^Don’t forget the signature.
The signature isn’t true?
Expanded Universe: lol wat
They added Grand Admiral Thrawn to a television series, and are also releasing a new book by the original author of Heir to the Empire, a book you seem to like.
Nostalgia: originaltrilogyoriginaltrilogyoriginaltrilogyoriginaltrilogyoriginaltrilogyoriginaltrilogy
Maybe because most paying, adult moviegoers remember it the most and have the most nostalgia for it?
Prequel Trilogy: lol wat
Clone Army, the Sith, and Balence in the Force were mentioned in TFA, which is 50 years after the prequels. Pretty good considering how forgetful people seem to be of the events of the PT in the OT (like how no one remembers the Jedi that were spread across the galaxy by the thousands).
Mustafar was in Rogue One, along with Bail Organa, Coruscant, Turbo Tanks, and probably more Prequel references that I didn’t notice.
Worldbuilding: lol wat
New planets, a non-planet outpost in Rogue One (something I believe has not been seen before in a SW movie), Lor San Tekka’s Church of the Force, the Guardians of the Whills, an extremist rebel sect against the main Rebellion, worlds seem pretty well built to me.