Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20170901233307/@comment-1496755-20170914121759

For some it may sound surprising that a SW fan would ignore all these other works, but actually the reason I avoid is precisely because I am a fan. I like to keep my experience as pure as possible. I know some of this stuff is pretty good (many of the video games are, especially the first-person shooters; some animated series are also very good), but then there's also a lot of stuff which is mediocre, poor quality, or simply doesn't fit well into the overall spirit of the source material. Sometimes writers or designers make weird choices for the sake of having more (unnecessary) drama, e.g. deliberately ruining some great achievement from the original movies through the intervention of some pretty unconvinving villain(s) or disaster(s).

I could talk a lot about why I generally refrain from these works, but I'm sure you get the idea already. And it's not just SW; third-party works always carry the risk of ruining something nice in a franchise you enjoy. For example, I am pretty picky with my Doom WADs. Can't imagine myself playing Foghorn, which seems like a pointless parody (it's not even funny).

Apart from games (obviously), the only SW-related stuff I currently follow is the Rebels show. It's good - very loyal to the source material.

I've heard about Splinter of the Mind's Eye - indeed, it was the "Plan B" in case Star Wars turned out to be a flop. I wouldn't be surprised if it's boring. It was intended to be a cheap alternative.

Hah, that poisoned episode was sooooooo weird. Even weirder when you watch it without sound - I just see you walking endlessly through this featureless snowy place, at night, with snow. Plus constant opening of the menu, every 2-3 seconds. And then the screen would go black for a period, but I thought you were just doing one of those "Deathstalker black screen rants", so I considered it normal :D