Warning: The following blog is from a user who believes Mace Windu is dead and should be dead, the Jedi shouldn't have "fought back more" against Order 66 troopers, and that Luke truly was the "Last Hope". If you can't tolerate those statements, please move along.

Blog Summary: I want a return to Star Wars in the Empire era as it was a decade ago, not another Prequel era clone.
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Take a moment to glance at the picture to the right.

Notice anything different about it from most of anything involving Star Wars in the past 5 or 6 years?

Not a lightsaber in sight.

Don't get me wrong here, Jedi and the force are a massive part of Star Wars... But if many Jedi are around after Episode III, Luke as the "Last Hope" and Obi-Wan's "Before the Dark Times... Before the Empire" statement loses focus and effect.

Thus as a card-carrying Original Trilogy fan (but one that still enjoys the Prequels mind you) this has been a blog I've been intending to write since entry 1. Thus it's also the first one to earn a "Favorite Entry" mark since November of last year.

The point here is that George Lucas does indeed seem to dictate the ebb and flow of the Expanded Universe.

Post 1990 we have books in a similar vein to the Original Trilogy, some Jedism, some blasterwork, and some piloting. We even get a whole series devoted to the pilots, X-Wing.

Flash forward 8 years and we get Shadows of the Empire, presumably created with Lucas blessing more so than other EU (I can't find the source, but supposedly he said he would have made a movie like Shadows of the Empire if he had the time back in the 80's). Still in the vein of the OT, perhaps more so due to not a single lightsaber showing up in the videogame adaptation. This was also spurred by the Special Edition releases by Lucas, thus Lucas dictating the EU.

One more year forward and we get the Prequel invasion. One year after that we enter into the multi-year series The New Jedi Order... Focus on Jedi in the films seems to equal a complete focus on Jedi in the novels... Even if they take place decades after the Prequels. Jedi in the highest levels of the Star Wars universe filters down. Even if it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
"Oh no! They can't be felt through the Force! That means our 100 or less Jedi can't fight them at complete efficiency. The Galaxy of Trillions is dooooomed!" *cough*

Now flash forward 6 final years to today. We get a book line announced "Legacy of the Force" likely continuing along the same Jedicentric viewpoint of the New Jedi Order. However we also have simply "Legacy" a comic series announced far outside of the current timeline with a pirate Skywalker as the main character, though from the title we can assume he does at some point pick up his Skywalker Legacy?

Now look ahead another year or so. Star Wars TV, with George Lucas at the helm for the first season. So basically the real question here is this... Will it be set shortly after Episode III with the dozens (sigh) of Jedi that survived Order 66, thus prolonging the Jedicentric viewpoint currently enforced by almost all Star Wars venues, or will he set it closer to Episode IV, with the Jedi extinct, their fire gone out of the universe and a focus on Rebels, smugglers, bounty hunters, and the Galactic Empire?

The Expanded Universe seems to follow Lucas' beck and call, mirroring his attitudes. So I think it's safe to say, depending on what road he follows with Star Wars TV will effect whether Obi-Wan Kenobi costumes sell out in Halloween '07 and onward... Or a return to Han Soloesque characters being what's hot.

Ok so that covers my visions of the future. Now let's cover something many blog writers of today seems to be forgetting (though most of those writers probably haven't read this far anyway. Kudos if you're still reading!), what are my opinions on the possible outcomes? Yes, amazingly clicking on the "Read comments" button down below your blog shouldn't be required reading. Just a... Comments section. The QA section after your speech. This concludes my mini-rant on blogging

Star Wars continues it's completely Jedi-centric road:

Well I suppose I'll feel the same way I do today.

Star Wars returns to a tale of Galactic Struggle, Rebels vs the oppressive Empire:

*Lights up some fireworks* Woo!
Seriously now... I'd be thrilled. Jedi aren't special anymore. Everyone and his cousin is a Jedi nowadays. Even if you aren't a Jedi you're in constant danger of becoming one. I want one or two Jedi in Star Wars TV that only use their lightsaber or the Force in extreme circum_stances. I want that to be a special important moment, like it was in the Original Trilogy. I want their to be a real sense of danger in being a Jedi that luckily has been reflected properly in Dark Lord: Rise of Darth Vader, in which several Jedi give up their lightsabers and hide their powers because using them is more dangerous than not. The Jedi in Star Wars TV fighting a Dark Jedi or even letting loose on a bunch of Stormtroopers with his glowstick should be a season finale event, not something that happens in every episode.

I want my TV Jedi to be a normal person most of the time. I don't want my Jedi to be invincible. I don't want my Jedi to be perfect. I don't want my Jedi to pull his saber out anytime there's a strange noise, I want my Jedi to pull a blaster. I want the people around my Jedi (the rebels, smugglers, and common folk) to be a little estranged from him or her due to his belief in that crazy religion that Imperial propaganda says helped try to destroy the Republic and even now threatens the stability of the Grand Empire.

In short. I want somebody like Luke in Episode IV and V. A Jedi without all the grandeur and flashiness. I want a flawed Jedi. Who's hardly a Jedi as we know them in the Prequels at all. I want character focus on one or two of them, not another Jedi Order's worth with no character depth (Sorry all you Kit Fisto fans)

I want Rebels who aim to misbehave

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