Wookie Snake Plissken.

That's still one of my favorites in my collection!

@@tsuyoisama i love how these toy companies just made the most outlandish figures and based some on R rated movies, there were RoboCop and Aliens toys

@@nickm5419 The Aliens toys were cool.

@@warpartyattheoutpost4987 yeh I zcthilly have al, the zcthion figuresvog of shadows of empire now

Tell me the Jacen/Jaina dynamic wasn’t the prototype for Ren/Rey.

@@reidmortensen2629 the Solo twins where actually likeable characters ... so I doubt that .

Truly we were lost lambs before learning about Boba Fett's Judeo-Christian/Purtianical views on premarital sex.

That is so cool! What a guy.

I wonder if StarTrek nemesis Shinzon was inspired a lil bit by Xizor. The look is somewhat similar, the name, pheromons and mind controll is not too different as well...

I've been pronouncing Xizor as "C-zor". The reason is because of Chinese Pinyin. "Xi" is pronounced as "C" or "see"

It's very strange to see SOTE reduced to a 20 minute video when we spent so many hours devouring everything

I've always said it like "scissor" but with a z at the start lol, will never be able to unlearn that

@@toamatau8785 "Sci-zor" could be another reason why we pronounce it that way. Sci-zor sounds like a Masters of the Universe character though.

"You see, to contend with Xizor is to lose. As far as any reasonable person is concerned, attacking me will also be judged as suicide." Is the one that always stuck with me.

Ditto. My younger brother got caught shoplifting a bunch of stuff and for extra punishment, my parents made him give me all the figures and vehicles he stolen over a few weeks. Best way to get your hands on a starship outside of a 6 hour game of Sabacc.

I got them all too still in original packaging thanks eBay!

The book also led me to discover Steve Perry's "Matador" series, which were very fun martial-arts space operas about a group of master-class bodyguards who are secretly political assassins and agents provocateur. (TW: the series has some very dated phobic elements, and a weird hangup on eroticizing\objectifying albino people.)

@@kevins4213 you ever jumped from a airplane before actually landing in one? 😆

@@jasonblalock4429 who gives AF. Literally fiction. Imagine being so weak that make-belief harms you. Definition of weak sperm. People like that are not long for this world and are the first to go during a pandemic.

Im still holding out hope....

It's still a better movie than Ep 7-9

I still hope once they perfect the "fake actor" technology ala Tarkin, Leia (Rogue One) and Luke (Mando) they could do something like this in live action. Yisss!!!

Animated series

@@prestonostra i hope to God they never do, that technology is too fucking scary and we don't need people clamoring for it just for the sake of vegetating on the couch with cgi actors instead of recast characters

I still have a Kenner's Dash Rendar, it was a solid story, with Lucas himself supervising the product (just like he did with Force Unleashed I). By the way: you forgot to mention the novel and the official soundtrack, SoE was the first big Star Wars media production since RotJ.

