So there is talk that Disney might retcon the sequel trilogy, should it be? I for one wouldn’t mind if it was, I wasn’t much of a fan. Can’t believe they f*cled it up so bad that they’re actually considering on retconning it.
Obviously it should. No chance of it happening anytime soon however. I expect Disney will basically pretend it never happened and focus on movies (and TV series) completely divorced from the ST.
So say it happens, then what? You still got Carrie Fisher whose dead, Harrison Ford who I can't imagine would still come back, and Mark Hamill whose name and legacy for the series was dragged through the mud. The maliciousness Disney has towards Luke Skywalker particularly goes beyond the sequels, for that matter. Even if you retconned the Disney ST, I would not expect there to be some proper dream sequel arc.
The people who still considered Return of the Jedi to be the end of the Skywalker saga had the right idea I guess. There never was a sequel series, it does not compute.
It sucks for versus, too, since it's so far removed from everything else. To its credit, though, Dark Empire introduced a ton of characters, locations, and ideas that would be expanded upon later in other, better works.
Short of a complete reboot of all things Star Wars, it's not going to get retconned and never will be. Movies aren't comics, where constant retconning becomes tiresome.
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Had a look at the idea where they want to go with it if they did reboot it using the Veil of mirrors angle..... it could work.
But no i don't think the sequel trilogy should be retconned, It would be a big slap in the face of everyone that has worked on the current film sequels.
Kinda agree. Retconning in mediums like comics is one thing, but I wouldnt really want any actors/production crew/etc to feel like shit by having what films they took part in to be simply erased from continuity... For what is worth too, I like most of the ST cast. They didnt write the shit story for the sequels, they just played a character.
I guess John Boyega would have nothing to lose though if the ST was retconned, since he got done dirty after he was promised to be a main character.
Not just the sequel films....All the various novels that have been released for them too over the last few years. It just won't work out just retconning the films.
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