With the dissolution of the Expanded Universe, Star Wars will seemingly lose an important part of its history, the one place where female characters were nearly as prevalent as male!
On the third episode of The Rantcor Pit Live Cole and Eddie talked about the lack of female characters in Star Wars, especially the original trilogy. This is explored further on this episode as we are joined by Mrs. JediCole for more discussion about the women of Star Wars, most of whom are found in the Expanded Universe it would seem.
And you finally get to hear the promised telling of the Shmi Skywalker story!