I met Sam Jones over this last summer at a comic convention thingy, and I asked him what it was like snorting coke with a teddy bear. And, instead of a silly answer to a silly question I got to feel like I was in the 80s again with hero of the show telling the kids not to use drugs with this bit he went on about how it wasn't real and hos drugs are a liability and you just don't want to use them.
Although I am squarely in the camp where I think the best Star Wars stories have the fewest Jedi, which are just an absurdist, narratively incoherent version of Buddhism. So Knights of the Old Republic, Rogue One and Andor are my favorite Star Wars. And since none of that is the OG, gets me a lot of frowns lol.
I did enjoy the Knights of the Old Republic. Definitely one of the deeper and more well developed stories.
I also really like the New Jedi Order series. The story telling in those books, one unifying element is no one is safe. Lots of characters, some on the original movies but many who only lived in the books, do end up being killed over the course of that series. It involves an invading species from another galaxy, and they pose a far greater danger than what fiction stories normally provide.
But how I have long admired how Star Wars developed outside of the movies is I can ask I wonder how long it took the residents of the lower underlevels of Coruscant to discover the planet was moved and terraformed. None of that, at all, comes from the movies. The name Coruscant, it having a many subfloors underneath the main street level story/floor (as it's certainly not the actual planet surface), and it being terraformed all come from the books.
