Great vid thanks. As a reader of all Star Wars for 30 years, the schism between canon and legends fans is sad. Great stories all around. The same way I can watch 2 tv shows at once, or watch marvel and dc at the movies…I can read 2 slightly separate star wars in my head. The modern star wars comics and manga from high republic are the best star wars stories i’ve ever read. While the current prose novels are not my favorite, i will always read everything from this world that means so much to me. Thank you for continuing to promote reading all star wars in an inclusive way. I want more people to read about darth vader and doctor aphra and the tragedy of Edge of Balance…and i want people to hear the tales of zenoma sekot and the yuuzhan vong, the fall of jacen solo as well.

I like and dislike things from both. Sadly my least favorite thing (Palpatine clones) which I celebrated being abolished, made a comeback in canon and exists in both now. RoS really messed up more than TLJ imo.

I know these Pros and Cons videos are only about the books, but I still have to bring up the games. Legends just has more games, and the big story games like KOTOR and the Jedi Knight games also influenced the books and comics which makes the universe feel even more interconnected. In my opinion Legends also has better short stories than Canon. But I think the Canon will probably also get big story games and more short stories, so who knows, in ten years I will be saying the good things I say about Legends about the Canon as well.

I just found your channel. I preordered Light of the Jedi and Into the Dark back when they were first announced, but I just didn’t get around to read them till now. I’m loving your ability to enjoy these stories without being too complacent or critical of them. Instant subscriber. Off to keep reading :). Thank you!

Con 4. Both continuities have their die hard fans. Being a SW fan, you need to embrace a broader view of SW and not the dogmatic view of either Canon or Legends. The EU was around for 30+ years. I can't imagine ignoring decades of SW history. Anything done in one continuity was bad in the other continuity. Or will bend over backwards to defend everything bad from their favored continuity.

one reason people are exclusive on legends is the way they feel they were treated. Basically you've spent years, decades and then one company with no regard said, what you read? didn't matter, didn't exist. That would upset me. BTW, do you think Phasma is horror? I love horror :D please advise me some eheh

I was bored scrolling through KZfaq and clicked on this video. To my surprise, it has made my day! Your videos are both informative and engaging! Subscribed and liked! 😊😊😊

I love that there are well defined eras in the canon novels. I’m new to Star Wars novels and I find the canon novels way easier to navigate.

The most interesting thing is 1 of the books heir to the Jedi was originally intended to be a legends novel so technically actually fits in both continuities it was just rebranded as Canon at the last minute when the continuity was reboot.

Really nice how reasonable and open minded you are about this. I’m a very new legends fan who really came to love it after I watched Episode 8. It made me realise Star Wars was more than just the Skywalker movies and in a way it’s freed me to enjoy so much more. I’ve become a KOTOR fan, rediscovered my love for The Force Unleashed series and reading Heir to the Empire trilogy right now. I’ve also loved TCW, Rebels more so. (Ezra is a fantastic Luke analogue.) And I like certain aspects of canon over Legends, especially in regards to the clone troopers. Overall, I’ve been able to love Star Wars far more in the last year and a half than I ever have growing up.

I love both Canon and Legends Novels Comics and Video Games equally to me yeah I know in the Fandom you either love one of them but I love both of them.

I agree with a lot of your points here. I’ve read far less canon compared to Legends, as I don’t find it as interesting personally, but I do still read some on occasion Canon is definitely is easier to jump into. With Legends, there are so many series I want to read, but I can’t because I haven’t finished the ones that take place prior and I don’t want to spoil myself. On the other hand, I can walk into a bookstore and pick up any canon book I feel like grabbing, and be able to just read it. I really, really like that about the canon A lot of my issues with the canon, which I feel were better done in Legends, are actually being fixed by High Republic. I loved the interconnectedness of Legends, and the large scale storytelling-both of which have been lacking in canon. But High Republic is bringing a lot of that back and I think that’s great. It’s one reason it’s my favorite thing to come out of the Disney era, and it’s easily the most Legends-like stuff as well imo

I enjoy the canon but I prefer legends/EU. Both are interesting takes on Star Wars and I enjoy the different styles of writing between the timelines.

