Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-9464517-20150923180951/@comment-26397825-20150923203026

I like Inception. And Pixar/Disney movies (though I hate the hype they get around them).

And I am perfectly happy to watch the new Star Wars stuff, because I'm non-judgemental like that. We haven't even seen the new Disney movies, and I can undertsand why they retconned it. Seriously, if they made the existing boks into movies, how many people would they have saying "Oh, the books were better" "They ruined this part!" "They obviously have no creativity, because they had to use the books". At least by making the books and everything AU instead of Canon, they have the freedom to explore it themselves, and the new storyline only has to match up with the existing movies and animated Clone Wars, instead of trying to match it up with everything that was in the books.

And besides, it's not like you can't still enjoy the books. It'll be two sides of the same coin - the books are the way the universe developed if this happens, the new movies are the way the universe developed if this happened. It happens all the time in books and cinema and media.

Honestly, the way people complain about the decision to follow their own path instead of following a preset path just sounds kind of butt hurt to me. You can still enjoy the books. I'm sure the authors are still going to have permission to write them as AU, seeing as it is a source of income for Disney and Lucasarts after all. It just won't get made into a movie. Boo hoo.