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Star Wars' Mark Hamill Believed Returning as Luke Skywalker For Disney's Sequels Would Be a 'Mistake,' But Felt Compelled After Harrison Ford Signed On - IGN (www.ign.com)

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[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you don't think pre-Disney Star Wars EU was worse than what Disney's done, you either have cognitive dissonance from buying a hundred bad pulp novels or you never read them.

The sequels have palpatine "somehow return" via cloning, while the EU justified Sheev building death weapons because of extra-galactic anti-force bugs.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Old EU had its bad points; it was basically commercial fan fiction after all. However, there were some really good stories in there too. A much better ratio of good to bad than Disney has managed.