from Thrawn as a non-force-using Empire leader and the consequent expedient of yslameri to the introduction of those ships that could project a cone of No-Hyperspace, that EU era took seriously what you would have to negate to make Star Wars work as a continuing enterprise

In contrast the third trilogy kind of addressed what you would have to negate to make it work as an emotional arc today

hot take: Star Wars has always been an elaboration on the 70s idea of the “gifted child”

in all the time, I’ve never heard a “Luke and Leia were actually Obi-Wan’s kids” take

or that “elite warrior slumming in the colonial borderlands under an assumed name” was kinda Nazi-tinted in 1977 and implied a more Mara Jade backstory