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Any plans for OT/Post-ROTJ Star Wars series

Look,

Lucas has problems keeping his own prequel universe in order. He's already tampered with the OT. Lets not encourage him to mess with them further by creating movies after Jedi. Because you know the moment he gets in in his head to do post Jedi stories, he'll think he has really cool ideas and want to go back and insert references to them in the OT.
The real problem with doing additional "post ROTJ" movies is that the books have carried that story SOOOO far along now that you'll have to go 100 years or more into the "future" in order to tell anything SIGNIFICANT to the existing characters or the galactic situation. Or else you have to say "well that entire expanded-universe thing we've been building up, with full continuity, for the past several decades... we're tossing all that out, so just forget about any of it." NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

FYI, I've enjoyed about 1/2 of the Expanded Universe books... which is actually pretty good. I didn't much care for the whole Yuzhon Vong series... it seemed like a whole series of stuff written just to be over-the-top-shocking without seeming particularly BELIEVABLE. And there were a few very weak "stand-alone" stories. But by and large, it's all been worthwhile. At this point, the SW universe has gone forward to the point where Luke Skywalker is getting old, his son is almost an adult and his wife (a former imperial agent) has been killed by Han and Leia's elder son, who ended up becoming a Sith Lord "to save the galaxy." In addition to him, they had two other kids... a younger son who was killed years earlier, and a twin daughter with the older son. There's a whole new Jedi Order, the galactic government has changed three times since the collapse of the Empire, and there's been another full civil war since then.

In other words... the stuff that's come since ROTJ has been MAJOR and FORMATIVE. And not the sort of thing that you can just dismiss unless you're going to toss every bit of all of it out. And there's not a whole lot of point in trying to tell those stories in the form of a movie.

Of course, there are now two "presents" in the EU. One is the one I mention above, and the other is set decades further down the line... but that allows for new stories to be told, I guess.

You could start off with a new series 100 years after ROTJ (since that period is still pretty poorly covered, with the main thing being that both the Jedi and the Imperial Knights have been hunted down and destroyed by the Sith Empire's warriors under the command of Darth Krayt, a former Tusken Jedi, with only a couple of Jedi still around, and the one we know about being Cade Skywalker, a descendent of Luke Skywalker who's given up his Jedi role and is now addicted to "death sticks." The future of that future is still undetermined, and there are other figures who could be dealt with, I s'pose.
 
Eh, I'd rather not have anyone go mucking about in the Star Wars: Legacy time period for a while. The work they're doing on that comic is way too good to compromise right now.
 
98% of the so-called "EU" is absolute bantha shit. ESPECIALLY the novels and ESPECIALLY the post-ROTJ crap. Unreadable, childish crap.

(Though I do hold a special place of contempt in my heart for the excreable "Shadows of the Empire".) Even the much vaunted "Thrawn" trilogy was extremely lame (though it's gold compared to most of the dreck that followed) and at least had a few mildly cool characters in Mara and Thrawn.

Just about the only good EU is the original Clone Wars "micro series". The new "Clone Wars" movie was lousy, leaving me with little hope for the series. A few of the comics have been decent, but seldom great.

I have zero interest in seeing anything post-ROTJ. The scores of EU authors haven't been able to do anything remotely interesting with it until the "Legacy" era, in which they are not bogged down by the characters from the OT and the horrid Vong, who even more stupidly conceived villains than the PT's Trade Federation.

Ick. "Star Wars" must be stopped before it kills again.
 
Eh, I'd rather not have anyone go mucking about in the Star Wars: Legacy time period for a while. The work they're doing on that comic is way too good to compromise right now.
Agreed. There's still at least 100 years of undisclosed time until Lord Krayt's New Sith Order takes over, including at least three generations of unaccounted Skywalkers and Solos and whatever adventures and adversaries they may face.

And we still don't know what became of Solos, for that matter...
 
Eh, I'd rather not have anyone go mucking about in the Star Wars: Legacy time period for a while. The work they're doing on that comic is way too good to compromise right now.
Agreed. There's still at least 100 years of undisclosed time until Lord Krayt's New Sith Order takes over, including at least three generations of unaccounted Skywalkers and Solos and whatever adventures and adversaries they may face.

