Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, has said he was initially reluctant to return in his iconic Star Wars role, believing that Disney would be unable to "catch lightning in a bottle twice."
If you don’t think pre-Disney Star Wars EU was worse than what Disney’s done, you either have cognitive dissonance from buying a hundred bad pulp novels or you never read them.
The sequels have palpatine “somehow return” via cloning, while the EU justified Sheev building death weapons because of extra-galactic anti-force bugs.
Old EU had its bad points; it was basically commercial fan fiction after all. However, there were some really good stories in there too. A much better ratio of good to bad than Disney has managed.
If you don’t think pre-Disney Star Wars EU was worse than what Disney’s done, you either have cognitive dissonance from buying a hundred bad pulp novels or you never read them.
The sequels have palpatine “somehow return” via cloning, while the EU justified Sheev building death weapons because of extra-galactic anti-force bugs.
Old EU had its bad points; it was basically commercial fan fiction after all. However, there were some really good stories in there too. A much better ratio of good to bad than Disney has managed.