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Granted, this is going on deep memory from when I was still a kid, twenty years ago, reading these, but: The Jedi Academy trilogy is just bad. Hot, smelly, garbage bad. The character Kyp Durron is so atrocious as a character (commits genocide of billions, and is still accepted as a Jedi...!? What is this? The Jedi of the USSR?), and the main villain being a force ghost, yeah, a spooky kinda guy, was just beyond dumb. I normally enjoy KJA's works, he's in the top tier for escapist authors I periodically dive into when I need a break. But his Star Wars stuff, I remember, was mostly cringe. Darksaber was fairly readable, but the ending to the final space battle was so hardcore DERP it ruined it for me. Courtship was a bit iffy for me. I liked it, and hated it in equal measure. That's about all I remember...no, wait. Wasn't this the one where there was a compelling bad guy, the locquacious, and ironically hilarious Imperial fat guy (he was a chongus) Warlord Zsinj? I think so, and he dies in this book, in a very early Star Wars EU understated, anticlimactic fashion. Zsinj was a missed opportunity, I will always think that. His one liners alone, admittedly in other novels, I think, were worth keeping him around, for. The Bounty Hunter trilogy was, as you said, boring. That's all I remember as I never finished it. I also never read any of the short story collections. As for Shadows of Mindor, I never read it, so I can't say.

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I can't hear anything, over the music!

Goodbye Walrus Jedi, and good riddance 😂

love the ship videos ❤

I agree with a lot of what you said. However, I like it when they don’t feel as much like our usual Star Wars because that means that they’re being creative. As long as they keep the core themes of natural-connection and moral choice (among other things), let them go in whatever direction they can. My top picks are: The Duel The Village Bride Lop & Ocho

Jedi Search, Jedi Academy trilogy is Okay - but I, Jedi is the better telling

Lol. The Bounty Hunter trilogy is great. Not sure what you were reading.

I have listened to 'Kenobi', 'Brotherhood', 'Revenge of the Sith' and 'Master & Apprentice'. They are all great imo! Neat video meight! I agree that 'Darth Plagueis' is top notch as well.

I initially broke up with Star Wars in 2001 when they killed off my favorite character, and again in 2007 when they killed off another favorite character. So had brief flicker of hope in 2014 with the reboot, but that quickly quenched. So I got back into reading EU books this year and been trying to read stuff I had not gotten to yet. I also read Shadows of Mindor. I finished with the thought "What did I just read?". The concept was kind of fun, but story was so so. It did make me laugh several times in a good way. I read the Jedi Prince series, which is probably some of the worst SW written, but in fun, campy way. Bad but fun bad. I reread a lot of New Jedi Order, but skipped all the Vong parts this time. That made the series much better. Most of those books were well written (except Vector Prime), but far as I'm concerned Del Rey set the EU up to die by not leaving space for the sequels which Lucas had always teased. They also went far, far, too dark. However I appreciate the ambitiousness of the project and releasing stories in chronological order. I also reread the Dark Nest trilogy, and... I think it's a crime that's all we got for the next gens 20s. Wish they'd continued with another chronological series of smaller scale adventures set during the reconstruction period and let the character develop more naturally. Even a short story anthology like "Tales of the New Jedi Order" would have been awesome. Read all of Legacy of the Force and Fate of the Jedi this year. Legacy of the Force is a dumpster fire of out of character decisions to make the story happen (Normally I love Allston, but even he couldn't salvage this train wreck). It's still better than the sequels, but most of the gripes I have about the sequels came out of that series with a little dark Empire and Jedi Prince sprinkled in... Fate of the Jedi was mostly better. They seem to have realized they went too dark and dialed back a bit. I think it would have been better without all the Lost Tribe stuff. I read Crucible, which just wasn't bad but didn't need to exist. It didn't wrap up any of the dangling plot threads from Fate. I am reading Scoundrels and have hope this will actually be a good book, but I'm less than a third of the way in.... Only thing that annoyed me so far was Han running into a Bounty Hunter on Ord Mantell because it's the wrong time in the timeline for that and I'm pretty sure that had been covered elsewhere, so it's redundant. Not impossible for him to have multiple run-ins with multiple bounty hunters on the same planet... but eh.

