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?
Be cynical until star wars is actually owned and run by competence again. Major reason why current star wars is bad and eu was discarded was writer's rights needed to be renewed and disney obviously didn't want to do that
So the end result was content that ripped off the eu but never actually did proper world building like the eu did. Part of this penny pinching also meant hiring many people who work basically minimum wage but are underqualified to write the stories (this is the same process used for the dying comic book industry).
Until we get people who arent penny pinching plagiarists, there isnt really any reason to not be cynical. The media is easily bought off. The only reason they write that the eu is good now is because disney aint paying and they want the clicks.