The arrogance of Dan Filoni and his fans is pretty unreal. People talk about him and his shows like Star Wars didn't exist until 2008 or that he did a better job than Lucas ever did.
TCW got mainstream praise while the PT got raked over hot coals. That's why. Even people who were all-in on the prequel hate loved TCW and saw it as the PT done better. So of course, Filoni's going to get more authority if that's how fans react to his work. In the eyes of Hollywood and the normie/critic discourse, he turned something that was considered an untouchable mess into what many consider to be a loveable and necessary part of SW lore. People say that Filoni's work ''redeemed the Prequels'', and of course, if that's what people say about your work, you're going to get a bit of an ego.
What keeps Filoni afloat in the hearts and minds of these stupid fans is this belief that he's "one of us" and deeply cares about the EU and seeks to preserve it. This is untrue, all he cares about is using it as a content farm and reusing ideas...and even then, he fucks that up because Dave always changes the shit he steals in some way that makes it nonsensical and not fit into canon. Like Korriban being renamed Moriband for no fucking reason. Add that to Darth Bane now being some kind of Samurai and this is just brand new lore.
I'm not so sure. Some EU fans think that way, but other fans of Filoni probably never heard of the EU and only know him through TV shows like Rebels, TCW, and Ahsoka. Certainly, the largest part of his fanbase comes from the TV demographic, since many EU fans despised him for contradicting other SWEU materials.
Frankly, I shocked people still take him seriously even though we're on year 10 of Ahsoka Tano being the main character of Star Wars and outliving everyone and everything because Dave can't bring himself to dispose of her character in some way.
Why am I getting the feeling that she's going to live all the way beyond the main cast, like K'Kruhk? I wouldn't be surprised if she outlives Rey at this point.
But isn't being "one of them" pretty much not respecting anything in Star Wars canon and just bulldozing your way through the galaxy with new characters and ideas? Filoni is the perfect representation for the new Star Wars fandom. He was making cartoons for kids and got a job at Lucasfilms despite having no real experience handling a major franchise like Star Wars.
He is not a fan of 'Star Wars' he just simply wants to plug his moronic and degenerate ideas into Star Wars and re-imagine the series how he wants it. He even throws himself into voice acting and live acting roles to make himself front and center. Basically canonizing himself into the Star Wars universe. The shallow approach to the franchise is all that the low IQ retards who like modern Star Wars are capable of and Filoni gives them the endless goyslop that they crave.
Filoni can't make something like Star Wars or Dune or LOTR on his own. He doesn't have the talent. But he can take his own personal ideas and use a major franchise to basically showcase his content and stories. Which is the dream of most hacks.
He's not a fan of SW at large, but rather, his own version of SW. He acts like he's the new Tolkien or CS Lewis, what with him turning Lothal into Space Gondor, making the Whales into the Space Eagles, turning Ahsoka into Gandalf the White, and even having the last Ahsoka episode be titled like the first Narnia book, but as I've said before, he doesn't understand the religious content of the stuff he's cribbing from. He doesn't have the balls to preach in favor of a religious system that most people in Hollywood despise.
