I'll grant, not everything in the EU was good and some was downright awful, but to slash 30 years of books, comics,...
I'll grant, not everything in the EU was good and some was downright awful, but to slash 30 years of books, comics, video games and other canonical histories of that far far galaxy away seems a bit harsh.
Of course, Disney does have a history of ignoring the source material if a story they're copying in or to make it "more Disney."
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/op-ed-disney-takes-a-chainsaw-to-the-star-wars-expanded-universe/
Of course, Disney does have a history of ignoring the source material if a story they're copying in or to make it "more Disney."
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/op-ed-disney-takes-a-chainsaw-to-the-star-wars-expanded-universe/
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Lucasfilm did this to themselves by allowing so much awful writing to be done for the sake of a buck. Besides the crappy EU, we also ended up with the Phantom Menace and Indiana Jones 4 (shiver).
I will say that there were a lot of decent comic books from Dark Horse, and the KOTOR games were bright spots too.
However, different writer and different editors are going to take characters and stories in different directions. It happened in the EU as it happens in Marvel and DC, Mechwarrior and dozens of other world series (Forgotten Realms, anyone?). This would be like Sony negating 40 years of Spider-Man because they want Peter Parker to remain in highschool. I mean, we'd all like to forget the clone saga, but it is a part of the character just as the EU is a part of a distant galaxy's history.
Had they been smart they would have limited the EU to a thousand year before/after ANH-RotJ.