Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140921022402/@comment-173.58.251.107-20141210070559

Shadow at Morning wrote: I'll give you Zahn and Allston (and I'll throw in Stackpole), but I despise Traviss. Her conception of how the Clone Wars went was silly. And I'm never forgiving her for Legacy. Other authors I'd add to the list are Luceno and Stover (mostly for his excellent novelisation of RotS). Probably Karpyshyn, too.

Legacy is my only canon. And only a subset of that. Zahn, mostly. Because he kickstarted it all (well, almost). Traviss actually had issues when it came down to how she did the Clone Wars as a whole, her individual stories for Delta/Omega teams were actually great. It was the "getting 3 million dudes to spread out across the galaxy and fight" thing then calling it the "Grand Army Of The Republic" where things went downhill for her. Now, if it had been 18 Billion like how they said it was when someone mathematically calculated, then it would have been better for charging around the planets. 3 Million Troopers isn't a "grand army" when said army is spread across the Star Wars Galaxy. Which is large. Huge. Whatever.

Oh, and let's not forget the whole incident with the Mandalorians. About that, the warlike spread out across the planet turned peace-lovers in the desert was a low blow. Bad idea. Seriously. Was someone drunk when they were doing the show and thought "hey, instead of keeping the actually-good-idea-story, let's retcon it into a totally controversial thing that will split the fans! WE ARE THE SMARTEST PEOPLE ON EARTH LALALALALALALALA".

Karypshyn did very well with setting up the Mass Effect Galaxy in the books. Then some idiots thought it was a good idea to switch out writers and we got a disaster.

I gave up on Star Wars as a whole after the Clone Wars show went from being this really awesome fight to spliting the fandom. Rebels is better at least.

But the Mandalorians, messing up years of work by adding in a peace-loving person really was a bad idea.

All in all, Star Wars really, really, needs to do something about it's continuity issues before it does anything else.