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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9389606" data-attributes="member: 18">As in a fan-favourite character? Mando/Grogu?That said, I think it's very noteworthy that neither of the figures you mention is from TV/movies and both are villains. Revan isn't really even a character. He's just a mysterious background figure. He doesn't even really have a personality, just a history. Filoni's Thrawn is basically identical to book-Thrawn in all the ways that matter and it just doesn't work as well on TV - even in the cartoons he only has a fraction of the same appeal.EDIT - If you're looking for book characters, I only know the High Republic books from the post-Disney era so can't comment as well.That would make sense, yeah."We" also took Star Wars and turned it into Andor, which is really exactly the same transition (and quite similar to Blake's 7 on a number of levels).I don't think nuWho dialled it back for the US market (though I would be open to an RTD comment supporting such a position), because it hit the ground like that, rather I think RTD was an inveterate Usenet Who fan (I mean I know he was) who argued and thought about Who constantly for many years and was very much on a specific "side" of discussions of Who (again I know he was). Specifically that grey/dark/less-what-parents-think-is-child-appropriate Who was the wrong direction, particularly the Sylvester McCoy era (whereas that was the era that people like me grew up in). End result is the same though.</blockquote>

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