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Originally Posted by ZBTHorton
SOME of the hardcore fans to not like it, but they're going to see the movie anyway. If you make a QUALITY movie, people won't care that there isn't some completely continuous story arc with one basic villain
This. The Skywalker saga has gone on long enough. I'm a fan and all, I just feel like the story for those characters has been told.
There's plenty of room in the Star Wars universe for new and interesting stories while keeping the classic style and format. Things like lightsabers, the classical-style music score, the rolling text intro...
Right now it's a very tired franchise and I'd like to see what new writers, designers & actors can bring, especially with a new director. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't - but it's been a very long time since I've seen a SW film where there was some suspense.
The prequels had none. You were just waiting for Obi-Wan and Vader to fight a battle where you already knew the result. And when you finally get it, you get Yoda and Palpatine fighting and you know they're going to survive as well. You knew what was going to happen to the rest of the jedi, R2 & 3PO, Padme more or less too.
Contrast that to the old ones where you had to sweat everything. They killed Obi-Wan, no problem. They took the main hero and cut his hand off. Took another hero and froze him in rock. A second mentor appears but he dies too. In RoTJ, when the final setup comes, you really couldn't take anything for granted. The end could have gone a lot of different ways with Luke/Vader/Emperor. All you knew for sure was that the Emperor wasn't switching sides.