mybluehoodie:

Grand Admiral Thrawn

Been reading the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. It’s the best Star Wars Expanded Universe book series I’ve read! Grand Admiral Thrawn is an excellent villain.

worldfamousdesignjunkies:

“I wasn’t going to address this topic. But since so many of you have asked:

What the “non-canon” announcement by LFL means is that they aren’t going to be bound by the Expanded Universe books, comics, and games as they plan their new movies. Realistically, that’s something they had to do – the EU is just too big, complicated, and occasionally contradictory for them to have to deal with.

However, I’m guessing that EU stories that aren’t referenced (or contradicted) by the sequel movies will still be considered sort-of alive, in the same way that most Clone Wars-era stories (like Outbound Flight) were mostly unaffected, with the exception being all of the previous material on Boba Fett’s backstory.

Alternatively, if the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there’s one thing we authors are good at, it’s hand-waving.“

– Timothy Zahn VIA Reddit

worldfamousdesignjunkies:

“I wasn’t going to address this topic. But since so many of you have asked:

What the “non-canon” announcement by LFL means is that they aren’t going to be bound by the Expanded Universe books, comics, and games as they plan their new movies. Realistically, that’s something they had to do – the EU is just too big, complicated, and occasionally contradictory for them to have to deal with.

However, I’m guessing that EU stories that aren’t referenced (or contradicted) by the sequel movies will still be considered sort-of alive, in the same way that most Clone Wars-era stories (like Outbound Flight) were mostly unaffected, with the exception being all of the previous material on Boba Fett’s backstory.

Alternatively, if the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there’s one thing we authors are good at, it’s hand-waving.“

– Timothy Zahn VIA Reddit

khorazir:

Should Timothy Zahn’s awesome “Thrawn”-trilogy ever be made into movies, I have one request: cast Benedict Cumberbatch as the Grand Admiral. Because of reasons. I likely wouldn’t survive watching it, but that’d be ok.

This idea came to me out of the blue (no pun intended ;)), and marks my first Star Wars fanart for almost twenty years. I think the previous one was a pic of Thrawn as well …

Anyway, end of intermission, normal Sherlock fanart services will commence shortly.

khorazir:

Should Timothy Zahn’s awesome “Thrawn”-trilogy ever be made into movies, I have one request: cast Benedict Cumberbatch as the Grand Admiral. Because of reasons. I likely wouldn’t survive watching it, but that’d be ok.

This idea came to me out of the blue (no pun intended ;)), and marks my first Star Wars fanart for almost twenty years. I think the previous one was a pic of Thrawn as well …

Anyway, end of intermission, normal Sherlock fanart services will commence shortly.