This film will be good. It will feature Chewbacca. It will feature the Falcon. It will feature the Empire. It will have Jabba in it. . . .
It has a lot of ‘Star Wars’ things in it . . .
This is the stuff that doesn’t win me over. I don’t care if iconic Star Wars imagery appears on screen. It’s meaningless to me. To me, Jabba was just a threat that motivated Han to stay on the move and help Obi Wan and Luke. To me, Stormtroopers are just the imperial footsoldiers. To me, the Falcon was just the ship that functioned better than you’d think at first glance and it got Han and Lando safely through many battles. If I want to see movies with those things in them, I’ll watch the OT. And by the way, the OT isn’t something that is good because of any of those iconic sets, puppets, costumes and images. The OT’s greatness is much less superficial than that. I think this is why Rogue One brought me no excitement. I just don’t care about seeing all these old things showing up in new movies.