Will they ever bring back Legends?
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It had a soundtrack! Your run-of-the-mill novel can't say that!
And the comic tie-in series had cardstock covers.
It's a mix. The Vader POV portions, for example, are great. On the other hand, sometimes the weak side of 90s EU is on full display. You visit places like Rodia and Bothawui but come away without having an impression of either place.
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I've been wondering when we're going to start getting canon stories set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, according to Wookiepedia the only ones so far are 2 Forces of Destiny episodes and the middle grade novel Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure.
I can see why when your already committed to moving the timeline along. The old guard stopped at RotJ in terms of major motion pictures and media projects leaving anything beyond for novels and comics and etc. However Disney have already gone past it so I can see the "interesting" bits being after Jedi to see how we got from there to here and past TFA as we go even further into the future. Between Empire and Jedi is kind of a creative dead end. You have set characters that all have to put back into the toy box as you found them by the end of the novel. Unless you can do something that will tie into the new time period it seems a bit of a waste to me. Maybe if Luke found some ancient artifact that will come back to bite Rey in the posterior or something like that. Case in point the fate of Thrawn and Ezra
Which is why we are getting a Thrawn novel?
Expands on an existing property that is still the new hotness and could be helping to lay the ground work for the next new hotness while there is nothing in the gap between ESB and RotJ so you would be shouting into the void.Which is why we are getting a Thrawn novel?
Perhaps. Not saying that it is needed right now, but the idea that things have to be "put back in the box" as you put it is some how a detriment to story telling is counter indicated by the Thrawn novel.
Not really. Thrawn is an unknown quantity post Rebels while we know where Luke/Han/Leia etc will start the novel and end the novel. As I say I'm not saying you can't do stories in this time period but even compared to the pre Empire novels where the three are off doing "stuff" for the rebellion here you have the question of why they aren't rescuing Han. I think that's why the old cannon only did one major book (to my knowledge) in that time period.
Fair points. That doesn't mean there are not stories to tell. I mean, even one of the anthology books had a brief tale of Luke encountering Oola on Tatooine. You have Luke's training, possibly making canon his building a new lightsaber at Ben's hut, you have the Bothans, Rebel strikes that are alluded to in ROTJ, and on and on.
I guess my overall point is that there is far more that could be done in this time period than is thought.
Oh there's a definite change in Luke from Cloud City to Jabba's palace so something has clearly happened. Not sure if your someone who reckons he went back to Yoda or not. I'm not but I've heard some are so even that alone could be a story if he did. Yoda sending him on super secret missions for a few months or something. I if it were me this era would be better served by following a group outside the 3 L's showing the rebellion recovering from Hoth to the point where they can mount their attack on Endor.
No, to my mind Luke did not visit with Yoda, nor do I think that is supported in dialog, Legends material or canon material.
Again, the overall point is that there are stories to be told and are can work, regardless of "putting toys back in the box" at the end. It's kind of silly to cut off a period to tell a story just because the outcome is known. Otherwise, prequels are largely pointless, and we can discard the PT, Solo, and Rogue One.
I agree with the out come thing but as I said I think the big problem is that whatever they are doing needs to be tied back into rescuing Han unlike pre-Empire where as long as it's vaguely Rebellion related you can get away with it as the only thing hanging over their heads was the price on Han and we know he ignored it until Boba.
Perhaps. But, you can make it vaguely related to rescuing Han without it being "Let's just twiddle our thumbs until it's time." Again, you can have Imperial raids, Rebel assembly (since the Rebellion did not appear to be at Sullust like Vader mentions in ROTJ at the end of ESB), spy reports, Luke's studying on Tatooine, etc.
The idea that there is something precluding this stories is baffling to me.
There's a year between ESB and ROTJ, something must have been going on in that time to keep them from being able to rescue Han right away.
The new Thrawn novel isn't set post-Rebels, it's set just before the fourth season, meaning they'll still have to "put their toys back in the box" by the end.
But is the worry that it will feel padded. Release one book where Luke has to hunt down some info and you're good but a twenty plus issue comic series etc and you could feel like your dragging it out. As I've said all along, no story is impossible to tell your just making it hard for yourself.
Yeah but that's a popular toy at the moment so it doesn't matter if you have to return it as new if you get a chance to play with it. Post emp and pre Jedi isn't a new toy. It's an old toy. You might still want to play with it but the list your given when you borrow it from your friend might make you feel it's not worth the trouble.
Post-ANH Pre-ESB isn’t a new toy either, but they’ve already done several dozen comics and a couple novels set in that period.
