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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yeah, but like I said, that's less about killing the EU and more about doing a poor job of replacing it. If they'd just firebombed the EU into ash and then replaced it with awesome alternative plot and characters, that's a 100% positive. But if you throw out the trash and then replace it with an equal amount of trash, you really haven't accomplished anything.

The EU had enough cool stuff in it that the whole thing didn't need to be burned down for the insurance money, especially when that money was going to be squandered anyway.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Honestly, if I was Disney, I probably would have kept most of the backstory and setting details from the Thrawn books (some of the only solidly good material in the EU... except for the clone-y bits), then lifted Jacen and Jaina and dropped Kylo and Rey directly into their roles. But they might actually have been unwilling to do that for two reasons - 1) using that framework locks the future screenwriters into a lot of dead ends they can't write their way out of , like having Luke's life plotted out for him if you keep Mara Jade (which you should, because she's cool - though admittedly troublesome as a post-insert character), and 2) it might require paying Timothy Zahn a lot of money for licensing rights using his characters in cinematic form.

The lack of Mara Jade was one of the biggest disappointments with the new franchise. Somebody at Disney *really* hates redheads.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I never had the nostalgia for those books that some people did (the scary books I had as a kid were the Tales for the Midnight Hour series - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_for_the_Midnight_Hour ), but my understanding is that 90% of the appeal was the batshit crazy art that was borderline terrifying.

For the most part, they were mediocre, family-friendly-ish retellings of urban legends with largely unrelated, borderline gross-out art... which made it all the funnier when the re-releases removed the iconic art in favor of things that, iirc, more closely matched the stories.

Given that there were a few good stories in there, it makes the prospect of a film interesting.... although the fact that it's not going to be an anthology film (which are nearly impossible to market these days, excluding a few ensemble-cast anthologies like Valentines Day, New Years Eve, etc) is a bit of a turnoff, even though the stories themselves (and most major urban legends are in general) are well-known enough to hurt any attempt at a straight telling in an anthology. Granted, I would have loved to have to seen the story about the two old men with the window in the nursing home done in a film... even if there are some fundamental logical issues that make for massive plotholes.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

(the scary books I had as a kid were the Tales for the Midnight Hour series - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_for_the_Midnight_Hour )

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