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What I think the Obi-Wan series did right for me, which a lot of similar fill-in-the-gaps stories don't, is it filled in an emotional gap and not a plot one. This wasn't "how did Boba Fett survive the sarlacc pit" or "how did Anakin's/Luke's lightsaber get from Bespin to Takodana" or even (the simplest form of fill-in-the-gap) "what was he doing between x event and y event" (even though the series does answer that question, it's not the question it's answering). It didn't set out to "fix" or "explain" a plot "hole". It just looked at Obi-Wan at the end of Revenge of the Sith (betrayed, confused, guilty) and the next time we see him, in Rebels: Twin Suns or A New Hope (centred, calm, decisive, able to face Vader with equanimity and a hint of a smirk), and asked: how does this person become this other version of himself? What must he go through to get there? What must he realise and/or decide, and what would push him to get there? I'd love this to become the key question that determines whether it's worthwhile to revisit a character and tell an untold part of their story: are we just looking to answer a plot question, or are we bridging an emotional gap?
Who's going to write the piece on how Coruscant high society has appropriated Jedi religious garb, fancied it up and made it fashion?
Rian Johnson: maybe she's born with it
JJ Abrams: maybe it's palpatine
Andor: every one of these fascists is pathetic and deserves a beating
The Mandalorian: don't you feel sorry for the widdle lost fascist who can't follow his heart's desire to do a eugenics
Okay, we got a fantastic novel expanding on Ronin from Star Wars: Visions season 1 – now I really hope we get one expanding on Screecher's Reach from season 2, because there is at least a novel's worth of interior monologue in Daal's face when trying to explain herself to her friends at the end there