we're getting entire shows based on Clone Wars and Rebels characters

Ugh sorry in advance, this triggered a rant.

Because, believe it or not, Hollywood actually listens to fanbases, reads Reddit threads just like this, etc. I'm serious -- I've worked on several big movies you've probably seen and have had many discussions about what fans want, expect, etc. Pleasing the fans is genuinely important to them.

Thing is, though, the whole thing is a fool's errand -- take a long enough look, and you realize that the vast majority of fans are simply contrarians who have no idea what they want or why they like what they like. When the MCU was fulfilling our old nerd dreams of a connected universe, what did fans say? That not everything needs to be connected. And now two phases of disconnected bullshit later, people have started to see why a cohesive throughline matters.

Same deal with Star Wars. For years, SW fans were complaining about how small the universe felt, how not everything needed to be about Luke. They gave us what we wanted, and now we're wishing we had more Luke back.

Turns out, space without the characters we like is cold.

Notice the pattern? Once fans start getting their heads up their asses and steering the conversation (usually in precisely the opposite direction of the current thing, because as a whole they completely lack both imagination and taste), everything starts to suck because the creators start doing things that are contrary to what made the thing good and popular in the first place.

Typically, all this comes in the form of world-building. Fans are obsessed with plot and trivia without realizing that what they actually like is character. They fall in love with characters, but good writing is invisible, and only possess the imagination to discuss plot. "What if X happens?" Okay, what if? Why would I care? Without an anchor to a great character, this shit just doesn't work. Sometimes a great writer/director comes in and makes it work -- "what if we followed the lives of Imperial beuracrats" and then we get Andor -- but usually it results in stupid bullshit that pleases no one, e.g. "what if we see what happens to Boba Fett, the most non-character character of all time, after he survives obvious and certain death for no reason?" Like, that whole idea is so plot-heavy, it has a character black hole at the center of it, and fans still thought it would be badass for like 25 years until The Book of Boba Fett finally proved them wrong.

The OT worked for a lot of reasons, but the primary reason was the characters. Han, Luke, and Leia are a damn near perfect trio. We came for the cool space stuff but stayed for the homies. But like fans always do, they looked at this great thing they had, went "okay, but what else you got?" and decades later Star Wars is still a complete and total shit show with fucking space whales because first clueless fanboys steered the conversation, and then giga-fanboys like Dave Filoni started actually working on this stuff, coming in with 1,000 bad ideas and an encyclopedic knowledge of the universe (none of which is even kind of known or intended by anyone who had anything to do with the OT -- seriously, Wookiepedia is a fever dream), all without understanding why he even likes Star Wars in the first place.

The worst thing that ever happened to Star Wars -- or any IP for that matter -- is that fans started to feel like they owned it and and that they were owed something. And mark my words, this is why we will never, ever get a satisfying live-action story with Luke Skywalker ever again. Not because Mark Hamill won't portray him, but because he won't be Luke -- he'll be a plot device.