Hehehe, the visual of Tadd wearing his helmet but still having a pipe is just hilarious

"All things die, Anakin Skywalker, even stars burn out." God that book hits me hard every time, especially the start.

Top ten comics next? i've been consuming loads of dark horse comcis recently, they are so good

As a fan of the new Canon, I cannot stress enough how important it is that TCW should only be Canon. Your videos have really shed light on this. I get mixed feelings when I look for Legends novels because I don't want my Canon preconceptions to taint my Legends experience

I’m sad you didn’t include anything from New Jedi Order, but overall that’s a great list!

*I've been looking forward to this*

When you said you couldn't watch Revenge of the Sith at release, I felt that. Little 7 year old Noah couldn't watch it either. Had to wait until my 13th birthday. But oh it was so worth it. As for my favorite Star Wars novel if I may, easily "I, Jedi.". I loved how it was less a journey about becoming a Jedi and more about a man just trying to find his wife.

Darth Plagueis is probably my favorite EU novel. It's got so much goodness in it. Although I also haven't read that many Star Wars books with most of them being pre-prequels, so I'll be sure to check out some of your recommendations.

labyrinth of evil is my favorite EU book. It's so good

Nice video man. I absolutely agree about the TCW retcons that affected some of the EU novels, especially Darth Plagueis. It's a total dick move for TCW writers.

Republic Commando and Medstar are the best ones ever.

My favorite novel would be Jedi Twilight by Michael Reeves. It was the first Star Wars EU novel I finished reading and got me hooked into the EU. It also made Reeves my favorite author to grace Star Wars and makes wish he was talked about more.

That RC audio book project is awesome. Props to Adams.

You think we could hear some continuity altering rants relating to what you didn't go into here over on *Captain Fordo* sometime?

I love your videos! During this dark times, for star wars and the world in general, it's good to hear about the good old expanded universe. Keep up the good work MandaLore!

Love your star wars videos man

Very nice video, I think you are doing a great job with spreading knowledge about old EU.

The other great thing about Shatterpoint is that it is basically Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (or Apocalypse Now if you prefer) retold in the Star Wars universe. Read that book (or watch the movie) before reading Shatterpoint and you’ll appreciate it even more.

I enjoy each one of all your videos.

Yo you nailed it with this video! My favorite videos of yours is hearing your opinions on certain aspects of the EU and love for the EU. Great video, man!

Excellent production quality as always!

love your taste in books my friend!! number 1 and 2 are my favorites as well lol

Thanks for talking about Legends novels, Reyot'alor! I bought some of the Legacy of the Force books from my local bookstore and am eagerly waiting to get all 6 of them to read back to back

The music transitions are awesome

Another good video ner vod. Keeping the flame alive in the darkness.

Yeah I loved imperial/republic commandos by Karen Travis. Really explored the clones as characters in a way never really seen before . It did explore the commanders differences and mandelorian culture. Though her focus on mandelorian culture may be a bit much especially when not al her books focus on mandelorians. I loved the focus on the transformation into storm troopers and changes to the imperial military as early empire is one of my favored timelines in starwars . Though different I feel the clone wars did an amazing job with that too as the commandos were always separate from regular clones in a way. The clone commandos books were half clone half mandelorian. The clones in the clone wars didn’t have any of the mandelorian culture stuff but were still fleshed out as clones in a way the commandos weren’t. I personally felt she always should’ve wrote a book about mandelorians maybe during the mandelorian wars or something instead of fitting mando stuff in everything .

We have a lot of the same favorites, for very similar reasons. RC Series is easily in my top three of all time, and Triple Zero in particular. LOVE the whole deep- dive into Mandalorian culture, and the language just cements it for me. Whenever a book/show/movie does that it just takes it to another level for me. And I was honestly so grateful for all those connections, and Boba and Mirta's arc being in Sacrifice when I re read it recently. That storyline felt like a hug from an old friend and was very a welcome distraction from what was happening to Mara - my all time favorite character (obviously). And as much as I hate the fact it happened, I think it was a worthy send off. I know some people disagree, but I feel like they're not giving enough credit to how damn powerful Jacen was by that point. And she got so so close to getting him too at one point in their fight

Great vid man

The Hand of Thrawn books are my favorite!!

I'm about to start the Dark Force Rising unabridged audiobook, and I added Outbound Flight to my Wish List! Thanks for all of this.

