New Star Wars Canon literally destroys Star Wars

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I always knew that Disney owning Star Wars was not a good thing, I always knew that JJ Abrams would completely ruin Star Wars, as he did Star Trek. When I heard of the whole "new canon" idea from Disney/Abrams, I was livid because all the Expanded Universe (EU) was completely gone. Now I haven't read all the EU stuff, there is simply too much, but two stories are dear to me and that are considered canon and liked by Lucas himself. Shadows of the Empire, and the novels and stories about Kyp Durron. Say what you will about the prequal films, but know that they are indeed Lucas's works are Lucas, IE TRUE, canon. I always knew something was just terribly wrong about this new canon of Star Wars, something huge, something that just devastates Star Wars as a whole. 

Before I go and talk about it, for those who don't know, I absolutely HATED Abrams' Star Trek films. 2009 was not Star Trek by any means and to even consider Into Darkness to be a Wrath of Khan remake is utter insanity. He turned movies about exploration, thoughtful intellect and deep morals into pew pew lasers and lens flare with no regard to the original material. The actors were also poorly cast. I don't have a problem with Cumberbatch or Simon Pegg, but seeing them in those roles and in such horrible films hurts me. I have high expectations of television, movies, and video games alike. Hideo Kojima, Andrei Tarkovsky are some examples of my favorite directors. So, with big names like Star Trek and Star Wars, I expect a lot and the Star Trek movies didn't even come close to reaching that expectation. 

So, I was watching Cinemassacre earlier today, watching the James and Mike Play Shadows of the Empire, and they mentioned that in A New Hope, that you can see the Outrider, Dash Rendar's ship, fly off from Mos Eisley. 

Now, according Disney/Abrams anti-EU Canon, Shadows of the Empire doesn't exist anymore. So, that doesn't exist, huh? But, wait a second, the Outrider, from Shadows of the Empire, is in A New Hope, which is obviously is true, Lucas canon. So, what Disney/Abrams is saying, is that because of no more EU, Ep4 IV: A New Hope CAN'T HAPPEN. All due the Outrider scene. 

WHAT THE CRAP, DISNEY AND ABRAMS? 

So, yeah, I see past your flawed logic. What are you going to do now? Rename Not-Dash-Rendar's-ship so you can have your own canon? Screw off. Seriously, Screw off. You can't just cherry pick what you like about the true canon and trash the rest of it, you aren't the nicolas cage of Star Wars. You have no place in Star Wars at all. Abrams had no place in Star Trek either. Stop ruining great Sci-Fi. Stop making this new Star Wars and just leave Star Wars alone. If new movies must be made, then it must be based off the established canon. Again, going back to Kyp Durron, established story and character, with the whole Sun Crusher incident. THAT HAPPENED. That would be great to have a movie of. Even if its condensed from all the EU works. And what about Shadows of the Empire? That would be great to see a movie of. Maybe not in live action since the cast is old now, but an animation version of it in theatres would be awesome. Also what about everything that happened prior to Ep1? So much story and lore from the EU. 

Point I'm getting is, Disney/Abrams has soo much to work with, so much established canon to work with, they think so highly of themselves that they think they can destroy years and years of EU work with the drop of a hat, just to pocket money.  

However, in all fairness, I will go see EpVII. Its not right to talk about it, because I haven't seen it yet, its not even out. All this is against the Disney/Abram canon.

So, in honor of Shadows of the Empire, I've added Dash Rendar to my Cosplay To Do list. 

I'm not going to let a corporation and some hack director tell me what Star Wars canon is and isn't. However, this is what I can say about EPVII: It won't make sense since EpIV never happened. 
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NuclearKedama's avatar
I know we talked about this on Skype but I think I should post it here for others to read as well.

Yeah there were a decent amount of people who didn't like EP1 - 3. I personally liked them however EP 4 - 6 are the masters period. I remember people questioning and even making fun of Darth Maul's double light saber but I thought it was cool and its a hella lot more practical than that hilted shit in 7.

I know you agree with me, I dunno if others will but real talk here: I'll take Hayden Christensen (sp?) over this new Disney & JJ Abrams Star Wars bullshit. Yeah the guy couldn't act for shit and had that god awful pedofork rape smile of his but its nowhere as bad as what Disney is doing right now.

In addition, yes its agreed that Lucas started fucking up stuff in Star Wars like with Jar Jar, the retarded talking Super Battle Droids in EP3, and Swiss Army R2-D2 in EP3 as well, but at least it was HIM fucking it up since (at the time) it was his Intellectual Property. I prefer Lucas fucking up Star Wars than to have some hipster newfags fucking it up like what they're doing now.  Yeah there were a number of stupid shit in the prequels but for the most part the prequels were watchable and enjoyable.

Also Lucas didn't dare to take a shit on the expanded stories and expanded universe. Disney and JJ Abrams just took it to a whole new level of failure.

And remember you mentioning that Lucas put the Outrider in EP4 new editions? Watch, fucking Disney will remake that shit and put god awful Steamboat Willie in place of the Outrider. Shit I'll even say it that the new Sith Lord asshole in the teaser is Mickey or some shit.

And all those years of work putting all that detail into the expanded universe now in the shitter. All of this is just a damn shame and disgrace and a damn outrage. You know, shit why don't they just go for home run with the whole thing of erasing history and just say that the holocaust didn't happen? Lol.

If only Lucas could buy this shit back...