Well here we are... Last day for the Mando S2 trailer to come out according to leakfags and no Mando S2 trailer in sight. Leakfags officially btfo which hopefully means the other rumors about a Kylo Ren cartoon, an Aladdin's Rebels sequel and 12 Disney+ SW shows are also bullshit.
Mantid News:
1: John Boyega had another twitter meltdown against "toxic fans" instead of getting angry at Abrams and Disney for making him a modern Stepin Fetchit and decreasing his presence in Chinese SW media.
2: New female-focused SW jewelry line for women starring Ahsoka and that blacksmith lady from Mandalorian. Along with Han's Medal of Bravery which they're treating as Leia's.
(Archived because I don't these fuckers getting views.)
They made a "One Ring" lotr thing based on Ahsoka... Meanwhile Leia gets no ring quote.
Funnily enough, not even SW.com's only fan "Great Article" guy wants to bother with this one.
3: Is eating Hershey's with some hot cocoa Marvel-Disney's idea of intimidating?
4: Disney is out of ideas.
Reminder that Disney also made Alderaan into Narnia, because they think dropping third party references all the time will make up for their own lack of content or history.
5: A Whovianfag I know sent me this:
Looks like some 2007 Dr. Who novel also predicted the turnout of a Disney sequel.
6: In relation to #4, the "Halloween"-themed Dark Legends book was apparently released last month yet no one gave enough of a shit to talk about it and most reviews are average to shill. Not even Wookieepedo has expunged much on it. Also why release a Halloween-themed novel in July?
In relation to this, all the stories are mediocre to pretty bad. Essentially being "this probably happened but not like this". Despite "Legends" in the name, this has nothing to do with old canon despite one of the authors teasing that a sith lord from this story was a "famous sith with a recognizable blade" which is the stupid candy cane lightsaber.
Story #1
A "vampire" story where the pale bald dude from Aladdin's Rebels has been kidnapping kids to turn into nu-inquisitors. Nothing happens except little girls get scared by Nosferatu.
0/5
Story #2
Its just a tie-in for the shitty GE park focusing on the SWTOR sith acolyte mask in the park.
The author apparently didn't know this thing was a SWTOR reference, so he just made up some generic story about the mask being haunted by an evil ghost that when you put it on you do what the ghost did, get a lot of political pull then kill yourself. The owner of the mask was not a sith and the mask is just regular haunted.
0/5
Story #3
The only story that's well received in general but is nothing new at its core. Its essentially a POV story about Vader choking imperial captains left and right and how its like to be a captain under Vader. Feels like it was written by someone trying to make that one Robot Chicken sketch into a horror drama.
1/5
Story #4
A werewolf story. Nothing particularly original but its the first thing Disney has made to focus on a Shistavanen, the wolfman species (you'd think Filoni would be drooling over these guys yet he never touched them and I doubt he knows they even exist). Essentially, a small crew of old canon aliens goes to a strange planet with a radiated red moon that causes their Shistavanen crewmember to go berserk and kill them all. Predictable but probably the only one that seems remotely worthwhile. And that ain't saying much.
2/5
Story #5
A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with spoopy ghosts starring what looks like Ben Affleck. He finds a magic amulet haunted by sith wraiths which make him go evil every night and do bad stuff. He then runs away ashamed and is never seen again. One of only two stories to feature a pre-Disney location, Coruscant.
3/5
Story #6
Witches n' stuff. A Nightsister tries to kill a Duros sith lord (who Disney has been shilling in a few other books as being the most powerful Sith Lord ever and who was absolutely omnipotent), and she does so by entering his brain and trying to make him kill himself, but instead he sucks out her soul and traps her in his brain.
His previous stories aren't much of an improvement. This story and the Duros sith lord is another weird thing where Disney tries to advertise him as a well known sith lord that fans will feel familiar with but he's just a Disney creation with no history but they keep treating him like some sort of KOTOR or SWTOR-era character. He's basically a Marka Ragnos knockoff without a unique design or memorable story. Only story to feature an EU species, the Shadowmoths which get a passing reference.
0/5
Story #7 the last one (fucking finally)
Its basically just some lame attempt at trying to give Exogol from IX some meaning by revealing the owner of Palpatine's throne who is a female sith with a candy cane lightsaber (no that's not a lightwhip, its just shaped like a cane for some reason). Said to be the most powerful of all too or some shit.
This is the Gollum story. Gollum aka Sanguine was a Sith who discovered a ring or some crap of immortality and was the ruler of Exogol and was the first sith to be immortal. He then went crazy over time and became Gollum. I guess Exogol's magic doohicky made Palpatine immortal too? Later the candy cane saber lady showed up and he became her servant and together they became the living incarnation of this meme.
This story is another example of Disney teasing "a familiar sith we all know from ancient times is will become known again" but its just another Disney OC. Same with her lightsaber "it belonged to
that sith". Literally no one in past or present canon wielded a candy cane lightsaber. Only lightsaber that could even bend was a fucking lightwhip. Despite this, this is one of only two stories to mention a pre-Disney location, Jaguada, from James Luceno's sith-focused novels which was a Sith Empire world.
0/10 - Most hyped story yet nothing happens.
There, I just saved you ten whole dollars.
The fact that nobody talked about this compared to the shitty "Myths and Fables SW book" that Disney released last year and that Wookieepedo hardly covered it shows how much attitudes have changed.
