So, obviously, Andor just ended and it's getting
rave reviews and there's been some great things
lately. Skeleton Clue is really, really good.
Again, Andor, great. There's been some good stuff
that comes out of Star Wars. But most Star Wars
fans would generally agree that the sequel trilogy
of 7, 8, and 9 are not, shall we say, the best
thing that has come out of Star Wars in the history
of Star Wars. The question that has been posed
right is If they were is there a case to be made
for Disney to White this great clean say seven
eight nine are no longer canon and let's start
over on seven eight nine or Should they just
accept that look we made this movies are not
the best but they're canon It is what it is and
we're just gonna make better stuff going forward.
So that's the question on the table is Should
Disney retcon the sequel trilogy and just erase
it from our collective Star Wars canon Jay, what's
your immediate gut reaction? Oh my gosh, what
was this like tonight? You're just like, let's
see how many people we can make mad. Oh my gosh.
There we go. So seven, eight, nine. We're specifically
talking about Ray, right? We're talking about
the Ray trilogy. Yeah, we'll call it that. If
they could, should they wipe those from the the
existence of Star Wars Canon? Oh God, I'm gonna
say no Okay, I'm gonna say no So this is the
argument that I've had with this particular viewer
many times No, they shouldn't Okay now Can we
say look we're not gonna go back and rewatch
a rise in a Skywalker a whole bunch of times
No, we're not. I haven't watched it in years
because it's trash Force Awakens was pretty good
last Jedi was what had its very good parts, right?
Wasn't exactly perfectly executed in the rise
of Skywalker was trash but but Trying to go back
and retcon him is not the solution for Star Wars
as a Genre as a is a is sorry as a franchise
It just gets too complicated for them, right?
One, you basically have to wipe in front of existence
and you don't want to do that, right? Two, you
confuse the crap out of the general audience,
right? And I'm not talking about those of us
deep in the fandom with our cool Star Wars hoodies,
right? I'm talking about the general audience,
right? I just don't think that there's a benefit
for Disney to do so. I think the benefit would
be to move forward. Go forward in time. No more
prequels. No more middle of the empire shit.
Let's, let's... That way. Right? Or worst -case
scenario do like that old Republic thing They've
been planning for a long time and go so far back
in time that the the current timeline doesn't
matter That's I mean, that's actually what I
want to see personally Absolutely 100 % I Will
ask you this question because this has been posted
now opposed a different way in the chat Do you
reboot the so and I will use Harry Potter as
our example, right? So we made the Harry Potter
movies, right they exist Warner Brothers has
opted to start over Right. We're rebooting it
completely We're gonna start it again book one
as a TV show this time, but we're starting it
again Total 100 % reboot, recast everything.
They're doing that right now. Time will tell
us whether it be successful. Do you think Disney
should do the same thing with Star Wars? I think
Harry Potter is different. I think. Like to its
core, it's very different. And I say that because
one, you're going from a movie to now a TV series.
You're not trying to like redo. The movie trying
to like make them not canon. Also, like the the
thing about like if you were just going to wipe
away Ray's storyline, I think you might take
away like a very powerful role model for little
girls. I don't really know. I don't have children.
I do. Out there. But I could imagine like little
girls are looking up to Ray like, wow, she's
so cool. And I don't want to take that away from
anyone. Harry Potter, though. Harry Potter is.
Different because they are, from my understanding,
the TV series that they're making, they're trying
to make it as accurate to the books as possible,
which the movies cut out a lot. They had to.
Yeah, there is so much stuff going on. 100%.
So I feel like this is like two different arguments
here. Because now you're going back and you're
making something that's very. True to the books
and with Star Wars, you don't really have. I
don't know, you don't really have that. So I
mean, they do have a ton of books, but. The not
not they weren't originally a series of books
that you're adapting off of. This was an original
series. I'm going to say. If you were going to
do something like reboot Star Wars, you need
like a 25 year gap. Right. You would basically
have to stop making Star Wars content for 25
years and then start over. Right. I guess the
only way it would work. Right. And it may not
even work then. Right. I'm saying I don't think
you can redo Star Wars without a significant
gap between we have ended this we have started
it over right again because you're going to confuse
the crap out of the general audience right i
also don't think that you can recapture the magic
of the original trilogy four five and six right
those things were about as good as you can get
right I don't know how you and this is actually
the the uphill battle that I think the Harry
Potter series has. And I'll explain when they
casted the Harry Potter movies, the original
ones, right? They struck gold with Harry, Ron
and Hermione. OK, Dan Radcliffe, Rupert Grint,
Emma Watson, that crew had a chemistry. and a
style and a way that they work together in those
films. That is going to be exceedingly difficult
for Warner Brothers to recreate in the television
show. And I think if anything is going to kill
that TV show, it's going to be that it's going
to be they just can't. You caught lightning in
a bottle with Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
Rupert Grint, and you just can't do it again.
