ye gods...
Maybe it pisses off the people you'd want to see pissed off.
Avengers 2 made 1.4 billion and it got the director fired.
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Same with the Prequels and Originals.
Star Wars is fantasy, not Science-Fiction.
George himself has even said along the lines of 'If I want air in space, I'll have it.'
The original Star Wars film (eventually ANH) was about as hard as it gets.
Nope. The Galactic Republic is the one that as per the prequels had "stood for a thousand years".
What you're thinking of the Old Republic (probably just called "The Republic" at the time) which eventually fell to the Sith, who ruled the galaxy until their Empire imploded. The Galactic Republic was founded after said implosion. (See also: "There hasn't been a full scale war since the formation of the Republic!")
Just to add to the confusion; after the Galactic Republic became the Galactic Empire, it sometimes also gets referred to as the Old Republic, making it a little unclear which is being referred to post-Clone Wars (eg: the recent 'Skeleton Crew' trailer.)
It really didn't.
Our knowledge of the Old Republic and the various Sith Empires and wars between the Jedi and Sith are very limited in the current canon. So we don't know for sure if the Republic was whole past 1,000 years before The Phantom Menace, or is it has been in a state of war with a foreign power or a civil war.
Yep...
Though there were so much unnecessary dissonance and discrepancies between the PT and OT with a great many things not lining up in the PT - we later get the mental gymnastics, retcons and other ham-fisted explanations soon after in some sort of attempt to somehow make those inconsistencies 'work'... (though some connotations were quite cleverly and adeptly done by Leland Chee and his Holocron crew).
A pity George and the writers didn't spend more time and effort in ensuring the PT did line up more and adhere with what was previously established in the OT (and EU) some years before - albeit with use of some subverted explanations in the PT if they wanted to go down that route.
Personally, I'd liked to have seen that friendship, that brotherhood, between Kenobi and Anakin in the Prequels - rather than what we got on-screen. Or even a little background/exposition on Dooku's backstory in AOTC.... then the later attempts to portray that in ancillary animated material some 20 years later (which I thought they did it quite well; but was quite the wait
)As an aside - and a bit of fun / nostalgia...
^ A screenshot compilation of ‘A Timeline Of Important Events In The Star Wars Galaxy’ section of ‘A Guide To The Star Wars Universe’ book, 2nd edition (1994), by Bill Slavicsek.
^ from ‘FWS Topics: The Lost Star Wars Prequels’ article at the Future War Stories blog; in ‘The Crawl from the 1994 LucasArts Star Wars Screen Entertainment CD-ROM’ category; a quality article & resource that also features a chronology of GFFA history.
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It absolutely did.
Not really. Certainly not to the extent that The Force Awakens did with A New Hope.
We know from TCW that the Darksaber was looted when the Jedi Temple on Coruscant was sacked during the fall of the Old Republic. We know from RotS that (for a time at least) the Sith ruled the galaxy in a reign of oppression. We know from the High Republic novels that the Sith controlled Coruscant itself for a time (and opted not to radically alter monument plaza). And we also know that so far as the people living in it were concerned; the Republic of the prequels was founded a thousand years ago, which concurrently is how long it's been since that galaxy has seen a full scale war.
As for what we know of the time before that; we know that Huyang had been serving on the Crucible (which bares the Old Republic seal from SWTOR) since around the time of the fall. We know that the Mortis gods had access to Jedi distress codes from over a thousand years before the fall of the Old Republic. We know that there were Sith Empires plural, though it's still up in the air as to whether they were consecutive ot concurrent. Probably a bit of both at various points. Given that the Sith were a break-away faction of the Jedi, it's also up in the air as to whether the Sith Wars count as civil wars, or wars against an invading neighbour. Again, probably a little of both depending on when you're talkign about.
One thing I'd like the canon version to do differently from the EU is to seperate the Darth Bane establising the Rule fo Two, and the Sith going underground as seperate events. It works better (and explains how Yoda would even know about any of this) if Bane's Sith Empire was the one that finally toppled the Old Republic, precisly because he was able to consolidate power by eliminating all of his rivals. It would also make sense if he died with his Empire still intact, and that his inheritors managed to hold onto power for at least a few generations (or centuries, preferably!) before the Jedi finally defeated them and restored the Republic.
I think they moved up Han's birth year a little so that he'd be 29 in ANH and thus a teenager in the Corellia sequences at the beginning of Solo, but yeah, he's always been, at least in canon, ten years older than Luke and Leia or a little bit more.
IMHO, it's absurd to say that TLJ rehashed ESB to the extent that TFA rehashed ANH. It's hard to think of any sequel/soft reboot/non-remake franchise entry that remade a movie to the extent TFA remade ANH.
That said, is TLJ indeed heavily indebted to ESB, in both plot points and themes, except with Hoth at the end rather than the beginning, and with a heavy rehash of the throne room sequence from RotJ thrown in around the two-thirds mark? Heck yes, it is.
Yeah, it was more of a "hold my beer" type of deal.
Do we have any idea when we might hear about what our next animated series will be now? I'm assuming they're doing another one, and with the amount of time these shows take to produce I'm assuming they've probably been working on it for a while now. I mean one with full length episodes, not just shorts like the Age Of.. shows.
I'm still hoping for a third season of Visions - and that they may be waiting until Celebration 2025 in Japan to announce that.
Quite surprised they haven't done an animated series for The High Republic era (Young Jedi Adventures for pre-schoolers, apart), with a decent opportunity to mix in some older EU content too.