View Single Post Old November 18 2012, 07:08 PM   #982 Hunter X
Rear Admiral Location: Vancouver Re: Star Wars Episode 7 - 2015
There's been talk about whether the new trilogy will fit in with
the EU or not, but I wonder what will happen to EU continuity it
the movies are made out of line with them.  New books will have
to tie in with the changes of the movies, and they may not be
able to simply retcon certain things like they did with the
Clone Wars. I mean, if there's no Mara Jade, different or no
Solo kids, no Academy on Yavin IV, then you can't keep writing
books where those things have happened.  So are we about to see
a reboot of the post-Return of the Jedi books as well? I think
so.  This could get especially weird because first we had books
that continued the Star Wars universe with no knowledge of the
prequels. Then we had books that did have knowledge of the
prequels and began to tie the two eras together (that living
planet from NJO, Vergere, Outbound Flight, among other
elements), trying to keep