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Originally Posted by Locke
For someone who loves Star Wars so much you really seem to hate a lot of Star Wars.
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I really love Star Wars, I grew up with it, it shaped a lot of my childhood memories (one of the rare times I even went to a movie with my dad was when ANH came out and I went on my tenth birthday, and then he made me go with him multiple times). I love the width of the idea of the GFFA, I really love a lot of the lore from a general sense.
I'm the rare person that enjoyed the prequels because I could look past a lot of the bad in it, because I loved the machinisms of Palpatine behind the scenes and the ultimate fall of Anakin Skywalker.
There are aspects of Star Wars and especially the legends and even the current EU that really give me a shiver of dislike.
There were just way too many really bad authors and really bad stories that were just allowed into the EU.
Dash Rendor, Xizor, Thrawn (Though there were some things to like about his character), a gold scaled slab of multi-dimensional child eating villain, the Vong
The over reliance of superweapons, the complete jacking up of force powers, World Devestators, Sun Crushers, Galaxy Guns.
Easy way outs, like Evil Force Ghosts, and clone palpatines, and Dark Side users far more powerful then someone like Palpatine.
They really make you cringe. Even in the new EU the novels that are being pumped out have been pretty horrible, things like a Palpatine/Vader buddy cop like book, The first Aftermath book that was just impossible to get through.
But through it all, when they get it right, its amazing.
The Bane Trilogy was outstanding, as was the fall of the republic trilogy (Labyrinth of evil, ROTS, Dark Lord (BTW the best period Darth Vader centric book ever written)), Darth Plageous was also excellent.
And sometimes you have to filter the crap to get at the good.
A lot of Legacy of the Force was fairly good, but you had to basically claw your eyes out in other parts.
Even from a video game perspective when they got it right it was incredibly rich
Tie Fighter/X-Wing/X-wing alliance, all of the Dark Forces games, amazing and still playable to this day, even the first Force Unleashed game was good until you because so over powered that you beat Vader like you would beat a paperboy for breaking your window. I'm still a huge fan of The Knights Old Republic Games and still play SWTOR which is kind of still my primary game.
I have to admit that upon reflection "The Force Awakens" was a good movie not great, but I look forward to the next chapters.
Clone Wars was one of the best animated series on TV, and I'm talking both series, and Rebels has really found its stride, but we still need a live action TV series.