Yeah, he was the one I was expecting to truly inherit his uncles legacy. Jacen and Jaina were strong knights but Anakin felt like he was going to be a powerful force master with a deeper connection to the force. I was really disappointed they killed him off.
Finally, someone with excellent taste and an informed opinion!! Anakin Solo was a badass. A serious badass. Losing Chewie, that scene, shocked the hell out of me. Ill never forget the night i read that scene. When Anakin fuses eith the Force battling the Vong... def one of the best written characters in all of Legends!! He was a pure conduit. He was a pure intuitive. He did not have to try anything... he just was. He had always been.... dude was dope AF🔥🔥🔥💣💣🔥🔥🔥
The most interesting part of Anakin's journey for me was his exploration of the Force, starting to find that grey in-between, giving that little glimpse into the Force having far more depth to it than the Jedi / Sith extremes we as an audience were used to seeing.
Disney has yet to create anything that comes close to Luke's Jedi Academy in the old EU. So many good characters and stories that tied into one another. Kyle Katarn, Mara Jade, Kyp Durron, Jacen and Jaina, Anakin, and all the others. There were books for all ages in there. Some of the best Star Wars that has ever been.
Star by star.... I remember ordering that book from my local bookstore It was just released and I was 20... I'm 43 now... Wow... Lol guess I'm just old 😂
It hit me double, cause it was so much like Walter's death from the Anne of Green Gables series. Very similar characters and the first death I cried over. I have very elaborate head cannon of how he comes back. It's the only way I was able to finish NJO.
Voxyn are the stuff of nightmares. I don’t think there’s any fictional creature that has taken up residency in my nightmares quite like it. From their freakish appearance, to their hunting abilities, to their intelligence, to their tenacity, to their acidic saliva, to their toxic mouths, tails, spines, claws, and pawpads … they’re just something else.
My favorite character. Anakin was the first nerdy Jedi. I don't think he's uber powerful, so much as very smart. He puts information better together and trains hard. He hears the Force more clearly, but I don't think he had raw power so much as high intuition. The Myrkr mission was Anakin's plan. He was a strategist. That's what made him stand out. I broke up with Star Wars over his death. I get what they were going for, but the ODing on the Force thing annoyed me.
I still think Luke should have died in NJO with Anakin taking up the mantle in his spirit, confronting Jacen in LotF, and being more of what Jacen ascribed to in terms of the Force, becoming a member of the Council and an Uncle to Ben Skywalker. I always felt like the biggest problem with Anakin is the character isn't as fleshed out as Jaina and Jacen and felt a bit flat during NJO. I wish he had survived honestly. I think killing off Luke in NJO would have upped the stakes and consequences for the Jedi Order instead of Luke being wishy washy with The Jedi Order post NJO. With Luke gone I can actually see how Jacen could turn to the dark side a bit more with a Jedi Schism arising without Luke's leadership.
The fact that neither Anakin Solo nor Ben Skywalker got to grow up is heartbreaking-Anakin because he was killed off, Ben because the SWEU got killed off. 😢 Instead, we got … Kylo Ren.
Day fifty of asking Eck my question: #AskEck Why do you think the pirates kept grogu, there was quite obviously a bounty on him considering all the hunters with tracking fobes and I doubt they wouldn't have known about it, so we're actually protecting him. My theory is that after he was saved after the purge, so senator or rebel group hired these pirates to protect him, but was eventually captured by the empire or forgot about grogu, (why he was never given to the new republic after the war), and the pirates not knowing he was a jedi just kept and raised him till mando showed up, killed them and stole their kid.
#AskEckh If Darth Vader had stayed evil and survived Endor, who do you think he would have chosen as his apprentice? Aside from the obvious like Luke or Leia, do you think Kyp Durron or Mara Jade would have had that Sith Lord aura? Would Jerec and Hethrir be too threatening to his power base? Reva and Starkiller had the sauce but there was too much history there, I figure.
It was my understanding that Anakin Solo was to be the next prodigy to Luke Skywalker as their was talks of Luke sacrificing himself during the NJO era but George Lucas did not approve of the idea of killing the main hero so they killed Anakin off during his heroic sacrifice to destroy the Voxyn Queen thus ending the Voxyn species as a whole that was decimating the Jedi and it also shows the respect and love the writers for the NJO had to honor George’s wish unlike Disney whom desecrated and turned that Man’s world into a unsalvageable rancid fecal waterfall, desecrated his world in SW it’s painful. But anyways that aside yes, he was indeed more powerful than his elder siblings it’s no wonder Palpatine wanted his body. I still really much the NJO novels perfect series enjoying LOTF and FOTJ in spite of his absence which no doubt had an influence in both the Solo twin’s chapters afterwards.
