Man, out of all the OT characters, I hated seeing Chewie getting cucked in the ST and have him suffer from the loss of Han, Luke, and Leia alone.
"But its fine! And its fine that he's forced to give away his best friend's ship to some girl he doesn't even know. He gets a participation medal!" - Yellow Yoda
Also how the fuck did Yellow Yoda even know he didn't get a medal? Did Chewbacca tell her how fucking miserable he was over it or does everyone know? Its another example of how small Disney's shit feels. Also the original premise was that Chewbacca was too prideful as a wookiee to accept such a trinket. And even then in both old and Disney canon, Chewbacca still got a medal despite his protests.
In the old, he gets the medal in the after-party where Leia puts it on the frumpy wookiee at Han's request despite his bashful protests.
And according to Disney's retelling of ANH, Leia gives him the medal at the same time as Han and Luke in the movie which definitely goes against what we see on screen, but it doesn't matter because Chewbacca still didn't want it and gives it away to some random girl he just met.
But this just seems to confirm to me that Disney's shit takes place in a fucked up timeline. But regardless, Yellow Yoda giving him one makes even less sense. And if the medal she gave him is the one that Han sold to her for beer in the Plan IX tie-in, then honestly that's just horribly awkward.
Also IRL, Chewbacca got a medal at the 1997 MTV film awards.
Well the TLJ cultists are sucking Rian's dick on twitter and made it trending because apparently a movie where a woman literally got thousands killed because she never told anyone anything, a woman prevented a sacrifice that would save many out of lust, and a woman who acts like a teenage girl into bad boys is considered progressive
Murphy's law sucks.
Ah, yes, because I too cherrypick the stupid shit from the old EU and ignore the shit that was nearly as good if not better than the actual movies. You don't have to suck off RLM on this one, it's okay to make good non-movie material as long as it's unique and stands on its own. Mike wouldn't be happy unless Star Wars was a dead series, good material or not, because he can't comprehend anything but the OT existing. Also, the point of nixing the EU was ostensibly to make things better, not more stupid.
Pretty much yeah. I also find it odd how everyone is quick to form a massive hateboner for said material, yet Disney's EU gets a pass on almost everything, including from HelloGreedo, and is actively promoted and celebrated by people who hated anything outside the OT before despite the new stuff having shit that would even put the worst of the old to shame. I'm free to poke fun at Jedi Prince all I want, but say something about how fucking ridiculous Wendig's Hillary Clinton in space is and before you know it in comes the Troon Squad.
if you're the IP holder you can try to shutdown whatever you want, even more so when you're one of the biggest media companies in the world with it's own legal department.
I agree it was probably for legal reasons, but more so they don't get into PR trouble with authors while ripping shit off left and right anyway.
I've mentioned this before, but a few old authors have spoken about Disney using their characters without credit years ago, but one such author when asked said he couldn't do anything because he gave Lucasfilm full control over what he created. Also Disney constantly re-uses characters and things from old lore on a whim and without a care, much like Thrawn. And Zahn himself has said that he has little control over the Thrawn character's fate despite creating him.
According to Leland Chee, the reason they probably trashed old canon (then recycled it) was because Chewbacca died.
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