Except it wasn't canon to Lucas. He said the ONLY canon was his movies and The Clone Wars. Books, video games etc were not canon to him. He always stated nothing from the Expanded Universe, especially the books, had any connection to his Star Wars universe and neither did the video games. Lucas also stated he never read any of the books and disliked a lot of the changes made. It was pretty much licensed fan fiction. “There are two worlds here; There’s my world, which is the movies, and there’s this other world that has been created, which I say is the parallel universe-the licensing world of the books, games and comic books.” - George Lucas, Cinescape, July 2001 ”The novels and comic books are other authors' interpretations of my creations sometimes, I tell them what they can and cant do, but I just don't have the time to read them all. They're not my vision of what Star Wars is.” - George Lucas 2004 "The books are in a different universe. I've not read any of them, and I told them when they started writing I wouldn't read any of them and I blocked out certain periods [they couldn't touch where the real story happens]." - George Lucas 2003 "Do you supervise the development of all the off-movie stories? After all, Star Wars exists in books, comics, video games. "You know, I try not to think about that. I have my own world in movies and I follow it." - George Lucas, 2008 “For me and my training here at Lucasfilm, working with George, he and I always thought the Expanded Universe was just that. It was an expanded universe. Basically it’s stories that are really fun and really exciting, but they’re a view on Star Wars, not necessarily canon to him.That was the way it was from the day I walked into Lucasfilm with him all through Clone Wars, everything we worked on, he felt the Clone Wars series and his movies were what was actually the reality of it all, the canon, then there was everything else. So it wasn’t a big dynamic shift for me mentally when there was this big announcement saying the EU is now Legends. I’m like, ‘Okay, well, it’s kind of the same thing to me because that the way I work.’” -Dave Filoni, September 2017 "In the canon debate, it is important to notice that LucasFilm and Lucas are different entities. The only canon source of Star Wars are the radio plays, the movie novels and the movies themselves. In Lucas' mind, nothing else exists, and no authorized LucasFilm novel, comic or video game will restrict his creativity in any way."" - Steven Sansweet - Director of Content Management and head of Fan Relations at Lucasfilm Ltd. "George Lucas, and by extension Lucasfilm itself, never considered anything in the Expanded Universe to be part of the films’ canon, even stories that he had a fondness for like Shadows of the Empire. As far as the movies were concerned Dash Rendar and Prince Xizor never existed, and never were going to. That’s a prerogative that’s existed since the beginning. The Expanded Universe itself had its own continuity that it … sort of tried to keep internally consistent. That didn’t just disappear just because Disney and Lucasfilm confirmed what George was already saying for years. Shadows of the Empire is still a story that exists in that continuity and that isn’t contradicted by much of anything. It’s just that the Expanded Universe’s continuity isn’t the one the films will be using."

@@Peppers19781978 solid information. Never read those quotes before.

But is he louder, angrier and does he have access to a time machine?

"Hey, wha happuh?"

Where's poochie 😄

Yeah that was the death knell for me too. I've kept some modest enthusiasm for some parts of Star Wars since then, it's never been the same.

@@jkincaid582 The Special Editions (and subsequent re-edits, such as Vader's "Noooo!") didn't help either.

I agree!!! They were my little brothers starwars toys as well ans they were like heman guys compared to my starwars guys from the early 80s!!!

The Han Swolo and Buff Skywalker were the first SW figures I bought off the shelf. (I was born after SW and too young to get most of the OG toyline) Their gains will always be remembered.

All the Power of the Force toys looked like that. Mark Hamill commented on it at least once, and it was pretty funny.

@@tkc1129 I remember that, he was on a late night talks how right?

@@RA10H56 I think so. :-D

All my Star Wars RPG characters have Zahn in their names.

I agree! The books were awesome! I remember thrawns death! I even had something by ominous classical music in my head when he died and said "but it was so artistically done"

My Dad gave me these books. It has lead to a life time of reading science fiction.

I see you comment on so many other random videos I’m on.

@@RA10H56 I meant Dr Beau buy hey thanks for commenting. What business you got?

Always in a sticky situation.

From the 'Masturbators of the Universe' toy line.

The music genre that the Cantina Band plays in A New Hope is also called Jizz.

It's funny how that movie so perfectly dates itself, without (I think) ever putting a year onscreen. It could have ONLY been made in 1996. The characters' fixation on laserdiscs was especially funny, considering that DVDs had already become big by the time it came out on home video. (Did it even have a laserdisc release? haha.)

No tears, t-tears, t-tears, for Caesar.

Did Big Gizz like jizz wailers?

@@jasonblalock4429 Huge Modal Nodes fan

Always assumed he was inspired by DC's Lobo, who was know for exclaiming "Feetal's gizz!"

Same

Black Sun and the Fallen race exist since some years ago in The Clone Wars, in that subplot where Darth "Maulservice" is tasked to unify the galaxy crime.

Pretty sure that was before Disney purged all the expanded universe stuff from their version of the history (and didnt he already mention that in the video?), buuuuut I dont actually care enough to dig deeper into it to find out

@@spibbymcgoo4877 TCW is the only exception to the EU purge

Kyle Katarn is the best Jedi in star wars

This is an old video going over the Dark Trooper Project. I hope we see some troopers from each phase. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nK1xhMaIzNCXd4U.html

@@liammackay2061 better than Luke? Hell yeah 👍🏻

@@alanblanks not just the Dark Troopers, also the Shadow Troopers could've been inferred from the project that Gideon was doing with Baby Yoda (I don't care about his real name): obtaining "MD" (funny how they made the midichlorians back, but avoiding the name because the obvious backlash) in order to inject it in other living beings.