This is not the case, in fact the common story told is that Lucas didn't want a character named Anakin at the forefront because the prequels were coming out which obviously had Anakin. Now how true that is is another story, most of these things are up for debate.
You should do a video on Ganner Rysode. His sacrafice to save Jacen and veregers subsequent vison of the vong worshiping him was easily the most impactful thing ive ever read.
It's such a shame he died... Could've been sorted with a simple... Anakin the Second or Anakin Junior if you genuinely think people would get confused.
@@dizehjvegnomisyeah i actually didnt mind Kylo Ren as a character. had some fun moments and wasnt all that bad. a little heavy on the overly rebellious/edgy looking teen department but wasnt all that bad. his story just.. wasnt all that great in the movies.
Me too, Justin, me too. I stopped reading books set in the "present day" of the Expanded Universe after NJO because of this. That I happened to be his age when he died just added to the visceral gut punch of losing my fav SW character ever.
Brings into mind Kamina and even Nia from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan, Sergeant Johnson from the good parts of Halo, and Rorschach from the Watchmen comics. It's really sad, seeing them die in the great tales they're involved in, but you can't help but admit that glorious martyrdom felt like the better outcome lest they decay into way too extravagant characters (see what happened to Jacen Solo after New Jedi Order, and then there's Rey whatever-her-surname-is), and we all know that their deaths shouldn't be in vain.
huh, interesting, eck. i didn't realize you were a lil younger than me. i would occasionally half-heartedly pick up young jedi knights books while walking through the grocery store with my parent to have something to read if i didn't have regular star wars or star trek books or something with me to read. 😹 s'all good though, that's how i knew about people like zekk when they showed up later.
I think that Anakin's death was him fulfilling his potential in the Force. Every living being has a purpose with the Force, and it was the will of the Force that he die at that moment, doing exactly what he did, because he chose to serve the Force as a Jedi.
I was depressed when I read that book. But I also read somewhere that the reason why they killed him off was because what they did with jacen they were going to do with anakin.
They were going to kill Jacen, so Lucas told them to kill Anakin instead so new fans wouldn't get confused... which still annoys me. I would have been cheesed if they did to Anakin what they did to Jacen though. Anakin was smarter than that.
#AskEck - What percentage of the Imperial Military was the Stormtrooper Corps? I just now found out that the stormtrooper wasn’t the basic infantry unit of the Empire. There’s the Corps, Army, and Navy. The stormtroopers are a completely separate entity in the imperial armed forces and are primarily shock troopers. The Imperial Army is separate and is formed from normal troopers that don’t wear the white and black armor. We probably only ever really see stormtroopers instead of imperial troopers because of how iconic they are and we usually only see them in important situations that regular troopers wouldn’t be required for. Eventually the Corps is dispersed and seems to be the whole Imperial Army by the time of 140 ABY.
We'll probably never know, but if I'm to hazard a guess, it's probably like 3% or something, which I think is roughly the average for special forces in the real world.
#AskEck What is your opinion on the more fantasy side of Star Wars? Everyone always says Star Wars is sci-fi, but in my opinion it’s just as much fantasy.
One last comment from me: The New Jedi Order had some truly epic deaths and near-death confrontations. It started with Corran Horn’s single combat against Shedao Shai, continued with Anakin’s sacrifice on Baanu Rass and the last stand of Ganner Rhysode outside the Well of the World Brain, and culminated with Jacen’s final fight with Onimi. New Jedi Order’s authors really knew how to make a climactic battle stand out, and make a heroic sacrifice matter. Which leads me to an #AskEck question: aside from Anakin Solo, which of these New Jedi Order climactic confrontations/sacrifices (or other deaths-like Chewie, Elegos, Borsk, etc) was most impactful to you as a reader?
