Last night I finished a reread of the original expanded universe Thrawn Trilogy. As I've mentioned before, I cancelled Disney Plus and when I'm asked if I am a Star Wars fan I specify I'm a pre-Disney fan. I heard that Disney Plus is going to do an Heir to the Empire movie (obviously bastardized) and it made me want to read that trilogy again since I hadn't read it in years. Heir to the Empire will always be special to me because I got it for my 12th birthday in 92 and I had no idea there were books that continued the story. Since then I have amassed a lot of EU books/comic books and still have many to go. My only regret is that I couldn't find the original covers so I had to buy the disney re-releases. I know there are some who say that shows Disney that there is interest in the EU but I doubt they care.
I would like your opinion on the following:
I always thought that it was a dumb move to totally get rid of the EU. I think Disney could've had their own canon while continuing the EU canon since there was a ready fan base. Another thing they could've done would've been to do animated adaptations of some of the EU stories like Old Republic, Solo Trilogy, Thrawn Trilogy, etc.
I've heard that if Disney had done that knowing what we know now about how crappy the sequels were it would've made them look very bad to have an adaptation for something like New Jedi Order showing a Luke that fans wanted or the Thrawn Trilogy showing Mara Jade and the rest of them. Maybe even Darth Bane or Revan. It would've been more money for Disney although I do remember Heart of the Jedi being taken off of Amazon after all the buzz it got (currently reading that now).
Do you think that would've made Disney look bad? Especially considering what we got.
I will say this was my first exposure to the shill media because when the EU got discontinued a lot of nerd sites I used to frequent were crapping all over the EU and saying it was a wonderful idea which confused me because those same sites used to praise it. Then after Ghostbusters 2016 came out and they were saying the original Ghostbusters was never that good, I understood what was happening.
The Witcher sub on PReddit is a very different experience now compared to when the Netflix series started. Similar to when the Disney Star Wars movies came out any and all dissent from clapping like retarded seals/CONSOOMING was jumped on by a mob. Once time passed and more and more saw that the movies were in fact shit the money stopped rolling so any paid shills vanished again leaving only actual viewers who had previously been banned, gaslit, called various names under the sun.
We all know these tactics since this is an old playbook for GG vets: sexist, racist, etc, and it actually repilled quite a few normies who suddenly found themselves on the end of the namecalling they had possibly taken part in when it was some other franchise they didn't care about as much.
Not that it did anything good for the show as it's just another franchise for modern entertainment companies to buy, turn inside out, and discard after.
Cavill is redpilling a few since the showrunners are flinging all sorts of shit at the walls and hoping something, anything sticks. The DC/Superman issue is likely also far more incendiary than many realise given Cavill's manager is The Rock's ex wife and mother of his child. The cameo in Black Adam was not for Cavill's sake.
"But they got divorced in 2008!"
What's the Samoan equivalent of a "cohencidence"? 🤔