TheVileOne
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Disney is a publicly traded company. And sometimes you are at the whims of stockholders and pleasing them. So it's all about quotas and meeting quotas and financial benchmarks to push the value higher.Agreed. After TFA I was excited for the future of the saga. After TLJ. I think quite a few felt just as you described. Yeah, not sure why Disney wanted to rush a film out so soon? That doesn't make sense to me. I understand they want $$$ but in the long scheme of things... they should have had a plan for the new trilogy.
We see it happen in gaming all the time. Games that start out promising are rushed to shelves before they are really finished, and consumers find they are broken or outright buggy. Maybe the game needed more time to get finished and polished, but it had to meet the release date because the publisher had stock quotas to meet.
I have no ill will at all towards dumping the EU. The EU itself had already grown overwrought. You were never going to get far re-adapting those stories or going off of them.
Look guys, a lot of EU already went out the door with the prequels. The prequels already ignored what had been established about the Clone Wars in the EU. Basically, going by the EU, the way the Clone Wars were imagined were much different than what they ultimately turned out to be.
Really none of what happened in the EU really mattered where the prequels were concerned. Lucas just picked and chose what he liked from it and kept what he liked.
Lucasfilm wanted a new trilogy. So how do you start a new trilogy and keep ALL of the EU intact? So you start a film with Han and Leia having kids. Luke has a son. He got married to Mara Jade, she died. All those stories already happened. You expect a mainstream moviegoing audience that never had anything to do with the EU at all be able to follow all that? No, it would've been ridiculous.
EU had to go.
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