Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the theater: Star Wars Episode 7 2015 by Disney

[Guynemer]

Meesa the big star!

[Hauldren Collider]

EU can still be EU, snoopy. They can adapt the Thrawn Trilogy to the big screen without wedding it to the cluster**** that is the EU.

[snoopy369]

The Thrawn trilogy is EU, by definition (it was, indeed, the origination of the EU). Adapting it to the screen is perfectly fine - but there is no reason whatsoever to make it part of the canon series. Doing that would be far more of a disservice to fans than not making it would be, IMO.

[Hauldren Collider]

Why do you say that?

[snoopy369]

Also, it appears as though the treatment that Disney purchased for the new trilogy was written by none other than George Lucas himself — as his last act before stepping away from the series.

Erm, what did I say before?

HC, the Thrawn trilogy is not consistent with canon in numerous places, particularly with the clone war (as previously noted). Changing that would change the entire trilogy. I'm not okay with that. In general, I don't see a reason to do that, anyway; just release the movies as themselves (as an EU take), just like Marvel regularly makes new movies that aren't necessarily consistent with other ones.

[regexcellent]

But comic book continuity is a joke that nobody cares about anyway.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Erm, what did I say before?

Eh. Lucas also wrote The Empire Strikes Back. However, whoever directs it has massive sway over how the story is told and how the dialogue is done.

[snoopy369]

Yeah, but he wasn't crazy/power-mad/insane when he wrote ESB. Now I have no idea what he'd write for 7 but I can't imagine it ending well. Perhaps someone will re-write it and do a decent job.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think it was generally acknowledged that the basic plot structure for the prequals wasn't the problem - it was the dialogue, directing, and acting.

[snoopy369]

Episode 1 was a disaster in all aspects, _including_ plot. In general the details of the prequels were all disastrous. Perhaps if you take it at a _very_ high level, sure, but it's pretty bad all the way down.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well Episode 1 was just bizarre in general. Like a showcase for young kids & throwing in Darth Maul (to be fair, the lightsaber battles in Ep 1 were great).

Ep2 and Ep3 were generally plotted well, but they were really brought down by the dialogue and acting during the "love scenes".

[regexcellent]

Ep2 was mostly a retarded and melodramatic love story. Ep1 was just a confusing incoherent mess of crap. Ep3 was an action movie that was tolerable for its mindlessness if you ignore the plot.

[MRT144]

Ep 1 could actually be completely lost and it wouldn't have any impact on the narrative of the entire story. Think about it for a minute.

[MRT144]

I think it was generally acknowledged that the basic plot structure for the prequals wasn't the problem - it was the dialogue, directing, and acting.

the plot of Ep 1 was ****ing convoluted and stupid.

[regexcellent]

Episode 1's plot consisted of:

Some power play we don't give a **** about which makes no sense is executed using a complex and thoroughly ridiculous scheme unworthy of a Saturday morning cartoon by a guy in a hooded robe who somehow manages to convince a guy with a huge robot army to be his *****. Oh yeah that guy is Palpatine. In the process of rescuing one of the victims of this scheme the heroes run out of gas in Las Vegas and don't have any money for more so they bet on the horses. Then we get to watch a Ben-Hur style race for like 30 goddamn minutes which sucks ass. Then there's some other crap where they save the planet aaaaand **** it I don't even want to describe that.