@@MrlspPrt personal opinion, but yes sir!! Not sure if Luke is even top 5 for me 🤭

The extra work will really pay off

It used to be canon.

@@Belgand Before the dark times. Before Disney.

Unless theres something im not aware of that conflicts, i dont think theres anything that keeps it from becoming canon in the future. The characters and factions from the novel have already been reestablished in the DSWC, so the story of Shadows itself should still be eligible.

no, it was too much conflicting lore that went unchecked for almost 2 decades that had different tiers of how canon some stories were over others because George Lucas didn't care about any of it. The plan was always to reintroduce the decent stuff back into canon. Thrawn was canonized (more canon than he ever was before) in 2016. You don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about.

Even if that was 100% true, IMO the reason given in the video is still a legitimate reason for converting the EU to non-canon status. If I had to fit new stories into the old canon and make them work... my god that would be inconceivably difficult, and I've been a fan since the early 90's, so it's not like I'm not familiar with the universe.

Full disclosure, my original plan was to let the dust settle and see what of the EU could plug back into Disney's new work. Their first volley, The Force Awakens, erased everything post-ROTJ, and by extension everything birthed from those works. They could have tried. And I'm so fking sick of "fans" trashing those of us who didn't roll over on command and embrace the new.

@@MikeKaess LucasFilm had a dept solely focused on maintaining continuity between projects. George had absolute last say over content. There were several stories he nixed as not going where he felt they should. And if George hated the EU as much as is claimed, he could've pulled the plug at any time.

@@RealmMan Everything in the EU was so interrelated and intertwined that I don't see how that would have been possible and still have room for original stories. Which post-RotJ content would have been something that could have had a new epic story slid between it that somehow wasn't mentioned in the preceding or following novels from the EU? I'm not trashing anyone who doesn't roll over and accept the new canon, and in fact I don't think the new trilogy and most of the new novels are very good. I'm just saying that there's a good reason for wiping the slate clean and starting over, because creative stories are very difficult to write if you have to crowbar them into an existing storyline. That being said, it makes it even more of a shame for me I think than you because personally, I loved the EU and the only justification IMO for wiping it clean for creative reasons is if what you replace it with was equally good, and so far, that hasn't been the case (though I did enjoy The Sith Lords).

I 110% remember the game best video game sound track there is and I remember the Book ... when was there ever a comic series on *Shadow of the Empire* I don't even remember the action figures ? looks like a mandela effect which this mandela effect would be fantastic I might buy the comics on ebay .

Me too!!!!

People in Hell would love ice water but it ain't gonna happen

In for "The Destruction of Xizor's Palace," but you gotta give some love to "The Seduction of Princess Leia" too! Every playlist I've made over the last 25 years has included these tracks.

Agreed. It also seems strange that Dash Rendar looks awfully a lot like 90's Kevin Costner in his in-game cutscene artwork.

@@TheRobotAssassin My Boat...... = My Ship.......

And reprint the game! 😎

Dash would be cool to feature in mando or book of Bobba fett.

That’s awesome! Side note : it tells us in the book how his name is pronounced when he’s fiddling with his broken chair : )

@@TATOOINETABLEFLIP I was using Xizor before I read the book. For about a year then I read it. Thanks for the reminder

The timeline of SOTE is currently being replaced by the War of the Bounty Hunters comic line so unfortunately that's probably never gonna happen. SOTE is now officially not canon.

Courtship of Princess Leia will ALWAYS be canon.

Everything is Canon until it get contradicted BY DISNEY - fixed

@@robearnest7613 Nothing Disney makes will ever be cannon.

@@bsfunk No ROGUE ONE?!😟

@@robearnest7613 Nope, Rogue One means no Kyle Katarn.

That would have required modern Lucasfilm to a) know the Extended Universe, b) respect the Extended Universe and c) acknowledge that they screwed up by decanonizing the Extended Universe.

@@Dargonhuman I'm going to drink in the irony of someone chewing out Lucasfilm for not understanding the Extended Universe while letting it slide that someone suggested the title character of the Jedi Knight videogame is a replacement for Han. Kyle isn't Dash.

@@KCKeitaro Rey should have sought out Dash Rendar to teach her the ways of the Force once Luke Skywalker told her to go away.

you spelled "the clone wars" wrong