I don’t consider myself a “hardcore” fan but to my friends and family I’m sure I appear so. At this point I dont care about Star Wars from a franchise perspective (and I don’t think I ever really did) but simply that I love the unaltered OT, greatly enjoy much of the PT and parts of the original EU as I start to try some of it out in a search for new Star Wars content that lines up with what feels like the Star Wars I know and grew up with.
I was never a blind consumer of all and everything simply branded Star Wars and as such had never even looked at the EU until after the utter disappointment of TLJ and the ST in general. To this day I have tried and cannot get into the Clone Wars series.
So call me what you will in regards to my level of fan commitment to Star Wars but I will not be seeing TROS in cinemas and The Mandalorian has and will have no impact on changing that stance which is strictly down to my views and experiences with the ST itself.
That’s not to say I’m anti all Disney Star Wars but I am very sceptical at this point. I won’t ever watch Solo but love Rogue One and I want to enjoy the Mandalorian for what appears to be a solid return to the look, feel and quality that I associate with my loved OT and simply hope I’m not reminded to often or strongly of the ST when watching it.
I do believe as well that both The Mandalorian and Kenobi series are repurposed preproductions of the anthology films they were meant to be before Iger put them and all further ones on ice. This was just recently confirmed for Kenobi which will be a 6 episode mini series “retooled” from a feature film and I think the retooling is true as well for the Mandalorian from a Boba Fett feature film.
I haven’t seen it specifically mentioned on here yet either but Iger was quoted a couple of days ago that all future Star Wars films after TROS are “going on hiatus”. I don’t know what that means for the Star Wars movie that Kevin Feige was apparently lined up to be working on for I think a 2021 release (I guess it’s off?) but if that’s final confirmation that Johnson has lost his trilogy then it’s good news for my ears 😃 (and Ill be the first to tell you I was originally very interested in his trilogy ideas before TLJ).