The desire to get away from retellings of the Clone Wars (it wasn't even that interesting a period!) and what we know to see new adventures is precisely why I'm an EU fan. Sure, there are parts of it that suck incredibly (Legacy, for all its awesome premise, did such abuse of established EU characters that I wanted to be sick, and while the sheer scariness and unlike-anything-else-in-SW of the Vong in NJO was awesome, it also seemed un-SW-like at times.) On the other hand, there's sheer gold like the storyline of the KOTOR game (there's the 'thousands of years in the past' story for you, 'scates!), or the Thrawn trilogy. Many people think that the Thrawn trilogy should have been movie-ized instead of the prequels, and I totally agree. Seriously- Mara Jade, psycho C'baoth, Han and Leia being married, the epicness of Thrawn as a villain...couldn't be beat.
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