I am glad the Wookieepedia exists, but every time I open it I feel like I am reading about some foreign sci-fi universe. I have watched every mainline Star Wars movie and the new popular shows (The Mandalorian, Andor), but feel like I only recognize maybe 20% of the characters and plotline referenced in the wiki.
Either this is my own ignorance, or the universe is super deep outside of the most popular content. Probably both.
>the universe is super deep outside of the most popular content
Oh man, you have no idea. The 16 year gap between Jedi in 83 and Phantom Menace in 99 was a huge pit of consumer demand for more Star Wars content that was filled by licensed novels. An unimaginable number of pages were written in that time, as a star wars obsessed teen I did my best to read them all. Literally anything you can imagine was tried - evil clone of Luke named Luuke? Check. 10+ novel series about that one x-wing squadron in A New Hope? You best believe it. An alien shown in a move for only for a few seconds? Yep, you get a trilogy too. The quality varied a lot, much of it laughably bad but also many books with stories vastly superior to anything in later movies (the Thrawn trilogy is particularly good.)
Maybe I missed it, but could not find much on the origin of Star Wars. I was hoping to find some deep analysis on the original work to build the saga. From early 1970's.
Either this is my own ignorance, or the universe is super deep outside of the most popular content. Probably both.
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