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adjl posted...

I generally assume that anyone that seems to die by falling in movies/TV will be revealed to be alive later if somebody decides it'll help the story.

"NO ONE'S EVER REALLY GONE A HYURP DERP!"

But yeah. They're crapping out content so hard and fast at this point (with absolutely no regard for quality) that the moment someone can talk Samuel L Jackson into it, we'll be getting the Mace Windu Disney+ show where it's revealed that he's been alive the whole time and living in hiding in the slums of Coruscant. But then decades later, when he's a bitter grumpy old man, he'll meet a plucky teen girl who will restore his faith in the Force and they'll go on adventures together.

We're already at the point where Yoda's "when gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be" in Return of the Jedi is laughable horseshit. Because in Disney canon it seems like half the damned Jedi Order just faked their deaths and went into hiding and had tons of secret adventures.

At this point, the only way a character will ever really die for good is if their actor dies in real life. And even that might not be enough, if they just recast the role or use CGI to fill in for the actor.



RVallant posted...

9/10 that someone is wrong.

99% of what Disney has been doing with the Star Wars canon is wrong.

I always used to crap on the EU (and rightfully so), and praised Disney's decision to shitcan it - but they've proceeded to replace it with something far worse.

Arguably it's a problem with post-modernism and "pop culture eating itself", where today's writers lack life experience and mostly only grow up reading/watching pop culture entertainment, and thus lack the creativity to truly come up with new ideas rather than regurgitating or parasitically attaching themselves to old ideas (the same reason why retcons became such a popular storytelling device in comics, where every old story winds up getting retroactively ruined by shitty new writers). Way too much of today's content can basically be described as "telling the same story again, only worse". Or worse, replicating popular scenes and story-beats from older properties, without understanding why they worked in older properties, and thus cranking out stories no one enjoys and no one wants.