Maybe not. I was just reading his article on Wookiepedia and realised it may link up with the other Star Wars film they're doing about the theft of the Death Star plans. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kyle_Katarn He helped get half the plans, with the theft of the other half possibly being covered by the movie. Then again, Kyle Katarn might be in that movie.
Personally I think it's disgusting, especially for the authors and other creatives (games & comics etc) over the last 38 years, that Disney declares their works to be utterly useless and then has the arrogance to use bits of the Expanded Universe anyway! Hope the film fails! Also, Chewbacca is dead! End of story!
Sort of like retconing supposed canon to fanfiction for your own canon You know what I'm going to try that for 40k Ghazghkull took Armageddon Both times You know the previous history of Armageddon? That'll be a 40k legend now Because I want Ghazghkull to take it
meh, I just assume everything from the EU is canon unless a new story conflicts with something (Like, for example, everything set after return of the jedi). I hope overtime they re-introduce some of the best stuff about EU into the new canon.
Not to mention the moronic justification for having Stormtroopers as opposed to clones. Honestly, they had a perfectly good EU established reason, threw it in the trash can and then punched a brand new plot hole into the setting. It's like the writers are actively crapping on things as they go in, and quite frankly every episode seems to be even dumber than the last one. Of course, it doesn't help that the only two characters in that show are obvious stand ins for Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors, right down to the latter having the same fucking voice actress. Yet, apparently because Disney sees the EU as inferior, they're permitted to take two established personalities, make minor edits and pass it off as new content. You know things are bad when a multi-billion dollar corporation is performing "Original Character, Do Not Copy!" tactics on its IPs. Imagine if CS Goto lost all talent as a writer and was given licence to write the first major event in Warhammer 40,000. You have Aftermath's quality in a nutshell. Even discounting my love of the past setting, I have never seen a worse novel published and printed about a major IP. This is something so staggeringly badly written that, without any hyperbole, any person who has posted in this thread thus far would have done a better job handling. There's a review up on here if you're interested, but here's the quality of the novel summed up in a single sentence: “The TIE wibbles and wobbles through the air, careening drunkenly across the Myrrann rooftops – it zigzags herkily-jerkily out of sight.” Most of the other novels are barely any better, often making astoundingly stupid mistakes (like having Tarkin's entire "rule through fear of force" doctrine not be inspired by inflicting it upon a whole population, but by abruptly murdering a single, random person), or doing things like trying to establish Luke as the last of the Jedi rather than the start of any rebuilt order. The only good one thus far has, sadly, been Twilight Company and that was only okay rather than anything outstanding. It wouldn't be so bad were it not for the fact that Disney's determination to tear everything down and advertise novels to people who would have never picked up an EU novel in the first place. Hell's teeth, it's books like Aftermath which are literally why the fandom can't have nice things.
But Kanan Jarrus was a Padawan, whilst Kyle Katarn was an Imperial Soldier who defected to the Rebels and later became a Jedi. They're different. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kyle_Katarn Never read anything by C.S. Goto (for which I am truly thankful). Well, I'm not sure they're tearing down the EU. It seems like the films are from the point of view of those who were there, take a look how the Original Trilogy talked about the Clone Wars and compare it to how the prequel films were. The Clone Wars were starting to be mythologised in the OT. So if you look at the EU IP as being the mythologised and legendary version of what happens between Episode VI and Episode VII. P.S. And it turns out that Luke Skywalker was 19 possibly 20 years old at the time of A New Hope. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Luke_Skywalker That means there was entire generation between the end of The Clone Wars and the Battle Of Yavin, a gap large enough for details of the former to become distorted and that's without any Imperial machinations to re-write history.
Backflipping Terminators, multilaser marines, transforming Land Raiders, Ulthwe worshipping Slaanesh, D-weapons shooting bullets, Fire Dragon Fusion Guns unable to damage hastily assembled barricades at close range, Eldar looting and driving Imperial tanks because of their superior armor while simultaneously having troops hanging to the sides and top in battle and last but not least, turning Lelith Hesperax into a Slaanesh-whorshiping psyker. These are just a few examples of his butchery of lore, matched only by his seemingly (and appreciated) hatred for Eldar with many, many verbose torture scenes.
