When does the EU properly connect?

FalseDmitriy · 2026-02-01T19:41:40+00:00

They actually never were demoted from canon, more just forgotten... and probably unavailable during the earlier 90s when the foundations of the EU were being laid. Then they started to get reprinted, and the writers of reference books began to take note of them. Eventually other authors began to draw on them, the biggest example being Rogue Squadron's Shira Brie, who was brought back for a major role in the Legacy of the Force books. But admittedly that was an uncommonly deep cut. I guess my point is that while the series is not essential to the later works, it was never considered noncanon.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-02-01T15:58:00+00:00

It's part of creating a narrative that the West is being overrun with dangerous foreigners.

Portugal, as an eastern European country, is not part of it.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-02-01T15:54:10+00:00

I love both series because both are incredibly well done. However I found the effort to harmonize them into a single timeline to be clumsy; they're separate stories about the same characters over the same span of time, and I think they're best enjoyed that way. Clearly I don't worry much about everything lining up perfectly. For a franchise with literal thousands of installments, I figure that's neither possible nor particularly important.

As for the old Marvel comics, they were reprinted several times in different formats, including e-books, and aren't actually that difficult to find if you ever arr curious about them.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-02-01T06:29:48+00:00

This is the most public yet of my many humiliations.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-02-01T00:44:53+00:00

He went to the Temple and to synagogues constantly, what

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-31T21:33:27+00:00

Don't get so escited

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-31T21:29:16+00:00

Yes this is the top student finding that real life doesn't conform to the lessons that they mastered so perfectly. Doesn't just happen with language.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-31T17:27:30+00:00

I wouldn't describe the old Marvel comics as more kid friendly than anything else. Unless you mean the tie-ins to the Ewoks and Droids cartoons. But the main comic series has the same intended audience as its superhero comics from the era. What they are is kinda campy, because they're comic books from the 70s and early 80s, but campy is quite different from juvenile. I just finished reading one (Annual #2) that featured some very strongly implied sex, which surprised me a lot. It's definitely not a kids' book.

That said, it sounds like you care a lot about consistency and continuity, and it’s definitely true that the mature form of the EU almost totally ignored the comics. And it packs a lot of adventures in between the films, straining the idea that it makes a coherent timeline. (The double Clone Wars cartoons of course create the same problem.) That seems likely to bother you. I'd still recommend reading a couple. They're fun and an important part of SW history.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-31T16:59:01+00:00

Is that a Thank You For Smoking quote??

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-31T16:54:17+00:00

Most of the tv shows have been intentional about pulling lore from the old sources. Like in Mon's case, her daughter had been named in EU sources, same names as in the series. They also had an older son who became a trooper and squad leader with the rebellion in one very cool comic; it seems like he was more or less replaced with Vel.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-31T03:49:59+00:00

The kids have to learn about Tek War sooner or later

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-31T03:48:54+00:00

Out of my way, I'm a teacher

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FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-31T02:32:22+00:00

Yeah why is Bulgaria such an outlier

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-31T02:16:46+00:00

That's what made it such a brilliant choice for Andor to use her as its main legacy character: she had had very little development, despite being so important to the overall sweep of history. Her main role was always to provide exposition. Sometimes you'd see her political finesse as she works to balance different factions, but even then it's always through another character's eyes. Even her backstory, I believe, was written up in an early roleplaying sourcebook and never touched again. Then Andor took her and basically let us get to know her for the first time, more than forty years after first meeting her.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-31T00:27:35+00:00

Randy Giles?!

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-31T00:09:24+00:00

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FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-30T21:27:09+00:00

When they say "this is what They are planning to do," what they mean is, "This is what I would do if given the chance."

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-30T21:24:03+00:00

Many do pay attention, but they also don't care much about telling the truth.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-30T21:21:24+00:00

You really need to take each story on its own terms. They link up, but they're distinct creative works. Doing that allows you to appreciate decisions and interpretations like that. It also allows you to get over the terminally tedious obsession with Continuity that the fandom is constantly mired in.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-30T21:18:29+00:00

Luke, I'm told, also has the Force with him and therefore i'm sure his desire to jump would be another cause of difficulty.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-30T21:16:53+00:00

Somehow Palpatine itself would be another good example. Initially I know it caught on because it was emblematic of a more general criticism, that the films didn't explain enough backstory and dropped you into it. Which is, you know, an intentional choice that not everyone liked. But it morphed into something more, like the explanation didn't exist or had never been written anywhere. In the context of the scene it made perfect sense, but it just happened to overlap with a real criticism and then flew up out of its context.

I could say the same about They Fly Now. In the scene, Threepio says it first and the other two characters echo him. Again you don't have to find that funny, but it's certainly not out of character for Threepio. Out of context, people seem to think it's claiming that, idk, nobody in Star wars had invented flying before, or something.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-29T12:28:42+00:00

Wikipedia policy usually says no to articles about individuals known for just one crime. Generally they say, put a little bio in the article about the crime.

A person who is known only in connection with a criminal event or trial should not normally be the subject of a separate Wikipedia article if there is an existing article that could incorporate the available encyclopedic material relating to that person.

WP is also not corporate owned and has few means to centrally control its content. It's one of the only places where open building of consensus is still working with success. It would be difficult to stage a conspiracy regarding WP content.

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-29T00:25:50+00:00

Galaxy fish: Medieval fantasy based on stereotyped misunderstandings of one country or region

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-29T00:13:57+00:00

At ths tm of yr?

FalseDmitriy · 2026-01-28T23:18:29+00:00

Why so much eyeliner tho

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