It's a Trap! -- Official Star Wars spoiler space

Not surprising. Just because they don't want to be bound to the EU's version of events was no guarantee they wouldn't do something similar.

At Costco the other day, they had four new novels - three set in the original trilogy timeline and one post-ROTJ, all stating "includes clues to the story of The Force Awakens!" on the covers.

So it appears that they're really serious about promoting the new Star Wars films on a global level. There's a licensed Korean webcomic adapting the original trilogy and putting in extra stuff. It starts from when Luke was just a towheaded moppet on Tattoine learning to shoot a laser rifle from Uncle Owen.


This adaptation is pretty smart, because I hadn't thought about it but there have been like two generations of moviegoers born since the theatrical release of Return of the Jedi. I do like how the artist doesn't try to slavishly reproduce the actors in 2D. Who the hell's Windy, anyway, is he from the EU?

If you want to check it out (for free by the way) go to LINE Webtoon and sign in with Twitter. You'll get to read the official English translation. I'm not sure myself if I'll stick with this comic, though if you want to check out others in their library I would say Hive is a safe choice - basically Walking Dead with giant bugs, and prone to the comic and TV show's trick of always pulling the rug out from under the protagonists to keep the status quo.

Or for actual good stuff Chiller's a horror anthology that goes multimedia with sound effects and mild animation - for maximum effect I recommend reading it alone in a room with the lights off - and Witch Hunt, which is about demons hunting witches in modern South Korea.

So what happened to Luke's dad, anyway?

Are Trioculus and the Glove of Darth Vader going to play a significant role in these new movies? If so, I can't wait!

Zorba the Hutt or gtfo

Hahaha, no...sorry, I think Disney has officially removed The Old Republic from canon, along with most of the Expanded Universe.

Though his mask IS a bit similar...nah.

I mean, it could still be Revan. Removing the EU from canon just means they don't have to include anything from it, not that they can't use anything from it. After all, Luke Skywalker getting older is technically EU, and they'll probably still have that happen.

I've said many times that creatively, discrediting the EU was the best choice they could have made - it's all there for the taking, but at no point do they have to bring the Emperor back from the dead or drop a moon on Chewie.

None of it is canon - they've made that abundantly clear. And there's already stuff from the EU that was elevated into the movies - most notably, and this is not a small thing there, Coruscant (which was given its name in Timothy Zahn's post-Return of the Jedi trilogy, the one work most obviously un-canoned by the sequel trilogy.)

I don't think nerds find that hard to grasp; just as the Marvel movies may pilfer through the comic franchise to mix and match ideas they like. We're going to be having one Star Wars movie a year for the forseeable future, in addition to the comic books, novels, cartoons, videogames; that EU characters will eventually show-up somewhere in the new canon is more or less inevitable - if it has not happened already.


...but enough about that NEW TRAILER


I find it interesting Han Solo has to confirm that the Jedi are real; it suggests that the Jedi still have their semi-legendary status from the original trilogy - in other words, Luke may still be the last of the Jedi (at least, for now) and even if he isn't, there probably aren't many more than him.

Also, to give the line to Han Solo of all people. Fair play to them (in a series of trailers that have shied from giving us any Luke dialogue outside of a Return of the Jedi speech. Just what is up with Luke these days... has he really gone to the dark side as people wildly speculate?)

$10 says some mysterious training event went wrong post RotJ (maybe it even ties in with Kylo Ren's origin?) and Luke is taking a page out of his mentors' handbooks and hermitting it up.

And I maintain that the name of a planet is very different from a whole character and their general arc. I will be shocked if a Thrawn or KotOR Jedi, etc. ever gets utilized by Disney in a meaningful way.

Yea, that would not be meaningful by my definition, but as a kid who constantly read the essential guide to characters, I get your point.

OK, Revan would never worship Vader, so I guess that's out.

MORE SPECULATIVE SPOILERS:

With Luke probably in hiding/self-imposed exile, and Vader, Palpatine and Yoda dead, there's nobody left to teach anyone about the Jedi, so Kylo Ren may be the only person around who knows anything about it.

"The Force Awakens" in that context sounds like Finn, Rey, and others may be the first people since ROTJ to have any idea that The Force is real. So Luke becomes like Obi-Wan, hiding away, possibly observing but not intervening, and eventually passing his knowledge down.