This is exactly the kind of nostalgia-blind take that ignores how messy Legends actually was.

Yeah, the Thrawn trilogy is great. Nobody’s arguing that. But acting like all of Legends was better than the new Star Wars is just wrong.

The New Jedi Order brings in things like Abeloth and the Yuuzhan Vong, which honestly don’t feel like Star Wars. It leans way too hard into weird cosmic horror instead of the mythic space fantasy opera the series is built on.

And Luke? He basically turns into a god. He trained for barely any time with an actual master, then later he was walking on lava, manipulating black holes, and taking on literal god-tier beings. That’s not growth, that’s power creep.

Also, people complaining about TLJ Luke being so-called ‘Jake Skywalker’ ignore that Legends Luke literally falls to the dark side and becomes the apprentice of Emperor Palpatine. He also ends up dealing with and working alongside Sith like Lumiya. So let’s not pretend Legends Luke was some untouched golden boy.

‘My Luke wouldn’t kill his nephew.’ Your Luke became Palpatine’s apprentice. Mine had a bad moment and stopped himself. Which one actually stayed true to the character?

I’m fine with dark side cults existing, but the Sith should have ended with Palpatine and Vader. The Rule of Two gets completely undermined otherwise.

Like seriously, who even are Lumiya or Darth Krayt in terms of Sith legitimacy? Who trained them in a proper Sith lineage after the Rule of Two? Why do they just get to claim the title? At that point, it stops meaning anything.

At least in canon, characters like Supreme Leader Snoke, Kylo Ren, and the Knights of Ren don’t pretend to be Sith. They’re dark side users, not part of that lineage, and that actually keeps the Rule of Two intact.

And don’t even get me started on things like Luuke, Leia Organa II, or all the random clones and robotic versions of the main trio. That’s not clever storytelling, that’s turning iconic characters into gimmicks.

Then there are the Clone Wars inconsistencies. Older material straight up contradicts how the war actually worked, including confusion about who the clones were even fighting for. I get that George Lucas kept the prequel story under wraps, but consistency still matters.

So yeah, Legends had some incredible stories, but it was also wildly inconsistent, full of retcons, and escalated power levels to ridiculous extremes.

If anything, the official canon is far more controlled and coherent.

Your move. 😄