New Star Wars to suck at the Retcon root.

[Kaptain Badrukk]

I see what you are saying. But are they not saying CURRENT book canon is not only not a third-class citizen - it is not even substantively of this world as it is 'legend'?

Essentially they're taking a long hard look at the ginger stepchild of Lucas and an Ewok ,and deciding to crossbreed JJ Abrams and a Wookie instead.
But as a sop they've given Ginger Lucawok a dog house to shelter from the coming storm in.

[Denzark]

Eloquently put...

[Psychosplodge]

Nothing new. And quite a wise move.

It gives the overly entitled neckbeards with no movie making experience (and likely no work experience at all) a lot less to whine about, such as the casting choices for characters, how a scene should play out etc.

No, its an appalling move. It's basically saying we were happy to take your time, money and enthusiasm when it suited us, but now you can all **** off while we do whatever we want.

[Nabterayl]

So ... same question, really. What do you think they should do? Just elevate the entire EU to G canon?

[Psychosplodge]

IDK.
Maybe make the EU books into a quality series like GOT, or Band of Brothers or something.
Or make the Thrawn trilogy.

[eldargal]

The EU went out of its way to make sure slavery and xenophobia was a MAJOR point of the empire and a basically one of the main reasons for the rebellion in the first place, In big shiny letters time and time and time again.

It wasn't all a subtle attempt by multiple authors to cover their own xenophobic, mysoginistic backsides.

That has nothing to do with my point though. I'm not talking about in-universe stuff I'm talking about how female characters were treated. There were fewer of them, they mostly had poor characterisation and they had more than their fair share of casualties. They were basically interchangeable cutouts much of the time, and antagonists were worse. You had Isard who started off as an incredibly cunning, existential threat to the New Republic who became a raving loon which was so bad it had to be retconned that she was a clone and the real Isard was still about. Then you had Daala who started off as basically competent but quickly became infamous in the fandom for being utterly, absolutely incompetent and wasting military resources like they were going out of fashion. Contrast to Palleaon who despite doing bloody nothing but stand around oohign and aahing at Thrawn was built into a dignified, respected father figure for the Empire.

The EU had a terrible, terrible record with women. There are exceptions of course like Bria Tharen who had loads of character growth and agency in the Han Solo trilogy and some of the major characters and fan favourites like Leia and Winter were usually depicted well. Though Leia could be a bit of a prop at times. I have much more faith in Disney (if not JJ Abrams) to do it better.

[Nabterayl]

IDK.
Maybe make the EU books into a quality series like GOT, or Band of Brothers or something.
Or make the Thrawn trilogy.

I think the problem with that is that the EU books aren't good enough to support a quality series.

[Psychosplodge]

True of a lot of them.

Maybe something like a Kyp Durron Spin off?
Or A rogue or Wraith squadron one?

[Nabterayl]

So ... I guess my feeling about that is that it's no better than what they already propose to do. If you aren't going to elevate the entire existing EU to G canon and base your film and TV plans off of that (which I think would ultimately result in a lot of mediocre or terrible films and TV shows), then you're cherry picking which parts of the EU to give the "real" imprimatur to and which not, based on whether you think it will make good film or TV. I don't see how that's any better than deciding what would make good film or TV, and cherry picking the parts of the existing EU that are compatible with it to give the "real" imprimatur to, which is what it sounds like they're going to be doing.

[Psychosplodge]

Or they could have done the revolutionary thing and left it the **** alone