Putting the tantruming toddler somewhere out of earshot is usually the best approach, I find. Arguing or reasoning with them gets you nowhere.
So, I saw
The Force Awakens at last. It's an excellent
Stars War movie, though as it's largely stitched together out of character traits, scenes, and themes of the original trilogy, it could hardly fail. It doesn't need to rely on the OT characters as much as it does, but the new characters are pretty good and still carry the story on their own. The story was good, but probably not worth trashing the EU for.
In fact, with a quick skim over Wookiepedia, the story could have been inspired by events there:
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As Kylo Ren/Ben Solo seems to be basically Darth Cadous/Jacen Solo. Is every other generation of the Skywalker line destined to produce an evil tyrant killed by their son? I wish the series would move away from this cursed bloodline, but fannishness makes such repetition inevitable, as the EU already showed.
Like in
Doctor Who, the EU is ended, but the series returns with a suspiciously similar setup and little acknowledgement of that fact. I imagine the powers that be decided they couldn't expect audiences and new fans to catch up on 30-odd years of novels and stuff, which is fair enough, but we only have that problem in fandom because modern fiction expects people to follow it all from the start. It's hard to tell people not to worry about it or read it out of order.