Lucas only said that he thought that people would confuse the him with his grandfather, and that Jacen should be the true hero of the series. But, he also want them to “take the gloves off” to tell readers that no character was safe. So the Del Rey story group decided to off Anakin Solo. It was a similar reason with their decision to kill off Mara Jade in the later storylines. Tired about being asked about the EU, Lucas said that his Luke Skywalker wouldn’t get married but instead would invest himself full to rebuilding his new Jedi Order. Marriage would distract from that. And since none of the big characters had died off in awhile, and I think Luke was off limits, they decided to go with Mara, as she was one of the more popular characters and it would provide a reason to further develop Luke’s character beyond Jacen. Though how Del Rey went about writing her off sparked a lot of drama behind the scenes. Enough that I think that there is probably some legal issue with bringing the character back into canon, because it wasn’t just that Lucas hated the character.
This is first time hearing about the Skywalker kids in this legend in whatever that means. But this should of been a series so people as myself who's new and novices to learn more about this legends fiction.
Star Wars Legends is the branding Disney slapped on decades of official Expanded Universe books, comics, and games when they bought Lucasfilm. The New Jedi Order series alone (published from 1999 to 2003) consists of 19 books and 5 short stories and novellas. There are entire series of videos and podcasts (by Ecks, Star Wars Explained, and others) that can tell you exactly what you need to know. 😊
Start by reading either Truce at Bakura or Heir to the Empire. There were hundred of EU books before Disney took over. The Heir to the Empire/Dark Force Rising/The Last Command trilogy are true sequels and kicked off the EU, so good place to start. But chronologically Truce at Bakura starts immediately after Return of the Jedi, so also a good starting point.
#askeck How would you structure a good New Republic fleet for hunting serious Imperial targets? Are there any you think weren’t structured well and if so how would you change them?
@@violetlight1548 She says in one of the early books of NJO that she did it to 'redeem the name of Anakin' with the hope that her son would become the hero her father should have been. In a way, she got her wish. :(
#AskEck How did relations between the Stormtrooper Corps and the Imperial Army normally look? Were relations tense or strained? Did they get along fairly well during joint deployments? Did Stormtroopers have any nominal authority over soldiers in the Imperial Army? In particular I'm wondering about Veers' backstory in Legends where he gets promoted to major by a Stormtrooper commander, which feels weird on paper since they're in different branches. Said commander also just plain executed an Army general without any apparent repercussions, which raises the question of could appropriately ranked Stormtroopers just do things like that if they could justify it/ felt like it.
See I don't think he would, and he was chafing against that expectation. Anakin's key trait was intellect. Luke's not dumb, but his best trait is seeing the good in people and caring about individuals. Anakin struggled more with social connection. But I liked those differences.
#AskEck if the yuuzhan vong were to ever be adapted into live action whether it be current star wars canon or a new legends universe, how would you want them to be adapted and how many projects would you use to adapt them?
#askeck I don't really know much about it, but I was wondering why we don't see much 'force imbuing' especially during the clone wars. With Jedi starting to wear armour, could it be force imbued to have similar properties as beskar? Or is force imbuing only possible on swords/blades? Great vid as always 😁
#Askeck Do you think Disney will bring back creating lightsabers with non-kyber crystals? Jacen Solo for example had a lightsaber with a Corusca gem. I know Obi-Wan briefly used a lightsaber with a Kohlen crystal, but that doesn't seem quite the same
#AskEck what was the endgame strategy for victory that the Rebel Alliance had for defeating the Empire (asides from the disastrous Operation Domino as well as the Battle of Endor)? Did they have one or was it just going to be perpetual guerrilla warfare? Plz cover both Legends and Canon Lore ship Versus video request: Resurgent vs. Starhawk Tie Striker vs. New Republic V-Wing World Devastator vs. Vong Worldship Tie Silencer vs. X-83 Twintail Tie Silencer vs. Tie Defender (legends version) Keldabe vs. ISD II MC90 vs. Nebula class star destroyer Nebula class vs. Pellaeon class Majestic class vs. Bothan Assault Cruiser EAWX: FOTR’s Mandator II portrayal vs. Subjugator Praetor vs. Subjugator Starhawk vs. Bulwark MK III Gargantua/Aratech 520 Battle Platform vs. A6 Juggernaut
#askEck In regards to Anakin and Jacen, were the visions Jacen receives of Anakin in Traitor actually him in the Force, or were they all illusions? Specifically, when Jacen saw him in the ruins of his family apartment. PS. this is just an excuse to talk about Traitor generally.
