Joking aside, that show is safe. If it takes a dive it isn't Kennedy/story group meddling, it's Favreau losing steam as a show runner..
sheev thinks he is rey's grandfather, but while sheev was busy visiting opera houses with anakin, his mistress was meeting up with a certain senator from naboo.
Filoni definitely has a strong presence in the episode's finer details. He wrote or directed the shrimp planet episode, and that has his fingerprints all over it (the loth-cat in a cage is a big one). Tonally it's a bit slower-paced to begin with than the first two, and has the kind of family themes that he tends to like to cover in the shows he does.
This right here is how you can tell the difference between something made with legit creative love for the craft... and whatever the fucking hell the soulless, corporate shit that came out of Lucas Films proper is.
I think that is exactly what happened. Also it gets all the more stupider since Disney made a novel adaptation where Leia gives Chewbacca his medal at the same time as Han and Luke, effectively confirming that Disney's trilogy takes place in a different continuity altogether. Much like how Disney's ROTJ retelling has 3PO talking about Ahsoka and Aladdin to Ewoks and Nik Sant is actually Rex and even clearly has his clone armor gauntlets visible despite that not being the case in the movies, not even in the most recent special edition.
It just seems that Disney does not want us to have what we want or even nice things. They just want us to have what they think we should want. Galaxy's Edge and these movies are proof of that. They want to remake the franchise, fanbase and audience in their own sanitized image.
It's so hard to explain this to rabid TLJ and RoS fans, and it really breaks my heart because it's so simple and completely outside of their comprehension. They talk about "themes" and bend over backwards to justify weird little elements of lore, but wouldn't know a good genre film if it punched them in the face.
Just ditch the child soldier stuff and have FO Stormtroopers be enlisted men from world's outside of the New Republic territories. Finn is just some guy who grew up in the slums of Nar-Shada and joined up so he can have a roof over his head and a hot meal since the New Republic don't care about bla..uhh scum and villainy people.
Good media is inspired by other media, sometimes to the point of ripping of plots, ideas, and themes wholesale. It is an iterative process, taking what you love in other media and giving it your own take, your own spin, to try to make something better than the sum of its parts.
Late but he was insufferable in Blade Trinity.
