I think I am finally starting to get over it....

I'm not going to get over it, but a whole new generation is going to be exposed to it and be as passionate about the new lore as I am about the old.

I guess I just hate the idea of Disney taking something that felt like it was *ours* and then re-writing it, changing the collective experiences that we've all had as we've suffered through the trash of luke falling to the darkside and palpatine getting resurrected twice, and I don't know about you, but I almost quit reading the Yuuzhan Vong books when Chewie died.. But there were also incredible moments and I guess what I'm trying to say is that in the books, video games, encyclopedias, and comics that the lore was so rich and so deep and so flushed out, that its sorta painful for me to look on Wookieepedia these days and see "Canon" pages that are only paragraphs long and then you go to the "legends" and see a plethora of knowledge, and I think this shows you how much was lost in the switch...

And who knows, maybe after years the Disney star wars will be as flushed out and developed as the EU and I'd be happy for it. But I remain skeptical

One word: copyright. Sure, Disney owns the rights to Star Wars, its worlds, and lore; but authors and publishers own the books and original characters.

As a fan, I'm a little sad to see the EU classified as "legends" and myths, things that may or may not have actually happened. Sure, it does sting a little. It's a little frustrating to watch new movies come out and feel like remakes of the old ones.

At the same time, I understand it. The EU, as mentioned, had a lot of truly awful moments. For every Republic/Imperial Commando and Thrawn series, there was The Crystal Star and Palpatine clones. For every good X-wing book, there was a bad Yuuzhan Vong or The New Jedi Order book (can't remember if those were technically the same). And all that lore came with baggage: authors, copyrights, publishers, agents, paperwork, money. It's more cost effective to cut off official fanfiction or designate them as "legends" than to try and buy the movie rights for a book. Disney felt they could do better; they did with Rogue One, I felt. And maybe the new trilogy needs room to grow and a director that understands the feel of the OT. I don't think Abrams really understood.

To be fair, (as far as I know) they've only explicitly stated that the books are legends/non-canon. I know comics are still canon and some video games are still canon.

The EU's not gone; merely changing. And as long as it's there, it's something I can live with.

I personally loved the EU. But as soon as Disney put out Star Wars Rebels, I was there on the edge of my seat watching the 5 minute shorts they aired prior to the first episode broadcast that introduced the main characters... and even tho I'm not a kid any more, that show embodies what Star Wars was for me as a kid, so I don't feel like Disney has completely dropped the ball.

They continue to give us bits and pieces of the EU. Such as reintroducing Thrawn, in Rebels as well as His own Novel... again. And there are bits and pieces of the EU that will never go away. Such as Darth Bane and the Rule of Two which won out over the Rule of Power.

I appreciated what Abrams did with 7. Don't look at it as a way of saying "I just rewrote the script from A New Hope" look at is as Disney saying "I Respect where this story spawned From, and everything that entails. I won't let you down." They're not going to change everything, all doing away with the EU does is give them room to tell the same story in another way.

Would Lucas have brought back Darth Maul and given him spider legs? I have no clue... but I'm glad it happened. We have so much more of that character to go in besides his handful of lines and his brilliant acrobatics. The Mando's got their hat tip having Clan Wren's story line, and even the Death Guard that Sabine was a part of came back.

The EU took decades to bring together... and there is a lot of Golden Story telling involved in it, but there was also a lot of crap and a few inconsistencies as well. I'm sorry but the Book the Courtship of Princess Leia was absolute Garbage and I do not recognize that character written in there as Han Solo, so honestly I'm hoping Disney fixes it. Cause we all know Disney can write a love story... and hell even if they can't... it will still be a better love story than Twilight.

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Wasn't there also a book released recently that canonized the history of Thrawn? Or was it an extension of the EU? It felt like it backed up his part in Rebels and feels similar to the Tarkin novel.

I was most upset about how Disney handled the take-over. So much beautiful writing and world-building came out of the EU. Whether it was in novels, games, comics, there was just so much to enjoy and work with as a fan fiction writer. Obviously I still can and do work with the EU, but the fact that Disney discredited all that work... all that wonderful work that was literally more lore-building than the movies themselves... it was a real sith move by disney.