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I don’t think I’ll ever experience more Star Wars joy then when I picked these up as a kid. I reread them after the latest trilogy. I actually enjoyed the newest movies, but THESE should have been the sequels. Most Viral edit: Check out the audiobooks. They’re great. Good sound effects and the voices (most) are spot on. Makes you feel like you’re watching a movie.
evolution4407
These books were so much more imaginative than the movie sequel trilogy. Damn shame.
EmporerDragon
Same thing with using A.C. Crispin's trilogy for Han Solo's past instead of the Solo film.
SalmySwims
YES. Those books were so damn well-written!
dellafiamma
Jaina and Jacen Solo forever
stabthecrab
The death bane trilogy was my favorite and I’m at 29 deep now
ImOldGreggAndIDrinkBaileysFromAShoe
The Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy should have been made into a movie by now
AnathemaNoreh
I loved the Darth Bane trilogy. But I feel like movies would be a disappointment. Maybe a limited series?
themightybearorrist
One of the best book trilogies ever.
AnotherExhaustedMillenial
This is the way.
GrumpyOldMillennial
Dont forget the accompanying duology: Specter of the Past and Vision of the Future. 5 of the greatest Star Wars books written.
BoricuaLunar
Oath! I'm a die hard Star Wars fan from the original series and I was so disappointed that Timothy Zahn's was not put to screen.
skulltura
CORRECT ZAHN!!!
bryanew710
Loved the art of the initial Dark Horse comic adaptation, particularly Heir to the Empire.
inxed
Easily the best
stevtom27
I loved Jacen, Jaina and Anakin
TheCloney
I always wanted the X-Wing series to a Netflix series or something, those were my favourite. Starfighters of Adumar is so fucking amazing to
nichfra
I've read that series so many times as a teenager. Haven't read them for more than a decade but I'd fanboy so hard for a Netflix series.
stickthinsentinel
Yes! Loved those books. Rogue Squadron was what got me into star wars
JulienEgron
Page 40 of the first book. First time reading at 35 years old. Real excited!
Gestalt7
The contrast between the Thrawn books and the goddamn trainwrecks we get from Disney are so heartbreaking.
Verde4911
It takes you right back to the feeling you had watching the original trilogy.
JaceArveduin
While we're mentioning good Star Wars books that are no longer canon, go read the Republic Commando series!
RidillaKilla
Thrawn in his best self in these masterpieces
BurlRavenscroft
Nope there are NO COMICS and NO BOOKS to draw inspiration from .... Kennedy didn’t pay 4 billion dollars to be made a fool of fake news SAD
kojenk
This must be how experts feel when politicians talk bulshit about their field of study
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Sendmen00ts
Ok but sequels to these sequels Spector of the past and vision of the future.
ImOldGreggAndIDrinkBaileysFromAShoe
those were epic
Tirade
And his little side stories, like Survivor's Quest and Outbound Flight were fantastic too.
BREED09
Can we talk about the x-wing series. Would have made some good movies or a season or two of television.
GIFMystic
Wait...she said they didn't have reference material...
dropbear128
"People who like things don't know what they are talking about." - Disney
NordicusMaximus
I loved those, read a lot of the series over the past 30 years. Last series was the Legacy of the Force 9-books with the twins, so good.
itspronouncedfronkensteen
Dont forget the Christmas special.
jdm2
Life day special
Xynatox
"If I had a sledgehammer and the time..." - George Lucas
somnif
I can't. By god I want to, but I can't.
goflyblind
*life day
GBboy83
Totally agree!!!
ScottaHemi
ahem
Roshiro
It's not like you get to see two main protagonists become ORPHANS before your very eyes
Cabronmalisimo
Sauroctonus
Spinoff, though.
alyoshaspupil
Rented this so many times from blockbuster as a kid. I’m shocked my dad didn’t disown me.
Sauroctonus
He's clearly a Teek fan.
OhQuietOne
This gave me sooooo many nightmares when I was 5!
snoogns
Loved this movie as a kid... Also, does that say "Ceorge Lucas"?
tenaciousOther
i watched this as a kid and wasn't sure it was actually real until recently
Roshiro
Oof
joshawewah
I'm pretty upset this isn't on Disney+
jennym123
Ditto! How could they forget these genuine classics.
