As a child from a very difficult and abusive home, the star wars EU novels in the late 90's was a literal godsend. There were some great (but flawed) MMO's and video games that came out of it too that expanded the universe even further - when disney bought it and completely invalidated 30 years of canon, it really hurt on a level that I didn't think was entirely appropriate at the time but looking back it makes sense.
Nothing was "stolen," you can still go read the books and enjoy that IP... but it just felt like that and the acquisition by Disney as the final betrayal and sellout by Lucas, who really can only attribute his incredible success to the people around him who had better sense. The prequels were terrible because they gave him unlimited artistic control, and no one told him no.
Nothing was "stolen," you can still go read the books and enjoy that IP... but it just felt like that and the acquisition by Disney as the final betrayal and sellout by Lucas, who really can only attribute his incredible success to the people around him who had better sense. The prequels were terrible because they gave him unlimited artistic control, and no one told him no.