Trying to make a mystery out of who the masked character is when we have no idea who these people are to begin with is hilarious. They don't know how to actually tell a story, so they're starting with a mystery box to get you hooked.
JJ Abraham's and his mystery box has been a disaster for Star Wars.
LOL NOPE.
At least when Filoni did it (at first), people believed that he was preserving the EU. Now it's become really blatant that they're just cannabilizing good stories and making them terrible.
Crowdfunding as a gadget of public interest isn't unheard of. Honestly, it's a good idea, given that it invites people to put their money where their mouth is.
Like Hollywood in general, these people are just creatively bankrupt at this point. Just two days ago, I was in a mall and the movie posters are just rehashes/sequels that I have no interest in watching. We now have a sequel to Twister after more than 25 years and another Bad Boys movie. Yawn.
Filoni is a fan of his own universe, nothing else. That's why he wants to make Ahsoka the center of the new story. The new Heir to the Empire is the obvious Filoniverse movie, with Ahsoka becoming the key to everything. To the point where the spirit of the Chosen One would rather talk to her than to his own flesh and blood.
It's not just creative bankruptcy, it's also investors only wanting safe bets. If you come up with a movie that's genuinely fresh, new, and experimental, you'll get less investment money due to the risk factor. But a sequel to something that already existed, they'll support that because it's already a proven formula.
I don't think they'll be doing that. More likely the evil twin will die a horrible death, but the good twin will get so disillusioned with the Jedi that she takes up her sister's mantle, if she does go evil at all.
New writers of post-JJ Star Wars are like new writers of post-JJ Star Trek: seems they don't care about continuity.
That man is a trendsetter in the worst possible way. In that he sets the trend for not giving a shit about lore and continuity. And that just makes lore less valuable. Which is kind of funny that Disney and their defenders are stumped as to why their new SW lore isn't getting as much love as the old one, when retconning lore has set a nasty precedent.
The way to fix that is to ignore the new lore.
That won't work. The old fans have already left the building and no longer care, meanwhile, the new lore does have its fans, and retconning it would just earn their hatred.
So I guess the best way is some like the newer stuff, while older fans can like the older stuff sans the newer stuff?
