masterghandalf

Oh, I've been avoiding The Discourse(tm) like the plague ever since the Sequel Trilogy wrapped up; something about it makes even takes I agree with just so... wearying to sit through. In my case, I've been largely limiting my Star Wars fandom involvement over the last few years to the High Republic era, which has been... not terrible.

As for the post-NJO novels, I'm inclined to blame a lot of the problems (not all, but a lot) on Troy Denning, rather than Lucas - iirc, he replaced James Luceno as the head of the creative team for LotF/FotJ, and definitely wrote more books in that era than any other author, and I think the whole era reeks of his interpretation of the franchise (which seemed to skew a lot more gritty, cynical and depressing than was usual). If I get around to my reread (which I'm increasingly thinking I will do) I'll probably talk more about that.

As for Lucas, I mostly think of the three major things he mandated for the NJO itself - that the Vong couldn't be Sith, that Chewie and not Luke should die in Vector Prime, and that Anakin and not Jacen should die in Star by Star.