The EU is done because there are no real possibilities. Adapting those stories, which are far messier than anything Disney has released, is not going to appease anyone—as even if they tried, fans of those novels/books/comics/games will always be pissed that it isn’t how they imagined it.
Acolyte is going to be one of the better ways forward, and I wish more was announced like that: in a different era. As fun as Dave’s and John’s three new shows spinning out from Mandalorian sound, I think it’s time to move away from the sequel trilogy. I enjoyed Rogue One, I look forward to Andor, Kenobi sounds cool, as does the other show. The Bad Batch will be cool, and similar to Clone Wars and Rebels, while the other two animated series, Visions and A Droids Story, will find their audiences too.
I think Leslye Headland’s The Acolyte and, if it’s ever brought back to the table, Rian Johnson’s trilogy going to new eras less connected to the main saga of nostalgia will be the better way forward. But fans will complain regardless. Catering to fans just doesn’t work, if you don’t believe me: rewatch The Rise of Skywalker. We need new things, and fans need to embrace that some things will be different. The more we support the franchise as a whole, the more they’ll invest in giving us new and diverse (both by representation and types of stories) content.
Ok, I think we’re kinda having two separate discussions here, or you’re assuming that I’m a lot more negative than I actually am. By EU is simply meant an “expanded universe” as in not the Skywalker saga, not Legends or specifically books, comics, etc. of any specific era of content. Maybe I’ve used the term wrong, but I was under the impression that it still applied to non-saga material. And yes I’m sure The Acolyte will provide something fresh and new, by writing “whatever it turns out to be” I was simply referring to the fact that we hardly know anything about it.
We clearly agree on a lot of points here other than the idea of embracing everything. I just personally don’t think that works. And I don’t mean that people should be angry or disrespectful the way many were (and still are) in response to TLJ, or even all the way back to films TPM. Not liking the ST or PT doesn’t have to mean you’re one of these people. And while I agree that you can’t please everyone and that many fans make bad calls ad want strange things, clearly some creators get more approval from a majority while others don’t, and I do think that should be acknowledged (to an extent) by the people who run a franchise. And we clearly agree that the different shows will please different sections of the fan-base, while others will also like most or all of it as a whole. This is why I think the new Disney+ model holds great promise.
Anyway, this has deviated a lot from discussing the Bad Batch so unless there’s some final points you’d like to add to this discussion I think we should end it here.