Myothercarisadelorean
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jotchy
A link to the full Ewok adventure?! Holy cow! thanks
freiman
I know right, I watched willow the other day and immediately wondered where this was at
calichillionaire
I have never heard of this. Was it straight to video?
ScottaHemi
either that or TV movie. there's a sequil to this one to
Pr1meKn1ght
TV movie that then went to video. Same as Battle for Endor, the sequel to Caravan of Courage.
actualseal
I had a vhs recorded from tv of this as a kid. The turret scene BARELY made up for that fucking cursed pool scene.
GadenKerensky
Can you describe this 'cursed pool scene'? In words.
actualseal
What are these words u speak of
Christx30
Someone falls into the water. Surface of water turns into glass, trapping person.
GadenKerensky
Oh. So less super freaky, just really fucked up in its simplicity.
Christx30
At the beginning of the movie, the kids are giving gifts to assist in their quest. The little boy gets a small stone, and a little girl >
neonoptic
Disney killed the books and the games. I just want to see Kyle Katarn steal the plans for the deathstar. Goddamnit.
darthhiggy
also, to be fair. Lucas never treated any of it as Canon unless its what he wanted to do anyways. They were never "Canon" in reality.
darthhiggy
What is important is that you enjoy them. A corporate entity can't take away your joy of a thing that already exist. Just keep enjoying it.
malexmatt
To be fair, there's like six different stories about getting the Death Star plans in the EU.
Icallshennanigans
Funnyhaha29
Truce at Bakura, the witches of dathomir, all the Yuzhaan vong stuff was especially badass toward the beginning, dark empire in the comics
amglasgow
Most of it does not age well.
ImguryProne
Jalad at Tanagra.
PimpinKen
Alien name, his arms wide
ImguryProne
Other alien, his sails unfurled.
NotASwordButADickinDisguise
Yuuzhan Vong went on way too long and got off the rails. There we're good books in there, buy man they could have cut like half of them.
pkrevbro
Yeah, that arc with the vong basically ended with an intergalactic hug. And they killed the interesting Solo child midway through the arc.
slyguysslut
? I stopped reading them years ago but still, SPOILER!
MatthewEis
can you spoil a non longer cannon book series?
BMuff
Yeah but he went out pretty badass iirc.
sureimeanwhynot
Funnyhaha29 Did Truce at Bakura have some pretty weird goopy scenes involving bacta? And force witches? Am I remembering correctly?
valen00
Bacta I think so, don't recall witches but it was 20 odd years ago I read it
Funnyhaha29
Truce at Bakura had reptile aliens invading on the outer rim who would upload peoples life energy into their war robots- 12 y/o me loved it
Sauroctonus
Would that be the Ssi-Ruvi?
Funnyhaha29
Yezzir
saturos01
Adult me re-read it not long ago and still enjoyed it.
Funnyhaha29
Noyce
sureimeanwhynot
Recommend? Okay I'll get a hold of it and have a go!
neos501
Who is that old dude on the left shooting lasers from his fingers?
NordicusMaximus
C’Baoth, he is an insanely crazy Jedi clone of an old Jedi Master. He tries to lure Luke into training, and kidnap Leia’s unborn twins.
PatrickDiomedes
since he was a clone, shouldn't he be Joruus C'Baoth? (Luuke was a good idea, but a very silly name)
NordicusMaximus
He was indeed called Joruus, because of that reason. A clone of Jedi Master Jorus C’Baoth
PatrickDiomedes
it's been a couple years since I read the books, so I forgot
drunkill
Zahn wanted him to be an evil clone of Obi Wan, George shot that down though.
He4rtless
Serious question. So why didn’t they base the movies off the novels?
neos501
Because the actors from 4,5,6 are all old/dead now. The characters are still young in those books.
Verde4911
I think they should’ve just recast them.
VerdantRah
No
Verde4911
Why not?
VerdantRah
Because that went so well with Solo
Keitek
Because Disney didn't want to pay royalties to Lucas and the authors for EU characters. Filoni had to convince Disney to use Thrawn.
VerdantRah
Because Disney didn't publish them and thought they could do better
kojenk
Ah well you see...
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skizzit
They wanted to make their own movies for the rights and such plus all the main actors were way to old.
