[Thankfully, a nail in the coffin of the EU]

I'd post that whole levels of canon thing, but I'm pretty sure most on here have seen it enough. EU is canon, as has been argued too often. Lucas didn't give a damn about anything outside the movies, so he he put someone else in charge of the continuity. And anyway, guess who isn't running LucasFilm anymore?

 

Also, it's canon, not cannon.

 

Exactly everything in the EU that hasn't been contradicted by the Movies or TCW is considered canon. There is over 20 years worth of post ROTJ EU material which equals alot of merchandising dollars. If Disney is smart, they will design these movies around the Post ROTJ EU material and make them coexist in one cohesive continuity. That way not only are the core fans who like the EU still happy but they also get to continue to reap the benefits of the money that the material brings in along with the opportunity to market that material to more people as a prelude to the new trilogy which can be connected to the Post ROTJ EU.

[Thankfully, a nail in the coffin of the EU]

Most likely EU will become the STANDARD and the films will be put in the back when it comes to Canon , like how it is for DC and Marvel .

To be honest , it might not happen today or anyday soon but it won't be long before Marvel takes over the Comic side of EU .

I really Doubt Disney is going to outsource EU Comics to another Company when they own one of the Two Comic Power Houses ...........Marvel ! This does not mean Marvel will do it better or worse , that will be yet to be seen . I think Darkhorse did a good Job in my opinion !

 

So its not a coffin , but it might be a rewrite of the EU Lore and Story.

As I said before , Luke being married to Mara Jade is likely now the TOP Canon now ! To be honest this is the reason I am happy Lucas is out the way , now the series can grow and G-Canon will no longer stop it !

 

I think that would be the best approach and the approach I hope they go with. Then they can sucessfully merge everything together into one firm canonical continuity where everything coexists.

[Favourite Star Wars space battle, squadron and pilot.]

Favourite Battle is a 2 Way Tie between Battle of Thyferra and the NJO Battle for Borleias. Thyferra was awesome for the whole Rogue Squadron with slave targeted freighters versus the second Executor class Super Star Destroyer Lusankya and I love the NJO Battle for Borleias because of the Lusankya ramming itself full spped into the Vong Worldship.

 

Favourite Squadron would be Wedge's resetablishment of Rogue Squadron 2.5 years after Endor which features my favourite Pilot Corran Horn.

[Thankfully, a nail in the coffin of the EU]

I hope its not the final nail in the post ROTJ EU continuity and we won't really know until more details are revealed. I know people are jumping to conclusions after the original story news but that doesn't really tell us much about the EU's fate other then it won't be a movie version of Thrawn or Dark Empire but I don't think any sensible person, even fans of those trilogies thought that was going to happen. It however doesn't mean the EU in its current form is going anywhere. It would be quite easy to create a new trilogy in the Post FOTJ time period that would allow for new stories with the Big Three and the passing of the torch to Jaina and Ben, while allowing the new movies and the Post ROTJ EU continuity to coexist in one overarching universe.

[STAR WARS and bad writers...]

It's hard for some authors to work with characters they didn't create or help develop. Look at the Travissty that took place with Mara Jade. (yes, the misspelled pun was intended)

 

But seriously, Allston still rips Traviss a new one in the writing department. lol

 

Those book series' themselves were just wrong, imo. After reading up on them, and actually reading a couple novels in the series, they really don't have the "Star Wars Feel" that the previous novels had. It shouldn't be about "What well liked and established character should we kill off now?"

 

Well Karen Traviss is easily the worst writer to ever pen a Star Wars novel. Her hatred for jedi and unabased worship of the Mando's made me want to pull my hair out. Also the way she handled Mara and her death was unforgivable. Add in her arrogant and *****ly approach to the fan's rightful criticism and you have one writer who should never write for Star Wars again. Luckily the combination of her attitude towards fan criticism and the headaches her writing caused for Denning and Allston contributed to LFL and Del Ray to end their relationship with her.

[STAR WARS and bad writers...]

The ironic thing is, George Lucas is one of the worst writers of them all. There is a pretty long list of authors who write better Star Wars stories than he does.

 

Tim Zahn

Michael A. Stackpole

Aaron Allston

K.W. Jeter

Barbara Hambly

Kevin J. Anderson

Brian Daley

A.C. Crispin

R.A. Salvatore

Chris Avellone

Drew Karpyshyn, even.

 

Those are just the ones I can think of, at the moment. lol

 

Allston is good when he's writing X-Wing and focusing on writing Wedge, Janson, Hobbie and his own characters. I haven't enjoyed his work in FOTJ or LOTF though alot of that might because I don't like the direction those series have took. Also he sometimes struggles with characterizations of other writers creations, namely Corran Horn as an example. Though to be fair Corran is always at his best when Stackpole's writing him though Zahn has a great grasp of him as well.

[STAR WARS and bad writers...]

Don't give sole credit for Indiana Jones to George. Stephen Spielberg co-created the character, and co-wrote the movies, as well as directing them.

 

Frank Marshall also played a huge role in the devlopment of the Indian Jones character and Raiders in general. Plus Kasdan was brought aboard to write the script after he had impressed Lucas with his work picking up where Leigh Brackett left off in Empire.

[NEED HELP am i wasting my time buying this set up for a new lap top]

Well that laptop is almost the same specs as mine and I can run SWTOR at high with an average fps at 45. Though I have a GT 630M 2 GB GPU and a 1TB HDD.