( More pictures at ) This book is a visual guide to all the six Star Wars film, in chronological order. Overall, this visual guide is a great way to understand what SW meant to its fans, just before Disney bought it and made it into what it is now.more Because I lived through all of that, and it was all such a big part of my life, it was a fun section of the book to look through. The book concludes with a quick look at some of the behind-the-scenes aspects of SW, including some of the merchandise produced over the years, from the beloved to the bizarre. If only they’d just left this era alone and moved on to more creative, unexplored territory. He said that in 2005, but by the time this expanded book was published in 2012, he was probably already at work mapping out the sequel trilogy-plans which Disney then apparently scrapped in favor of.what they ended up doing.
It’s sad to read George Lucas saying, “o be very honest with you, I never ever thought of anything that happened beyond Episode VI. I truly wish the decades after Episode VI had just been left to our imaginations and that SW had picked up the story many years after all the characters we know had passed on. Those books and graphic novels always felt so lame (and yes, I’m including the original Thrawn trilogy in that sweeping judgment). Less interesting to me is the other end of the Expanded Universe: what happens after Return of the Jedi. I wouldn’t be surprised eventually to see the original Old Republic narrative brought in more or less whole from the old canon. Let’s table that until next month’s meeting, again.”) I wonder about this especially because Disney has done almost nothing with that era so far, and even their new initiative is to fill in the High Republic era, which the previous canon didn’t really touch. I have to wonder: Is there always somebody at Lucasfilm story group meetings these days who says, “You know, would it be easier to just go with all the Old Republic stuff as-is in the new canon, instead of making it all up again?” (And then, presumably, Kathleen Kennedy says, “Mm, interesting idea. That’s the era about which I know the least. More useful is the overview of the Old Republic era, which brings together books, graphic novels, and video games into a mostly coherent (thought still quite complex) timeline. I know the movies really well already, and the summaries here added little extra information.
I think that’s a good reflection of how fans felt in 2012.įor me, the least interesting parts of this book were the pages about the movies.
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It’s fun to note the coverage ratio: the original trilogy gets 28 pages the Clone Wars series gets 26 pages and the prequel trilogy gets just 22 pages. However, this book certainly represents the ultimate overview of the original-canon Expanded Universe, and as such it is a good reference. Not only was this book, even at the time, destined not to be the “ultimate” Star Wars visual guide (it is, after all, the second edition, which makes you wonder about the “ultimate” moniker anyway), but much of it has now been outright erased by Disney. It’s fun to note the coverage ratio: the original trilogy gets 28 pages the Clone Wars Poor Ryder Windham. Get complete details on the exploits of Luke and Leia, Han and Chewie, and all the rest of the gang, with thorough rundowns of classic Star Wars history, from the very beginnings of the Jedi order, no character goes unmentioned and no quadrant goes unmapped.more Follow Anakin Skywalker's descent into darkness, from his early days as a padawan, to his harrowing Clone Wars battles, up through his transformation and eventual death as Darth Vader.
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