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Whatever the artistic merits, shitcanning the Expanded Universe had a colossal level of practical utility -- the enormous quantity of material surely made it extremely difficult to add new material that didn't contradict the existing EU material in some way or the other.

Plus, the actors were too old to portray the existing EU storylines for Luke/Han/Leia at that point anyway etc etc etc

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For kids playing dressup and role model purposes, if they are going to reboot the sequels they should reboot Rey and Kylo. Same rough characters, new story.

Nobody struggles with multiple Joker variants running around. Batman is still Batman.

> Batman is still Batman.

No one thinks of Adam West any less for Keaton, Bale, Patterson, etc. (Though the running joke seems to be that Clooney thinks less of himself for his role. :)

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