Verde4911
I have no idea. Personally I think this would have been amazing. But I guess that’s just my opinion....
He4rtless
Do you think Timothy Zahn is a good writer? I’m just disappointed where there seems like so much potential.
richorelaxo
I tried reading his non-sw novels, couldn't finish them
Korovashya
Who knows. The best argument I've seen is their approach is based around copyright management.
PossibleSarcasm
Disney wanted to create their own stories, they not only threw out the EU, but ignored Lucas's treatments he wrote up.
PossibleSarcasm
They don't want to pay royalties to anyone. They want to insert their own political agenda into the films. They wanted to kill all the old
PossibleSarcasm
OT characters off in a shameful way to prop up their own characters that would theoretically keep the franchise going into the future
kojenk
Imagine the 2nd movie with Ackbar at the helm aiming the ship & the 1st Order wondering what he's doing, realizing too late that "its a tr..
Megatron115
Thrawn, Mara Jade and Talon Kardde were some of the best characters. Great books
icer190
Kardde yes. Jade and Thrawn no.
wolfpreist
They nailed Thrawn in Rebels i thought.
Sirdan3k
There enough of a time gap and Daisy Ridley doesn't want to come back. Mara Jade will be back and will have had Luke's kid.
Dorsk84
Karrde*..... It's just my handle for everything I can use...and my D&D character.
Brydern
So that's who's been grabbing it every time I try to use it somewhere new!
Dorsk84
Maybe. Someone already had it on here when i joined....5 years ago.
hammer2142
this is the way
freiman
They killed Mara Jade and actual well written real female character that was powerful and layered, those cunts
freiman
or worse she doesn't exist
timberjackchris
Don't forget the Star Crusher from the secret black hole base, used by the OG dark apprentice!
sandwiched
The Jedi Academy series was rather trash compared to the Thrawn trilogy. The writing just wasn't up to snuff IMO.
JamesBluntThatSmartassCunt
Don’t forget Kyle Katarn. The stormtrooper, turned merc, turned rebel, turned Jedi.
DEFINITELYnotSauron
Favourite expanded universe character after revan
freiman
Really could have turned Finn into Kyle but noo they took him and turned him into a joke
k4FoodSmasher
“REY!”
JamesBluntThatSmartassCunt
Or Kanan
NordicusMaximus
Don’t forget Booster Terrik!
mak10z
Don't overlook Jorj Car'das https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jorj_Car%27das
ZetaRayBill
Or his son-in-law, Corran “Fuck it, make him a Jedi, too” Horn!
no1ofconsequencedied
He wasn't referenced until the X-Wing books and the Hand of Thrawn Duology, right?
Bimblefack
Thought he was introduced in the Xwing series?
sykoticflaw
He was, he's Corran Horn's father-in-law.
LandManatee
My favorite series by far.
NordicusMaximus
You may be right. He wasn’t in the original Thrawn books. It was in the next series by Zahn that I remember him and his red Star Destroyer.
no1ofconsequencedied
Hand of Thrawn. Booster appeared in that one, but the Errant Venture didn't turn red until Survivor's Quest.
Megatron115
I hate to say it, but I don’t remember who that is
JaceArveduin
He's the smuggler* who bought a Star Destroyer, tried to paint it red, ran outta money, then turned it into a resort.
ChosenChaos
He didn't buy it; he claimed it as battlefield salvage (ref: The Bacta War)
JaceArveduin
Right, I'm not sure if I actually read that one...
USD1
I knew it was going to be a problem when disney pretty much said "fuck canon, toss all that shit."
imno0or1
At least they included thrawn in one of their shows he still deserved more though
Cavemenwin
It was just 40 years of a variety of writers producing a wealth of well thought out and coherent stories, who needs that?
yifin
Not all of it was good. I'm sorry but the sun crusher needed to never have existed.
RevolverFirelot
The sun what? :>
USD1
I agree that not all of it was good, but enough of it was good where they could pick and choose, instead of trashing everything.
ReverendAurora
Really? 40 years of well thought out stories? You realise that Zahn wrote two more books undoing the damage other writers did to his
ReverendAurora
characters? So much dross in the EU, and more to the point the EU was NEVER canon.
ReverendAurora
At least Disney are using the EU to add shit to the canon. Lucas just saw the EU as a money printing press.