Very good list, you even peaked my interest for those I have not yet read like shatterpoint, and millieum falcon. Darth bane trilogy was a master piece, outbound flight I want to re-read. Death troopers was amazing. Star by star, edge of victory, rebel dawn/dream, betrayel, the new jedi order books that Sean Williams did (I can't remember the title but it was like a trilogy within njo towards the end) and unifying force was like deathly Hallows for that series. I would like to see a video game and or CGI film focused on Darth malgus. Doubtful but one can hope.

I’ve been going through your videos for awhile as I began to think more about the old EU more than I had before and was finally considering going back to it after years of hearing many mixed messages of good and bad and seeing the discourse online back and forth between people. I try to approach everything nowadays as case by case where I look at all the facts and try to listen to each side and whether I agree in the end will depend on how I come down on a thing and even if I don’t agree with you or someone else I can still respect you as an individual and everyone has a right to enjoy or dislike whatever it is they are talking about. In the case of Star Wars my history is kind of all over the place as I grew up in the Prequel era but didn’t know what Star Wars was until I heard about it one day because people were talking about Revenge Of The Sith that was set to come out even though I had gotten one or two ships from Attack of the Clones as a random gift and a Darth Maul bike for Christmas which I admittedly never learned to properly ride and to this day at 24 I still can’t ride a bicycle. But it was Revenge of the Sith where I learned about Star Wars proper and I got the 2004 Special Editions and Attack of the Clones and then the Phantom Menace and I got the 03 Clone Wars series and of course saw the film in theatres and I was admittedly younger than you because I was 8 at the time going on 9. I also had made a friend who had spent a longer time with Star Wars and became kind of my teacher and while we bonded and became friends over many things like Marvel, Yugioh and watching films we were probably too young to watch like Terminator it was Star Wars that was our big connecting point. I’d buy the action figures and I had a Boba Fett birthday cake. The EU was something though that kind of remained a mystery to me even as I got onto the internet and would go online and read about characters from that era or hear about the concepts but nobody not even my friend could give me clear ideas on whether it was good or not and the few things people told me were people that dismissed it and eventually I just assumed they were right and I didn’t take much stock in it and also because there was a lot I again was a little daunted in what to read as I wasn’t much of a reader beyond reading Marvel comics when I was younger. This has come back to haunt me now admittedly because I have started buying more stuff I want to read and am better at reading now and I haven’t scratched the surface of what I want to go through but not everyone is adept at this sort of thing when they are young. As I got a little older I followed TCW from the beginning where I saw the movie in theatres and collected the toyline and other action figure lines like the Legacy Collection and 30th Anniversary. It was admittedly in terms of toy collecting a bit of a greedy time since you could get nearly anything you wanted and I guess Hasbro saw that circa 2014-2015 and decided to make things go back to 1997. Watching Star Wars stop motions with action figures was also an early thing I did online that again makes me nostalgic for childhood and those innocent days. When I got more adept with online stuff and KZfaq some of my first online bonding experiences were because of watching and talking about TCW and I was young at the time and a bit more impressionable as when I would be exposed to stuff I didn’t hear before I would begin to reconsider my viewpoints and admittedly would try and retroactively change how I feel based on what other people were saying like when Red Letter Media did their infamous Star Wars reviews they along with trying to reconcile TCW as part of the universe and not again knowing the EU properly made me look on Prequel era with a bit of a negative attitude that now I don't have. I have my issues I’ve always had even before watching those reviews but I admittedly don’t need the criticisms they’ve made to inform my take nor should I try to pigeon hold a TV series that came later to a movie series that came before it. When Disney bought Star Wars I had gone to the 2012 New York Comic Con not long before where I met the late Carrie Fisher but I also decided to buy Star Wars books properly for the first time. Part of my lack of awareness with the EU was because I