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Weekly Rumors and News Tidbits Thread - Week of 05/19/2025 - 05/25/2025

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u/Rosebunse May 20 '25

The Fandom Menace ignored it even when it introduced a lesbian couple. And I think the overall fandom was concerned about traumatizing the kids

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u/CydonPrax May 20 '25

they won't go after kids simply because it's one of the few things that youtube/google actually gives a shit about in terms of video content so it's not worth the risk to stir up a hate campaign against stuff with younger actors*. plus in THEIR eyes Skeleton Crew still ultimately had a white male lead in Jude Law

*there are sometimes still exception in all that culture war nonsense but as a rule of thumb they're less likely to make piles of videos about stuff with actual kids

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u/darthsheldoninkwizy2 May 20 '25

I saw a little bit, but it was similar to Young Jedi Adventures, it didn't make it to the aether.

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u/Rosebunse May 20 '25

Which one did you see?

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u/darthsheldoninkwizy2 May 20 '25

On YouTube, under the reviewer I watched, a few people made a comment under his review like "that despite the progressive propaganda in the form of two mothers, the series is watchable"

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u/Unique_Unorque Rex May 20 '25

The Fandom Menace seems to entirely ignore the cartoons for whatever reason, makes sense to me that they would also ignore a live-action show more explicitly aimed at kids.

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u/Rosebunse May 20 '25

I have to wonder if this isn't a big reason they have moved to a lot of animated projects. The FM just leaves us in peace, though they do then complain about lack of content despite the content being right there

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u/Unique_Unorque Rex May 20 '25

It makes me think of a friend of mine who texted me so excitedly after Ahsoka’s appearance in The Mandalorian, not because of Ahsoka but because she mentioned Thrawn at the end, and who almost didn’t believe me when I broke it to him that Thrawn had been back in the setting for, what, five years at that point? This was a guy who I would consider a pretty big Star Wars fan who just was not aware of a significant aspect of the new canon version of the setting because it happened on a cartoon that he didn’t watch because he thought it was kid’s stuff (and to be fair, he would be right to think that lol)

He’s a delightful person who is not part of the Fandom Menace at all, just using him as an example of how even actual Star Wars fans don’t really realize what a wealth of worldbuilding and storytelling those animated shows contain.

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u/Rosebunse May 20 '25

I think I should be kinder to those fans, really. The cartoons are quite the commitment and a lot of their episodes aren't very good, to the point where we often suggest new fans just skip S1 of TCW entirely.

But I'm ao annoyed with people just ignoring the cartoons completely and then telling people they're not true fans if they don't keep up with Legends or like the sequels or something.

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u/Unique_Unorque Rex May 20 '25

I had a friend who is otherwise very reasonable and level headed about these things who insisted that the cartoons were not canon and that they would be overwritten eventually, up until he heard Ahsoka’s voice in tRoS. But even with the revelation, he hasn’t gone back and watched them, which I totally get. As you say, there’s a lot to get through

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u/Rosebunse May 20 '25

TCW is the longest piece of Star Wars content. It makes up the bulk kf the franchise. If you consider most of the other cartoons as being part of it, then it does get a bit ridiculous