Listening to the Thrawn Trilogy through Audible for the first time in about a decade. Man, those are the real sequels to Episode VI.
Luke is growing as a Jedi, Mara Jade is an interesting new character, Han and Leia are still together, and Thrawn and Joruus C'baoth are great villains. Even "side characters" (as the sequels would put them) like C-3PO, R2-D2, Lando, and Chewbacca have things to do in the plot (almost like they're main characters...)
Down with Disney!
The TT audiobooks are probably some of the best in the series after the Plagueis audiobook.
Anyway, some bothersome or mixed news ahead.
Rumor has it that Squadrons will feature characters from Filoni Wars as well, possibly Ahsoka and a clone trooper named Hawk and also Rex, possibly as cameos or full fledged characters alongside Filoni's green twilek Hera.
The Star of Galaxy's Edge, Vi Moradi, may be getting a new book by her creator because I guess she really wants to force this character to be loved. If Disney approves it, I'll take it as a sign that they have no intention to improve GE.
The Kenobi series is still in ambiguous development but Ewan says that it hasn't been abandoned and is still being worked on, but it is said that it will feature the "same technology" from Mandalorian. It better not be those stupid tracking gizmos since they're the weakest part of the Mandalorian that take away from the thrill of the hunt and scouring for info.
Aladdin's Rebels will apparently be getting a new show starring Sabine, Ahsoka and Rex, and Filoni Wars will be getting more episodes, but none of them are based on the unused scripts, instead it will serve as a prequel to Aladdin's Rebels and star the "Bad Batch" clones with Ahsoka and Rex as supporting characters because we can't adapt the unused Filoni Wars episodes since all except one don't focus on Ahsoka... which I'm sure it might get adapted.
So much for the "final season". This will serve as the "final piece" that links the prequels to Aladdin's Rebels which links to the OT, although why they couldn't just do a CGI Underworld like George and the old team wanted is beyond me... Oh yeah, because Ahsoka wasn't in it and George wanted her dead. The Aladdin Rebels sequel will likely be about finding Aladdin and killing Thrawn because why not.
And Ahsoka and Rex will be in the Mandalorian so that's not new. So far all the major projects will star Ahsoka because she makes peepees hard.
Only new project that doesn't involve Ahsoka (aside from Vi Moradi as far as we know but she could be in there) as far as we know, is a "tie-in" to IX book called Dark Legends which takes place thousands of years ago and contains several "Dark Side" stories, one of which retcons Exogol to be the origin of the Sith per some concept artist and JJ's wishes, despite Korriban/Morraband having been their origin for decades and even in Filoni Wars shit, but hey Hidalgo and JJ will just not give a fuck.
The book will recanonize lightwhips from old canon Its actually a shitty curved lightsaber that's bended into a cane shape (
@Flexo you're a bending unit, any takes?). I mean what purpose could it serve that a regular saber doesn't already do? At least a lightwhip has more range and is basically an
extending deadly laser snake you can control through the Force, but what does curling a lightsaber accomplish? Anyway it will feature a Palpatine analogue and a zombie-like Vader analogue in a Rule of Two type deal before that rule should even exist, and who founded the throne on planet blackballs, and the characters are described as being the Frankenstein and Igor of Star Wars. Another story is called Blood Moon and will be the first Disney story focusing entirely on the seemingly forgotten Shistavanen species who will be treated as some kind of werewolf analogue. Another one is called Predecessor which is about Vader choking some guy and apparently the first Sith. Judging from the Frankenstein and Wolfman references, I suspect this will basically be a book about Universal Monsters but with Star Wars. A generic vampire will likely appear since Disney already made them canon, bat transformation and all, except they eat energy and not blood cuz we gotta make sure no blood is found.
In brighter news, the first Star Wars Racer game is getting released on the Switch in a few days and Star Wars Celebration has been cancelled until 2022 at most.
