You wanna know what? I would pay money for a Star Wars Legends show. I would shell out my hard earned cash for something, anything, set in the original pre-disney canon. Mara Jade and Grand Admiral Thrawn and Jacen and Jaina Solo. No Rey, no Kylo Ren, no First Order, no hermit Luke, no baby Yoda, no Mandalorian, nothing since 2012. Marvel and DC don't give a shit about canon, they have multiple conflicting concurrent continuities; there are three different Spidermen (dozens if you include all the cartoons and video games), more Batmen than I can count, different incarnations for comics and TV and streaming and theaters and the straight-to-DVD bargain bin, so why can't disney let the Legends canon continue in parallel to their new stuff? They explicitly rebranded all the old stuff so they could differentiate the two universes, so why stop updating one of the universes? I don't want Legends characters reintroduced to disney canon like Thrawn was, I just want new Legends content. Please. I feel like one of those nintendo nerds begging their favorite company to let them buy and play old games, but the company won't let them, so they resort to piracy which makes the company even madder; like, if we are willing to give you money but you still won't give us what we want, you have no one to blame but yourself when we stop paying you altogether. The last Marvel movie I saw was No Way Home; before that, Far From Home in 2019; before that Homecoming in 2017, and Civil War in 2016. I've never seen Infinity War or Endgame, don't want to, probably never will. I haven't watched any of the Star Wars cartoons or streaming shows either, I've been checked out since 2019, and I don't plan on watching anything else in the future (everything I know, I pick up through osmosis from the people I follow on social media). If disney wants to pique my interest again, they'll have to start letting writers explore the original canon. Give us a Rogue One analogue with characters that people actually like and who don't all die at the end. Give us a Biggs Darklighter show that explores his life from rural farmboy to stormtrooper to rebel spy to Death Star trench run martyr. Give us an Old Wounds final fight between Obi Wan and Darth Maul that doesn't end in 2 seconds with a bloodless slash to the stomach. Give us a Sebastian Shaw force ghost Anakin giving Luke some advice before he passes on to the other side (people forget that force ghosts don't last forever; the Thrawn trilogy starts with Obi Wan saying goodbye to Luke and becoming one with the force permanently). Give us Queen Leia leading the Alderaani disapora in the aftermath of the war. Give us Mara Jade and Ben Skywalker and the Ysalamir lizards that can negate the force; that's an interesting concept, force sensitive animals who use it to hunt or hide, non-sentient force powers, passive force, because it's an energy field that surrounds and binds all living things, not just humanoids with magic bugs in their blood (I know that wasn't disney's fault, but it's still stupid). I only gave disney my money for the new Spiderman because I wanted to see Alfred Molina and Willem Dafoe again (Tobey and Andrew were unexpected but pleasant surprises), but I don't watch any other MCU movies or Pixar movies or new Star Wars content; I would lift the embargo just once if they released anything new in Legends, but until then I am done with this company.
