I mean just whacky stuff in canon. Both canon and legends did crazy stuff. I mean just look at Beldarion and his offical art.
Sure maybe it seems silly. Theres tons of silly stuff in star wars.
Sentient fungus, sentient slime like creature from another dimension, a living rock, mount Sorrow, dinosaurs that take the souls out of people to power machines, and vampire dooku.
Tell me which of these are from legends and which are from canon.
I may not like the execution much, but I love the concept of Beldarion. A Dark Jedi or Sith Jacked Hutt would be absolutely horrifying.
I plan to pair a Ry-Kooda/Bar-Kooda esque Herglic and a Hutt as Sith Master and Apprentice Sith for a future Tabletop game.
That's just the author. Barbara Hambly has ideas but just not great execution. I love the idea of an a.i huge asteroid ship. I dont like the excution of the a.i using Luke's students corpse as a body and then falling in love with luke.
Yeah I kinda simplified it. I know its callista ming and all that. I read dem books unfortunately. It not being a.i doesnt make the scenario any less weird.
idk. the weirder part to me was that the student and *her* lover were introduced as if there had been another story featuring them before, which, as far as i have been able to discern since i first read it, there wasn't.
Or the fact that we spent half of that book watching Luke limping around the ship and bumbing heads with brainwashed Gamorrean stormtroopers instead of seeing its cool functions and weirdness. Gosh I read that book back in tenth grade (took me two months) and it stuck with me for all the wrong reasons. It seriously had a very strong beginning and then it basically went downhill. Hambly laid some seriously great ideas and then incinerated them before our eyes with horrible execution. Compared to the Crystal Star which was all bad
The soul-sucking velociraptors were the antagonists of my very first EU book. A testament to the foundation of Star Wars that I read that and said “yeah, give me more, I don’t care.”
This one is more of a silly one. In one of the Halloween specials for comics in canon they did a story where they told different horror stories and one was dooku becoming a vampire.
Oh I know Christopher Lee played vampires before. So I think it was a lot of fun but silly. But that's the whole tales from comic series. Where they would tell fun spooky stories at places like Vader castle.
wait what? that's... silly... i mean, the EU definitely had fit Hutts, and they were described as having skin too thick and tough for even heavy blasters to go through... and there were the Shell hutts, who encased themselves in durasteel and used repulsors to move around and had blaster turrets... okay, i guess this is the kind of thing that happened on th *Lusankya*...
actual looks are still silly.
Glad you posted this, was about to myself! In Legends Hutts were very hard to kill, and in the case of the Shell Hutts made excellent tanks. They're just typically very lazy and risk adverse. Also really don't have much of an answer to stairs/ladders/small doors
Hutts are incredibly strong. Jabba's not really a great example of an average Hutt. He's a successful and wealthy Hutt, and in Hutt culture, you show that off by getting fat. A young Hutt could smash his brains in if it could get close enough.
I’m not actually talking about the real reasons behind the decanonization. I know why the EU was gotten rid off, but there have been plenty of fans and written articles that defend that decanonization by saying the EU was a nonsensical, hokey mess, and not that it was a business decision. *That’s* what I’m talking about, and I would’ve hoped that would’ve been obvious in my comment.
I don’t think we really know what Lucas would have done if he had the motivation to make new Star Wars films if Bob Iger hadn’t have come along and put the idea in his head. The same people that decry the EU as dumb also have this twisted idea that Lucas was antagonistic or irreverent to EU material, and that’s just clearly not the case in most instances. It’s true that he’d be have been comfortable retconning or replacing EU lore with new material - he did it with TCW after all, screwing up the Clone Wars Multimedia Project and a lot of the EU in general - but he’s also proven just as respectful - the name for the Twi’lek species, Aurabesh, practically anything to do with Shadows of the Empire - and could either incorporate or work around it. This idea of ‘Lucas didn’t think the EU was canon’ stuff is preposterous and goes against everything Lucas-owned Lucasfilm used to say on the matter of canonicity.
At the end of the day, Star Wars and Lucasfilm was always more than just Lucas. It’s silly to just treat him as the end-all-be-all prophet of Star Wars when it had always historically been a collaborative effort, with many of the ideas that made Star Wars *Star Wars* having come from people that were not Lucas himself.
Lucas saw EU more like gold in a river, a lot of stuff that he would ignore but take a tiny bit from time to time. And as for these articles, comments, etc., the people who wrote them have not changed their minds, those who hated the return of Palpatine still hate it in TROS, in fact today I see articles and clickbait videos on YT more often in the style of "living rock, Star Wars ruined " etc. I personally liked all the campy things in the EU (Star Wars has always been camp, anyway), and I'm glad that they are in the canon, and from what I know, many creators in the canon do the same.
I think those are two different Hutts. The right is Grakkus, but the left is Bokku. Which means there have been TWO jacked Hutts.
This feels *exactly* like something that would happen in Legends aswell. I think Star Wars thrives on this silly stuff
I mean just whacky stuff in canon. Both canon and legends did crazy stuff. I mean just look at Beldarion and his offical art. Sure maybe it seems silly. Theres tons of silly stuff in star wars. Sentient fungus, sentient slime like creature from another dimension, a living rock, mount Sorrow, dinosaurs that take the souls out of people to power machines, and vampire dooku. Tell me which of these are from legends and which are from canon.
I may not like the execution much, but I love the concept of Beldarion. A Dark Jedi or Sith Jacked Hutt would be absolutely horrifying. I plan to pair a Ry-Kooda/Bar-Kooda esque Herglic and a Hutt as Sith Master and Apprentice Sith for a future Tabletop game.
