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Soundwave on 04 January 2016
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The Fury said:
Soundwave said:

I know people hate on Disney, but honestly by and large they deliver quality films. Like none of the Marvel movies they've made has been pure crap, it's all fairly well done, sure some are better than others. 

The EU kinda had to go otherwise Abrams and the new writers of this trilogy would have about 1039393 different post-ROTJ elements to have to work into the film. Like is Mara Jade going to be mentioned? Is she Rey's mom? Blah blah blah blah. It was simply easier just to wipe the slate clean. 

There's a lot of stupid shit in the EU anyway, I like the Zahn stuff and a few other things but not much else. 

Disney do great things with Disney animated films, both Pixar or not. Although, I am becoming disillusioned with their Marvel work after this weird push for Inhumans while mutants are set back again in comics (I dropped comics out of protest... they were crap too which didn't help :P).

It's just some basic thinking and originality is what we needed with these films and taking the fact that one of the Solo kids had turned bad pretty much straight from the EU (which I don't mind them dropping because they wanted a fresh start for future stories) is a little odd in my view.

I want them to try something new. The next film is one step in the right direction because it'll be the first one not set around Skywalkers, a film just set in the SW universe and has great potential. They could have done more with this one.

 

This trilogy seems like it will still fixate on the Skywalker/Solo lineage. I guess if you don't like that you're going to have to get off the bus, but that was always Lucas' own idea. It seems like Abrams kinda re-did it in a slightly different way. 

I have The Art Of TFA book and it basically from what I gather the original plot line that Lucas and Michael Arndt were writing had two leads ... a young guy and a young girl. They meet Luke Skywalker half way through the story. There's a "Jedi Killer" character. Apparently what this leads to is the guy turns to the Dark Side, girl becomes good. 

It looks like Abrams just combined the Jedi Killer and "boy who turns bad" into one character (Kylo Ren). The female character ("Kira") looks like she became Rey.