Ben's Luke son. He was an infant when Anakin died. At the time, Luke was favoring Anakin to be the new leader of the Jedi Order. Media was calling Anakin the next Luke Skywalker. I think Anakin chafed against those expectations. He was a thinker, and that was his real strength. He was not great at social stuff and did not enjoy the attention or pressure.
I hated them killing off Anakin by having him OD on the Force. To me what made Anakin Solo interesting was a mix of intellect and intuition. Before NJO they pushed him as a genius, and I liked him as an introverted nerd. The war pushed him out of his comfort zone. I'd prefer they not make him the bestest Jedi in terms of raw power. Ganner took on more Vong. Later books acted like Anakin was more powerful than he was. Being a thinker and puzzling thing out with the Force for added insight was his real talent.
I always pronounced Jacen's name with a hard "c", "Ja-ken", so he sounded more "Star Wars-y" and not like some 90s kid. And yeah, Anakin was doomed by his name. Why the hell did Leia even consider it? She had no love for her birth father. I thought she would have named her younger kid Bail. Anyway, #AskEck what do you think was the in-universe explanation (instead of RL sexism) as to why Han and Leia's kids were never called "Organa", or at least "Organa-Solo". After all, Leia's the princess -- Han's just some guy. And in Disney canon, he was literally just *assigned* the name Solo by some bored Imp recruitment officer. Seems like he wouldn't have much of an attachment to it. For Leia, on the other hand, her family name is all she has left of her planet and her parents. You'd think she'd want to pass that down to her kids.
RIP you legend. Anakin Solo was really the heir apparent to Luke for a long time. He deserved to live.
Yeah, he was the one I was expecting to truly inherit his uncles legacy. Jacen and Jaina were strong knights but Anakin felt like he was going to be a powerful force master with a deeper connection to the force. I was really disappointed they killed him off.
Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin felt like they were primed to be the Big 3 of the next generation. Anakin=Luke, Jacen=Leia, Jaina=Han.
He was so great they named a prequel character after him!
Finally, someone with excellent taste and an informed opinion!! Anakin Solo was a badass. A serious badass. Losing Chewie, that scene, shocked the hell out of me. Ill never forget the night i read that scene.
When Anakin fuses eith the Force battling the Vong... def one of the best written characters in all of Legends!!
He was a pure conduit. He was a pure intuitive. He did not have to try anything... he just was. He had always been.... dude was dope AF🔥🔥🔥💣💣🔥🔥🔥
This will be a gem.
I'll never recover from the shock of reading Star by Star without having known that there was a whole series leading up to it.
Just finished Star by Star last week. That was a rough one. I knew Chewie and Anakin died in the NJO, but man...
The most interesting part of Anakin's journey for me was his exploration of the Force, starting to find that grey in-between, giving that little glimpse into the Force having far more depth to it than the Jedi / Sith extremes we as an audience were used to seeing.
Disney has yet to create anything that comes close to Luke's Jedi Academy in the old EU. So many good characters and stories that tied into one another. Kyle Katarn, Mara Jade, Kyp Durron, Jacen and Jaina, Anakin, and all the others. There were books for all ages in there. Some of the best Star Wars that has ever been.
Let's be honest, whatever NJO Disney comes up with won't be half as good.
@@Darth_Xionn 100% agreed. What they churn out is a PALE imitation of what Star Wars should be, and NOTHING they ever make will ever be any good.
Star by star.... I remember ordering that book from my local bookstore It was just released and I was 20... I'm 43 now... Wow... Lol guess I'm just old 😂
He's the only fictional character whose death I never got over.
Mara Jade Skywalker's death was worse for me. I'm O.K. about Chewie's death. I liked Anakin Solo and his death was very sad.
It took me a LONG time to get over Chewie’s death. I never got over Anakin or Mara.
It hit me double, cause it was so much like Walter's death from the Anne of Green Gables series. Very similar characters and the first death I cried over.
I have very elaborate head cannon of how he comes back. It's the only way I was able to finish NJO.
Voxyn are the stuff of nightmares. I don’t think there’s any fictional creature that has taken up residency in my nightmares quite like it.
From their freakish appearance, to their hunting abilities, to their intelligence, to their tenacity, to their acidic saliva, to their toxic mouths, tails, spines, claws, and pawpads … they’re just something else.
I picked up Star By Star as my first EU book without being aware of the context... quite the decision
Me too! A terrible experience....
