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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9893354" data-attributes="member: 18">What's your basis for this re: "everyone" though? What's your source? Because what I've heard is a much, much more complex story.Kennedy has had to deal with some outrageous nonsense and blatant misogyny, but I really haven't heard this "Everyone at Disney agreed to just cargo cult Lucas". Indeed, if we look at Disney's output, the only "cargo cult Lucas" stuff is maybe The Force Awakens and arguably Obi-Wan, at least to my mind (The Rise of Skywalker is too inept to even call cargo cult Lucas I'd say). JJ Abrams, sure, that dude is a cargo cultist in a lot of his work (including Super 8), a talented one but a cargo cultist nonetheless. But I haven't previously seen it claimed Disney as a whole were trying to cargo cult Lucas. I'm not even saying it's not true, but I'd like some kind of basis for that claim.The total eradication of the EU could be read either way too, so doesn't really inform us a great deal.As to the general point of needing to be willing to change, absolutely, but when you're continuing an IP, that's a complicated judgement call. nuBSG worked because the original BSG was not beloved, and kinda sucked, so really they just used ideas and broad aesthetics to tell a pretty different story with an incredibly different tone. But if BSG had been as beloved and worshipped and continually added to as Star Wars was, nuBSG would at best be basically Andor, something seen as a gritty, edgy reboot for a smaller and different audience, and at worst "a dumb needless gritty reboot" like Bomberman: Act Zero.</blockquote>

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