New Star Wars Expanded Universe
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seelsa73
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As canon, yea, but at least they're still going to be published.
cayman shen
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A couple years ago I just got overwhelmed with the number of SW books coming out, and I was just kind of burnt out on the whole thing, so I haven't read any EU from the last four years or so, having read every bit before then. This will be a fun way for me to jump back in and start fresh and stay on top of it without having to relearn all the characters and plotlines (much of which I hated anyway, so no loss). I'm happy.
Those are the first. We get a couple novels before then.
seelsa73
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I have some frustrations to vent on this topic and instead of creating a new one, I figure I'll put it here.
I've been reading the new junior novelizations of the OT that came out a month ago. I decided to read them because I wanted to get as complete of a picture of the new canon as possible. Yes, I'm a bit out of the target age range for these books (by about 20 years, give or take), but I went into this endeavor with that knowledge well in mind. The first one, for ANH, was pretty good. I liked getting the story from the different perspectives of the legacy characters. In order to get through the second one, for ESB, I had to read it by converting the second-person narrative into third-person in my head as I was reading it. I haven't read the RotJ novelization yet, but I'm starting that tomorrow. Now, the thing that gets my blood boiling is not the kiddy nature of the writing as, like I said, I knew that going in, but the fact that events were rewritten so much in many scenes, especially in the ESB one, that it was almost unrecognizable. There was more rewritten dialogue than original dialogue in pretty much every scene and the events were all garbled up and out of order or completely reworked. Like in the scene where Yoda is introduced. Instead of he and R2 fighting over the lamp, which Yoda never rummaged through Luke's things to find, they fought over the breadstick thing. And then when Yoda led Luke off to his hut, he had to lift and drag R2 with him, instead of leaving him at the camp like in the movie. And that's probably the least tempered-with scene in the book. I thought these things were all supposed to be canon going forward, no? But this book strayed so far away from canon, it got me so pissed reading it. IDK, maybe I'm overreacting; it is just a children's book after all. But when they said everything going forward across all mediums was canon, I would have thought even the movie novelizations, kid or adult, would be canon as well. But, after reading these junior books, It doesn't seem that way.
I've been reading the new junior novelizations of the OT that came out a month ago. I decided to read them because I wanted to get as complete of a picture of the new canon as possible. Yes, I'm a bit out of the target age range for these books (by about 20 years, give or take), but I went into this endeavor with that knowledge well in mind. The first one, for ANH, was pretty good. I liked getting the story from the different perspectives of the legacy characters. In order to get through the second one, for ESB, I had to read it by converting the second-person narrative into third-person in my head as I was reading it. I haven't read the RotJ novelization yet, but I'm starting that tomorrow. Now, the thing that gets my blood boiling is not the kiddy nature of the writing as, like I said, I knew that going in, but the fact that events were rewritten so much in many scenes, especially in the ESB one, that it was almost unrecognizable. There was more rewritten dialogue than original dialogue in pretty much every scene and the events were all garbled up and out of order or completely reworked. Like in the scene where Yoda is introduced. Instead of he and R2 fighting over the lamp, which Yoda never rummaged through Luke's things to find, they fought over the breadstick thing. And then when Yoda led Luke off to his hut, he had to lift and drag R2 with him, instead of leaving him at the camp like in the movie. And that's probably the least tempered-with scene in the book. I thought these things were all supposed to be canon going forward, no? But this book strayed so far away from canon, it got me so pissed reading it. IDK, maybe I'm overreacting; it is just a children's book after all. But when they said everything going forward across all mediums was canon, I would have thought even the movie novelizations, kid or adult, would be canon as well. But, after reading these junior books, It doesn't seem that way.
Yeah, I've seen a few places in the new canon where proofreading was notably absent. I will say, though, that Yoda did find the light when rummaging through Luke's supply box. Might want to watch that scene again. I haven't read those books yet, but they're on my list. So I'll be able to speak more intelligently on the other thins you pointed out after. Also, why did you dig so far back for this thread when there's a much more recently started discussion thread on the new books and comics right on the first page here?
--Jonah
--Jonah
seelsa73
Sr Member
I know, I was saying the author completely rewrote that scene to be as I described it.
Because I remembered I had created this topic before and also, honestly, I just didn't think it through that much.
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astroboy
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I figger that if Maul can survive, so can fett
So how long until they do a Crisis on Infinite Tatooines?
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