And I think the same concept can be said of Star
Wars. You got lightning in a bottle with Mark
Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford. And the
way that they played those characters through
those three movies, that I don't think you'll
get again. I just don't know how you do it. What
do you think? I think it's possible. But like
you're going to have to do a lot of work, like
a lot, a lot of work. And I think I remember
kind of a documentary about Harry Potter. And
I believe Daniel Radcliffe was the last person
to get cast because they were going through everyone
and they were like, no, no, no, no. I think,
and I could be really wrong here. Someone fact
check me, but like, I think they already had
Ron and Hermione and they had like, they introduced
them to each other and they're like, okay, like
they seem to kind of get along. Um, and they
were just like going through auditions for Daniel
Radcliffe, looking for the perfect person. I
think you can do it, but like you, so here's
the issue. Making. Movies making TV shows is
a business. So you're going to have a project
timeline. You're going to have a budget I Really
think you need to take a step back from all of
that and be like we are gonna spend as long as
it takes to find these three children That's
going to be that like special spark for this
like new generation. I'm like a little worried
that no one no studio No director is gonna have
the patience to do that if that makes sense We're
going to find out. We will find out. Yeah. Now,
on the on the television side of it, and we're
getting a little off topic of the original topic,
but we'll kind of go with this. HBO is known
for its television. HBO does not screw up television.
HBO knows how to make good quality television
shows. So if there's any network, cable or otherwise,
which service. that has the best shot at doing
the Harry Potter casting and has the patience
and ability and institutional knowledge from
a production level to do this. It is absolutely
Warner Brothers and HBO. Right. This is just
what they do. Hello, Last of Us. Hello, Game
of Thrones. Hello, Sopranos. Hello. I mean, I
can go on and on and on and on and on and on.
Hello, newsroom. You know, I mean. They just
this is what HBO does Separate actually what
we'll hit that the quick hits here in a minute
because they did something this week. That was
really silly You know I Here's where I would
go with Star Wars if I was gonna do it Right.
I'm Kathleen Kennedy Right or I take over for
Kathleen Kennedy tomorrow. Somebody did this
where they took that obi -wan show right and
they cut it into a movie it was about two and
a half hours but they literally were like if
i take this and cut it into a film and it was
good it was on youtube for a minute before it
got dmca'd but everybody who saw it was like
this this is really good i think there's a good
two and a half hour movie in that six hour tv
show i think in a lot of the stuff in the prequel
trilogy I went took my daughter to see episode
three the other week. It's not good. It's got
good moments. But it's not good. We talked about
this at the Mariners game. Yeah. And I brought
up. So I also saw it in theaters a couple of
weeks ago as well. And I was like, you know what?
This is the first time where I actually remember
saying this. Yeah. The acting is not that great.
I think like as a kid, I was so caught up in
like the lightsaber battles and everything like
that. And then like I held on to that for so
long. But then like going back as an adult, you're
kind of, you kind of look at it and you're like,
Ooh, there's, there's really great moments. But
in episode three, I was like, overall, like the
acting's not that great. I think that in the
prequel trilogy, there's like a Fellowship of
the Rings extended edition for our version. Right.
That combines elements of episodes one, two and
three. That is awesome. Right. And maybe if I'm
the head of Lucasfilm, I make a definitive cut
of all these different projects to cut out all
the crap. Right. Maybe that's the solution. I
don't know. I really don't. But no, I stand by
fully retconning and rebooting Star Wars. Is
not a good idea. It's just. It's just not. It
doesn't make sense. Also, if you're comparing
Star Wars to Harry Potter, the creator of Star
Wars. He did have that scandal. It's a very small,
tiny scandal, but nothing as big as Harry Potter
creator scandal. No. And the scandal I'm talking
about for Star Wars is just Jar Jar Binks. Darth
Jar Jar. Jar Jar Jar. Yeah, we need to get in
there and get us some Darth Jar Jar. Yeah. So,
that's our thoughts on that. Tell us what you
think, right? Down in the comments below.