Will they ever bring back Legends?
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I heard plenty of movie only fans hating on it.
There is no appeasing fans.
That seems to be a pretty big leap of logic. Do you have inside information or is this just speculation?
I don't think so. Most of the really toxic TLJ haters don't seem to be the type who would be mollified by a book. Indeed, I'm not even sure how many of them even read the books in the first place; the hardcore "Legends Star Wars is the only true Star Wars" crowd seem to have jumped ship long before TLJ was even scripted. LucasFilm's main method of dealing with unhappy fans seems to be to just ignore them, so it would seem unlikely that they would do something just to get them to shut up. Finally, Sword of the Jedi never got past the outline stages before it was canceled. The whole "give us Sword of the Jedi" campaign misses this important detail; the book never existed in the first place.
In this particular case the number of people that actually care about those books probably wouldn't justify the printing costs.
Also, even if they did, odds are that the reaction from said niche will be "Meh. Not as good as I thought it would be..." I mean it's not like the EU ever really did anything terribly interesting with Jaina prior to that point.
Is the first novel even complete? I’ve read a lot of mixed news on that point.
That is not how The Mouse do.Have someone leak it, Deadpool style.
Also, there's a *huge* difference between leaking some test footage to give a project a little jump-start and leaking a full commercial product. One will get you a few stern looks from the suits who know your did it but can't prove it, the other will get you a hefty fine and probably jail time. Not a very good value proposition.
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No, there was an unreleased Clone Wars novel, Escape from Dagu, that was finished but never released. Sword of the Jedi was canceled in preproduction, essentially. Can't find the reference now, but author Christie Golden has confirmed that there's nothing to release
Having Matt Stover do a trilogy that wraps up all remaining unresolved legends plotlines, completes all the themes and ideas, and gives closure to the characters would have me jumping for joy.
The eternality of war
The fluidity of the future
History being cyclical
I'm speaking of the unified text as a whole-individual works very of course.
Anyway I was devastated when the April 2014 news came down-I have never cared about Star Wars to the same extent since.
The fluidity of the future
History being cyclical
I'm speaking of the unified text as a whole-individual works very of course.
Anyway I was devastated when the April 2014 news came down-I have never cared about Star Wars to the same extent since.
Well I'm glad that's cleared up. For a second that I thought the EU was just a desperate collection of fictional stories by dozens of authors spread across four or five eras spanning several millennia, with no particular focus, narrative through-line or consistent philosophy. Now we know that the EU was a mythical epic for the ages and in fact the key to controlling all of space and time.
What a revelation...
What a revelation...
And has now become a part of the EU proper with all the Rebels connection. I have no doubt that Clone Wars was always meant to fit in with the PT and OT, regardless of what books were ignored or discarded.
