10 Reasons The Best Things About Star Wars AREN'T The Movies

10. Better Endings

When the best trilogy ending so far comes from the prequels, you know you have a problem.

Ending a trilogy is hard, especially with a property that has as much on the line as Star Wars, so of course there's a ton of meddling that just ends up hurting the final product. Meanwhile the books and tv shows have the privilege of just chugging along just fine until they feel like ending, at which point they can do so at their own pace using their own ideas.

Now, granted, Rebels is the only Star Wars show so far to have a proper conclusion, as Clone Wars is set to get an actual honest to god ending this year. However, there are also really good book trilogies like the Aftermath novels by Chuck Wendig, and the KOTOR games had a decent enough ending with KOTOR 2.

Endings, especially ones to massive franchises that are - of course - going to keep going after your entry, are quite the difficult balancing act to pull off. But the extended universe proves that it's far from impossible.