Maybe Star Wars is dead for people born in the 1970s?

I mean, I was born in the 80s, and Star Wars has been basically dead to me since 2002.

I get why corporations would like their "franchises" to last forever, but stories and storytelling are inherently human endeavors, and one of the main things that defines us as a species is our finitude. Stories, like people, have their time. If you try to make them live past it, what you inevitably get is a mummified, puppet-like corpse that makes a sad, depressing mockery of what it once was.

Good things end, and people remember them fondly and love them for it; just look at Calvin and Hobbes or Seinfeld, for example. When they don't, what you get instead is something like The Simpsons, which one can barely remember was ever good to begin with.

The very reason Star Wars exists is because Lucas wanted to make something like the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon serials of his youth - the operational word here being "like". I'd much rather someone took all the things they liked about Star Wars and made something new than for Disney or any other mega-corporation to keep rolling increasingly soulless product off an assembly line.

I wasn’t born in the 70’s and I don’t like the sequels.

Most of the people who dislike it are actually millennials I think… moviegoers and fans in the 70s/80s did NOT go weirdly deep into the canon and stuff the way millennials did in the 90s where you first had the thrawn trilogy basically serving as the sequels and then media projects like shadows of the empire and expanded universe stories in the video games and whatever all happening along with the prequel movies.

I was born in the late '60s. I loved the original trilogy, hated the prequels, and didn't bother with the sequels after the first one because I saw that they were a cynical cash grab rehash of the original trilogy.

For me, "Star Wars" ended when Luke refused the temptation of evil, helped redeem his father, caused the Emperor to be destroyed, and the rebels defeated the Empire. Then they all lived happily ever after, just like the fairy tale that it was.

People just gravitate to what they grew up with. So, those of us who grew up with the original "Star Wars" trilogy like that most. People growing up now like the sequels most.

I was open to the new movies. They just sucked. They were made purely to make money, nothing more. And, the passionless execution of them was clearly evident watching them.