So it's been almost a whole day since this reveal, and I just kind of want to discuss how astounding this reveal truly is. I keep thinking I dreamed it. I'm still shocked it's actually happening. Tessek isn't all
that shocking... though still somewhat in this day and age. He's been made before and has been long overdue for updating again, though this doesn't remotely diminish how exciting it is getting him. But it's really Taym and Velken that just blew my freaking mind.
This just doesn't happen anymore. Levels of this obscure material haven't occurred since the Legacy Collection. I've oddly had dreams where I went into some bizarre hobby shop and came across fictional figures like these guys, stuff I thought they'd just never make. These two were easily at the top of the list of "Never Going to Happen." I just crossed them off my wishlist, if I'm being honest. It wasn't merely a fat chance; I considered their possibility to be literally zero percent.
Obscure human backgrounders from the cantina and palace, or Sarlacc, just don't really happen. We've gotten BoShek, but he is the one to introduce Obi-Wan to Chewbacca. We got Wuher, but his status as an obscure backgrounder is debatable. He does have an iconic line and is pretty integral to the cantina scene. Dude is the freaking bartender, and, well, when you're in a bar...that's pretty important to represent. Malakili is probably the only really noteworthy one, but you can argue he's not a backgrounder. He's minor, but very memorable. All of these roles have some level of "standout," minor though they may be.
These guys don't. To get Velken and Taym in 2023 is like seeing a unicorn during the vacation you took to Shagri-La after winning the Mega Millions.
Two previously unmade human backgrounders in the most literal sense of the word for the original trilogy. Just...wow! Huzzah!
I described my reaction as shock turned to realization that my team, who you've effectively given up on, made it to the Super Bowl for the first time in 20 years and scored the game-winning touchdown.
It's downright thrilling! I am a ball of positivity over this! This really gives folks like me and others hope for the likes of the Tonnika Sisters, Fozec, Shasa Tiel, and other never-before-made roles and really makes one think that, relatively speaking here, bigger obscure roles (I know that's an oxymoron so I hope people get what I mean) like EV-9D9, 8D8, Imperial Dignitary, Barada, and others just don't seem impossible at all anymore. And it makes the likes of the ANH mains, Count Dooku, Ventress, Ewok Gown Leia, Baze Malbus, Bodhi Rook, Cobb Vanth, and some other legitimately large and crucial roles—seem downright likely with enough patience. Now whether they really are or not is something else entirely, but the point is...this meant they're listening...
And that, well, that is inspiring!