RIP Anakin Solo, while you may have passed. You are now reunited with your fallen friends, master, and the grandfather who you were named after.
Anakin solo was always the best character in the legend timeline
Anakin’s death was the sole reason i sold all my NJO novels
My favorite character. Anakin was the first nerdy Jedi.
I don't think he's uber powerful, so much as very smart. He puts information better together and trains hard. He hears the Force more clearly, but I don't think he had raw power so much as high intuition.
The Myrkr mission was Anakin's plan. He was a strategist. That's what made him stand out.
I broke up with Star Wars over his death. I get what they were going for, but the ODing on the Force thing annoyed me.
What they did to tahiri veila after was character asssasination
I remember reading this as a kid. He was my favorite from the EU and the first favorite character i remember dying. It just hit different
That was very informative. Thanks Ek! Please keep your videos coming.
Anakin Solo was always a great character. He should have lived.
But then the wee silly small brained little fans might have gotten confused, dontcha know?
@@paulsteinhauser434 I agree. He was someone I looked up to.
The legends timeline's greatest hero.
Anakin Solo and Vua Rapuung partnership was cool
Awesome! Thanks for answering my question.
I still think Luke should have died in NJO with Anakin taking up the mantle in his spirit, confronting Jacen in LotF, and being more of what Jacen ascribed to in terms of the Force, becoming a member of the Council and an Uncle to Ben Skywalker. I always felt like the biggest problem with Anakin is the character isn't as fleshed out as Jaina and Jacen and felt a bit flat during NJO. I wish he had survived honestly.
I think killing off Luke in NJO would have upped the stakes and consequences for the Jedi Order instead of Luke being wishy washy with The Jedi Order post NJO. With Luke gone I can actually see how Jacen could turn to the dark side a bit more with a Jedi Schism arising without Luke's leadership.
The fact that neither Anakin Solo nor Ben Skywalker got to grow up is heartbreaking-Anakin because he was killed off, Ben because the SWEU got killed off. 😢
Instead, we got … Kylo Ren.
With his intelligence, he was more like Kylo Stimpy....
Sad we didn't get these kids in the sequel
Given how Ben/Kylo was treated, did you want to see them treated like stepping stones for Rey? I'm glad Disney left them in Legends.
@aster4jaden fair point
Proud to have recognised the credits song at the first "pat" :) Anyway, I've really been enjoying these, keep 'em coming!
Day fifty of asking Eck my question:
#AskEck
Why do you think the pirates kept grogu, there was quite obviously a bounty on him considering all the hunters with tracking fobes and I doubt they wouldn't have known about it, so we're actually protecting him. My theory is that after he was saved after the purge, so senator or rebel group hired these pirates to protect him, but was eventually captured by the empire or forgot about grogu, (why he was never given to the new republic after the war), and the pirates not knowing he was a jedi just kept and raised him till mando showed up, killed them and stole their kid.
You should talk about tahiri veila!! She is a fascinating character
And that's why naming characters after their grandpa doesn't work
Okay, J. Walter Weatherman.
#AskEckh If Darth Vader had stayed evil and survived Endor, who do you think he would have chosen as his apprentice? Aside from the obvious like Luke or Leia, do you think Kyp Durron or Mara Jade would have had that Sith Lord aura? Would Jerec and Hethrir be too threatening to his power base? Reva and Starkiller had the sauce but there was too much history there, I figure.
When you said, "Junior Jedi Knights" I chortled.
Great video. This era was great.
It was my understanding that Anakin Solo was to be the next prodigy to Luke Skywalker as their was talks of Luke sacrificing himself during the NJO era but George Lucas did not approve of the idea of killing the main hero so they killed Anakin off during his heroic sacrifice to destroy the Voxyn Queen thus ending the Voxyn species as a whole that was decimating the Jedi and it also shows the respect and love the writers for the NJO had to honor George’s wish unlike Disney whom desecrated and turned that Man’s world into a unsalvageable rancid fecal waterfall, desecrated his world in SW it’s painful. But anyways that aside yes, he was indeed more powerful than his elder siblings it’s no wonder Palpatine wanted his body. I still really much the NJO novels perfect series enjoying LOTF and FOTJ in spite of his absence which no doubt had an influence in both the Solo twin’s chapters afterwards.
