Expanded universe

But, you know, it's obviously-

Story song expanded universe.

We talked about that in the man who shot Liberty Valance.

There you go.

Nope.

I do want to say the Night Flight to Venus album upon which Rasputin appears.

We have to talk a little bit about the story song Expanded Universe because do you know what songs are on there?

Tell me.

Welcome back to Too Hot For TV.

We are the podcast that looks at all things expanded universe.

Today, we're looking at the expanded universe of Red Dwarf.

I'm your host, Dylan, and I'm joined by someone who was here earlier on in the season.

It's Mr. Ian Martin.

What did you think of the inclusion of the Ace Rimmer strip? Yeah.

I thought it was visually brilliant.

I think this was tapping into that period where Ace Freeman, like, actually, you know what? On the subject of Expanded Universe, I did have a Red Dwarf t-shirt.

And one thing we know about Dave, Dave was not...

he was not deeply ensconced into the expanded universe.

He was kind of like me.

He didn't read a lot of the novels, but he definitely was aware of the characters that were emerging and, and, and gaining popularity.

And, um, But he also really loved and respected the adherence to the Expanded Universe, the fans of the EU, and he loved whenever he could to tap into that canon and bring it into the stories that he was telling.

So for EU fans, especially the classic Legends EU, I don't think you have ever had a better shot of some of your stuff entering canon than you have with Dave Filoni at the helm.

I think he is your best advocate for that.

Pick your lane.

Very nice.

I finished up the Extended Universe stuff over the week.

I ended up just plowing through it in like a couple days.

What

middle tier, but

again, it's better than any of those Spider-Man, Sony, Expanded Universe stuff that we've seen over the last couple years.

So, Brad, I'm interested to see.

So, Rotten Tomatoes, if I'm off or on.

I think I know, but you tell me.

It's Star Wars Extended Universe.

Y'all on the pod have heard Beth talk at length about her love of Star Wars, including the Extended Universe.

And this is one of those things that like when I was a kid, I'd always sort of like look at Star Wars books from afar and be like, oh.

I would love reading one of those because I love Star Wars, but I never knew where to start.

This is People's New Republic, a Star Wars podcast where we read through the expanded universe in publication order with a historical materialist lens.

I'm Ethan.

I'm, uh, Korn Torn's fuckin' Mary Sue ass.

that bitch in

there.

One of the authors of the Star Wars Essential Guide to Warfare, Jason Fry, he cited the Lusankia's emergence from the cityscape of Coruscant as the goofiest thing in the entire expanded universe.

I don't know that there's some

pretty goofy stuff.

that's like the um you you found out that the titanic sank and then went back to the beginning and went oh it's a ship

yeah 100 like that um because i just i got a copy in like a virgin megastore in florida when i was on holiday and was like oh star wars book i like star wars i like books and i'll read it so i read it and really liked it and then started going backwards to fill in the expanded universe so it took me a while in the pre-internet days to figure out where the Thrawn trilogy sat, what they were actually called, and the like.

As I said, there is no official name to this trilogy.

People will call it a lot of things,

Yeah.

So I earlier this year, I decided partly there's a kind of a way of doing like little fun extra bits and that of writing in that I launched like a like a monthly newsletter thing called the Historians Holonet.

um and every month subscribers get at least two newsletters but two main ones one of which is me writing about like first world war stuff i've been doing recently or historical stuff i've been doing and the other one is me revisiting the old novels of the expanded universe um and rereading them and thinking about kind of the content and some of the historical inspirations and stuff like that and pleasingly for like the the coincidence of our timeline, is that people had requested and voted for the Thrawn trilogy now.

So I got back from holiday a couple of weeks ago and I read Heir to the Empire on the plane going out on holiday.

Going three times.

Let's talk about Expanded Universe.

What have we got?

Expanded

about the dancing part of

it.

Do you want to hear a little story song, Expanded Universe, but in the real world?

Yes.