The Star Wars EU is terrible for this but there is an even worse, similar thing that it does
For a while anyone writing an EU book wanted some kind of movie tie-in. Well they weren't always telling a story about Luke Fucking Skywalker all the time, but they still really wanted that movie legitimacy.
So the authors would go down a massive list of minor characters and eventually give names to the fucking extras. I read in some fucking wiki that the bartender in Mos Eisley is a galaxy-renowned chemist who can also quote "mix any drink".
It turns out that every solitary shot in the original trilogy was a serendipitous meeting of literally the most fascinating street beggar laying on the ground catching dust from a broom held by the Emperor's own black ops posing as a janitor.
The two things Disney did right were Andor and the merciful euthanasia upon all that EU material.
The Star Wars EU is terrible for this but there is an even worse, similar thing that it does
For a while anyone writing an EU book wanted some kind of movie tie-in. Well they weren't always telling a story about Luke Fucking Skywalker all the time, but they still really wanted that movie legitimacy.
So the authors would go down a massive list of minor characters and eventually give names to the fucking extras. I read in some fucking wiki that the bartender in Mos Eisley is a galaxy-renowned chemist who can also quote "mix any drink".
It turns out that every solitary shot in the original trilogy was a serendipitous meeting of literally the most fascinating street beggar laying on the ground catching dust from a broom held by the Emperor's own black ops posing as a janitor.
The two things Disney did right were Andor and the merciful euthanasia upon all that EU material.
Once I would have argued with you regarding the EU's right to exist.
Before the dark times.
Before the Yuuzhan Vong. :agony-shrooms:
fuck that, the replacement is worse.
the replacement is awful but god, a lot of the EU material is... oh man. Rise of Skywalker feels like it was ripped from the EU