Post by Ani-Chay Pinn on Jun 16, 2005 23:08:34 GMT -5
No, that doesn't make any sense. Lucas obviously DOES care. There's a lot of heart in the prequel movies. His jokes aren't always funny and the dialogue hasn't changed since the 70's, but he cares. The prequels were made for the art of it. It's so rare to see a Hollywood product made for the art. Well, there's a lot of merchandising, too, but the primary driver was the story Lucas had in his head.
The EU was never in Lucas's head, so he didn't use it as a contributing factor for the prequels. There was obviously a demand for more Star Wars, so LFL licensed some book and game products in the 80's and then it kept going. But Lucas didn't give it any more than the minimum of guidance. He didn't start filling out the prequel/Clone Wars story until the 90's and I assume he wasn't going let any of the EU stuff force him into deciding on the background details until he was ready to. That seems to be how a lot of TV/movie creators treat fan fiction. It's there, but it's not part of the real story. That's where it looks like where EU fits in. Like fan fiction.
It will be confusing if the EU starts developing new tangents, contradictory to what's already been established, but I suppose they already have that. I remember one book where Luke was specifically looking for his long, lost mother. Well, that's a no go now. And now we're pretty sure that there are loose, hidden Jedi somewhere in the galaxy. It looks odd that they wouldn't reveal themselves to Luke 20+ some years after the Emperor goes down. Unless they managed to die before Luke ended the Empire, and Luke really was the last one. Well, that would be more depressing to me than a different tangent for the EU.