Luke Skywalker had a weird wife named Mara Jade who was a femme fatal ex-Sith assassin with a purple lightsaber. Chewbacca died at the age of 225 years old when Star Wars’ Aldi brand Borg dropped a moon on him. The Death Star plans were not stolen by a ragtag bunch of rebel soldiers that included beloved martial arts leading man Donnie Yen, but rather a dadish guy in a Henley who looks like he’s heading to the last farmer’s market of the season on a brisk Sunday in the fall.
Yes, the old Starr Wars Expanded Universe was a bit of an odd duck, and you can maybe see why Disney shunted it to the side in favor of a new continuity. All the same, that astounding (non) canon of books, comics, and especially games still has a stranglehold on my psyche, and it’s always heartening to see its more funky outgrowths still get some love. Enter Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith Remastered by a modding team led by General Tantor on ModDB, which recently got a big 3.0 update
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I didn’t think the Thrawn Trilogy was all that good. Still, it was about a billion times better than what Disney gave us.
I disagree, but you’re entitled to your opinion same as everyone else. There were a lot of bad EU materials and the Thrawn trilogy was a high water line.
That said, it fell prey to being yet another fucking super-weapon and dark Jedi story. It’s quintessential Star Wars but so played out.
Weird that it was another one when it predated most of them…
It didn’t predate the original freaking trilogy… which did it twice in three movies.
I read the new Thrawn book after hearing such great things about the old EU ones and it was bland, boring, predictable, and unmoving.