Split Timeline

Personally, the world of Mando is bland, lifeless, and small compared to the EU, so even if they manage to divert away from Jake Skywalker, I still don’t care.

I’ve found a renewed wellspring of love for the EU as replacement books for missing parts of my collection start coming in today, so everything else non-OT and PT pales in comparison to that bright star.

I raise my EU fanboy flag high with pride. Mando is free to keep being bland and boring, and everyone who likes it is free to, but I will always wager that if anyone ever took the time to put Mando side by side with the best of the EU, with EU material getting the same media treatment, Mando would fall away.

…oh…and fuck baby Yoda Grogu…no one will ever convince me it was a good idea and anything more than catnip.

“It became clear that, within the established continuity, certain things were likely to transpire.” – Favreau

“certain things” but not “everything.”

Too many folks are getting “retcon” mixed up with “remake”. They would never remake the sequels, but with Rebels “seemingly” pointing to a split timeline, the Mandoverse could go down the nearly same path…but with ripples.

The S2 finale of Mando already “seemingly” points to that.

Also, Disney has every reason to go this route. They’ve already made their money on the sequels. Physical media is dying. They toyline took a dive during that period. The themeparks underwhelmed before the pandemic. The cast have all tossed shade towards it and aren’t returning anytime soon. It’s gross trended downwards instead of ramping up to an Endgame-level finish. Now’s their chance to sell the same story to people…only slightly differently leading to “holy cow” water cooler discussion for unexpected twists in the continuity, and giving them hope things turns out on a better note in some cases.

This wouldn’t be much different than their current approach of needlessly rehashing their animated library, only in this instance it’s something most people would want.

OH, also, we’re like over a year away from any big reveal, why would he or anyone blow a potential surprise? That’s probably one of the reasons Black Widow is being held back by Marvel on top of wanting to get as much money they could get at the box office once this pandemic eases up (have fun with that). Not to mention, remember what Lindelof and Cuse kept saying about Lost during its run? Then turned out to kinda be true?

They’ve already made their money on the sequels.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahah They lost 4 billion dollars over the course of the rat franchise. As of right now they have not brought in enough NET WEORTH to pay the sale price. then you look at each of them makeing progressivly less money while costing progressivly more to produce… Hell the final film basically broke even on NET sales.

Lost money.

=/= made money.

Is English a second language?