*It's really a shame there aren't more articles like History of the Mandalorians in Insider anymore. *

What is in Insider these days? Am I missing out on anything EU-related.....or original?

And BTW brainticks, er, folks, the 12the update of Cussing in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Nice NJOE interview, Abel! A few comments:

1) I think you did a wonderful self-diagnosis of why you're a fan-favorite author, but I think one detail you left out is that not only are you a "fan who made it," but you still interact with the fanbase on a regular basis in a way that most authors don't. In fact, you make your entire process incredibly translucent in a way that very few authors do. And that is greatly, greatly appreciated by fans.

2) I'm so glad you took the time to explain which retcon was the most difficult for you morally--that answer is far more interesting to me than which was the hardest in terms of creativity.

3) Don't think I knew beforehand that you're a Terminator fan! Thumbs up to that!

Awesome Abel!

Abel, are there any expanded universe characters who'd you like to see return with there being many already out there?

• Either she didn't try to steal the stone until long

after she started plaguing them....
*

Okay, I'm stumped. That does seem to make Logray rather elderly. Unless she was simply plaguing them all along out of sheer meanness of spirit, and somewhere along the line found out about it. That doesn't make much sense, though.

• I'll accept that- however, earlier in the same

episode, Chief Chirpa recounts the legend of Morag
and the Sunstar-Shadowstone, and mentions that when
Morag attacked the village to steal the stone, Logray
was the only Ewok who was brave enough to stand up to
her.*

How about this: Logray was the only Ewok in Chirpa's lifetime brave enough to stand up to her? Seems odd that they would remember only the plague and not the heroes who fended her off, but that's the best I can do to rectify this.

Though, frankly, considering we are talking about the same series that featured a tentacle-eyed Muppet named Larry.

Yeah, their dialogue seemed very similar to SotE. It is a very likely conclusion to why there was such a drastic personality discrepancy.

In the Scum and Villainy sourcebook, that retcon was also noted and slightly elaborated on as that ailing health was one of the reasons Zuckuss was put into detention. In terms of final fate and in regards to Bossk's retirement and Dengar's settled-down lifestyle, poor Zuckuss got the shaft.

Anywho... There was something I wanted to ask, but I forget what it was. In a week or so, I'll remember it at an inappropriate time.

This is unimportant, but worth knowing:

Are we supposed to assume Ta'a Chume is dead, or simply lobotomized and comatose (much as, in real life, Ariel Sharon is still alive despite being effectively dead for over three years now)?

That's what I originally summed it up as also, as it differs in other sources. For example, in Underworld: The Yavin Vassilika, Zuckuss's personality (dialogue-wise) is a bit closer to the one established in TotBH, in which he is proper and doesn't use so much slang. However, he still refers to himself in the first person. It's like a combination of the two personalities.

Discrepancies aside, I'm just wondering how he ended up in the psych ward and branded as being dangerous to himself and others. Such a shame, as he seemed like a nice guy. Aside from the bounty hunting.

He went from being a proper findsmen who spoke in third person to referring to himself in the first person and having his dialogue be more akin to some teenager. He used more slang, said "Um..." quite a bit, questioned himself and others, was overly hesitant, and overall acted differently than what had been established in TotBH.

That drastic change in personality and even mannerisms was retconned in the EGtAS as Zuckuss being schizophrenic with dissociative identity disorder.