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Star Wars: Rebels
Lupercal:
Seriously, some of the EU cover art is brilliant. Would genuinely love some posters made from the illustrations of those books - helped keep the "this could be a movie" idea alive.
It certainly would spice things up a bit if a new enemy would be unearthed. Even in the EU there was a fair amount of 'Remnant Empire' stuff.
de_la_Nae:
I'm gonna go ahead and say this: on reflection, a couple movies for a reworking of the Ssi-Ruuvi concepts could actually be pretty tight. Put a Force user in the party, but don't normally make them the *main* character like Luke was, more like Han maybe. Explore the tensions a bit between a declining Empire and an already showing-cracks Alliance as it steps up to take the big boy's chair. Really sell us a callously (but not sadistic) racist culture that values other species as glorified batteries, make that entechment thing all the awful, and make it be a sumbitch fight to break the back of the incursion fleet. Bonus points for a good depiction of the awkwardness of Rebels and Stormtroopers trying to work together on something for a change. Could be cool.
Or could fail pretty badly.
I think Cumberbatch as Thrawn might be neat, but I've actually committed Star Wars EU blasphemy and never bothered to read those yet. Yes, yes I know people say they're awesome, but I've been mostly out of SW for years by the time i heard of them. I *did* read one of those for-teenagers not-really-canon books that had him as a secondary character, seemed okay.
Lupercal:
I don't think you're missing out on the EU. My main EU experiences came from video games - and as a kid/teen, these are brilliant at immersing you back into Star Wars. I re-read the Jedi Academy Trilogy and didn't think too much of it...but there are interesting bits of info here and there. I honestly think Lando is one of the more interesting characters, just because you get to know him.
And they don't shy away from going Return of the Jedi and re-inventing the Death Star every now and then. Pretty sure one book deals with the Empire using the prototype Death Star, which is just a spherical frame, a room, and a laser, and a hutt-built "Darksaber" which is just a Death Star in a different shape.
de_la_Nae:
Every other fucking day it's another superweapon.
One of the reasons I liked the X-Wing books so much, they sort of managed to avoid the worst of that. Bioterrorism and warlord fleets and stuff like that instead.
GarandMarine:
Hell the fourth book was all about economic terrorism and politics, while the Wraith Squadron books proved that you can have Fighter Jockies and Operators in the same squadron, even doing the same job.
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