Ah, yes, the fanboys who always think they can get published! I once knew a guy in the Threshold fandom that was shocked and distraught when NBC never responded to the all the scripts for tie-in novels that he sent them (then he filed off the serial numbers and self-published, completely sure that he would sell thousands of copies).
Hey, I remember that second guy! Probably because he has such awesome seventies looking facial hair. Are these the kind of characters that get the treatment where they're not on screen for very long but get a million years of backstory in the extended universe?
Actually, Biggs' backstory was established for the movies -- they shot a whole bunch of scenes on Tatooine that included him, then cut them all out. Wedge just showed up very briefly and then started turning up in the EU, because he was one of the few surviving pilots from the movies (or at least, one of the only ones that actually had a name). Soon he grew a big dramatic backstory, and also a big dramatic, um, frontstory, and there's a whole series (10 books, I think) focused around him. Those actually are pretty much my favorite EU books. I got one of them signed once, it was super exciting.
Is there some fancy version of the SW original trilogy that has all the stuff they cut out? Because I know I've seen the extended versions of the prequels, but I think I've missed out on the original stuff.
Also, this reminds me! Do you have any good recs for EU books for somebody who's kind of a n00b to the whole extended universe? Because I keep wanting to read some, but when I go to the bookstore and see a whole shelf of different series my eyes kind of glaze over.
A lot of the stuff that was originally cut was restored for the re-releases in 1997, so unless the only time you've watched the original trilogy was on really old videotapes, you've probably seen most of it. The extra scenes with Biggs didn't get put back in, but I think you can find them on YouTube.
And shit yes, I can guide you directly to the best series. Personally, I recommend starting with Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command by Timothy Zahn, although I may be biased because those are the first ones I ever read and I was eleven at the time. (But I've re-read them since, they're still good, honest.) And if you want further recommendations, I know most of the books up until the New Jedi Order series, so I can tell you whether they're good or crap.
I probably haven't seen it, then! The only version I've got at home are the VHS tapes. And I actually do want to get the newer DVDs, since I don't actually have any way of playing those VHS tapes.
Excellent. I have all this stuff written down for the next time I go around to all the used bookshops.
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Date: 2008-10-20 01:55 am (UTC)Hey, I remember that second guy! Probably because he has such awesome seventies looking facial hair. Are these the kind of characters that get the treatment where they're not on screen for very long but get a million years of backstory in the extended universe?
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Date: 2008-10-20 02:05 am (UTC)Actually, Biggs' backstory was established for the movies -- they shot a whole bunch of scenes on Tatooine that included him, then cut them all out. Wedge just showed up very briefly and then started turning up in the EU, because he was one of the few surviving pilots from the movies (or at least, one of the only ones that actually had a name). Soon he grew a big dramatic backstory, and also a big dramatic, um, frontstory, and there's a whole series (10 books, I think) focused around him. Those actually are pretty much my favorite EU books. I got one of them signed once, it was super exciting.
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Date: 2008-10-21 03:14 am (UTC)Also, this reminds me! Do you have any good recs for EU books for somebody who's kind of a n00b to the whole extended universe? Because I keep wanting to read some, but when I go to the bookstore and see a whole shelf of different series my eyes kind of glaze over.
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Date: 2008-10-21 03:55 am (UTC)And shit yes, I can guide you directly to the best series. Personally, I recommend starting with Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command by Timothy Zahn, although I may be biased because those are the first ones I ever read and I was eleven at the time. (But I've re-read them since, they're still good, honest.) And if you want further recommendations, I know most of the books up until the New Jedi Order series, so I can tell you whether they're good or crap.
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Date: 2008-10-22 03:45 am (UTC)Excellent. I have all this stuff written down for the next time I go around to all the used bookshops.