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      24 hours ago

      I mean Maul was revealed to be alive back in 2012 in the animated Clone Wars.

      Additionally there is a large section of this characters life that has not been told, but was teased during the live action Solo.

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        23 hours ago

        Boba Fett was the first “wait he’s not dead” character I remember from Star Wars when I started reading some EU books.

        And people only likes him because his suit was cool AF. He had literally no lines originally. He just looked cool until he sucked and died in the snarlaak pit. 🤣

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          23 hours ago

          To be fair Darth Vader telling you, and only you, “No disintegrations” is an intriguing way to introduce a character.

          Also Boba Fett does have a few lines in Empire. Something like, “He’s no use to me dead”. He doesn’t have a lot of character development ,mostly just mystery, but not literally no lines.

          And yes the sarlac death is a mistake. It’s funny to have someone so feared die in a silly way, but it was a mistake. Which is also why everyone brought him back.

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          23 hours ago

          I’m not sure telling an untold story is repackaging. It’s exploring an existing characters story further

          Rogue One told the ending story of Cassian Andor (among other things).

          Then it was decided to go back and explain that characters backstory. Everyone, understandably, loved that.

          Hell the entire prequel trilogy is going back and telling us the origins of Darth Vader. The origins of Palpatine.

          I’m not against new villains, but we have other shows for that. Skeleton Crew introduced a new villain.

          Acolyte did tie in with an old, as of yet unseen, villain, but also introduced a bunch of new ones.