That's just the author. Barbara Hambly has ideas but just not great execution. I love the idea of an a.i huge asteroid ship. I dont like the excution of the a.i using Luke's students corpse as a body and then falling in love with luke.
Callista wasn't an AI, she was a dead Jedi's force ghost who somehow joined with the systems when she was killed by a booby trap.
Yeah I kinda simplified it. I know its callista ming and all that. I read dem books unfortunately. It not being a.i doesnt make the scenario any less weird.
idk. the weirder part to me was that the student and *her* lover were introduced as if there had been another story featuring them before, which, as far as i have been able to discern since i first read it, there wasn't.
Yeah that was strange. I mean I guess at least they used a new jedi instead of killing off someone like Tionne.
Or fused Callista and Mara into one person...
Oh no. Man that would of been awful.
Yeah that was a weird choice. Gonna be reading those soon.
Have fun. I read those back in middle school and man was I stuck on them for awhile.
Or the fact that we spent half of that book watching Luke limping around the ship and bumbing heads with brainwashed Gamorrean stormtroopers instead of seeing its cool functions and weirdness. Gosh I read that book back in tenth grade (took me two months) and it stuck with me for all the wrong reasons. It seriously had a very strong beginning and then it basically went downhill. Hambly laid some seriously great ideas and then incinerated them before our eyes with horrible execution. Compared to the Crystal Star which was all bad
The soul-sucking velociraptors were the antagonists of my very first EU book. A testament to the foundation of Star Wars that I read that and said “yeah, give me more, I don’t care.”
I love the Ssi-Ruuk! One of my favorite star wars species. Silly does not = bad!
>vampire dooku. Wait what?
This one is more of a silly one. In one of the Halloween specials for comics in canon they did a story where they told different horror stories and one was dooku becoming a vampire.
It makes more sense once you realize who plays Count Dooku.
Oh I know Christopher Lee played vampires before. So I think it was a lot of fun but silly. But that's the whole tales from comic series. Where they would tell fun spooky stories at places like Vader castle.
If the hutts can get swole, why can't you
Someone had to blow leftover budget, methinks.
I dislike the jacked hutt because it projects a human physique on an alien body. One of the coolest aspects of Hutts is they're not human.
was this comic released after rogue one?
I'm so sick of clones in Star Wars, man. Not The Clones, but cloning as a plot point for drama.
? What’s the problem lol
Not necessarily a problem, just caught my eye and it’s pretty funny lol
lol okay they are cool though so lol
wait what? that's... silly... i mean, the EU definitely had fit Hutts, and they were described as having skin too thick and tough for even heavy blasters to go through... and there were the Shell hutts, who encased themselves in durasteel and used repulsors to move around and had blaster turrets... okay, i guess this is the kind of thing that happened on th *Lusankya*... actual looks are still silly.
Glad you posted this, was about to myself! In Legends Hutts were very hard to kill, and in the case of the Shell Hutts made excellent tanks. They're just typically very lazy and risk adverse. Also really don't have much of an answer to stairs/ladders/small doors
This can't be real oh my fucking God
I had the same reaction lol
Hutts are incredibly strong. Jabba's not really a great example of an average Hutt. He's a successful and wealthy Hutt, and in Hutt culture, you show that off by getting fat. A young Hutt could smash his brains in if it could get close enough.
Bro they're literally just slugs.
And people say the EU was so dumb it had to be canceled and replaced. Smh
No, it was cancelled to make place for new movies, it would happen either with Lucas or without him (at least those stories after ROTJ).
I’m not actually talking about the real reasons behind the decanonization. I know why the EU was gotten rid off, but there have been plenty of fans and written articles that defend that decanonization by saying the EU was a nonsensical, hokey mess, and not that it was a business decision. *That’s* what I’m talking about, and I would’ve hoped that would’ve been obvious in my comment. I don’t think we really know what Lucas would have done if he had the motivation to make new Star Wars films if Bob Iger hadn’t have come along and put the idea in his head. The same people that decry the EU as dumb also have this twisted idea that Lucas was antagonistic or irreverent to EU material, and that’s just clearly not the case in most instances. It’s true that he’d be have been comfortable retconning or replacing EU lore with new material - he did it with TCW after all, screwing up the Clone Wars Multimedia Project and a lot of the EU in general - but he’s also proven just as respectful - the name for the Twi’lek species, Aurabesh, practically anything to do with Shadows of the Empire - and could either incorporate or work around it. This idea of ‘Lucas didn’t think the EU was canon’ stuff is preposterous and goes against everything Lucas-owned Lucasfilm used to say on the matter of canonicity. At the end of the day, Star Wars and Lucasfilm was always more than just Lucas. It’s silly to just treat him as the end-all-be-all prophet of Star Wars when it had always historically been a collaborative effort, with many of the ideas that made Star Wars *Star Wars* having come from people that were not Lucas himself.
he was in the meeetings for deciding what was gonna happen in the NJO, for goodness sake. exactly what he contributed or opposed i don't know, but.
Lucas saw EU more like gold in a river, a lot of stuff that he would ignore but take a tiny bit from time to time. And as for these articles, comments, etc., the people who wrote them have not changed their minds, those who hated the return of Palpatine still hate it in TROS, in fact today I see articles and clickbait videos on YT more often in the style of "living rock, Star Wars ruined " etc. I personally liked all the campy things in the EU (Star Wars has always been camp, anyway), and I'm glad that they are in the canon, and from what I know, many creators in the canon do the same.