Imagine a world where the owners of an IP actually appealed to the fans of the IP. I know sometimes you can expand your customer base with certain products but certainly not when you try to do it at the expense of loyal customers.
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nah, no admission required. they just act like it never happened and move on.
look at what ghostbusters did in afterlife. paul rudd made a crack that ghosts used to be all over the place in the 80s, and then boom gone, nothing for over 30 years. they retconned ghostbusters 2016 out of existence and said nothing about it.
especially with these multiverse stories, or they can just pick a different universe. or they can fix it with time travel. like in star wars, filoni was gearing up to do the timeline thing in ahsoka, even showed the time bridge in the force with anakin. he talked about it in an interview a couple years ago, and a lot of it was from star wars rebels (which filoni was running). short version is this:
jon favreau was in on it too, giddy like a school girl. favreau is more like tom cruise -- keeps his politics veiled, just wants to make good media that a lot of people will love. but then kathleen kennedy found out and bitched them all out, made them reverse it immediately in the next season, episode 1 of mando. favreau allegedly told them all to fuck off, that he'd finish up what he contractually agreed to, and be done. he was executive producer on ahsoka as it was already in production, and kathleen kennedy was second guessing everything he did.
so this gives you an idea of how they can wipe it out with no mention, or even have an elaborate back story on wiping it out. but disney won't allow it to get cleaned up... they are owned by communist subverters like larry fink at blackrock.
To be fair, that also sounds retarded and awful in its own way. Not everything needs to be time travel and multiverse stuff. Most stories are better off without it. Hell, even the medium famous for it (superhero comics) would probably be better off if it was used a lot more sparingly and more consequentially (although the "internal consistency" and "consequences" issues with superhero comics are basically a hole with no bottom at this point. Overuse of the multiverse and time travel is hardly their only issue). Star Wars of all things is not a property that time travel and parallel universes belong in.
Also, Ahsoka is a fun character but she does not need to be in literally every Star Wars plotline.
It's still a step up from the sequels, but that's hardly a high bar.
sure, but they started this line already years ago in rebels (2014ish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L6QAv_I4YQ. it's not a solution in search of a problem.
That just makes it worse. If they started it after it became clear they'd need a retcon button, one could try to excuse it as trying to work with what they had. Since they started it before that was the case, it means that they actually thought building towards time travel and alternate timelines and multiverse stuff that never needed to be in Star Wars was a good idea on its own.
I remember thinking after the massive positive reaction that Luke’s appearance at the end of Mando season 2 that it was the perfect time to retcon stuff. I’m a huge fan of the expanded universe and thought it was dumb to just wipe it out instead of continuing it in its own continuity. I remember someone tried to get me to watch Ashoka saying the have elements of Heir to the Empire. I would just rather see an adaptation of it than Disney’s bastardized version.
I’ve heard that Favreau hated TLJ
Anyone with a functioning brain hates the entire Disney Trilogy. Based off the first season of Mando (the only season that exists IMO) Favreau has a love for the universe, so it would hit him doubly hard.
Yea I didn’t like it. Granted after reading the EU stuff for years I didn’t care for the direction they took but the fact they couldn’t reunite the big three and have them pass the torch is crazy. Han and Leia can’t be together, Luke’s Jedi school doesn’t make it in the show and they couldn’t show him being at least a little heroic.
The character assassination of the original three is unforgivable and indicative of the post-modern rot that has infected the “creatives”. I know everyone says left wingers make the best art, but I feel that tide has already changed. Deconstruction of tropes and subversion of expectations are now the expectation. In the same way it was revolutionary and surprising for trump to pick a white dude VP, it is surprising for a film to have a white guy BE THE HERO.
Jesus save us, modernity has failed us.