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Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline

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Re: Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline

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Post by basch »

JohnBooty wrote: post #52
throw0101a wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> […] sleight of hand retconning is absolutely bonkers and will fool approximately zero people. Same folks who shitcanned the Expanded Universe: > On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm rebranded most of the Expanded Universe material with the exception of The Clone Wars as Star Wars Legends and declared it non-canonical to the franchise. The company's focus would be shifted towards a restructured Star Wars canon based on new…

Whatever the artistic merits, shitcanning the Expanded Universe had a colossal level of practical utility -- the enormous quantity of material surely made it extremely difficult to add new material that didn't contradict the existing EU material in some way or the other. Plus, the actors were too old to portray the existing EU storylines for Luke/Han/Leia at that point anyway etc etc etc

For kids playing dressup and role model purposes, if they are going to reboot the sequels they should reboot Rey and Kylo. Same rough characters, new story.

Nobody struggles with multiple Joker variants running around. Batman is still Batman.

Re: Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline

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Post by throw0101a »

basch wrote: post #61
JohnBooty wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whatever the artistic merits, shitcanning the Expanded Universe had a colossal level of practical utility -- the enormous quantity of material surely made it extremely difficult to add new material that didn't contradict the existing EU material in some way or the other. Plus, the actors were too old to portray the existing EU storylines for Luke/Han/Leia at that point anyway etc etc etc

For kids playing dressup and role model purposes, if they are going to reboot the sequels they should reboot Rey and Kylo. Same rough characters, new story. Nobody struggles with multiple Joker variants running around. Batman is still Batman.

> Batman is still Batman.

No one thinks of Adam West any less for Keaton, Bale, Patterson, etc. (Though the running joke seems to be that Clooney thinks less of himself for his role. :)

Re: Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline

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Post by tstrimple »

Supermancho wrote: post #22
idle_zealot wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure what you mean by "fool". These aren't real events, there's no such thing as an indisputable timeline outside of the context of an individual work. If Disney wants to make Star Wars movies set in a world where the sequel trilogy didn't happen, what's wrong with that, other than it potentially being confusing to viewers?

Indeed, a story is whatever the viewer wants it to be, because it's fiction. Disney marketing and time are effective brain-o. Nobody will care in a couple decades, other than the niche watchers of the "real story behind Star Wars Disney".

I think the success of Marvel vs DC is one indicator that people do care about a more consistent world and story and are less interested in re-introducing the exact same characters over and over again in their own mini series of movies constantly retelling the same origin stories in different flavors.
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