Tom Bacon is Head of Screen Rant's Star Wars coverage. Although he's now dedicated to Star Wars content, he's a lifelong fan of several other major franchises including Doctor Who and Marvel. You can find him on Twitter @TomABacon.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT I've been part of the divided and divisive Star Wars fandom since the 1990s, and I'm beginning to realize that every controversy and backlash has been about the same issue. As much as I love Star Wars, the sad truth is that this fandom doesn't exactly have a great reputation.
Here's the thing you have to understand about the fandom back then: because Star Wars existed in the imaginations and storytelling choices of a generation of fans, there was an enormous sense of ownership. Star Wars belonged to them, and they sustained it. Everything changed in 1991, when Timothy Zahn essentially relaunched the Star Wars Expanded Universe with his Thrawn trilogy, and friends who were part of the fandom back then have remembered some frustration even at that early a stage.
Lucas also had a rather inconsistent approach to the Star Wars Expanded Universe. A recent article elsewhere recently tried to argue that Lucas hated the EU, but that really wasn't the case at all; after all, he signed off on a lot of it, and adopted ideas such as the city-planet of Coruscant into his movies. Rather, the truth is that Lucas simply didn't believe he should be bound by it, limited in any way by decisions made by other creators.
The Disney Era Became One Of Untold Conflict It's Star Wars, but not as we knew it In 2015, Disney kicked off the sequel trilogy with Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Determined to learn from Lucas' experiences with the prequel trilogy, the House of Mouse signed off on a movie squarely aimed at nostalgic viewers, but they added new characters as audience surrogates - most notably Daisy Ridley's Rey, originally an everywoman hero thrust into a galaxy of Jedi and stormtroopers.
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