never saw many EU books around in a book section or if I did I again didn’t pay them attention of mind despite them being Star Wars because I wasn’t reading. But I decided to buy Plagueis and the first two Thrawn books. I had been given old copies years ago by my cousin who knew someone who had given him of Darkforce Rising and Last Command and again I did try to read them at the time but couldn’t. I didn’t have the Darkforce copy anymore but I still had Last Command lying around so I didn’t need to buy that but considering how beat up it is I kind of wish I did before the Legends brand would be added for future releases. All these years later and I’m still going through Plagueis and picking it up and down again whenever I’m in a position where I have to read a book and I still haven’t touched the Thrawn books. I did get the Tarkin book which is and probably will be the only new canon book I buy because I thought I was going to dive into those at the time but I’m not. It’s Luceno though so it wasn’t bad and I do like what I’ve read of Plagueis and am curious to check out his works. I also got the Tales from Jabba’s Palace book and read that but that is admittedly short. I was optimistic about the new Star Wars at the time and while I’m not as jaded now as other people I am getting to a point where anything new with Star Wars I’m kind of just going through the motions. I’ll watch a new thing and if I like it I will say so and if I don’t then I’ll say so. For all the faults TCW and Rebels have as well as Mandalorian I still like them the most out of everything screen wise in terms of newer material and even TCW was admittedly a precursor to what Disney would do. That being said the more deep dive I do into the EU and the more I hear EU fans like yourself explain your frustrations with TCW I do now understand and hear you in a way I didn’t before and admittedly I feel like I’ve contributed to the problem by not giving the EU much of a fair shake over the years because of my lack of interest in wanting to read or seek the material out or again buying too much into other opinions about the EU that were negative. It was a lot of back and forth between various people and I didn’t know who to listen too and now I’m getting to a point where I just want to take stock and be more confident in what I want to do and what I want to read and watch and not try to keep up with others nor the new canon especially since not a lot is interesting to me. I’ll watch the screen material because it’s easy to digest but unlike the old EU where after looking back and hearing about it now seems interesting I probably will never do so for the current canon books or comics even if they do get an ending down the road. The unofficial ending of the EU admittedly does help in wanting to go back because I at least know there’s a point where it’ll stop rather than waiting for something to come out or end which was another reason it was hard to jump in when I was a kid because of the ongoing narrative being a bit too much for my young brain to muster. Any Marvel Comic I read which was Spider-Man I would usually go to the back and read the reprints of the old comics because they were easy to follow and reminded me of the 90s cartoon more compared to what was going on at that time so this stretched to other things I was into. TCW will still always be a part of me because it was a part of Star Wars that left an impression on me in the way older EU lore did for others but that doesn’t mean I’m not blind to it’s faults and even before I realised the retconning it did I still had issues with it anyway when it came to certain stories and wasted potential even before Disney cancelled it the first time. Rebels is the same way and those final few episodes did come to me in a tough place in my life so them dealing with death and grief at the end of that will always mean something me as will the online discussion I had with friends who were TCW fans because it was again my earliest exposure to online interaction and despite the disagreements sometimes I feel more nostalgia for that era whereas now I kind of just want to be done with online discussion because we can’t act like reasonable people at least from my experience looking into certain situations. I can now separate the TCW material from the EU and I think as I get into the EU material more and if I do enjoy the books and comics I still will be able to have that disconnect. Maybe it’s because I’d be coming in mostly as an outsider because hearing about stuff isn’t the same as reading it. Some people can’t have that disconnect because that’s not how they operate or because they were readers of the material first and that’s cool too. Again everybody has their own way of looking at things what works for me doesn’t work for everyone. (To Be Continued In Next Comment. Went on too long. Sorry)

