Original Trilogy-only fans are too blame and are the main reason we got horrible poorly written unoriginal trilogy.

OOOOKay. First of all:

"Their the type of guys that think The Beatles are still the greatest band ever and their favorite TV show is the original Star Trek."
The Beatles *IS* the greatest band ever. Best TV show is a three-way tie, between The Honeymooners, Seinfeld, and The Wire.
Endof. No argument. NO, I say!!!

Oh sure, blame the fans for something powerful, money-hungry, arrogant idiots in Hollywood did.

See, the thing that's all wrong about your OP is that you didn't write, "It's my opinion that...". You just blurted out all that bigotry as if you assumed everyone already agrees with you.

I'd be willing to bet that your next piece was going to be about how all older people have fixed, inflexible prejudices against young people, and think they know everything about them.......

I feel good bout future. Baby Yoda will save us all. I can feel it.

Well, as an old “geezer” who saw Empire Strikes Back in the theatre when he was 6 years old, I will say that I liked Revenge of the Sith and the new sequel trilogy for the most part. I didn’t care much for Phantom Menace And Attack of the Clones because I thought they were poor films.

But Star Wars is largely a pop culture phenomenon for Generation X. Does Star Wars need to evolve? I think that the original trilogy was the equivalent of lightning in a bottle. I do think Disney tried to make too many new SW movies and they should have released them every 3 years instead of every single year.

I blame the people who made them for the way they turned out. They were nothing more than uninspired, bland, lifeless rehashes of the OT with all of the fun and excitement sucked out of them. And not only that these films actually undermine what was accomplished in the OT. What's funny is that they were supposed to be apologies for the prequels and they ended up being far worse.

The OT was much better than the prequels. The Original Trilogy had:

- Charismatic characters

- Realistic visuals

- Originality

- Good stories


The prequels were an unnecessary backstory and more an extravagance for George Lucas - a vanity project. Why do we want to see what happened in the past when we already know what happens in the future? The prequels did not ultimately succeed in convincing viewers in answering that question. Those who loved the prequels lapped it up largely because of the action and the then new CGI special effects.

Quality storytelling never gets old. The classic scifi of the 1950s and 1960s inspired many filmmakers to evoke interesting and entertaining scifi on the big screen. The downside is that there were many imitators which tried to produce unoriginal versions of the best movies and this trend continues today with reboots of original ideas in frequently boring and unimaginative movies and television. Rebooting is not evolution of an idea it's just copying. The sequels occupy a space where at the same time they are both maudlin reboots and an attempt to revive the original character of the OT because that is the true Star Wars persona.

I agree that there was way too much duplication and mirroring of the story and character aspects in the sequel trilogy. What should have happened is that the newer characters should have had their own adventures and quests, with perhaps Luke, etc. offering to help and befriend them. It was not necessary or desirable to repurpose the old plots and situations from the OT and to "honour" the OT for some reason. This was part of an Abrams/Kennedy sales pitch wherein they were allegedly supporting the fans and offering true Star Wars material. Their actual main concern was managing the fans as willing consumers of the Disney brand - the priority was an economic objective not a cultural one.

Where did you get this information? It isn't just old fans who ruined it. Younger fans ruined it, by not understanding the original trilogy. This might be the dumbest theory or idea ever.