This is not the case, in fact the common story told is that Lucas didn't want a character named Anakin at the forefront because the prequels were coming out which obviously had Anakin. Now how true that is is another story, most of these things are up for debate.
Jaina Solo next?
Also got some ideas for What Ifs
You should do a video on Ganner Rysode. His sacrafice to save Jacen and veregers subsequent vison of the vong worshiping him was easily the most impactful thing ive ever read.
It's such a shame he died...
Could've been sorted with a simple...
Anakin the Second or Anakin Junior if you genuinely think people would get confused.
If I remember correctly, Anakin fought off the Vong for days without sleep helping pregnant Mara Jade escape
Instead we had Kylo Ren
Who's Rylo ken?
driver is great. too bad *he* couldn't have been anakin solo
@@dizehjvegnomisyeah i actually didnt mind Kylo Ren as a character. had some fun moments and wasnt all that bad. a little heavy on the overly rebellious/edgy looking teen department but wasnt all that bad.
his story just.. wasnt all that great in the movies.
@@avazquez01 well, being best part of the movie is not an achievement
Me too, Justin, me too. I stopped reading books set in the "present day" of the Expanded Universe after NJO because of this. That I happened to be his age when he died just added to the visceral gut punch of losing my fav SW character ever.
Brings into mind Kamina and even Nia from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan, Sergeant Johnson from the good parts of Halo, and Rorschach from the Watchmen comics. It's really sad, seeing them die in the great tales they're involved in, but you can't help but admit that glorious martyrdom felt like the better outcome lest they decay into way too extravagant characters (see what happened to Jacen Solo after New Jedi Order, and then there's Rey whatever-her-surname-is), and we all know that their deaths shouldn't be in vain.
huh, interesting, eck. i didn't realize you were a lil younger than me. i would occasionally half-heartedly pick up young jedi knights books while walking through the grocery store with my parent to have something to read if i didn't have regular star wars or star trek books or something with me to read. 😹
s'all good though, that's how i knew about people like zekk when they showed up later.
#AskEck I’ve noticed you don’t really cover the old republic. Is there a specific reason or are you just not interested in it?
I think that Anakin's death was him fulfilling his potential in the Force. Every living being has a purpose with the Force, and it was the will of the Force that he die at that moment, doing exactly what he did, because he chose to serve the Force as a Jedi.
Jacen was my favorite Solo, but Ani was a real one.
I was actually mad when I read the books as a kid and they killed off Anakin. He was my favorite of the solo kids.
I was depressed when I read that book. But I also read somewhere that the reason why they killed him off was because what they did with jacen they were going to do with anakin.
They were going to kill Jacen, so Lucas told them to kill Anakin instead so new fans wouldn't get confused... which still annoys me.
I would have been cheesed if they did to Anakin what they did to Jacen though. Anakin was smarter than that.
Well it WASNT the story thought at first was headed towards...
Epic star wars moments
#AskEck - What percentage of the Imperial Military was the Stormtrooper Corps? I just now found out that the stormtrooper wasn’t the basic infantry unit of the Empire. There’s the Corps, Army, and Navy. The stormtroopers are a completely separate entity in the imperial armed forces and are primarily shock troopers. The Imperial Army is separate and is formed from normal troopers that don’t wear the white and black armor. We probably only ever really see stormtroopers instead of imperial troopers because of how iconic they are and we usually only see them in important situations that regular troopers wouldn’t be required for. Eventually the Corps is dispersed and seems to be the whole Imperial Army by the time of 140 ABY.
We'll probably never know, but if I'm to hazard a guess, it's probably like 3% or something, which I think is roughly the average for special forces in the real world.
#AskEck What is your opinion on the more fantasy side of Star Wars? Everyone always says Star Wars is sci-fi, but in my opinion it’s just as much fantasy.
One last comment from me: The New Jedi Order had some truly epic deaths and near-death confrontations. It started with Corran Horn’s single combat against Shedao Shai, continued with Anakin’s sacrifice on Baanu Rass and the last stand of Ganner Rhysode outside the Well of the World Brain, and culminated with Jacen’s final fight with Onimi.
New Jedi Order’s authors really knew how to make a climactic battle stand out, and make a heroic sacrifice matter.
Which leads me to an #AskEck question: aside from Anakin Solo, which of these New Jedi Order climactic confrontations/sacrifices (or other deaths-like Chewie, Elegos, Borsk, etc) was most impactful to you as a reader?