Awesome video.

I haven't read much legends, but i've really been liking the new thrawn trilogy and other cannon novels. Also, I'll have to give republic commando a read, clones + mandos= great! :) Also love your new outro Vode An is the best.

I’m reading Mathew Stovers Revenge Of the Sith because when I was little it was one of my favorite movies. I got it from my local library

I love both jacens story and bobas story so it was an all around win with sacrifice

Would love to see a top 10 comic list you have some great picks here

Nice video Manda-LORE, keep up the great work! I found it pretty funny that your list had a majority of the novels I count among my favorites as well, though in a different order from my own. My list of favorite EU books looks something like this: 1. Darth Plagueis 2. Revenge of the Sith 3. Yoda - Dark Rendezvous 4. Outbound Flight 5. Labyrinth of Evil 6. Darth Bane - Path of Destruction 7. Hand of Thrawn - Vision of the Future 8. The Thrawn Trilogy - Heir to the Empire 9. Shatterpoint 10. Dark Lord - The Rise of Darth Vader Honorary Mentions: - The Old Republic - Deceived - The New Jedi Order - Vector Prime - X-Wing - Solo Command - I, Jedi

Darth Plagueis. In audiobook format. Perfection.

I’ll need to reread labyrinth of evil sometime! not that I didn’t enjoy it but I sort of binged during one lone road trip and didn’t get to savor all the details from sleepiness. I know its more actiony fun than anything too deep But I’m rather partial towards maul lockdown. For such a small role in the grand scheme of things the environment of the super prison is unique and ominous and characters both new and familiar are done fantasically. And frankly all the fights are insanely cool!

This is going to be an interesting list

Dark Force Rising was my favourite from the thrawn trilogy and was my favourite Star Wars book for a while

Will you some day do a top ten videogames?

My Top 10 List is: - Darth Plagueis - NJO Destiny's Way - NJO Traitor - NJO The Unifying Force - Labyrinth of Evil - Path of Destruction - Cloak of Deception - FOTJ Ascension - NJO Edge of Victory I: Conquest - FOTJ Backlash

I wish these books were more available in my home country. I didn't read as many of them as I would have liked, but those that I did read were excellent. I definitely want to check out all the books you have listed here.

Some I’d put that you didn’t have on your list are dark lord rising the book right after revenge of the with. It shows the suffering of Vader the first few months in his armour such as difficulty moving breathing, understanding the cost it did to his abilities in the force and fighting forcing him to adapt and even face difficulties in fights against former Jedi , his difficulty separating Anakin who he was with what he is now, his feelings about Padme, Vader’s drive to learn more under his master and about the ways of the with.Iy also shows the lives of former Jedi and how they resist or try to forget in the early months of the empire and its formation .It really is an amazing book that you need to pick up.

One suprise book I’d add to my list is Boba Fett fight to service by Terry Binson. It’s a younger reader book but is great. It follows boba fett right after his father dies with only his fathers helmet with lessons, and instructions to survive left in it. He has to contend with hut gansgsters, dangerous bounty hunters like aurra sing ,clones and how he relates to them and what the true legacy of his father is, and powerful characters like count dooku who may use him for their own means. It’s a good story and well written

I would say I enjoyed this and am now encouraged to read Darth Bane as this supporting interest adds to my own. Thank you for allowing me to feel at home in my love of the EU.

Hey!Please do video about clone advisor from rebublic commando.What is he story?

Oh my god, new angles, new set new flannel! This is the way vode!

28:39 Personally I think it works better if Nelvan happens after Tythe... mainly because Anakin's robotic arm gets destroyed on Nelvan with it being fixed as Windu informing him and Obi Wan about Coruscant, and I don't see Anakin going through an entire battle without his saber hand.

Hey Tadd have you heard that the 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars microseries and Star Wars Ewoks are coming to Disney+?

The Darth Plagueis book is great for explaining just what the hell the Sith were trying to do in Episode 1.

Darth Plageius ignores one of Palpatine's Senate era rivals. Seti Ashgad from Planet of Twilight, one of the Incom designers on the Headhunter.(He couldn't be from Subpro because he's not Trandoshan yeah fun fact: Subpro is a Trandoshan company) Which really had potential to be an interesting side arc.

@Manda-LORE Currently reading Shatterpoint and Labyrinth of Evil, just a bit of a question, after Depa falls into a coma was Obi wan made council member in her place in the pre-TCW era or was that another retcon? Also apparently Ventress was supposed to die in Labyrinth of Evil, if she was to die in that novel rather than the comic obsession having her escape to an unknown area of the galaxy, how would it have changed your view of Ventress?

Dude labyrinth of evil is my favorite book period

I've barely even reached the tip of the iceberg, but here's how my list would go 1. Darth Bane: Path of Destruction 2. Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil 3. Jedi Apprentice: The Dark Rival 4. Jedi Apprentice: The Hidden Past 5. Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force 6. Darth Bane: Rule of Two 7. Jedi Apprentice: Mark of the Crown 8. Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void I'm reading Defenders of the Dead right now

Ending song during the subscribe screen?

18:59 Where DID you get that stunning artwork?

