“Please stop messaging us about this topic.”

Unfortunately, I am also a huge fan of Halo and Gears of War, and when I found out that she was writing for them, I nearly threw up.

Not only did this woman kill off one of our beloved characters, but she is taking over the other universes I like. AND she is getting the jobs that I want!

Somebody shoot me, please!

Things have definitely NOT improved, and my blood pressure raised because of it.

Seriously, the Expanded Universe is totally FUBAR, no matter how we spin it. I’m suggesting that they reboot it like Abrams did to the Trek universe, but now I have doubts as to whether that will be the solution. It may be irredeemably f_cked.

W@nkers.

I’d be as willing to sign a “No more Luke Skywalker” petition as one to burn every copy of LotF in existence.

It worked for Star Trek! Though admittedly Abrams took that route mostly to avoid continuity issues. If we were to do it in this case, it’s more about fixing the EU and the characters therein than anything else. Still, I’m sure most of you would agree that such a goal is noble.

On a side note maybe someone else could tell me; I prefered Jacen Solo as “the future” as it were, I don’t really understand why anyone would have disliked the Mara character enough to want them dead either but why do so many people so irate over Anakin being dead in Star by Star? I was reading some threads on the swtor forums and damn but people get uptight about him in particular and I don’t understand why, seemed like a two dimensional mini-Luke at best to me with half the background of his siblings.

Luke: “A Jedi without a lightsaber—”
Ben: “Is a lot less dashing to the girls.”
Luke: “Not what I was going to say, but probably true.”

is an actual line from the books since LotF?

And let’s face it, given the crap that is still being shelled out by those hacks hired by Del Rey to write the EU, a reboot would be a refreshing change of pace. If they did that, then not only could Mara be brought back, but so could the Solo boys and virtually every other character that has been killed off or otherwise screwed over.

I loved the YJK series, so I am particularly pissed about the Solo kids and their friends. They were meant to be the heroes of the next generation. Instead, they got chewed up and crapped out. And lets not forget Mara being killed off.

I know its unorthodox, but a reboot would fix that.

Besides, JJ Abrams rebooted the Star Trek timeline, and that was significantly more than about 40 books. Hell, it was about 40 years!

Seriously though, they are going to make a concerted effort to redo or at the least undo what Traviss “did to the Mandalorians”…this is what they’ve decided needs fixing.

I actually didn’t mind the three clone trooper novels, I say three because Four weddings and a funeral (think that’s a joke? go count them..) that came out around the LotF conclusion was nearly as rushed and halfassed as Dennings’Invincible was. I didn’t mind them in general because like something that has characters not associated with the jedi to any major degree (if you don’t think the X-wing series was the best lengthy series of the old novels you need your head examined) that said I couldn’t stand Bardan Jusik or “the one true Jedi!” or whatever she was trying to make him into and in particular I loathe the character because such a vapid two dimensional nothing was the method by which they wrote of Jacen Solo’s “necessary” death and that not well.

Towards this end I’m not even sure what their problem was, there’s what a couple of fleshed out examples of Mandalorians in her own series and frankly aside from their personalities as I recall they were all unstoppable killing machines as we had all been taken to believe Mandalorians to be.
So I can only assume that barring them wanting to retcon the EU novels to again take Boba Fett to be the only remaining Mandalorian (like it or not Mandos are cash in the bank so I don’t see this potential revenue stream being shut down) that their main beef with the novels is the over the top ultra mega super supreme badassedness that enables random nonames to toy with “Sith masters” and/or Traviss’take on taking Mandalorians back to the original meaning of “Mercenaries” (she’s a brit so we’ll assume she’ll throw some latin with a dash of history into her backstory..despite her personally being a dumbass) that was present in the shoehorned into the LotF novels.

Which brings me full circle at 4:45am (damn you caffineless late shift) to the fact that I find it insulting that they’ll pick out the Mandalorians from that LotF mess to fix. Though in retrospect their minor willingness to admit needing to repair the EU from a damaging author (as though they didn’t have useless editors of course) is interesting.

Personally, I have no beef with Chewie dying (hope that doesn’t piss too many people off), but there is so much that should not have happened, such as Mara’s death, and that needs to be fixed up.

Ricky

Something about this summation of the comic book character seems eerily reminiscient of Jacen Solo, but that would be impossible because in the EU you have to be one or the other as I understand it.

(For the record, I actually don’t mind the Clone Wars cartoon that much. Not as good as the original trilogy, though.)

Still, I wonder if anyone can fix up the mess that has been made. I don’t have much of a problem with Chewie passing on, but a lot of other things since then have really annoyed me. LOTF just made it worse.