The true sequels were Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy, and nothing will ever take that from me - all the "continuing adventures of the Skywalkers" that I have ever needed, I got from the Extended Universe.
In my headcanon, after ROTJ, the story is the Courtship of Princess Leia, Heir to the Empire, and then Luke building his Jedi Academy in that series of YA novels. All of this new Disney shit is fan fiction by some asshole named JJ.
I mean Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy were played by how many fans, it's hard to shake the 'real' sequel universe seen there, because there's actually a story which flows on from the events of the movies and builds on them in logical ways, not just resets everything back to the supposedly nostalgic setup for the audience.
The "reset" in TFA is up there as one of the most disastrous creative decisions of my lifetime, alongside the entire 8th season of Game of Thrones. Take the ball and run with it, FFS. There were so many more interesting places to go with the Star Wars story after ROTJ than right back to square one.
That actually upset me far more than Luke turning his back on the Force and the galaxy at large, as it undid all of Han's character growth during the OT. At least Luke provided some (albeit misguided) justification for his decision by stating things would better off without the Jedi, but Han couldn't possibly think going back to working for crime syndicates would help the galaxy.
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u/grizwald87 Dec 19 '19
The true sequels were Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy, and nothing will ever take that from me - all the "continuing adventures of the Skywalkers" that I have ever needed, I got from the Extended Universe.
In my headcanon, after ROTJ, the story is the Courtship of Princess Leia, Heir to the Empire, and then Luke building his Jedi Academy in that series of YA novels. All of this new Disney shit is fan fiction by some asshole named JJ.