This has been a major discussion in the Star Wars community and is now making headlines.
I wonder what you guys think about this situation and if it is true?
Here's a little history if you want some:
YouTube creator Overlord DVD posted a video on June 17th of 2020 called: "Star Wars Leak | The Secret Plan to Save Star Wars"
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This is an "update" to the previous leak that WDWPro on these forums talked about. It is considered as the "Lucasfilm Civil War" by fans. Overlord did make a video on this subject as well.
Continuing the previous subject, Doomcock talks about this "update." Instead of crediting the leaker (like he did before) he claimed it was his own insider.
He mentions there are three sides o this "civil war" when in the previous video he stated there was only two. he does have a message saying this all could be misinformation or fact but never exactly said take it with a grain of salt.
Anyways, this secret plan to "save Star Wars" can be dumbed down to decanonizing the recently-released Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.
Now this could sound plausible and it did at first (explained later). His source claims Faveru wants to remove the Sequel Trilogy from canon in order to "save Star Wars." He later goes on to say that in order to do this retcon they use something known as the veil of the force. If you are not familiar with this it is a major part of the final season of Star Wars Rebels. It is this "World between Worlds" which links time and space together through the force.
Doomcock claims that is the key to removing the Sequel Trilogy from canon.
Now this sounds interesting if this didn't contradict what has been previously said.
Overlord published a video discussing the Lucasfilm "Civil War" on May 12th of 2020 and almost everything he says goes against what he says now.
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Now a huge part of this is that the info is different and just could be misinformation. Some words come from WDWPro, a verified source on this webpage, different words come from an unnamed source who I have not been able to find much credibility to because of many reasons (Explained later).
Now he did say information is coming from many sides of this "civil war" and the words of WDWPro could have been from a faction. Their source could have been from Faveru's side and not mentioning the decanonization could have been an effort to keep it quiet but I doubt that.
This source of Overlord has always gone unnamed and it is hard to tell if it is the same source everytime.
Now he has gotten leaks about The Rise of Skywalker right and claimed it was his source but if you were on the r/StarWarsLeaks subreddit late last year you'd notice the big main insiders talking about Episode 9 and leaking it left and right. So it is possible this source never existed and he just claimed info was his when it came from someone else (I have been researching into this but it is hard to find many leads there).
But then Overlord strikes back with another video called "Star Wars Leaks Reveal Exactly How the Sequel Trilogy Will Be ERASED" which was published on June 23rd.
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He goes more in-depth on how the Sequels will be erased from canon which this is what led me to the conclusion this was all false.
The claim is that Palpatine survived Return of the Jedi by traveling through the veil of the force to Exogol after being thrown down the shaft by Darth Vader. Now this is a big problem because it doesn't line up with what the novel said.
Here is a quote from The Rise of Skywalker Official Novelization:
Falling ... Falling ... Falling ... down a massive shaft, the betrayal sharp and stinging, a figure high above, black clad and helmeted and shrinking fast. His very own apprentice had turned against him, the way he himself had turned against Plagueis ... whose secret to immortality he had stolen.
Plageuis had not acted fast enough in his own moment of death. But Sidious, sensing the flickering light in his apprentice, had been ready for years. So the falling, dying Emperor called on all the dark power of the Force to thrust his consciousness far, far away, to a secret place he had been preparing. His body was dead, an empty vessel, long before it found the bottom of the shaft, and his mind jolted to a new awareness in a new body -- a painful one, a temporary one.
Palpatine died in Episode 6 physically, he did not fast travel.
This is what led to my conclusion while not mentioning some industry insiders also calling the bluff.
Earlier today Jeremy Conrad on Twitter commented on this discussion with a simple "No they aren't."
If you aren't familiar with Overlord/ Doomcock here is a brief description:
He first joined YouTube on February 9th of 2017 and since then has gained over 170,000 subscribers. For the past few months he has been talking Star Wars information and recently a video that Disney is going bankrupt.
Yeah I'd call a bluff on this one and I'd recommend sharing this to spread the word on this.
