People sometimes make the prediction that because the #StarWars prequel movies have (supposedly) become much more beloved over time than when they were released, a similar thing is likely to happen with the Disney movies.
I think if the Prequels really became beloved, it's because of the mountains of Expanded Universe works that supplement them.
The Disney movies don't really seem to have that, so I went to Wookieepedia and checked:
Aside from several one-shot comics in larger anthology series and various young reader books, the Expanded Universe stories set in the Disney movie era seem to come down to this:
- 3 novels.
- 40 episodes of the show Resistance.
- 31 issues of the comic Poe Damron.
- 5 comic mini-series (4 or 5 issues).
- A Canto Bight novella anthology.
And that's it. And they basically stopped after Episode 9 had been released.
I think Episode 1 alone had more additional material before Episode 2 came out.
@SailorDisco Comics have probably been irrelevant for capturing a new fan base for a good while now.
And the only major Star Wars videogames in the last 10 years were the Jedi games and Outlaws, which are set in the Rebellion era.
The novels are all Clone Wars or High Republic.
TV shows are probably the main driver of capturing new Star Wars fans, and those are all Clone Wars or Rebellion.
After over 10 years, the Disney trilogy still exists in its own vacuum.
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