In my mind the only thing close to a solution for Disney/LFL is to move entirely beyond the existing characters, so at least there will be one less factor that comes with a lot of emotional baggage for fans.
Or, you know, they could have treated the legacy characters right. Never getting to see the big three reunited just one more time on screen will always be unforgivable. That is one area the ST bungled from the beginning.
To your point, I agree and think a lot of the fervor will die down once the original cast are done post IX.
but that’s just it that might have been right for you but I would have been very annoyed by that type of ST. Putting the big three together would have felt extremely fanservicey in my opinion.
Well then, you are lost. =P The way they separated the cast is something that’s usually only done in extreme cases of scheduling conflicts and is never satisfying. The story excuses for it in TFA were horrid. It painted both Han and Luke in a very poor light to just abandon Leia like that. Those three are inextricably linked together.
I remember someone here once put it best, that the OT was their story (Luke, Leia, Han), and everything else is just bonus. The fact that they don’t all meet up, from that perspective, isn’t that big an issue. It’s not their story, they’re just supporting characters in it, coming and going depending on the story’s needs. The idea that they’re a unit and must be together at all costs rings somewhat false to me as an absolute truth, because in reality they share relatively few scenes all together in the OT. Still, if this was the conclusion of the OT, I’d agree, we should see them together. But it’s not, for them it’s just an epilogue of sorts.
Artificially tearing them apart like that served no purpose other than to deprive fans of something special that can now never be rectified.
I mean you must know that’s just not true. Why would they do something with the sole purpose of annoying fans? Obviously the reason is that it didn’t fit the story they were telling. Whether you like that story or not is another matter, but let’s at least be honest here.