Lucas only said that he thought that people would confuse the him with his grandfather, and that Jacen should be the true hero of the series. But, he also want them to “take the gloves off” to tell readers that no character was safe. So the Del Rey story group decided to off Anakin Solo.
It was a similar reason with their decision to kill off Mara Jade in the later storylines. Tired about being asked about the EU, Lucas said that his Luke Skywalker wouldn’t get married but instead would invest himself full to rebuilding his new Jedi Order. Marriage would distract from that. And since none of the big characters had died off in awhile, and I think Luke was off limits, they decided to go with Mara, as she was one of the more popular characters and it would provide a reason to further develop Luke’s character beyond Jacen. Though how Del Rey went about writing her off sparked a lot of drama behind the scenes. Enough that I think that there is probably some legal issue with bringing the character back into canon, because it wasn’t just that Lucas hated the character.
Zahn told me he'd love to bring Mara back. I don't think it's a legal issue, just Disney not wanting to admit Legends had better female characters.
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I love this chanel
This is first time hearing about the Skywalker kids in this legend in whatever that means. But this should of been a series so people as myself who's new and novices to learn more about this legends fiction.
Star Wars Legends is the branding Disney slapped on decades of official Expanded Universe books, comics, and games when they bought Lucasfilm. The New Jedi Order series alone (published from 1999 to 2003) consists of 19 books and 5 short stories and novellas. There are entire series of videos and podcasts (by Ecks, Star Wars Explained, and others) that can tell you exactly what you need to know. 😊
Start by reading either Truce at Bakura or Heir to the Empire. There were hundred of EU books before Disney took over.
The Heir to the Empire/Dark Force Rising/The Last Command trilogy are true sequels and kicked off the EU, so good place to start.
But chronologically Truce at Bakura starts immediately after Return of the Jedi, so also a good starting point.
@@TheChristianPsychopath okay , well seek out those books and had no idea of Disney distain for the legends
#askeck How would you structure a good New Republic fleet for hunting serious Imperial targets? Are there any you think weren’t structured well and if so how would you change them?
Legends are canon to me.
In sure he would love knowing that his name was based on someone who helped commit genocide, destroy a planet, murder countless innocent people 😂
I swear Leia must have lost a bet with Luke to name her kid that.
@@violetlight1548 She says in one of the early books of NJO that she did it to 'redeem the name of Anakin' with the hope that her son would become the hero her father should have been. In a way, she got her wish. :(
He was not a fan of his name at all. It pops up a few times throughout the books.
But it motivated him to be more on guard against the dark side.
#AskEck How did relations between the Stormtrooper Corps and the Imperial Army normally look? Were relations tense or strained? Did they get along fairly well during joint deployments? Did Stormtroopers have any nominal authority over soldiers in the Imperial Army? In particular I'm wondering about Veers' backstory in Legends where he gets promoted to major by a Stormtrooper commander, which feels weird on paper since they're in different branches. Said commander also just plain executed an Army general without any apparent repercussions, which raises the question of could appropriately ranked Stormtroopers just do things like that if they could justify it/ felt like it.
No doubt Anakin Solo would had been the next Luke Skywalker.
See I don't think he would, and he was chafing against that expectation. Anakin's key trait was intellect.
Luke's not dumb, but his best trait is seeing the good in people and caring about individuals.
Anakin struggled more with social connection. But I liked those differences.
Just got to Star by Star. I don't want to read it.
It's generally a good book and doubly frustrating because it feels like they finally got Anakin's character right before killing him off.
#AskEck if the yuuzhan vong were to ever be adapted into live action whether it be current star wars canon or a new legends universe, how would you want them to be adapted and how many projects would you use to adapt them?
No reference to Ben Skywalker?
#askeck I don't really know much about it, but I was wondering why we don't see much 'force imbuing' especially during the clone wars. With Jedi starting to wear armour, could it be force imbued to have similar properties as beskar? Or is force imbuing only possible on swords/blades? Great vid as always 😁
#AskEck Do you think Disney will ever make an animated series that uses the legends cannon? I think it would be great as an anthology series.
What is the name of that game playing on screen?
Good soldiers comment early.
