@Tuskin38 Smoke lol...Burrito Supreme Leader Smoke would have a great Taco Bell tie in for this marijuana trainwreck of a Trilogy.
I can’t wait for Kevin Smith to make Clerks 3 and have Jay say “Snoke, Smoke whatever” like Pizza the Hut saying “Barf, Puke... whatever”. LOL.
All that aside, man people gave Timothy Zahn hell for Luuke Skywalker the clone, and yet here we are with old Snokey Snoke being similarly the same.
Look say what you will about the EU (yes a good majority of it wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on); but honestly there were some excellent novels that really lived up to Star Wars. Some of the really great authors that all we have of their legacies, was their offerings to Lucas’s universe.
Primarily for me:
Zahn’s trilogy
James Luceno’s books
A.C. Crispin’s Solo Trilogy
Brian Daley’s Solo Trilogy and the Radio Dramas
L. Neil Smith’s Lando trilogy
Darth Bane Trilogy
The Novelizations for 1-6
The Jedi Academy trilogy
Just to name a few.
The Bad and the Ugly:
The Crystal Star
The Corellian Trilogy
The Black Fleet Crisis
Planet of Twilight
Children of the Jedi
Honestly, the Trek writers were incredible Trek authors, but whomever put them up to writing Star Wars in the 1990’s it was incredibly misguided. I am glad that today’s authors like John Jackson Miller can navigate and be tremendously successful in both universes.
I guess what I am trying to say is giving those older authors the short end of the stick while using or reusing, certain ideas was and is wrong. Meanwhile, the newer batch of writers haven’t been as successful as most would have liked or hoped, Hopefully people in general haven’t been leery of investing in a good Star Wars story only to come away burned. Here is to hoping to see more future Star Wars books from the likes of James Luceno, or Matt Stover, or even Terry Brooks, (less of that Supreme Screwball Chuck Wendig) that they haven’t turned away from Star Wars completely.
-Koric