Star Wars Expanded Universe

[rhett7660]

While not specifically Star Wars related but still very relevant...

James Earl Jones, Authoritative Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies at 93

The honorary Oscar recipient and two-time Tony winner overcame a stutter to stand out in such films as 'The Great White Hope,' 'The Lion King,' 'Field of Dreams' and 'The Sandlot.'

www.hollywoodreporter.com

RIP James.

While I loved him for his voice of one of my favorite characters of all time, to me he will also be the big, bad, mean guy, with the Beast of a dog from the Sandlot or the guy from Field of Dreams and the laugh and pure kid like look emotions as he goes into the corn field.

RIP Mr. Jones...

 

[Huntn]

Post 1 edited with this addition:
15May 2025- Just Finished Andor. For Your Consideration.
New Unofficial Star Wars Episode Reorganization

• Episode 1: How gullible Annakin Skywalker made some bad life choices and Obi-Wan blew it, The Republic gives way to the Empire. Bla-Bla (Phantom Menace, Attack of Clones, Revenge of Sith) Of historical interest mostly.
• Episode 2: Andor
• Episode 3: Rogue One
• Episode 4: A New Hope
• Episode 5: Empire strikes Back
• Episode 6: Return of the Jedi

Waiting for rewrites:

• Episode 7: Copy Paste, Betrayal of the Faith, a new low for $$$.
• Episode 8: THINK, THINK, THINK, Writers block!
• Episode 9: Screw’m, slap a Star Wars title on it and they will come.

 

[Huntn]

Having recently completed Andor, rewatched Rogue One this evening.

• I observed that Tony Gilroy was involved in the screenplay of Rogue One and Andor. Proof is in the pudding.
• The split between Saw Gerrera and the Rebel Alliance is consistent.
• Blasters had no real effect on Imperial Security Droids in Andor, but on Rogue One a single blast from Jyn Erso took one out… it may have been that weapons have improved since Andor.
• The destruction of the Holy City in Jetta is sobering, catastrophically, visually impressive.
• I’m still aggravated Everyone on the Rogue One Team dies 🙃
• I just watched the Andor series without the booming Star Wars sound track and felt no loss with its absence in Andor. It’s fully present in RO, with the understanding, this story is bumping right up against the original trilogy. The Star Wars soundtrack, although as great as it is, eliciting fond memories, it would have been out of place in Andor. And it might feels stagnant now to keep using it without some changes, updates, for a new story that moves Star Wars into an actual new age of story telling.
• Disney killed all the existing 3rd party Cannon to what, untie its hands? And this is why 7,8,9 were such dismal failures? 😡 My son who has been deep into the book series like Rogue Squadron, says there were hundreds of Star Wars stories to draw on, or maybe look for inspiration as a path forward for the Franchise, if big wigs like JJAbrams find it too hard to find inspiration.
• Of note these two stories Andor and Rogue One although huge, expand the Cannon from just the scene of “we have the plans to the Death Star!” To a wonderful, fully fleshed out scenario, filling in these stories with a great expansion, but are still tied to the old. We need something new! 🤔

 

[maflynn]

I'm not sure if I posted this before, but its a point of annoyance - Storm trooper's armor and how absolutely useless it is.

In Return of the Jedi, storm troopers were felled by some sticks and rocks being thrown at them. Even without armor the worst that would have done, is just given someone a headache.

In Rogue one chirrut was able to take down storm troopers with his staff. In one instance he's whacking a storm trooper in the chest with quick unpowerful strikes. Even without armor that sort of strike won't do much, yet he took down that trooper.

I don't go to movies and complain about how a sci fi fantasy movies disobeys the laws of physics but making the enemies out of paper mache seems rubs me the wrong way - more then then how the storm troopers fire hundreds of shots, only to miss, but the heroes takes them down with alarming precision.

 

[TheIntruder]

In the SW universe, the best defense against hand blaster fire is clearly a laser sword, skillfully swung in graceful and pretty arcs, with deflections that strike down the enemy as a bonus.

And, the lucky have no need for smart phones, or radio comms, because IMs can be sent telepathically, and FaceTime has been replaced by GhostlyHologramTime.

 

[decafjava]

In the SW universe, the best defense against hand blaster fire is clearly a laser sword, skillfully swung in graceful and pretty arcs, with deflections that strike down the enemy as a bonus.

And, the lucky have no need for smart phones, or radio comms, because IMs can be sent telepathically, and FaceTime has been replaced by GhostlyHologramTime.

Well also the best weapon against KX security droids are trucks. (See Andor S2 episode 8).

 

[wonderings]

Having recently completed Andor, rewatched Rogue One this evening.

• I observed that Tony Gilroy was involved in the screenplay of Rogue One and Andor. Proof is in the pudding.
• The split between Saw Gerrera and the Rebel Alliance is consistent.
• Blasters had no real effect on Imperial Security Droids in Andor, but on Rogue One a single blast from Jyn Erso took one out… it may have been that weapons have improved since Andor.
• The destruction of the Holy City in Jetta is sobering, catastrophically, visually impressive.
• I’m still aggravated Everyone on the Rogue One Team dies 🙃
• I just watched the Andor series without the booming Star Wars sound track and felt no loss with its absence in Andor. It’s fully present in RO, with the understanding, this story is bumping right up against the original trilogy. The Star Wars soundtrack, although as great as it is, eliciting fond memories, it would have been out of place in Andor. And it might feels stagnant now to keep using it without some changes, updates, for a new story that moves Star Wars into an actual new age of story telling.
• Disney killed all the existing 3rd party Cannon to what, untie its hands? And this is why 7,8,9 were such dismal failures? 😡 My son who has been deep into the book series like Rogue Squadron, says there were hundreds of Star Wars stories to draw on, or maybe look for inspiration as a path forward for the Franchise, if big wigs like JJAbrams find it too hard to find inspiration.
• Of note these two stories Andor and Rogue One although huge, expand the Cannon from just the scene of “we have the plans to the Death Star!” To a wonderful, fully fleshed out scenario, filling in these stories with a great expansion, but are still tied to the old. We need something new! 🤔

I have watched season 1 of Andor and it is hands down the best and only Star Wars worth watching since the originals. Ignore Ep 1,2,3,7,8,9 and all the other shows that Disney has tried and failed miserably with. Andor feels like it takes place in the Star Wars universe and expands on it, showing elements of how the government was working. I am looking forward to season 2, heard it is awesome. Rogue One is worthy to be included, again it feels like Star Wars and fits like a glove.

Your son is correct, there are lots of great books that were written. The Timothy Zahn ones were great and if memory serves me started like a day after Return of the Jedi. Disney completely nuked all these actually good and world building stories for their sloppy and lazy writing. Not that Star Wars itself is super smart and without holes and issues, it is what it is and somehow Disney ended up making it worse.

 

[rhett7660]

Just finished Andor season 2... started off slow but man the slow cook pays off and loved seeing some of the back stories to a few of the characters.

We really need a Saw Gerrera series... Just one season...

 

[decafjava]

Just finished Andor season 2... started off slow but man the slow cook pays off and loved seeing some of the back stories to a few of the characters.

We really need a Saw Gerrera series... Just one season...

Amen to that. Interesting character, though he was in the Clone Wars and Rebels (I haven't watched either) IIRC. Forrest Whitaker is an outstanding actor.