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That's pretty much what I'd have in mind for a hypothetical SW Animated Universe, but that approach has the advantage that the film saga is done now (and in practice, has been since 2005). Back in 1989 (when the co-ordinated EU was thought up), they were living with the fact that three more...

These are two different points. On the first-- that's a matter of preference, and my own feeling is that the way they did it was better than that "Star Trek approach", which is pretty much what you describe. On the second point: nobody could anticipate the whole setting being purchased by...

The pre-1999 EU actually had it baked in that they wouldn't elaborate on the prequel era, and that worked fine. Except Lucas, you know... changed his mind on some key things. He literally told Zahn that the Clone Wars happened 35 years before ANH (and presumably agreed, at least implicitly --...

Ten years, my friends. Ten years today, since Disney cast aside the Expanded Universe. Ten years since they re-branded it as "Legends", and then basically stopped adding anything to it. Ten years, and still they have never managed to move beyond it. They threw it away, but they didn't have...

Vader Piet is simply Dutch for "Father Pete". In other news: if you're familiar with the planet Dromund Kaas, it might be amusing to learn that Kaas is Dutch for "Cheese". :p There's actually a lot of weird Dutch-isms in SW, and I think some of them are intentional. (For instance, there's the...

The idea is pretty good. The issue with the Ewoks, I feel, is that they're rather "kiddie"-- and as a grown-up, you can't escape the realisation that they're meant to sell toys (and animated series & tv films, aimed at children). There's also the fact that Wookiees (indeed, the original idea)...

[twenty minutes later] "But President Palputin, how does this even relate to--" "Well, isn't it clear? This is just another case of the Republic's educational institutions being co-opted by liberal ideologues who deny the truth of history. Fortunately, we have COMPNOR to correct that. You see...

That's very true, but doesn't that align perfectly with @Allanon's projection of "petty kingdoms" arising? You call them "barracks emperors", but that's essentially the same thing. Despite its various faults and weaknesses, the original EU generally presents a plausible sequence of events...

Pleasant narrating voice, and describes Disney as "a certain vermin company" and "the foul rodent" within barely ten minutes. I'm sold on the merits of this project already.

They basically had two strategies that would've made sense: 1) Adapt the existing EU, in the form of a "re-imagining for the screen", where you can remove the really dumb bits and add some new bits. Make it all into a coherent whole that can be released (by and large) chronologically, at least...

Salon is ludicrously unreliable. Glorified buzzfeed. So I looked up the source, and it's a Jodie Foster interview where she only says that they considered a younger Leia early on, and that she auditioned, but had to drop out (of the auditioning process) because of another role that was a sure...

Okay, that's hilarious! Of course, it also kind of shows why Han would not, in fact, be all that suited to the role. You have to actually want to bring some kind of order to the galaxy, for this kind of thing to work out. This is truly playing the game on the highest level, and you have to be...

Interestingly, the "Augustus" being decribed here reminds me more of Liu Bang (a.k.a. Gaozu, the founder of the Han dynasty). Go figure: you first have a very capable, but certainly controversial and genocidal, conqueror who unites civilisation under his authoritarian rule. Although initially...

Blind obedience is pretty weird, especially since Palpy has just turned into scrotumface and looks nothing like himself. And the Jedi have been fighting alongside them the entire time. As their officers! I mean... practically all governments have legal structures for emergency decrees et...

Spoiler alert: the other 108 minutes consist entirely of lens-flared slow-motion shots with a heavy colour filter overlaid.

The difference is that Bay has an audience (evidently), and he gives them what they want. Somewhat similarly, you have Zack Snyder, who also always makes "Zack Snyder films", aimed specifically at Zack Snyder fans. Conversely, the people making the sequel trilogy, by and large, hate and despise...

Michael Bay is a competent director. He knows exactly what he's doing. He makes zero-content explosion flicks with high budgets because he's figured out that it makes shitloads of money. He's the McDonald's of film directors. Nobody will mistake his work for a refined masterpiece, but the...

But that's not even where Johnson ripped it off from... shot for shot...

Darth Caedus could have been a fairly sensible character (if written by more competent authors). It just made absolutely no sense for Jacen to turn into that character. If you re-wrote it all, having (a non-Jacen) Darth Caedus as an agent of the One Sith during the Legacy comics run, there to...

NJO wasn't bad, even before Disney. You don't need to compare it to Disney shit to make it look good. NJO was always good. Flawed, in some cases seriously flawed, but also good and great in various other ways. Traitor is the best EU novel bar none, and The Unifying Force comes pretty close to...