You've clearly never touched anything in the EU.
The EU is just some books, my dude.
they did not really use any continuity of the EU stuff for this movie.
That feels like it was taken straight from the source material of the eu.
It hints at the eu for fanboys to keep y'all satiated and in your feels.
so, imo this movie really does not follow any direction of the books or dark horse stuff I encountered.
It has that same marvel universe over at disney thing going on.
Except it is better than changing Tony Starks to ultron's inventor instead of Henry Pym.
While having an antman movie out at the same time to satiate the vitriol of fan boys.
All those other books had luke as the central guy and then it picks up when han/leia's twins and chewie's son comes of age for Jedi training and how the force resonates in them.
Then he loses the male solo twin to the dark side and even succumbs to the dark side. General thrawn is pretty much grievous and not seen or looked at In this like those books I read.
There is no Mara jade mention, yet.
This movie just gives fanboys Easter eggs cause that is a whole science they developed at Disney.
in marketing and takeover of marvel to fool you nikkaz.
This new movie is a story someone had.
that they felt had to hit every pop mechanism for a blockbuster.
All because star wars invented the blockbuster in the idea of what we call a blockbuster.
Couple it with the Disney blockbuster ability.
to use their top shelf quality rubrick and marketing as well.
the Easter eggs were all constructed around a complete new re-write. That feels totally separate from the books and comics.
While, giving EU print guys a nod.
Imo, they market researched using the cartoons and all your poignant prominent fan boy marketing on the internet that had revelency.
Appealed to it and churned out this new record setting blockbuster.
I don't think the EU played any part in this past Easter eggs for fan boys.
This movie feels like a well constructed writing process built around what sells in movies.
Which star wars pretty much created with the added marketing and science behind it.
from every Disney, Pixar and industrial light magic based braintrust and rubrick.
Then packaged the best in history as far as using market based science for a profit.
The company is run by the former executive admin that personally saw to executing every ticket item in the light and magic development days for this franchise.
So, it has a very minutes hit all bulletin points based feel and it works.
Star wars created all this shyt.
So, Imo any shyt that made a dollar.
or generated capital in the most extreme profit building based scenario was used for star wars and it worked.
To the point I am wearing myself out re-watching it over and.over again.
I feel like a kid again and none of the books or comics or EU ever ever did that like this.
This movie is the culmination of all the marketing and everything done exactly right.
I did not even look at any marketing for this at all not to ruin it and I am enjoying and from the receipts.
Everyone is enjoying it as well.
My daughter called me like three minutes after watching star wars at the movies in Arizona on vacation the other day.
She was floored, in shock at Han solo and just in awe.
i am glad they gave my kid sumfin like I had as a kid.
To the point my kid picks up her own cellphone and calls me excited about it.
You can't beat that and that is why I love star wars.
Art Barr
You know how much media my daughter consumes.
She ain't never just called me about no other movie before.
Plus, since this movie has a my pet dragon two moment.
I have to watch it with her as a parent because I have to explain things and the situation just like my pet dragon two.
Plus, in this case...
I got to see it separate from her to figure out what to say.
So, I got a fortifying work to do as a parent from star wars and you can't beat that.
Art Barr