Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20170901233307/@comment-3547390-20170913125927

I am glad to hear that indeed.

Well, I have bothered with everything Wookiepedia lists by year up to 1989. By far the longest part would be the Marvel Comics run, 107 issues, plus some side stories in Star Wars Weekly. A lot of the early issues are interesting classics, they are not things that really belong and the characters aren't the best. As you get further into the run, the stories get better however and certain storylines like Shira Brie, Plif, and many of the late issue characters are pretty good. There were some weird ones in there, slower side issues, but there were some greats. Then at some point the creator ran out of steam, Lucas essentially said she couldn't really do much with the main cast, so we got more and more side characters until the main cast was pretty much forgotten about. The problem is that the late comic villains just weren't the Empire, instead we got anime dark elves and comic relief praying mantises. The final issue was the worst, the art style is so different that even reading every issue up to it didn't save me from a lot of disorientation, and the storyline made little to no sense as it was a complete rush job to something they essentially started in the previous issue after a lot of build-up. So it starts pretty flawed and ends pretty bad, but there is a great point in the middle.

Pizzaz was a quick running series that quickly died. Thank goodness, the stories were pretty forgettable and not that good. The same can be said for the later Star Wars Droids and Ewoks series, both of which have cult followings. Star Wars Droids is essentially Star Wars as GI-Joe and changed so much to not be Star Wars (intentionally according to what they were required to do). Ewoks has talking Ewoks aimed at young kids, it is bad. The Ewok movies are at least a bit better, Caravan of Courage is pure hell to sit through due to it being the worst BBC documentary on Ewoks you will ever see, but Battle for Endor was pretty good in its own way even if it was pretty trippy for a Star Wars movie. The Holiday Special? Grandpa watches porn, we watch a guy have a stroke, and see Wookies indoctrinated into a cult.

There were also a lot of newspaper strips. Perhaps it was the format, but I found them hard to read and rather uninteresting. There were some interesting stories in there though, I think there was an origin story for Admiral Ackbar.

Now the thing I am mainly covering now is the Star Wars Roleplaying Game. Essentially like when I read DnD, but with a lot less scattered content. It also likes to include lore detailing out the various creatures in the Star Wars world, a lot of the backstories come from here such as how Jabba got his Rancor. Right now I am on Otherspace, which feels like Star Trek: The Motion Picture all over again.

Novels... there haven't been too many actually. Splinter of the Mind's Eye is probably the most Star Wars related and is essentially the original plot to The Empire Strikes Back, essentially what we would have gotten had Star Wars not been a success. If I remember how I felt during it, I was highly bored, the story drags. Regardless, that is better than the rest of the 80s novels. We got a trilogy of Han Solo novels and a trilogy of Lando Calrissian novels, both of which are set years before the film and just feature weird Indiana Jones storylines where they go after treasure.

Indeed there are. One step at a time, first I need to work my way to 1997.

Exactly. I hate that most of what I do is terrible and that I am constantly going through pain, but the feeling when I make it past such torture is always good, and I can always reflect on it and laugh. I can remember the Daggerfall experience and laugh at the odd things I ran across. Like spamming my way to civilization, wandering an hour in a completely empty void, due to being poisoned.