Disagree on Shadows of Mindor. It has great depictions of Luke and the entire OT cast, a pretty fun story, and while the space battle sequences do really drag, I like it overall. I do agree on the Jedi Academy Trilogy and Courtship. I think Courtship has some fun worldbuilding but Han and Leia are wildly mischaracterized.

Shadows of Mindor is a good book but Stover was too cute with the unreliable narrator and, while I did like the nod to Revenge of the Jedi it was a little too inside baseball. Also bringing black hole in from the Russ Manning strips was ridiculous and I love those comics. The cover Rogue Leader is excellent though. The conceit is it's an inside universe novel for Star Wars.

As soon as Fate of the Jedi books are done, I'm starting the Tales and Bounty Hunters trilogy.

On reflection, I can't understand how Bantam faltered after Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy - it's almost like they didn't know where to go with the franchise...they went on to publish quite a number of lacklustre novels afterwards - some with good ideas amongst them, but often poorly executed. My most recent Star Wars reads have been James Luceno's "Millennium Falcon" and Aaron Alston's "Betrayal" - both really good reads. I've somehow managed to avoid any below par EU books for quite awhile.

Aliens are an essential aspect of Star Wars. I love them so much the Cathar are one of my favorite species. I have many more species that I like. This is actually something I wish the live action and animated shows could lean into more.

Quite an extensive video. 😁 I like how the map shows the location of individual worlds. I'd say that my favourite species has to be the Togruta. Btw, the background music tends to become a trifle loud in places.

I haven't listened to one since the last CD they pressed whenever that was. It might have been Heir to the Empire.

Back in the day, I bought a lot of the abridged Star Wars audiobooks - *on cassettes* - with music and sound effects; the vast majority read by Anthony Heald. Nowadays, I'm happy enough listening to the text-to-speech audiobooks provided by various UA-cam channels (the AI voices seem to be improving all the time) And I can certainly understand you wanting to offload Disney Wars novels. 😏

ROFLMAO at that Rey thumbnail well played!

You ever make to Denver check out Mile High Comics warehouse on Jason Street. You'll never so many comics in one place anywhere else in the world. Got to go in a couple times pricey in there too but a feast for the eyes. $800 seems a little excessive for that series. How many books were in that run? I collected all the original Walt Simonson Thor run and his X Factor run back in the day.

Not my favorite trilogy but I do remember having more fun a second time through. Totally agree about the Jacen Jaina side story. Its a waste of time doesnt need to be there. Yeah Dalla was lame af but I found it amusing how bad she mismanaged things when going up against the sun crusher everytime.

I thought it was written pretty good and easy enough to follow. I am in the camp that cant stand Corran though lol. He's the only reason I've avoided the X wing books. I will say Stackpole does write good action and vehicle combat scenes. Great review!

Its written first person like A Princess of Mars. What did you think of that?

Sorry I wasn't able to participate in the livestream. Of the story arcs, the first one was the weakest - the intriguing insights into Asajj Ventress aside, this was simply an elaborate foreshadowing of the resurrection of Darth Maul (not TCW's finest hour). The Mortis arc was an improvement, giving more depth to Anakin's and Ahsoka's relationship - and we got to see the vision of the adult Ahsoka - what she might have become had Disney not ruined her with their truly awful live action version. The Citadel arc was, I think, the strongest, with the interaction of Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka; and the first appearance in TCW of Tarkin. The Padawan Lost two-parter brought the season to a satisfying conclusion.

In retrospect, I kinda think the Thrawn trilogy was a hard act to follow, and that it took Bantam awhile to find their feet. The Truce of Bakura, The Courtship of Princess Leia, the Jedi Academy trilogy and The Crystal Star; all had some interesting ideas, but were on the whole, mediocre. At the time, we were just grateful for ANY new Star Wars novels.

