This is true, rebels does a good job in looking at how the empire affects the civilians and how they go from totally unrelated cells to an organized rebellion that was never a match for the empire in a toe to toe fight. And they continually outsmart the empire in order to win, and the empire is continually shown to be operated by incompetent ifficers and governors that hinder the progress of their leaders such as Vader and Thrawn.Rebels.
Plus Rebels has one of if not THE best confrontations in the series, Maul Vs Obi-Wan.
You'd be amazed at how people stan Legends canon like there's no tomorrow.
I... Honestly really don't agree. I thought that confrontation was incredibly disappointing as an end to that story arc and out-of-place in a series that was long past said story arc.Rebels.
Plus Rebels has one of if not THE best confrontations in the entire Star Wars series,Maul Vs Obi-Wan.
I... Honestly really don't agree. I thought that confrontation was incredibly disappointing as an end to that story arc.
Slightly off topic but has their been any media that focuses on how the Empire became the First Order? From going to Return of the Jedi where the Empire seems essentially destroyed to Force Awakens where First Order is a huge force led by Snoke always confused me.
Not much, the whole thirty year gap is largely off limits until the ST is over. There are a few things that give us a little info - Shattered Empire, Battlefront II, and the Aftermath trilogy all focus on the last year of the Galactic Civil War with Aftermath: Empire's End showing the moment that Grand Admiral Sloane and Hux's dad went off to the Unknown Regions. The Phasma novel and the TLJ book have a few hints otherwise.
That's super bizarre. The whole prequel trilogy helps to explain how the Empire is formed and the Sequel trilogy just expects us to be cool with Snoke and First Order suddenly ruling the galaxy again. Wonder if Rise of Skywalker will mention Snoke at all.
There is a lot of handwaving in it all. At its peak the Empire is said to have had more than 25,000 Star Destroyers. The Fleet at Endor was such a tiny fraction of the Empire yet suddenly with Palpatines death the Rebellion becomes so powerful it can wipe out the Empire. Even if there was infighting etc. The Empire would hardly have been wiped out in little less than a year. That is one thing the old EU got right. The New Republic and The Empire fought for decades with the empire gradually getting forced into a backwater part of the Galaxy before finally agreeing to peace.Slightly off topic but has their been any media that focuses on how the Empire became the First Order? From going to Return of the Jedi where the Empire seems essentially destroyed to Force Awakens where First Order is a huge force led by Snoke always confused me.
Stupidly I might add.You'd be amazed at how people stan Legends canon like there's no tomorrow.
Stupidly I might add.
TFU 2 alone proves everything wrong about the Legends cannon. Before we even talk about the Vong.
The trash both far outweighed the good and completely screwed with continuity and common sense. Not to mention EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE was related.I agree with you on those two but you can't deny the old EU had amazing things like the Thrawn Trilogy and the Old Republic games.
There was a lot of good in the old EU.I agree with you on those two but you can't deny the old EU had amazing things like the Thrawn Trilogy and the Old Republic games.
The trash both far outweighed the good and completely screwed with continuity and common sense. Not to mention EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE was related.
Off topic, but I really want to see a ven diagram of the people who unironically think Starkiller is a great character and the people who complain that Rey is a "Mary Sue."
I agree with you, the new EU is more organized and doesn't bump into each other's continuity and it isn't filled with so much cringe content (Luuke, Trioculus, Force wormholes, Yuuzhan Vong, etc). But it had a very small (10%) percentage of good content like Thrawn and KOTOR.
There was a lot of good in the old EU.
There was also the time random background bounty hunter IG-88 downloaded his brain into the Death Star II, assumed total control, and used his newfound power to prank Palpatine with a door.
Remember the time the Empire built a ship smaller than an X-Wing that could shrug off a direct hit from the Death Star's super laser? And had super duper quantum torpedoes that could blow up stars?
I added a little more detail with my edit, but basically Lucasfilm doesn't want to let the book writers contradict anything the filmmakers are doing so they aren't going into detail at the moment in the novels. And JJ just wanted to redo the Big Bad vs. Underdog dynamic and doesn't really care about worldbuilding.
There was a lot of good in the old EU.
There was also the time random background bounty hunter IG-88 downloaded his brain into the Death Star II, assumed total control, and used his newfound power to prank Palpatine with a door.
At some point before or during 4 ABY, IG-88 undertook a software infiltration of the Empire's second Death Star. However, his plan was single-handedly thwarted by the Imperial astromech droid R2-Q5.
He single-handedly thwarted IG-88's software infiltration of the Death Star II.
On one hand, that's a hilarious Easter egg.In canon, he still does that but gets stop by Empire Astromech droid.
On one hand, that's a hilarious Easter egg.
On the other, of all the possible plot lines to bring in from Legends, why did it have to be that one?
Because it's really dumbWhy not?
We just have han&leia son become the bad guy like Legends and soon with Alien Invasion.
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The Grysks were a warlike sentient species that lived in the Unknown Regions. According to Chiss Grand Admiral Thrawn, they should not be underestimated and, if they fled, it would be because they chose to leave the battle. Thrawn believed that the Grysks were such a danger that they posed a...starwars.fandom.com
I agree with you on those two but you can't deny the old EU had amazing things like the Thrawn Trilogy and the Old Republic games.
Elaborate? It seemed like Bail Organa was already getting the dice rolling.Everything about the formation of the proto-Alliance got cut out from RotS.
Elaborate? It seemed like Bail Organa was already getting the dice rolling.
How? All that Bail does in RotS is rescue Yoda and Obi-Wan, then adopt Leia. The scenes where Bail, Mothma, Padme and other senators are trying to oppose Palpatine's changes to the constitution were all dropped.
Reminder that for what was actually brought over from the old EU, one of those things was the freaking Jaxxon Rabbit