[throw0101a]

> […] sleight of hand retconning is absolutely bonkers and will fool approximately zero people.

Same folks who shitcanned the Expanded Universe:

> On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm rebranded most of the Expanded Universe material with the exception of The Clone Wars as Star Wars Legends and declared it non-canonical to the franchise. The company's focus would be shifted towards a restructured Star Wars canon based on new material.[60][63][64] Chee said in a 2014 Twitter post that a "primary goal" of the story group would be to replace the previous hierarchical canon (of the Holocron) with one cohesive one.[58] […]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_in_other_media#Disne...

* https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Legends

[JohnBooty]

Whatever the artistic merits, shitcanning the Expanded Universe had a colossal level of practical utility -- the enormous quantity of material surely made it extremely difficult to add new material that didn't contradict the existing EU material in some way or the other.

Plus, the actors were too old to portray the existing EU storylines for Luke/Han/Leia at that point anyway etc etc etc

[basch]

For kids playing dressup and role model purposes, if they are going to reboot the sequels they should reboot Rey and Kylo. Same rough characters, new story.

Nobody struggles with multiple Joker variants running around. Batman is still Batman.

[throw0101a]

> Batman is still Batman.

No one thinks of Adam West any less for Keaton, Bale, Patterson, etc. (Though the running joke seems to be that Clooney thinks less of himself for his role. :)