One of my many nerd groups I’m is is one for pre-Disney Star Wars fans which is mainly an EU group and we were talking about how all these shill sites have so many good things to say about the EU now when I can remember them talking about how bad it was when Disney took over. Honestly that was my first awareness of the shill media because nerd sites who were pretty positive about the EU all of a sudden started crapping on it once Disney got rid of it.
Some of the guys see this as a positive sign but I guess I’m cynical because I think they just realize that the sequels and a lot of Disney Star Wars isn’t as popular as they want us to believe. Plus I hear the OT toys still sell pretty well.
So what do y’all think? Is this a positive sign or am I right to be cynical?
Star Wars is cautionary tale of first not crapping on the original creator too much as that's what made him sell to Disney and of careful who you get entertainment news from as these shill sites are only rotating their position as Disney is right now in full titanic mode and there's a massive iceberg in the distance.
If it's going to recover as a franchise, it'll have to be post Disney as so long as it's in their 'stewardship', you're best of sticking to EU and fanfiction only.
Exactly what I do. Currently reading the last NJO book. If they weren’t gonna use the Lucas outline then they should’ve adapted Thrawn trilogy or use the Yuuzahn Vong as the big bad for a new trilogy.
If Disney had faithfully adapted the Heir to the Empire trilogy (with story allowances for Carrie Fisher being too old to plausibly be pregnant, I have no idea how because C'Baoth trying to get ahold of Jedi twins is integral to the story but they pay writers six figures to solve things like that) The Last Command would have grossed 3 billion dollars.