I think in Mickey Mouse's trilogy, they reintroduced old characters from the real Star Wars movies not because they were "needed there", but because without those characters, the viewers would start asking themselves "What movie am I watching?", because it's not even Star Wars anymore. It's probably also because the creators of the movies wanted something to remind them on what movie they were actually working on since it's not really Star Wars anymore.
It's interesting, but in the Mickey Mouse movies, including Rogue One, there was that complete lack of feeling of Star Wars for me. It looks like a generic space opera. In the trilogy, I noticed that all the alien species were completely new, no old species - no Rodians, Duros, Toydarians, Neimodians, etc... Completely new species... My question is "How come these planets have been colonized by humans, but not a single alien species from the old ones has come to live there?" It makes no damn sense.
I think this was also present in Rogue One. And what irks me about that is that the main character is called Jyn Esro and in the Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast game, the protagonist's girlfriend is called Jan Ors and the protagonist from Rogue One looks exactly like her... Meaning they literally stole a character from the Expanded Universe and pretended like the EU never happened and changed its name and put it in their stupid gimmicky movie.
In my opinion Mickey Mouse's trilogy and side movies and series are not canon, the real canon is the Expanded Universe which directly continues with the books of author Timothy Zahn, there is the Thrawn trilogy and the Hand of Thrawn duology. I have read only 4 books, but they are amazing. I first got the Thrawn trilogy when I was about 13 years of age and back then (2004) there was nothing else so for me it was only logical that this continued the story after the Return of the Jedi. The stories in the books were so well written, so engaging, that it totally made sense. They felt like movies, but only books and more detailed, something you can never have in movies. So when in 2015 there was news for a new trilogy starting, it was a bit on the fence - I thought that "either this is gonna be the best thing yet, or the worst thing ever". Turned out it was the worst thing possible. Horrible story, horrible characters, unlikable actors, lots of unrequited fan service (bringing the old cast and characters back).
For me Mickey Mouse's trilogy felt like a literal disservice for me. Like they took everything I liked about Star Wars, killed it in the most brutal ways possible then took a big dump all over it and gave it to me in a nicely wrapped gift box.
It's interesting, but in the Mickey Mouse movies, including Rogue One, there was that complete lack of feeling of Star Wars for me. It looks like a generic space opera. In the trilogy, I noticed that all the alien species were completely new, no old species - no Rodians, Duros, Toydarians, Neimodians, etc... Completely new species... My question is "How come these planets have been colonized by humans, but not a single alien species from the old ones has come to live there?" It makes no damn sense.
I think this was also present in Rogue One. And what irks me about that is that the main character is called Jyn Esro and in the Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast game, the protagonist's girlfriend is called Jan Ors and the protagonist from Rogue One looks exactly like her... Meaning they literally stole a character from the Expanded Universe and pretended like the EU never happened and changed its name and put it in their stupid gimmicky movie.
In my opinion Mickey Mouse's trilogy and side movies and series are not canon, the real canon is the Expanded Universe which directly continues with the books of author Timothy Zahn, there is the Thrawn trilogy and the Hand of Thrawn duology. I have read only 4 books, but they are amazing. I first got the Thrawn trilogy when I was about 13 years of age and back then (2004) there was nothing else so for me it was only logical that this continued the story after the Return of the Jedi. The stories in the books were so well written, so engaging, that it totally made sense. They felt like movies, but only books and more detailed, something you can never have in movies. So when in 2015 there was news for a new trilogy starting, it was a bit on the fence - I thought that "either this is gonna be the best thing yet, or the worst thing ever". Turned out it was the worst thing possible. Horrible story, horrible characters, unlikable actors, lots of unrequited fan service (bringing the old cast and characters back).
For me Mickey Mouse's trilogy felt like a literal disservice for me. Like they took everything I liked about Star Wars, killed it in the most brutal ways possible then took a big dump all over it and gave it to me in a nicely wrapped gift box.
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