This is so fucking embarrassing. I’m just waiting here for people to finally open their eyes and see this war for what it is, but with beloved actors like Hamill committing to this shit as hard as they can I feel it’s almost futile to have hope. But I’m still trudging on.
The Last Jedi is the best Luke on screen but dude hated how the character was written because he assumes Luke is as static and bland of a person as he is.
Luke was honestly one of the best characters in expanded universe books. He was constantly nagging everyone else they should do boring jedi things, which usually put them in opposite mood and on ballistic trajectory to collide with some exciting adventure, while himself without much commentary doing usually even more outrageous stuff.
Like an old kung fu boss.
Movies Luke was boring as hell though. At least better than his absolutely cringy (in jedi version) pops.
A college roommate of mine was a massive Star Wars fan, and he said he thought of the movies as basically a gateway to the expanded universe. I was never into as much as he was, but I read (at his urging) a few of the books and basically agreed with him.
Happy cake day, by the way.
Any recommendations? I’m looking to expand my brain massaging space fantasy palette
Everything by Timothy Zahn (including new Chaos trilogy about Thrawn, its valid in both old and new canon),
Everything by Drew Karpyshyn
Everything by James Luceno, especially “Darth Plagueis” book, reveals a lot of important points.
Everything by Karen Traviss, but only if you do not hate Mandalorians, she basically singlehandedly created all lore for them
Lando trilogy by L. Neil Smith if you favour some old school adventuring
X-wing cycle by Stackpole and Allston
Yuuzhan Vong cycle (19 books!) by various authors, some cringe warning and obligatory hate for the Salvatore fucker.
After YV cycle there is the dark hive trilogy. Ugh. Imo worst SW books ever but unfortunately had some major character development for the future (in a very bad way). Better just read that shit in the wiki or something.
Legacy cycle (9 books)
And finally at 43 ABY, Destiny cycle, not very good, but basically the finale of Expanded Universe.
Yeah, with the caveat that a lot of particular books are trash. Overall it’s not bad though.
Thanks.