All-Mandalorian team

"Xylo_Phona;177531" wrote:
right! I mean how dare he mess with the story he created!

Your irony is totally unnecessary here. Yes,he has the right to do whatever he feels like with the universe he created. Kudos to him for doing so in the first place. However, ever since the EU came to life, he's been making a mockery of the whole thing.

Remember a card game called Star Wars CCG released by Decipher in the mid-nineties? It was supposed to be a part of the official canon (not EU). There was a lot of interesting info in the "lore" section of the cards. Like the Owen Lars card saying he's the brother of Obi-wan Kenobi. Then one day Lucas decides that he'd changed his mind and alters the story. Mind you, we're talking about information that was previously approved by Lucas himself!

The same thing happened with the Mandalorians. First their "history" was approved when Karen Traviss was writing R/IC, the Lucas decides to turn them into pacifists. And clearly it was a case of "because I can", since there was no good reason to do anything of the sort. Sorry, mate, defend him all you want, but Lucas' "genius" is, sadly, non-existent. The original trilogy was so great because his ex-wife introduced a whole lot of changes to the plot, the "renaissance" of Star Wars was brought about by authors such as TimothyZahn, Michael A. Stackpole or Kevin J. Anderson, then Lucas decided to make a come-back with the prequels and showed us how bad the OT would have been if things were done the way he'd originally designed them. When left to himself, Lucas makes things go from bad to worse and the story of the Mandalorians is just another example of this.

Compare the junk he gave us in TCW with the incredible culture Traviss created and then we'll talk.