You expressed what I experienced when I was first excited for new cannon SW books. I was hyped for this fresh new, clean slayed of new canon interconnectivity between books and movies starting with aftermath. After that I was left kinda disappointed about the lack connectivity. Comic books on the other hand have nailed it though 👌🤌🏽

I’m mostly strictly just a Eu fan but there are some parts of canon that I love such as the master and apprentice book and Dooku jedi lost. Of course outside of the books I love the 2017 Vader comics and the 2008 clone wars series (even tho I have major issues with their continuity)

It’s been a while since I’ve looked into the cannon books thanks for the perspective ✌️

I'm planning on getting into the high Republic once I finish the 1st X wing novel.

Thank you for your vidéos 👍

I agree with your point that canon books are a lot more approachable than legends. I have read a variety of books, mostly out of release order, and I have never been confused or lost as to what is happening.

These pros and cons used to be limited to the books, so the majority of fans could just stick to the movies and TV shows to avoid those cons. But now the TV shows are falling into the same traps, like the character driven shows over story driven which I absolutely hateee, I don't like a series or movie being named after a character because that series is now obligated to sticking to that character otherwise if it tries to do something else, maybe something more interesting with a different character, people will wonder why it's following someone else instead of the title character. Another con is the interconnectivity, the shows are becoming unnecessarily interconnected in my opinion, it's at the point where characters from every show are making cameos from show to show like Mando and Grogu in Boba Fett, so now Mando fans have to watch Boba fett to understand season 3 of Mando. I just find it unfortunate that the shows are falling into the same cons that both Canon and legends books sometimes fell into

While I try not to hate on canon, it’s not for me. I’m already dedicated to Legends and continuity is a big thing for me (meaning I’ll struggle with having two continuities for one franchise).

Excellent take. I agree with all of your pros and most of your cons. I 100% agree with you on the Padme books. I could never enjoy them and I’ve never been able to explain what about it didn’t work for me, until just now when you laid it out. I can’t get into her writing because she writes in a way that her readers aren’t allowed to disagree with her characters- good and evil are very white and black, so there is no room for moral discussion. Im going to have to respectfully disagree with you on the character driven books being a con, but as you said this is just personal preference. I am definitely a character driven reader and so I LOVE the character driven novels. I also enjoy a good plot driven novel, but personally character development is more important to me than an intricate plot. I think that’s why I enjoy anything by Zahn. He excels at writing action pact books that also have amazing character development!

I love both Star Wars legends and canon and the infinitives and other non-Canon stuff like visions.

Your outros always scare me 😂

Okay, taking back my comment about jenres under previous video. Kinda forgot that Lost stars is canon. And didn't know that Phasma is what you said, now i need it😲 Con 1 for me is pro because i prefer character focused books. There are too much BIG things in movies and sometimes characters do not have enough time to show themselves

Hello, I loved the video, just had a very chill and friendly vibe but it was also plenty informational. I myself am new to star wars books, started my journey with the high republic and am loving it so far (just about to start 'the fallen star'). But I've never read any legends books, so I'd love it if someone could give me some recommendations on where to start. Thanks!

What did you mean regarding the legends tier system? Were some legends books considered "more canon" than others at the time?

Question, as someone who reads the legends books, what books would you recommend for cannon? Please keep me away from books after return of the jedi. Just cuz the sequels were horribly done

Okay, after your summary, PHASMA will be my next Star Wars novel ;-) … I think, we should mention the elephant in the room … people are selfish, ignorant and tend to feel a certain entitlement when it comes to big franchises like STAR WARS. Many of them grew up with one the first two trilogys and have certain expections about how the stories should progress. And since STAR WARS has to please fans between 5 and 105, you have to make some decisions along the way that will inevitably throw off some fans here and there. And there are also some people that have forgotten what all of this … cinema, TV, books, fantasy and STAR WARS … was about: FUN! You should have fun with those stories. It's just fairytales, in space. A great way to escape your daily life, your problems and so on. It's entertainment, not a religion. If you didn't like one book (KENOBI for instance … ;-)) well, head on to the next one. Disney or Lucasarts don't owe you a certain story. And it's not the end of the world. There's plenty of other stuff to explore. … By the way, I couldn't care less about the colors of he laser swords … if it matches the surroundings and the fight looks cool, I'm happy with any color … but that's just me. I understand that there is a whole mythology behind that …

Yoda stories are canon.

Star Trek books for the most part don't connect in 1 timeline though you can connect them without to much contradictions.

I have only read one book in the Disney canon and that was Brotherhood which blew me away. As for legends I have read a lot and some of them weren’t that great. Both continuities will have there pros and cons. Just enjoy a good story and have fun 🙂