Cainhurst Crow
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Post by Cainhurst Crow on Sept 11, 2015 19:43:39 GMT -6
The whole warlords thing from the EU was always weird to me. The empire, the body of government who was all about centralized order, singular command structures, everything being a top-down style of rule, turns into a pack of warring state's style jokes seemingly overnight.
Meanwhile the rebellion, whose members seemed to me to not be looking to install a new galactic order but instead liberate the galaxy from the empire, decide to band together to form basically the same government that Palpatine forged to get himself in power, one I'm pretty sure everyone would remember from the clone wars as being the thing that got Palpatine in power in the first place.
It just seemed to me like they got the scripts switched with one another. Things got better I suppose when they introduced fel, but we had the entire stupid stuff with the Yuuzhan Vong, and then Krayt's bullshit, but not before Darth Caedus, and everything else that came from the 90's and early 2000's of the star wars era trying to be dark and edgy to match the decades tone.
Just as an individual person looking at the EU, it seems like a lot of it, and I do mean a lot of it, suffers from the times those stories were written in, and trying to appeal too much to audience tastes. The Vong belonged more in Warhammer 40K then they did star wars.
And calling things dumbed down and made for kids just because they were made to have an appeal to multiple people and not just die-hard edgelords, ignores the original trilogy and what it did. Watch those movies, watch rebels, you'll see there's been a pretty parallel shift in terms of how "edgy and dark" it got. And those decrying it as "too much for kids" don't seem to remember how kiddish the originals were. After all, for every moment of Han shooting Greedo and Imperial Officer joking, there was more showing C3PO being varying degrees of useless for comedic relief and snarky one-liners like "Aren't you a little short to be a storm trooper?"
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