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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9316944" data-attributes="member: 18">I feel like people should have been better prepared given Disney said several years before TFA came out that they were dumping all the books. But clearly people were not remotely prepared! I don't think it helped that Clone Wars/Rebels/new books had already started &quot;re-canonizing&quot; various things by the time the TFA and TLJ came out, which gave people unrealistic expectations about what was going to be re-canonized.The books don't have many good lessons on that - because most of what's in the books doesn't &quot;work&quot; at all, but was adored by fans anyway for wish fulfilment reasons - you couldn't have the focus on Luke/Han/Leia of the books, nor the obvious &quot;happy ever after&quot; of the books and do more movies - they'd have been dull as ditchwater and you'd have needed to do them in the 1980s or the early 1990s at latest (before a lot of the books were even written!).Yeah that was a weird choice - Trevorrow's movie (we've seen the script) was far less book-inspired. It was about exactly equally as bad as Abrams' one, but weirdly somehow managed to bring Luke back and yet be less insulting to TLJ than Abrams approach, and had some really bad lines but the soul-crushingly bad ones of RotS like &quot;They fly now!&quot;. It also had weird misogynist vibes like a lot of Trevorrow's work after his first movie does. I suspect that + &quot;Super Saiyan&quot; Luke + the plot generally being even more boring than RotS (but less obviously nonsensical) lead to them firing Trevorrow and hiring back Abrams, and Abrams struggled to get anything together in time, so presumably decided to steal wholesale from Dark Empire.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9316944, member: 18"] I feel like people should have been better prepared given Disney said several years before TFA came out that they were dumping all the books. But clearly people were not remotely prepared! I don't think it helped that Clone Wars/Rebels/new books had already started "re-canonizing" various things by the time the TFA and TLJ came out, which gave people unrealistic expectations about what was going to be re-canonized. The books don't have many good lessons on that - because most of what's in the books doesn't "work" at all, but was adored by fans anyway for wish fulfilment reasons - you couldn't have the focus on Luke/Han/Leia of the books, nor the obvious "happy ever after" of the books and do more movies - they'd have been dull as ditchwater and you'd have needed to do them in the 1980s or the early 1990s at latest (before a lot of the books were even written!). Yeah that was a weird choice - Trevorrow's movie (we've seen the script) was far less book-inspired. It was about exactly equally as bad as Abrams' one, but weirdly somehow managed to bring Luke back and yet be less insulting to TLJ than Abrams approach, and had some really bad lines but the soul-crushingly bad ones of RotS like "They fly now!". It also had weird misogynist vibes like a lot of Trevorrow's work after his first movie does. I suspect that + "Super Saiyan" Luke + the plot generally being even more boring than RotS (but less obviously nonsensical) lead to them firing Trevorrow and hiring back Abrams, and Abrams struggled to get anything together in time, so presumably decided to steal wholesale from Dark Empire. [/QUOTE]

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