And we still don't know what became of Solos, for that matter...
Well, we know what happened to 2 out of 3 of the Solo children... and it's pretty clear that it's going to be Jaina who goes with "Good-guy Emperor-to-Be" Jagged Fel to form the Imperial Knights (her joint Jedi/Mandalorian bit is clearly supposed to lead to them). So I presume you mean "Han and Leia," right?

And we know that Luke's son Ben Skywalker is Cade Skywalker's grandfather, and we know at least a little bit about Cade's father (whose name escapes me right now).

So it's not as though these characters are totally fluid. You can tell a lot of stand-alone stories, but you can't really "shake things up" with any of them, unless you want to contradict the "New Sith Order" stuff.
 
98% of the so-called "EU" is absolute bantha shit. ESPECIALLY the novels and ESPECIALLY the post-ROTJ crap. Unreadable, childish crap.

(Though I do hold a special place of contempt in my heart for the excreable "Shadows of the Empire".) Even the much vaunted "Thrawn" trilogy was extremely lame (though it's gold compared to most of the dreck that followed) and at least had a few mildly cool characters in Mara and Thrawn.

Just about the only good EU is the original Clone Wars "micro series". The new "Clone Wars" movie was lousy, leaving me with little hope for the series. A few of the comics have been decent, but seldom great.

I have zero interest in seeing anything post-ROTJ. The scores of EU authors haven't been able to do anything remotely interesting with it until the "Legacy" era, in which they are not bogged down by the characters from the OT and the horrid Vong, who even more stupidly conceived villains than the PT's Trade Federation.

Ick. "Star Wars" must be stopped before it kills again.
So, tell us how you REALLY feel... :rolleyes:

I saw the "micro series" and I was VERY underwhelmed by it (though it's better than the recent movie).

The best EU stuff has been based more upon who the authors were than anything else. Some authors are able to tell good stories that grow things without losing the characters. And can create new characters we end up actually caring about. (The turn of Jacen Solo to the dark side was easy to see, in retrospect, but it was a lot more "painful" than the "prequel trilogy" bit, wasn't it?)
 
Actually, I think Kol Skywalker (Cade's father) is more likely Ben's grandson. There's more than enough room there in-between Ben's birthdate and Kol's likely birthdate (just guessing, but he looks to be in his late thirties or early forties at the beginning of Legacy). Plus that way the folks in charge of the novel line would still have some room to work with in determining Ben's future.
 
Eh, I'd rather not have anyone go mucking about in the Star Wars: Legacy time period for a while. The work they're doing on that comic is way too good to compromise right now.
Agreed. There's still at least 100 years of undisclosed time until Lord Krayt's New Sith Order takes over, including at least three generations of unaccounted Skywalkers and Solos and whatever adventures and adversaries they may face.

And we still don't know what became of Solos, for that matter...
Well, we know what happened to 2 out of 3 of the Solo children... and it's pretty clear that it's going to be Jaina who goes with "Good-guy Emperor-to-Be" Jagged Fel to form the Imperial Knights (her joint Jedi/Mandalorian bit is clearly supposed to lead to them). So I presume you mean "Han and Leia," right?
I was thinking more along the lines of what if Jaina had children and what if they had children themselves. They may continue the Solo name--or the Fel name--but at least it would be another branch from the Skywalker family to explore in future novels between now and Legacy...
And we know that Luke's son Ben Skywalker is Cade Skywalker's grandfather, and we know at least a little bit about Cade's father (whose name escapes me right now).
As already mentioned, there's Kol Skywalker and his older brother Nat Skywalker so that covers about forty to fifty years prior to Legacy...but I think that still leaves about sixty or more years from where the novels have currently ended that haven't been touched yet...
So it's not as though these characters are totally fluid. You can tell a lot of stand-alone stories, but you can't really "shake things up" with any of them, unless you want to contradict the "New Sith Order" stuff.
I dunno. While I do agree that certain events may be off the table like destroying the Galactic Alliance or the Empire once and for all, I think a lot of major shake-ups can be done on a smaller scale with characters and during untold conflicts that may have been lost in the pages of history by Krayt's reign but were important at the time.
 
I am very conflicted. While I want good Star Wars to come back out, I rather not let Lucas muddle around with his creation anymore. He's already trampled on some of the Old Republic stuff and actually post-Empire stuff.

If he did, I want Kyle Katarn! He's the Chuck Norris of the Star Wars Universe!
 
Kyle Katarn is awesome. Even when Jacen impaled him I knew, somewhere in the back of my mind, that he'd pull through.
 
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