• sorghum@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    They all had a stamp of approval from George Lucas though. Once Disney bought the franchise they said fuck all that and made it “not cannon”.

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      3 months ago

      More importantly, they had someone dedicated to maintaining the canon and keeping the various authors from contradicting each other too much

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        3 months ago

        Thrawn came entirely from the books. The hype would not have existed for his appearance in the show had the books he was in been on the quality level of the sequels.

        Hell, the sequels should have been based on the Thrawn trilogy

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          3 months ago

          I still think Disney would make bank if they’d just declare Legends a separate canon, re-cast Han, Luke, and Leia with up and comers, and start adapting old EU novels.

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            3 months ago

            They need to do the Republic Commando novels and they need to finally make the Starwars 1313 game. I will never not be salty about that.