29th April 2014, 7:01 PM
The fact is, with so many books set AFTER the movies, it would severely limit their ability to write new movies. It was a necessary decision, and Arstechnica covers it pretty well.
Let's face it, most of it was garbage, must like most of the Star Trek books. However, look at it this way. For the good stuff like the books you mentioned (at least that's what I hear) you can still enjoy them and still enjoy them as one POSSIBLE sequel, it's own little world where those events happened. That's exactly how I intend to enjoy the Old Republic games anyway.
For what it's worth, if they took off the "episode" subtitles from the rest of the Star Wars movies, you could even pretend the prequels don't exist if you like. It wouldn't be the first time they renamed a movie, the original Star Wars was just called Star Wars, no episode number, no subtitle, until it's VHS release. If Disney does decide on something like that, I also hope they rename Frozen and Tangled to The Snow Queen and Rapunzel. Those were really dumb movie names and heck my niece just calls them what they actually are anyway.
Let's face it, most of it was garbage, must like most of the Star Trek books. However, look at it this way. For the good stuff like the books you mentioned (at least that's what I hear) you can still enjoy them and still enjoy them as one POSSIBLE sequel, it's own little world where those events happened. That's exactly how I intend to enjoy the Old Republic games anyway.
For what it's worth, if they took off the "episode" subtitles from the rest of the Star Wars movies, you could even pretend the prequels don't exist if you like. It wouldn't be the first time they renamed a movie, the original Star Wars was just called Star Wars, no episode number, no subtitle, until it's VHS release. If Disney does decide on something like that, I also hope they rename Frozen and Tangled to The Snow Queen and Rapunzel. Those were really dumb movie names and heck my niece just calls them what they actually are anyway.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)