Whill
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| crmcneill wrote: | | I think any speculation we do here is premature. Depending on what Disney does with the EU, it may be well-nigh impossible to reintegrate the existing EU into whatever they do with it. We'll just have to wait and see. |
Speculation is premature, because speculation is just that.
| Fallon Kell wrote: | | Whill wrote: | | To keep the Thrawn Trilogy would be to keep Jacen and Jaina, which I doubt they will. These characters come with too much continuity baggage and fan expectations. |
You can keep the Thrawn Trilogy and the characters without keeping the baggage. They weren't old enough to really do anything by the end of The Last Command. |
Granted, but if you are only going to have Jacen and Jayna by name and disregard the rest of their post-newborn continuity, then what is the point? I'd personally be ok with it, but having new Solo offspring with those same names with nothing else will just beg EU fan comparisons and bring in EU fan expectations Disneyfilm doesn't have to deal with. And then it would be, where's their brother Anakin Solo so they'd have to bring him into it too. And you'd have this domino effect of fan expectation and criticism starting at whatever point they draw the line at. What is the point of the Thrawn Trilogy even being a part of the new continuity unless they are going to use characters and other continuity from those novels in the new films? Honestly I personally would be ok with just those novels being in the new canon but no Anakin Solo, no Mara Sue Jade later becoming Luke's wife, and about every other post-RotJ novel not being canon. But I am far from your typical EU fan.
The prequels showed that EU fans can be very unforgiving for films changing things, and it just seems to make the most franchise business sense to just wipe the slate clean and start fresh. Make something new. No, not everyone will like it. Many will still lament the perceived "loss" of their beloved post-RotJ continuity from the new canon. But they will have something completely new that will be inherently less comparable to anything that has already happened. Making something different will force fans to just consider how much they like the new with less comparing to the old. I just can't see that as being worse than trying to throw a few pre-Disney EU bones to ravenous fans who are only to reminded of the taste of the meat they used to eat.
But don't listen to me. I actually believed Lucas when he said there would be no more Star Wars movies, even after he died. So what do I know?
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