For the a long time, this may be weird to believe, but Star Wars was sort of scarce. There where no new movies on cinema. There were no new videogames every 13 months. For a long ass time, we didn't know what had happened before Star Wars: A New Hope (Then just Star Wars) or After Return of the Jedi. There were 3 movies, some dubious spinoffs and that's it.
Fans where chomping at the bit, and Lucas knew it. Therefore, he sub-licenced many products that dealt with such history. This stories became known as the Expanded Universe.It existed for fans who wanted to know more about the Star Wars universe, but where never fully official, and always at risk of being contradicted by the movies.
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| IT'S MY PICTURE, I CAN PAINT WHOEVER I WANT! |
This is where Dash Rendar and Mara Jade lived. This is where every random bug in the Cantina scene had a storied purpose. This is where Lightsaber Crystals where built and where Darth Revan and Darth Malak fought. This is where Sam Witwer helped Darth Vader. ANd now, they don't.
You see, Disney's moving along with the Star Wars movies, and it doesn't feel like playing nice to stories whose canonicity was established by levels, like a hurricane. And therefore, the Expanded Universe just became "Star Wars Legends". Basically, they didn't happen.
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I for one welcome the move. The new Star Wars movies cannot be beholden to whatever was written a bunch of years ago to appease rabid fans. These stories, as good or as stupid as they can be, can't be the base for a new multimillion dollar franchise. Disney is right to say "You want to know what really happened after Jedi? Here's what REALLY happened, in the media format the original movies had. ANd here's our merchandize, based on that."
Star Wars isn't like Gargoyles, where you just know it's never coming back in full, and you continue it in comics. We all knew it was innevitable they make more movies. We want those movies to be good. But we can't expect them to be the official avatars of 3 decades of comics and books.
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