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Disney Secretly Loves OT?

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A couple of new “new canon” books have been published and they seem to follow a pattern.
They are bringing back to “new canon” what was left behind in subsequent releases/editions of the OT.

“From a Certain Point of View” is a collection of 40 short stories for the 40th anniversary of Star Wars.
From that book the story “The Luckless Rodian” canonizes Han Solo shooting first - well really only Han shooting.

"Journey To The Stars: The Last Jedi; The Legends of Luke Skywalker"
The book is pretty much “legend(ary)” stories of Luke Skywalker told to the crew of the ‘Wayward Current’ - a long haul transport barge.

It to mentions Han shooting first.

It also describes the footage of Alderaan being destroyed by the death star.

It pretty much mocks the fact that the scene changed from 1977 to the special editions:

Book quote “If you examined the footage carefully-which I’ve done frame by frame-you would notice that some of the shots showed just a brilliant ball of sparks while other showed and expanding ring of superheated material in space. How could the same event have two different filmed versions? Clearly faked.”

Take the “Clearly Faked?” tongue-in-cheek, as this particular tale was told by a character who believed Luke Skywalker/Han Solo/Chewbacca where constructs of the Rebel Alliance.

But it does poke fun at the other versions of the film.

Maybe there is hope for the preservation of OT.

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I get the felling is more like “Certain authors openly love the OOT; Disney doesn’t give a damn either way.”.

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Let alone Anakin’s EYEBROWS when Ahsoka took a swipe at Vader in Rebels.

OOT IMMINENT!! ;D

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They don’t have to restore ANH, they already did it with TFA.

[crickets]

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The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy had Han Shoot. But IIRC it had the Praxis Death Star explosion. (It also had a ton of stuff from the Radio Plays.)

– Bill

Never tell me the odds.

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Disney LOVES… selling OOT fans all kinds of products except the OOT

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Not to mention stuff based on that ride based on that movie they keep locked away. 😉

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Where were you in '77?

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Are there any hardcore PT-first fans at Lucasfilm anymore. I can really only think of Filoni- and he’s more into Ahsoka and Rex and his other Clone Wars pet characters. It seems they pay basic lip service to the Prequels, but the ST is defiantly the main focus, with OT a little behind.

It seems like people are really embracing the new characters. In fact, the big question people ask me now about Star Wars is, “Are Finn and Poe gay lovers?” And really how the f*ck would I know? My second husband left me for a man, so my gaydar isn’t exactly what you’d call Death Star level quality. ----Carrie Fisher

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lovelikewinter said:

Are there any hardcore PT-first fans at Lucasfilm anymore. I can really only think of Filoni- and he’s more into Ahsoka and Rex and his other Clone Wars pet characters. It seems they pay basic lip service to the Prequels, but the ST is defiantly the main focus, with OT a little behind.

That’s an age thing, though - the children of the OT are in power at the moment (JJ, Gareth Edwards, Rian Johnson) whereas the prequel kids are too young.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

I get the felling is more like “Certain authors openly love the OOT; Disney doesn’t give a damn either way.”.

This

Do they not see the birds controlled in the atmosphere of the sky? none holds them up except Allah. Indeed in that are signs for a people who believe. – Quran (16:79)

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DuracellEnergizer said:

I get the felling is more like “Certain authors openly love the OOT; Disney doesn’t give a damn either way.”.

This.

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

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Please change the OT in the title to UOT. We all know Disney loves the OT, but this post is about them loving the original versions specifically.