Which did not used to be a thing until Filoni took over. Even hyper popular Star Wars characters like Luke and Boba Fett existed in a lot of different series but when it was time for them to go, they were gone. Legacy for example wasn't afraid to let us know they were dead and it was time for new adventures.
Legacy took place well over a century after the OT. And Luke was still around as a ghost the way Ben was in the OT. But aside from Legacy, which explicitly happened long after Luke died, the post-OT stories kept Luke alive for as long as they could.
part of that was i think they had a mandate to not kill any of the OT characters. They had to really fight with George to let them drop a planet on chewy if i remember. Even then they did permanently kill popular characters like mara jade, Anakin solo, Jacen and countless others.
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Lol, lmao even.I figured you NERDS would like this,
By: Jake Kleinman Published: May 4, 2026, 9:57 AM EDT
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Happy Star Wars Day to all who celebrate! If you're a fan of the original trilogy, the prequels, or even some of the spinoff shows like Andor or The Clone Wars, you've got plenty to celebrate. But one group that apparently isn't celebrating this May 4? Sequel trilogy enjoyers, because according to a new report, they don't really exist.
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I know this has been said almost a thousand times in this thread but I very nearly walked out during TLJ. The purple-hair bitch refused to disclose anything to the hero from the previous movie? wtf?
Personally, I always thought they were closer to Spartans or Thracians.
I think it was along the lines of "something something girlboss, something something responsibility" and other mental gymnastics the ST defenders came up with.
I remember how hard the shills tried to push TLJ. Even Mark Hamill seemed to hate it until his higher-ups told him to cram it and print a retraction.
I watched the fan restorations (4k77, etc) last year just as a palate cleanser and was like "yeah, Star Wars is good". I definitely think that most modern movies are terrible. I think TLJ was so bad it basically made me swear off going to the movie theater again--since then I only watched an anime film in 2018 and last month a Fathom Events docudrama made by someone I know, as a show of support.
Yeah but I think it's been going on longer than that. I was rewatching a bit of Voyager with my parents, and I remarked that "Janeway reminds me of Hillary Clinton". That can mean two totally different things depending on who I voted for.
The orange and white droid was the only character that people liked and sold merch, probably because he didn't speak. People don't give enough blame to the ST and Ghostbusters 2016 for killing Toys R Us.
Reading the mental gymnastics of those shills back then made me question my love for Star Wars. It was worth leaving the franchise to rot for modern consumers to feed on.
I barely remember Fembusters having merch in the first place. Didn't help especially when the directors and the actors blamed their long-standing audience for the movie's failure. Is it any wonder why there's absolutely no merch of these Fembusters up to now unlike the originals?
I must’ve not been paying attention about Fembusters having merch.
The reason you don't remember it (they even had a licensed video game, that probably contributed to killing licensed games permanently as they were fixture since the NES days) is because by the time it hit theaters the toys and merchandise were being clearanced (turns out action figures of fat and/or ugly women don't sell). The one thing people sort of wanted, Hi-C Ecto Cooler, was released in extremely limited quantities through select retailers.
The Fembusters had action figures and some useless Funko Pops. I can't blame anyone including myself for barely remembering that horrible movie had merch in the first place.
I'm suddenly wondering if toy store chains are still selling ugly/fatass women as action figures, seeing as some weirdos find Barbie to be "problematic" for having slim, feminine features of their dolls. Never tried the Hi-C Ecto Cooler since it ran out by the time I realized that it existed in the first place.
Because box office numbers don't account for marketing. If Ghostbusters 2016 had just enough for some TV spots and other stuff it would've been fine, instead they had a lot of other shit that didn't sell. The video game did terribly too, the developer shut down.
It was scalped pretty quickly.
