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It's hard to forgive throwing out all the well-explored material in the old Expanded Universe for... this mess.
by thrower123 8y ago
It's hard to forgive throwing out all the well-explored material in the old Expanded Universe for... this mess.
- krapp 8y agoWhy would Disney purchase Star Wars only to shackle themselves and filmmakers to decades of convoluted lore, not to mention rights negotiations and royalty payments, to rehash stories that have already been told, and tell them to an audience who, for the most part, couldn't care less?
- da_chicken 8y agoYou mean, copy exactly what the same company did with Marvell, the most successful and profitable film franchise in history? You didn't think that those movie plots were original did you? Infinity Gauntlet is from the 70s.
- gamblor956 8y agoMarvel comics are all cannon...And Disney acquired Marvel after it had a history of taking its decades of comics and turning them into movies. The Star Wars EU was not cannon. It was glorified fan-fiction. More importantly, with Marvel there was no need to maintain historical consistency since the comics themselves were continuously rebooted and retconned over decades. With Star Wars, there is only a single continuum.
- thrower123 8y agoStar Wars EU was canon until the Disney purchase. Lucas had to approve everything, and there were efforts to maintain consistency. I'll never be convinced that Thrawn wouldn't have been a better storyline than this complete rehash.
- krapp 8y ago>You didn't think that those movie plots were original did you? Infinity Gauntlet is from the 70s. Yes. The story begins after Thanos already has the gauntlet and has already used it to kill half the universe... because he has a crush on the cosmic embodiment of Death and wants to impress her. I'm glad they didn't film that, it would have been stupid.