What comics/books do I need to read for IX to make sense?
I'm sure this question gets asked a lot, but my biggest complaint is that Palpatine returning just seems so, like, pulled out of nowhere. My friends who are into the EU say it makes total sense in the broader context of the lore. They recommended I watch Clone Wars and read the Aftermath trilogy (working my way through the first one now).
Does anyone have a reading list to have a good lore primer so I can rewatch IX?
Edit: I haven't consumed anything but the movies since Disney reset everything.
Posted Jan 2, 2020, 4:50 AM UTC · edited
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That's because it was mostly pulled out of nowhere. Wendig hinted at it in the Aftermath trilogy, but it was one of many things he threw in there not part of some grand plan. The Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary does touch on a great many things though.
Resistance Reborn was touted as a must read for TROS. But it isn't; it does tie together a lot of ancillary media though which was great.
Resistance Reborn really did feel like it was building up to something in TROS, and I was happy to see so many plot threads coming together from so many different places. But it's pretty obvious that whoever Roanhorse was in contact with at Lucasfilm either knew nothing about TROS, or wanted to spoil absolutely nothing for her but didn't care enough to keep things consistent. Almost every single thing that happens in that book is contradicted by the movie, and it's so frustrating.
lmao, so much for cohesive canon without tiers