Another year, another group of the least interesting books. I can't wait until we get a Claudia Grey book all about Yoda's foot fungus, or a James Lucerno book about that one time Space FedEx didn't deliver Palpatine's new Space Ipad withing the estimated delivery date. At this point, the books are so boring an unimportant they might as well make them all non canon so they can go back to writing actually interesting stories, as opposed to only being allowed to touch stuff that Disney has no desire to touch, which is almost nothing based off the outright terrible, obscure topics for these books.
Disney only puts out 2-3 real SW books a year, wouold it kill them to allow those authors to do something meaty once and awhile? Something that effects the whole Universe or at least some of the biggest characters in the universe, even if its just in a time period before the main movies? As opposed to just publishing novelizations and one or two pointless side stories about minor characters like Phasma (that don't even really explain who she is because the movies needed to keep that option even though they never used it) or dead, boring characters like Padme (seriously, even TCW cartoon couldn't make Padme interesting, and that show actually made me give a shit about Anakin Skywalker).
Edit: Actually, apparently the Padme book might be a kids book, but regardless my point still stands about the real SW books all being about small, pointless crap even though they could easily tell important stories that the movies/shows will never need to mention.
Disney only puts out 2-3 real SW books a year, wouold it kill them to allow those authors to do something meaty once and awhile? Something that effects the whole Universe or at least some of the biggest characters in the universe, even if its just in a time period before the main movies? As opposed to just publishing novelizations and one or two pointless side stories about minor characters like Phasma (that don't even really explain who she is because the movies needed to keep that option even though they never used it) or dead, boring characters like Padme (seriously, even TCW cartoon couldn't make Padme interesting, and that show actually made me give a shit about Anakin Skywalker).
Edit: Actually, apparently the Padme book might be a kids book, but regardless my point still stands about the real SW books all being about small, pointless crap even though they could easily tell important stories that the movies/shows will never need to mention.
I just prefer the books to have a point, and to cover something somewhat interesting. Even TCW cartoon couldn't make Padme into a good character. Plus, the books were the perfect place to make Phasma a well rounded character, and they didn't. It wasn't even because the movies were going to do it, because she barely had any screen time in either of them. The books are no longer even allowed to flesh out the barely used side characters any more, iunless the character in question is strictly from the books, comics or cartoons. if there is any movie connection (to the new main movies, at least), then any book about the character is just fluff that doesn't change anything.