#Askeck Do you think Disney will bring back creating lightsabers with non-kyber crystals? Jacen Solo for example had a lightsaber with a Corusca gem. I know Obi-Wan briefly used a lightsaber with a Kohlen crystal, but that doesn't seem quite the same
#AskEck what was the endgame strategy for victory that the Rebel Alliance had for defeating the Empire (asides from the disastrous Operation Domino as well as the Battle of Endor)? Did they have one or was it just going to be perpetual guerrilla warfare? Plz cover both Legends and Canon
Lore ship Versus video request:
Resurgent vs. Starhawk
Tie Striker vs. New Republic V-Wing
World Devastator vs. Vong Worldship
Tie Silencer vs. X-83 Twintail
Tie Silencer vs. Tie Defender (legends version)
Keldabe vs. ISD II
MC90 vs. Nebula class star destroyer
Nebula class vs. Pellaeon class
Majestic class vs. Bothan Assault Cruiser
EAWX: FOTR’s Mandator II portrayal vs. Subjugator
Praetor vs. Subjugator
Starhawk vs. Bulwark MK III
Gargantua/Aratech 520 Battle Platform vs. A6 Juggernaut
#AskEck What are some plot holes that live in your head for free and how would you fix them?
#askEck In regards to Anakin and Jacen, were the visions Jacen receives of Anakin in Traitor actually him in the Force, or were they all illusions? Specifically, when Jacen saw him in the ruins of his family apartment.
PS. this is just an excuse to talk about Traitor generally.
Absolutely Vergere screwing with him. Jacen was correct that it was not stuff Anakin would say.
Can we all agree George Lucas was kind stupid when can to branching his story out
#askeck hey Eck, can you make a video about the TX-130 fighter tank?
wait... ben solo... i'm so stupid... he was named after obi-wan... i cannot believe i just realized that haha damn i'm dumb ^^
That's because Ben Skywalker made sense, since Ben was life changing for Luke. Leia and Kenobi never met until KK's nonsensical retcon.
#askeck hey love the videos and what happened to eli vanto after he went to the chiss and how would you feel about seeing him in ashoka or mando
#AskEck If you were in the Star Wars galaxy, what Pokemon would you want as your partner Pokemon? Aside from the god-like ones like Mewtwo.
#askeck Who would win in a fight? Anakin Skywalker OR The Chosen One from Kung Pow! Enter the Fist?
#askeck wasn't ben skywalker the heir to luke i started reading legacy of the force and that's how it's mostly set up in my opinion
Ben's Luke son. He was an infant when Anakin died. At the time, Luke was favoring Anakin to be the new leader of the Jedi Order. Media was calling Anakin the next Luke Skywalker.
I think Anakin chafed against those expectations. He was a thinker, and that was his real strength. He was not great at social stuff and did not enjoy the attention or pressure.
The part that bothers me is the fact that we got Kyle Ron, the dog face boy who looks like a mule.
Come on, there are better insults for Kylo. Making fun of looks is the saddest of arguments to start with
@sevenofzach your thoughts betray you. If kylo won't be the mule faced successor, then perhaps you will...
@@cappuccinobear1123God I hope so
Cardboard Jacen is what I call him now.
I hate being the negative downer, but im definitely with George Lucas here this was ridiculous Star wars power creep at its worst
I hated them killing off Anakin by having him OD on the Force. To me what made Anakin Solo interesting was a mix of intellect and intuition. Before NJO they pushed him as a genius, and I liked him as an introverted nerd. The war pushed him out of his comfort zone. I'd prefer they not make him the bestest Jedi in terms of raw power.
Ganner took on more Vong. Later books acted like Anakin was more powerful than he was. Being a thinker and puzzling thing out with the Force for added insight was his real talent.
I always pronounced Jacen's name with a hard "c", "Ja-ken", so he sounded more "Star Wars-y" and not like some 90s kid. And yeah, Anakin was doomed by his name. Why the hell did Leia even consider it? She had no love for her birth father. I thought she would have named her younger kid Bail.
Anyway, #AskEck what do you think was the in-universe explanation (instead of RL sexism) as to why Han and Leia's kids were never called "Organa", or at least "Organa-Solo". After all, Leia's the princess -- Han's just some guy. And in Disney canon, he was literally just *assigned* the name Solo by some bored Imp recruitment officer. Seems like he wouldn't have much of an attachment to it. For Leia, on the other hand, her family name is all she has left of her planet and her parents. You'd think she'd want to pass that down to her kids.
He got a ship named after him. It's all good.