Tired of the timeline

Padawan Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 23

I am thrilled about the upcoming MMORPG. But Im just getting tired of being stuck in the past. I mean, your introduced to a character in a story you get to watch or play. You figure out the timeline and you pretty much know when your character has to die. More details are easily figured out aswell. Im not trying to gripe too much. I love all SWEU material in the end,even Jar Jar. I just feel like the walls of the EU are closing in on me. Im getting cabin fever...argghhh!!! Can we please get a movie or tv series based during present day please. New characters.Present day. I want to see what the SWU looks like now and how everyones doing ya know? I want to help shape the SWU universe in games and witness it unfold on tv. Not re-play events from the past anymore. I for one, enjoyed learning the history of Vader and everything else. The KOTOR games and all the novels have pieced together alot for us. But it's getting a little old to me. Let us shape the future and push the limits of SW! Im tired of looking at stupid,old battle droids saying "roger,roger." The current technology in SW(droids,weapons,goverments)would look unbelievable on screen. Remeber the chase scene in TCW movie with Anakin and Sam? That city was cool,but that was old school. Like 1920's New York.Imagine it now and how the technoogy has progressed.I did gripe just a little huh? Rolling Eyes

NO!

Star Wars can never take place during the present just as it can never take place anywhere remotely near earth. Remember it's
A Long Time Ago In a Galaxy Far,
Far Away...

Cool

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No seriously, I'm afraid I don't really understand your question Sereck Si'-Well.
And I'm also curious who Sam was...

EDIT: I understand now, you meant Attack of the Clones with Zam.
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Padawan Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 23

ZAM Sorry guys. Yes, it is a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. But still it would be cool.

It would be cool, indeed, to have a new tv series set post ROTJ. However, I don't really think that's likely. Lucas said he wouldn't do it, a fact which sets feelings of sadness and relief in me! While, technically speaking, we also know Luke, Han and Leia are also going to survive, I know what you mean.

Personally, though, I've been hankering for a series (written, produced, directed and starring: ME!) set in the Old Republic era. There's a lot more free space you can play with, and so a lot more personal, yet galaxy-wide ranging stories you can give.
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Master Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 1846

Something I think that should be done to take the Expanded Universe to the next level is to take the idea behind SW Legacy, but jump even farther into the future and create an entirely new setting, but spread it across media. Like how there's the NJO era and the Legacy era, create an entirely new era post-Legacy, and have a novel series set during it as well as a comic series, either ongoing or miniseries, a game or TV show or something else visual -- or even radio dramas. Basically, do what SWTOR is doing, but I feel that SWTOR is too blatantly world designed to cater toward a game.

Other than that, I support a reboot -- so long as it also had some sort of guidance to it! I'd prefer some sort of guiding hand to the continuity over what we have. And what we have is sort of a mess that needs to either be scrapped, or the creation of a new setting detached from it. Having gone over the EU recently, I feel that it's almost charitable to call it continuity, insofar as that it consists primarily of reusing characters and settings, but little else. The characterizations and storylines are completely scattershot. Sure, sometimes past stuff will be mentioned, but it's merely name dropping for the sake of fan service rather than relevant to the plot. And people remember the hits and forget the misses of "bad" continuity.
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Padawan Joined: 23 Apr 2011 Posts: 65 Location: Mandalore

The Thrawn trilogy was my first introduction into the expanded universe, and man did Timothy Zahn leave an incredible impression on a seventeen year old's mind back in the day. What a perfect place to re-introduce old fans of the movies, and new fans alike into the Expanded Universe who really have no other knowledge beyond the movie trilogy.
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Master Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Posts: 1417

They could do a reboot in the same way the Star Trek movie rebooted the old TV series: same characters but the future is now again wide open. This would make it an AU and everything post ROTJ could change.
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I wouldn't want a reboot. For me the cons would hugely outweigh the pros. True, there are some things in the EU that I wish we could just pretend never happened but we'd be missing out on so much good stuff.
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Not to mention the time many of us have put into the current EU. I'd be...hesitant about a reboot.
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Master Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Posts: 1417

If this is any comfort, LJD, apparently Lucas really liked Thrawn and NJO.

Also, I'm pretty much in agreement with you about most of the post-ROTJ novels. There's a lot of nostalgia for the Bantam era but imo it's over-rated. I think NJO was the highlight of Del Rey's reign, they reached their zenith with it, and just can't repeat that success.
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