Disney Star Wars could have been good if they'd just followed the formula and adapted the Dark Horse comics or the Thrawn trilogy as cartoons a la Rebels - use animated versions of the original protagonists so they can be any age and you don't have to trot Harrison Ford's wrinkly balls out on a sound stage, have the originals do the voice overs, and it's a slam-dunk moneymaker.
But nope, gotta throw out the entire EU canon and start making our own so we don't have to pay those royalties and can use it as a vehicle to push an agenda at the same time.
Disney Star Wars could have been good if they'd just followed the formula and adapted the Dark Horse comics or the Thrawn trilogy as cartoons a la Rebels - use animated versions of the original protagonists so they can be any age and you don't have to trot Harrison Ford's wrinkly balls out on a sound stage, have the originals do the voice overs, and it's a slam-dunk moneymaker.
But nope, gotta throw out the entire EU canon and start making our own so we don't have to pay those royalties and can use it as a vehicle to push an agenda at the same time.
Yeah, look at how well that went for them.