The only grim satisfaction I can take out of all this is that Disney will lose a lot of money. But unfortunately in the process destroy a beloved franchise.
I class myself as a casual fan and in no way a knowledgeable expert like most in this thread. They bought the rights and just thought they could pump out movies infinitum regardless of quality and careful development. They trod safely with TFA. Keeping the Skywalker motif alive as a bridge but I bet they wanted to depart from the Skywalker story as soon as possible to cash in on new characters and the merch and associated money spinning that comes with it.
I know nothing of the EU apart from bits ive read here so Star Wars to me is directly Sith v Jedi. And I understand this is not the view of most. But we can all agree the failure here is to give the original lifeblood of the franchise a fitting send off. Not a bits and pieces, moving forward, revise back, abolish existing lore against the way the lore exists and then playing revisionist in an attempt to win back the disenfranchised fans.
Grubby grubby Mickey.
I class myself as a casual fan and in no way a knowledgeable expert like most in this thread. They bought the rights and just thought they could pump out movies infinitum regardless of quality and careful development. They trod safely with TFA. Keeping the Skywalker motif alive as a bridge but I bet they wanted to depart from the Skywalker story as soon as possible to cash in on new characters and the merch and associated money spinning that comes with it.
I know nothing of the EU apart from bits ive read here so Star Wars to me is directly Sith v Jedi. And I understand this is not the view of most. But we can all agree the failure here is to give the original lifeblood of the franchise a fitting send off. Not a bits and pieces, moving forward, revise back, abolish existing lore against the way the lore exists and then playing revisionist in an attempt to win back the disenfranchised fans.
Grubby grubby Mickey.