The Star Wars universe has continued in books and comics, but has George ever given an interview on the Expanded Universe?
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I've read that that he doesn't read them but they run the summaries by him so he can veto it or not. I believe it was his decision to kill Anakin Solo to prevent reader confusion with Anakin Skywalker (since the Clone Wars books were coming out then). I believe it was also his idea to kill Chewie in Vector Prime but I may be wrong. I think he's also said that "Dark Empire" was closer to what he would have done with the sequels than any of the books in the 90s.
With regards to Chewie's unfortunate demise, Del Ray went to Lucas asking permission to kill Luke, and Lucas obviously said no. Instead he gave them a list of movie characters they were allowed to kill, and Chewie was on it.
The only thing that I've ever read about Lucas on the EU is that he has as mentioned above veto power on what the editors can and can't do. Killing Luke would have created a major backlash from EU and regular Star Wars at that time, now that we know he does die at some point thanks to the force ghost in Legacy...it might not be such a big blow to fans.
Luke's demise was planned so that the Jedi introduced in The New Jedi Order would have room to grow into the heroes of the series, something that would be hindered by having an uber-powerful and experienced Jedi master around. Instead of dying we had indecisive Luke, which damaged his character in my opinion.
And those mourning the demise of Anakin Solo should also know that Jacen was originally going to play his role in the NJO, with Anakin being undecisive until the very end of the series. Jacen would have bit the dust too. So perhaps Anakin dying isnt so bad, at least he went out a hero instead of turning into Sith-lite.
Yeah I wasn't happy with Luke's indecisiveness in NJO. And LOTF for that matter. But he's still my favorite character... my Yoda... my Dumbledore... my Gandalf. It's ridiculous when you look at the war hero Jedi from the Clone Wars... and then you read NJO where Luke refuses to actually FIGHT the villains killing billions of people because it might turn them to the dark side. Puh-leez.
If you think about it Luke is scared of the Dark Side...his refusal to do anything that might lead to that path, the path of his father, is too much of a risk for him to take. I agree that Luke in recent time has been incredibly indecisive, it might also have to do with the creation of the new Jedi Council and having more voices added to the mix instead of the authority of his like back in the Jedi Academy days. The Jedi continue to repeat the mistakes they made before...and the Sith are waiting.
Which is annoying since Luke went to the dark side for a protracted period and came back stronger than ever! Not to mention this is the boy who murdered millions of people on the Death Star including women, children, doctors, bartenders, custodians, contract construction crews...
I don't remember seeing any women or children on the Death Star.
And those civilian workers...they knew what they were getting into...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6lzEhoXads
Lucas reads the summaries for the novels and approves them. He also wrote the introduction to the paperback version of "Shatterpoint" as well as sitting down with author Matthew Stover when Stover was writing the novel of RotS and editing it line by line with him. Stover said he was pretty awesome to work with for what it is worth.
Lucas, from a few years back:
EDIT: Found it. In an SFX interview:
I more recently read an interview with Lucas where he states he would have never taken the post-ROTJ story in the direction that Zahn and subsequent authors did. I thought I had bookmarked the quote, but I can't find it now.
EDIT: Found it. In an SFX interview:
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