Star Wars Episode 7

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I wish the whole expanded universe, cartoons, and novels never happened. Star Wars should simply be the movies without any spinoff material.

Because you personally are intimidated by things that exist that you yourself haven't experienced, and rather than actually broaden your horizons a bit, you'd rather those Other Things went away. So One Person could have greater Ease Of Use.

It's like your supposed devotion to Batman based on the cartoon and movies alone, despite the fact that the BEST Batman stories exist only in print and never CAN be translated into any other medium without being watered down. You've said things like "they shouldn't do comics" or whatever, too, for the same reason; because YOU can't be bothered with it, even though that's where the Best Stuff is hiding.

Star Wars is the same thing. The dirty little secret of the franchise is, those movies aren't even close to being the best stories in the mythology. Hate to be the one to break it to ya, Skip, but there's a whole world of stuff out there that goes beyond what Lucas ever dreamed of. Some of it sucks, yeah, but a lot of what's in the movies sucks, too, and in those cases what sucks is still "canon" (as if anything is "canon" when we're discussing Made Up Bullsh*t, anyways... come on, are we F'n serious?!).

A person absolutely CAN enjoy just the SW films and that's entirely their prerogative. The sheer density of EU material means nobody even COULD get through ALL of it. But to say, "Well, I only like the movies, the rest of the stuff shouldn't exist" is F'n stupid and selfish. Those movies now make up less than 1/1000th of the overall narrative, "canon" or not. People like those stories. And SOME of those stories are a LOT better than the movies.

Here's a "pipe bomb" for ya: "Knights of the Old Republic" for Xbox was the best thing to ever come out of Star Wars. I went there. Deal with it, Cubed, you myopic sonsabitch.