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As I have made it part of my standard operating proceedure to incorporate my personal commentary on some aspect of the Star Wars mythos or some recent development concerning the franchise, I think now is a good time to comment on this issue, as I am using two extremely obscure and lightly featured Expanded Universe characters:
The complete retconning of the Expanded Universe by Disney.
Simply put, this is an action that I protest. Not only was it perpetrated with an obvious corporate goal in mind, it was both utterly pointless and amounted to a betrayal of the franchise. While my reaction to many of Lucasfilm's story decisions hasn't always been positive, I have - for the most part - had no issue with their handling of the tie-in material, which has always been acknowledged as being part of the overall story, adding to the richness of the universe. Disney's goal is clearly to use the tie-in material as a testing ground for story ideas to eventually work into their future films, something that I feel could have been achieved by simply working with the preexisting material rather than doing away with it.
And all of their claims of doing this out of a desire for creative freedom are clearly lies, because almost all of their major story ideas and concepts have been drawn from the classic EU, simply dumbing them down to make them more palletable for children, which is simply insulting to old guard fans such as myself. And the thing that is even sadder is that all of the material they have released so far has been completely lacking in ambition. Rebels has been content to coast along as just another Disney cartoon, which I find just depressing. TCW did and continues to infuriate me, but at least it got a rise out of me, something Rebels has failed to do, which is arguably worse.
But that's just my opinion, so let's move on with the video.
As I have made it part of my standard operating proceedure to incorporate my personal commentary on some aspect of the Star Wars mythos or some recent development concerning the franchise, I think now is a good time to comment on this issue, as I am using two extremely obscure and lightly featured Expanded Universe characters:
The complete retconning of the Expanded Universe by Disney.
Simply put, this is an action that I protest. Not only was it perpetrated with an obvious corporate goal in mind, it was both utterly pointless and amounted to a betrayal of the franchise. While my reaction to many of Lucasfilm's story decisions hasn't always been positive, I have - for the most part - had no issue with their handling of the tie-in material, which has always been acknowledged as being part of the overall story, adding to the richness of the universe. Disney's goal is clearly to use the tie-in material as a testing ground for story ideas to eventually work into their future films, something that I feel could have been achieved by simply working with the preexisting material rather than doing away with it.
And all of their claims of doing this out of a desire for creative freedom are clearly lies, because almost all of their major story ideas and concepts have been drawn from the classic EU, simply dumbing them down to make them more palletable for children, which is simply insulting to old guard fans such as myself. And the thing that is even sadder is that all of the material they have released so far has been completely lacking in ambition. Rebels has been content to coast along as just another Disney cartoon, which I find just depressing. TCW did and continues to infuriate me, but at least it got a rise out of me, something Rebels has failed to do, which is arguably worse.
But that's just my opinion, so let's move on with the video.
