I think Star Wars will just carry on more or less forever (like Star Trek) with ebbs and flows in popularity. And, like Star Trek, fans will continue to draw their own canon-lines.

Personally I think the series pole-vaulted its shark in 1983. I guess I’ve chosen a particularly uncompromising shark! But my own fannish conservatism aside, I really enjoy the new movies as a kind of ‘what if’ observation, and I love seeing kids responding to Rey and Kylo and the new cast.

The thing that saddens me the most is the very reason this site exists - namely that Star Wars 1977-1983 does not exist and the kids who are discovering this wonderful universe can only reference the deeply inferior (IMO) Special Editions and never get a true sense of where this incredible saga came from.