rodneyfaile said:
I sympathize though. I felt the same way during the prequels. I didn’t like them, but the look and feel of the prequels were taking over everything I saw that was Star Wars and I didn’t see an end in sight. It was a sad time for me, but now Disney has come along and in my opinion have brought Star Wars back in a big way with new movies and new series with much more to come.

Fair enough and it’s good that the ST was able to do that for you. Unfortunately it seems to be an ever widening problem with the fandom not split 2 major ways but 3 or 4 now, with some of those splits being chasms.

rodneyfaile said:
Maybe whatever the Game of Thrones producers are working on will be more to your liking, or even whatever Rian Johnson is working on. Maybe not having classic characters and it being a separate thing will be more acceptable to you?

Definitely interested to see what the GoT producers will come up with and I would have been far more interested in Rian’s completely separate trilogy if not for TLJ (and is where he should have done his experimentation with the franchise rather than part 8 of a 9 part saga). No chance of me watching them now and personally I don’t think they will ever happen, I now think it was just another way of Disney trying to play down / throw a blanket over the effects of criticism that they knew was coming and was already starting to make itself heard. It will eventually be “explained” as to why they are no longer getting made.

However it’s not simply a case of not having classic characters in the movies, I would have had no problem with them being in the ST had they been treated with the due care and respect deserved in their story treatments.

rodneyfaile said:
Me? I love it all.

A little contradictory seeing that you just said you hated the PT, no?

Val