I think you're going to get me back into Labyrinth of Evil and Shatterpoint. I'm a huge EU fan, but my attention span as an adult is just as bad--if not worse--as it already was when I was a child. Shatterpoint I especially found to be a very slow burn

How did you make your armor ?

crazy Easter egg here. The mod character in the new Boba Fett show looks exactly like Boba’s granddaughter here in legends

Leias paternal father. I was not aware there are different kinds in that regard

As a person who just started reading Star Wars Legends, i do have to ask: is the third book of the Dark Lord Trilogy, The Rise if Darth Vader any good? I heard it has good ratings however i dont see too many people talking about it.

I heard that a video that tries to debunk your "Why TCW can't fit in Legends."

This channel should literally be a Disney plus series

Darth Bane Path of Destruction is number 1 on my list.

List?

Will we see the Dathomir rant on Captain Fordo?

Is there a link to that graph on 23:17? I could use it for my collection

Top ten Star Wars EU Novels as follows: 10: Truce at Bakura 9: Republic Commando: Hard Contact 8: X-Wing: Bacta War 7: X-Wing: Rogue Squadron 6: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Collected Stories 5: Heir to the Empire 4: Wraith Squadron 3: Darth Bane: Rule of Two 2: Shatterpoint 1: Unifying Force

Hey @Manda-LORE, this is a very controversial topic, but I have not been able to find a source that confirms or denies this rumor: Is Dave Filoni one of primary architects of the decanonization of the EU?

James Luceno is just too good

In my eyes, The Holy Trinity of Star Wars authors are Timothy Zahn, Matthew Stover, and James Luceno.

Comment for the algorithm God

These videos could use subtitles just because star wars names are weird.

Even with the few issues that came to b about maul's origin (which actually aren't that much exept the sentence saying he's ridonian) , i find plagueis the best thing luceno did. I can't see how labyrinth of evil deserves a higher rank, let alone so much higher. It's a good book but by far less interesting n kind of a drag.

can milennium falcon be read without reading too much post endor?

14:52 💀💀💀

The Republic commando series was my introduction to the starwars novels. 68 novels in and it started with those books in high school. Lucasarts did the series wrong with the CW series; ig doesnt hold a flame to these books. 2008 and The clone wars series was the begining of the end of starwas in my opinion.

Lol what your father didn't allow you to go see ROTS in the theatres? Dude I was five when I saw it. Probably the reason why General Grievous is my fav. I agree the novelization is truly great and in a ton of ways better than the movie. Labyrinth Of Evil is a awesome novel as a whole. One of the best scenes is Grievous's flashback. He's in the bacta tank after the shuttle crash while his wives and children pray for him.

Funny how we learned from look that shatterpoint wasn't at all a talent depending technique like healing or psychometry, but only rare cuz it was rarely tought. So the fact that windu during his time was among the few who knew how, makes the rarity of it another example what a garbage personality he had. It's just like his claim to have invented a lightsaber form n mastered as the only person without going dark, where it's just his translated to narcicistic way of saying, he has started using a form known as THE sith form over all others, but never really used it correctly n to it's fullest which is how he managed to not b fully corrupted. He hasn't invented but stolen n neither mastered but failed to use it, cuz it's supposed to b used by a darksider to b most effective. Selfrestraint n the restraint it puts on the technique's capabilities is exactly the stuff it was created to get rid off. The book is really well written n the story was cool but it also just made it even clearer that he was like the embodiment of everything wrong with the order. Joda at least can b in part excused by his distorted perspective due to his huge lifespan. Windu has a very huge ego for a jedi n deals with it like a conman. He is the next level of "a certain point of view".

I can't really argue except two things: Timothy Zahn and the book that started it all at #9? What's with all the Sith and Battle novels? To me Star Wars is about the delight of headlong blasting in a space hot rod doing heroics. Not reading about endless lines of faceless clone slaughter or comic-evil ranting of a mind in need of medication. I have lived in the real world, seen murder, death, and true evil. It really doesn't seem a fun read. The Slith are just disgusting perverts (PG-13 style) and I'm just not into that.

10:37 - Once again, George having an imput on an Original E.U work. Edited: What I cam here for, 27:41

The second and third Darth Bane books are ok, but they don't really ever achieve the greatness of the first one.

Can we all just agree that Karen Traviss was the single greatest author in the Expanded Universe? Followed very closely by Timothy Zahn and James Luceno, of course.

Mando-Lore: I prefer the novel of ep 3 over the film Me: doesn’t mean much, the film was a**