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?
I likes the Crispin Solo origin story, and how it dovetailed around the Daley books.
It's so frustrating to see how they butchered Solo when so many obvious and workable plot-points were laid out for them.
Why is Solo such a good pilot and why is he familiar with Imperial ships and protocols?
He trained to be in the Imperial Navy.
Where did he meet Chewbacca and why is he owed a life debt?
Wookies were enslaved by the Empire; he got kicked out of the Navy for saving Chewie's life.
Why was he a smuggler and how did he know people like Lando and Boba Fett?
He was blacklisted and needed work so he flew for criminals, meeting various characters along the way.
Like, just really obvious and believable stuff that they could have run with. We'll never know what they were snorting when they cooked up squid vampires and robo-sexual life partners.
When I first saw they were doing a Solo movie I foolishly thought they would adapt the Crispin trilogy. Boy was I wrong. I thought Emilia Clarke would play Bria Tharen