Actually I more took the Reven story line of his fall over doing the right thing and fighting the Mandolorians, threw in a little bit of the Jaicen stuff (most of the legacy series was terrible) and put it out there.
We all know that there is going to be a force war, the whole universe is centered around the fact that the whole concept of bringing balance to the force will always involved Dark and Light Force users battling for all eternity with the non force users as pawns.
I don't know if there's a story without force users. I mean they are literally the uber humans they block blaster shots, they're faster, they can move objects with their minds and they see into the future, they will literally always win in the end because the will of the force won't let the last one get wiped out.
I admit it, I retro upgraded a couple of old stories.
As far as the EU goes, it literally doesn't mean much in the movie series, even Lucas has said it pretty much takes place in an alternate universe. We saw that when the prequels pretty much kicked the crap out of the first EU book series which featured Thrawn, especially when it came to the clone wars.
We did see a lot of nods to the EU in the clone wars cartoon series, but that's because a lot of the EU clone wars era was written with the cartoon as the source of canon.
Personally and here is my nerd rant. The EU stuff in the luke era is terrible because there was very little control over the writers because of the whole alternative universe theory. Suddenly every bad writer was given creative license to add things that made no sense. Sith ghosts (goes against original canon that the Sith couldn't join the force as a ghost because it required being selfless) moving spirits to other bodies in the horrible dark empire series where the writing was based around a Palpatine fan boy that couldn't let the Emperor go. We had super weapon frenzies that had to outdo the Death star like the invulnerable Star Crusher and the world devastators and the worst the hutts building a death star core. The far future stuff with Luke's off spring weren't bad but they weren't bad because they had a cool concept of the Sith. The Old Republic stuff is really well written and is lore based and has been accepted. The Darth Bane series was outstanding and gave you a philosophical of the Sith, but then they went to far with the whole throwaway line by Windu that the oppression of the Sith would not return. Suddenly a whole new empire sprung up out of no where and an immortal Sith Emperor that made Palpatine look like a pixie waving a magic wand.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Galaxy Far Far Away. I cringed a bit at the prequels, but thought that they had some outstanding concepts with some bad execution (NOOOOOOOO)
But at the end of the day, the Star Wars galaxy is about the battle between ultimate good and ultimate evil drawn together by an energy field that binds the galaxy together and ultimately maintains the balance.
For the next series there almost has to be dark force users (Even though I ague that the Sith can't return because they were destroyed due to the rule of two limiting their knowledge) and light side users in an eternal struggle that can't be won by either side permanently. Any other type of mundane villain will be swept away by Ubermen with magical powers.
And yes to an extent it makes things a bit limited and repetitious, but nothing else makes much sense unless you start making individual movies like they planned with Han Solo in some smuggling adventure, or the droids doing something zany, or Leia introducing a universal health care plan in the republic senate and being blocked by the evil right wing bring back the empire party (come on who doesn't want to see a two hour movie where some former storm trooper filibusters the senate when he reads the book the lost little bantha (EU yo).
My only feverant wish is that Luke dies so that we can see a new hero, that Han Solo does something really cool with a wisecrack or two, and that we have a very cool and sinister enemy that's not a ghost or a clone of or a son of Palpatines with light sabers surgically implanted in his elbows and knees.
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