Hey, if he can clean up the prequels, he can clean up anything.

Say what you want about Abrams, but don’t ever disrespect Filoni

Imagine being a successful Hollywood creator and being told that much of the rest of your career is going to be cleaning up behind Rise of Skywalker.

Filoni has worked with Zahn before (specifically to bring Thrawn into the new canon). I doubt JJ even considered running his script by either of them.

Still waiting for these two to pop up as part of Maz’s regulars:

And doing it with style, to boot. He fixes what’s broken with pieces of things that worked before (Dark Troopers, for me, is the best example of that, but also what he did with Maul) and tells new stories with it.

Ventress died before the end of the Clone Wars, in the book, Dark Disciple, which is Disney canon. The book was written by Christie Golden, adapted from scripts written by Katy Lucas for TCW. the story was supposed to be trilogy but we never saw it because of Disney’s abrupt cancellation of TCW, back when Disney had…

Canonically she actually survived Order 66, and is still alive as of this Bad Batch episode.

Rebels was that. Mando, for the most part, was that, too. It seems like the forward-looking stuff is going to also continue to focus on Mando, Sabine, Ahsoka and I think Ezra, who are all characters that are unknown to any fans that haven’t dipped into the animated stuff. Also, call me crazy, but I think Disney is…

It’s where Luke meets this guy

I am hating this. Why can’t we have new, original stories with new, original people, places and things in the Star Wars universe?

Well... Kamino was.

None of the planets were removed from canon. 

Operation Cinder is in multiple sources of media. Alphabet Squadron heavily relies on the aftermath of Cinder. Battlefront 2 campaign shows the destruction of a loyal Imperial planet and a comic covered the attempted destruction of Naboo.

Filoni ::sets up multiple animated and live-action series explaining how Palpatine returned::

I wonder if she’s actually, you know, a queen. Thinking of Isis from the TOS episode Assignment: Earth.

when Book says “she’s a queen!” to the dude pointing a blaster at him, it just makes me very excited for this season. very ready for a star trek character with a heart of gold and a rough exterior who will start fights and stare down death over a cat. move over data.

Honestly, watching the last scene I was like “What is this optimism and hope feeling doing in modern Star Trek?” It felt really good. I hope they stick with it. Also, I find a universe where something in physics broke which collapsed the political state of the quadrant far more compelling than a universe where the…

Rodenberry inspiration and rebuilding gives me a weird Andromeda vibe with the knowledge that this shall at least surpass that (and be free of the taint of Sorbo).

I’m thinking since the Discovery went in after Burnham, they’ll come out months later due to the whole timey-wimey thing (like Spock and Nero in 2009 Star Trek).