Darth Wong wrote:I still don't see why every SW novel has to involve so many main characters or progress their personal life stories as if it's some kind of soap opera. A galaxy is a very large place, and there should be plenty of room for stories that take place in and around major events but don't necessarily involve the soap-opera life developments of movie characters.
Look at Zahn; his most beloved character work involved his own made-up character, Grand Admiral Thrawn.
That does seem to be a major failing of the EU; authors are either too uncomfortable to write without using known characters as crutches, or they lack the creative capacity to make compelling original ones. Fortunately, there seems to be a recent trend, at least in the EU, to focus either on very minor characters, or just a single major one. The Medstar books,
Dark Rendevous, and, though it sickens me to say it,
Hard Contact, were all quite good, at least compared to the majority of the post ROTJ fiction, and relied heavily on original characters.
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