Via Ign.com:

About a year ago, Disney blew up the Star Wars galaxy. Before the change, Star Wars stories were tiered…the movies and Clone Wars had storytelling supremacy, and then came the supplemental books, comics, and TV shows, collectively called the Expanded Universe. Suddenly, almost everything old outside the movies and Clone Wars was rebranded a Legend…and no longer part of the canonical Star Wars story. Everything created after the change under Disney’s management would henceforth be the official Star Wars canon, right up there with the films. Boom. Like that. The Expanded Universe was gone. Grand Admiral Thrawn? See ya.

As a bona fide Star Wars nerd (with the shrink-wrapped Story of Star Wars 8-track to prove it) I was deeply concerned. I grew up in the era between the production of the original trilogy and the prequels…the golden age of the Star Wars novels and supplemental sources. Losing them to a new, empty galaxy seemed a dubious prospect at best.

But I’ve had time to mellow in my old age, and I’ve decided that the Star Wars galaxy’s semi-reboot is a good thing. Frankly, Star Wars had gotten crowded, mostly by junk. I mean sure, there was the excellent Thrawn Cycle and Knights of the Old Republic, but a lot of the material in the old EU canon was bad. Remember that one time when somebody dropped a moon on Chewbacca? Or that weird Ewok Jedi? Or when IG-88 became the Death Star? Yeah, that was dumb.

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