Vendetta wrote: 2019-12-25 04:41pm
Let’s not pretend that a statistically significant number of moviegoers are even aware there was an EU to nuke.
The problem wasn’t throwing out the EU the problem was immediately making all the exact same mistakes, to the point that they might as well not have bothered.
That attitude right there is the problem. Star Wars is a series of novels (and comics, video games, etc) far more than it is a series of movies. Most of the best material in it comes from authors like Allston, Zahn, Anderson and so on. Obviously if you throw out most of a setting's canon to try to appeal to a broader market of people who are at best familiar with the original movies from back in the 70s and 80s and take the attitude that anything that wasn't a blockbuster was a mistake you're going to have trouble telling good stories in that setting. That was the biggest issue with the prequels and it only got worse over time.Vendetta wrote: 2019-12-25 05:14pm It’s pretty clear that whatever the Lucasfilm Story Group do they follow the lead of the films not the other way around.
Why.The biggest of those has always been having the whole damn galaxy revolve around the same half dozen people and their kids. In order to have a chance now, Star Wars needed to grow beyond the damn Skywalker family drama.
Star Wars started with the Skywalkers and Solos and developed from there. If you want to throw that away why not start from scratch with a new setting instead of shoe-horning it into existing stories?