A Galaxy Forever Changed · 5:16pm May 5th, 2014
I need to write about this because I feel the need to voice my opinion about recent news. So I have never really liked it when Lucasfilm was sold to Disney when it happened. Other then the news that there were going to be more movies made, it was just bad news after more bad news. First they cancel Star Wars: The Clone Wars. They then put all video game production on hold before closing down LucasArts. This triggered lay off at ILM. Many fans, myself included wondered how the new movies would affect the canon of the preexisting Expanded Universe. There was some reminding that movie canon and the canon of the EU are separate. So that did give some feeling that EU would be ok. There was also news that they were trying to rework the canon. After a while there was news that a few novels were being held off. Then Disney told Hasbro to stop making figures from the EU. At this point, things are not looking good. When the news broke two weeks ago, Friday, I was not happy about Disney and Lucasfilm discarding the preexisting Expanded Universe and starting fresh. The reason I’m upset with this is because there are many great stories in these novels, comics and video games. Along with the characters that were created with them. Many characters were liked by many fans of Expanded Universe. It is sad to see that they will never be used. It is a shame that we will never get to see something like The Thrawn Trilogy in movie form on the big screen. If only they could thought about having two separate timelines and let the old EU continue growing and still let them have their new EU along with it.
Happy belated Star Wars Day
Disney is a company that has its own unique vision and oftens tends to disregard those that try to tell it what to do. They've kind of gotten use to doing things their way, despite the criticism.