anakin Solo isn't canon anymore
>they end up replacing it with even worse shit

Amazing.

>t. typical faggot that hasn't actually read any of it but has heard that that's what it was like

>The old EU sucked ass for the most part
Exactly. New SW is mostly good except for the awful Sequel Trilogy so far.

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>It's most good except for the actual fucking thing

Even if Rogue one and Solo weren't ass, this would still be a stupid sentiment.

>t. typical faggot that hasn't actually read any of it but has heard that that's what it was like

>who the fuck is C-3PX?
>look him up, it's an assassin protocol droid
>we ended up with exactly the same shit in the new canon with 0-0-0

>Kylo is the Anakin Solo replacement

So who's the Xizor replacement? Drawing a blank on that one.

I wish star wars didn't have that tbqh. Shit like Han's dices felt very ham-fisted in TLJ

Forget the dice, what about the retarded justification for his fucking name. We really needed that explained?

So in a thread a little while back, someone mentioned this dark side reference book. Why the fuck has it still not been released in English six months after its release in French and Spanish?

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Blame Feige and Perlmutter having a pissing match for that.

Yeah. Shitty internal politics at the Marvel side of Disney.

>So why can Star Wars have a truly interconnected universe where the side material is respected

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All the KOTOR stuff will be easy enough since it's so far in the past that it can't contradict any of the nu-canon.

>Disneyfags actually believe this
kek. It's all just lazy filler and stuff so stupid it would make Legends blush magical time travel

>They literally threw out thirty plus years of side material because they didn't want to use any of it.
evidently not

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Second post best post.

>a truly interconnected universe where the side material is respected and even utilized in the films
RIP Expanded Universe

>2017 Darth Vader comic
>From A Certain Point of View
>Thrawn
>Lando comic
>Tarkin
>Bloodlines
>Dark Disciple
>Lost Stars
>Twilight of the Apprentice
>Twin Suns

All of these are kino canon stories, even Yea Forums loves the comics as proven with the Fortress Vader storytime a few days ago so its not that bad compared to the EU

Because the tv shows aren't by Marvel Studios. It was clear Feige didn't want to have to collaborate with Marvel's other divisions, which is why he sought to separate Marvel Studios in the first place.

They're now making several series directly under Marvel Studios though.

Trying to fit every story you want to write in the some continuous and integrated canon is how you get complete fucking garbage like the actual comics canon. You are wrong for wanting this.

They'd need to throw out most of the post-OT EU anyway since no way the new movie staff would be limited by the novel's timelines, and tons of the EU that took place during the OT was setting up or lead to post-OT stuff. The whole thing was fucked.

It also allowed them to market the new content as actually canon which gave it an initial sales boost, while the EU was always seen by many people as non-canon.

wrong

>Legends blush

but legends literally has that
really, how many of you fags is actually familiar with the Old EU, because everytime someone pop up and say it was better than the current one, i just laugh.

really? what was the "masterpiece" that got removed? Droids using the force?

>legends literally has that
It literally doesn't though. Feel free to source proper time travel in Legends though to prove me wrong.

>how many of you fags is actually familiar with the Old EU
I've read and own every single novel and most comics, so pretty familiar.

That never happened in the old EU. Though it has happened in the new canon.

*cough*R5-D4*cough"
>Has happened in the new canon
Where and who?

Will we ever see them again?

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There is literally a comic called lost in time.

>That never happened in the old EU
wrong Skippy was from the old EU.

You realize that Skippy is from SW Tales.

Legends had some shitty stories, yes. But the good to shit ratio of nu-canon is worse.

Star Wars Tales is EU as it was published during 1999-2003 and anything before 2014 that wasn't the prequels or Clone Wars was purged

They got replaced by another similar species in the new Thrawn novel

It's a what if story within EU continuity, like the one where Indiana Jones finds Han Solo's skeleton. There's better material when talking about EU silliness.

Filoni said in his panel interview that it isn't time travel though.

>not knowing Skippy was a non-canon joke story
See, this is how you can tell if someone knows what they're talking about or are just regurgitating things they've heard about the old EU.

>There is literally a comic called lost in time.
Not familiar with that comic off the top of my head and from looking on the Wook all I can find is "Star Wars Droids 4: Lost in Time"
>literal young children's comic from the 80's based on a children's cartoon series
I really hope you're talking about some other comic because that is a pathetic example.

Then he needs to re-watch Rebels.

>the side material is respected and even utilized in the films
HAHAHA can't believe you think this.

Rogue Squadron was unironically kino and you can fuck right off.

>Rogue Squadron
>Wraith Squadron

>Alphabet Squadron
Who thought using a Sesame Street name was a good idea?

Even the what if stories were considered part of the EU, albeit considered N-canon in the holocron database

N-Canon literally stands for non-canon because they were not canon to the EU.

This looks awful
His face lacks depth and appears flat and he's wearing an ice cube tray on his chest
What a maroon

>lol lol it doesn't count

The new canon has a lot of stories aimed at children too, but i'm sure you won't defend it.

also

>having to google it and yet calls it a pathetic example

Yeah, fuck off.

Meh. Considering my experience with some Japanese series, "Everything is standalone! The new story doesn't change the original!" is generally just an excuse to mess up details for no good reason.

They want brand awareness or people happy for bringing back x character or x actor, but don't want to actually put effort into referencing the original story/series in a consistent way.

They should stay in 40K where they belong.