Very nice. I just bought a bunch of bantam books. I really should make a vid too

The old EU I can remember being super excited for each new book. And The cover art was always cool. John Alvin or Drew Struzan. Or even Tom Jung. I'd go into a bookstore and come out with some books, either B Dalton or Waldenbooks both now gone. Even the bookstore I bought my New Jedi Order books and prequel books at Borders is gone. Both of the news stores I frequented to buy comics are also gone.

I think when Ko Sai said “units” he wasn’t talking about individual humans. There were probably way more clone troopers than that

“This will only be legends”. Me: oh yeah this is the right way to do it 😎

Kennedy Star Wars has had about four times the movies that never happen under Kennedy than movies that did Zack Snider Star Wars Boba Fett movie Star Wars Detours Star wars trilogy by Rian Johnson Rangers of the New Republic that Kennedy fired the Star Gina Carano Episode nine by Colin Trevarrow The Obi Wan Kinobi trilogy The Benioff-Wiess star wars movie Star wars by Kevin Feigi Rogue Squadron The Acolyte Droids Lando The Rey movie that starts a new trilogy Speaking of the Rey movie, the the director sharmeen obaid chinoy is more along the lines of news shows than movies or tv shows and is another SJW feminist who thinks that men should be made uncomfortable. You have canceled about four times as many movies as you have released I think you should get passed the female male controversy and forget about the SJW politics and just make good movies

It was fun while it lasted but now it's dead.

17:50 I immidietly assumed that Anakin used the Force for soften Padme's landing.

Awesome vid! I’ve always loved AOTC..

I love the mystery of the clones , Kamino, the Sith in background

What song is that at the start?

AotC and RotS are my two favourite movies (with TESB coming a close third) They're pretty much flawless; carefully crafted movies - from the concept art by Erik Tiemens and Ryan Church right through to the finished product. I haven't read *all* the EU novels yet....Dark Rendezvous is definitely on my tbr list - two books that I've read this week have been: Millennium Falcon, (talk about missed opportunities; Leia's autobiography: "The Crook, the Wook, and Me" mentioned in the novel would have been great!) and Legacy of the Force: Betrayal. So many of the deleted scenes definitely should have been incorporated into the movie: one that springs to mind is where Padme explaining her work on a relief mission in her youth to Anakin; of a non-human race that couldn't survive away from their homeworld. One of the Lost Twenty could have been Jedi Master Djinn Altis from "No Prisoners".

Fun video! Boles Roor is the GOAT! I really enjoyed writing the character for the fanfiction series!

Thanks for having me on man!

It's been so long since I read this book that I'd forgotten just how mediocre it was. Adding to the unnecessary plots of the Jedi younglings adventures, and the incessant sabacc games, there's Han Solo taking Kyp Durron skiing in the polar regions of Coruscant (?) The Luke Skywalker depicted in this trilogy *isn't* the same as the intensely focused Jedi Master we saw in the Dark Empire series. Admiral Daala, I feel, was okay as the renegade Imperial - not every big bad can measure up to Grand Admiral Thrawn. What was interesting was the depiction of the relationship between Wedge Antilles and Qwi Xux - it's a shame the subsequent writers in the EU didn't pursue that - that's showing anti-alien bias right there. 😜

I enjoyed this trilogy. Thanks for the review.

It needs to come back in some shape or form. I don’t really care for the new Star Wars. This is really the true Star Wars for me and I need to know what happens to Ben Skywalker and Taheri and Jaina

That was the old expanded universe.

Bit of feedback The music in the start of the video is a bit too loud, couldn’t really hear you too well

At the start of the video with "Disney Shills", I was getting definite "Friends" vibes - a comedy/drama series set in the offices of The Sinister House of Mouse. 😀 All these constant announcements of "exciting" new trilogies are just Disney Wars blowing smoke up the a$$e$ of investors. The really hardcore Star Wars fans have long since tuned out and treat these things with the contempt they deserve.

Nobody cares though, we are officially at apathy. Because for every project that gets made there are dozens that never did, or never will. What did Kreia say? apathy is death, apathy is worse than death.