DuracellEnergizer said:
It’s kinda difficult to get a satisfying experience watching SW '77 & TESB alone without a satisfying final chapter to conclude the story.
I don’t think it’s that hard at all, especially considering the sheer wealth of other options to entertain yourself at any given second.
For example, I get a very satisfying experience only watching a few Alien movies and not all of them. I own all the Bond films because they came in a box set one christmas but there’s nothing unsatisfying about only really having watched about 5 or 6 of them since I got it. Same with Godzilla movies, and Rocky movies, and X-Men movies, etc. Terminator movies, my goodness, there’s a great example. Star Trek, of course. Hell, I more or less stop at the third Harry Potter despite knowing there’s about 500 miles to go before the actual ending.
There’s nothing wrong with calling it a day on a film series (or TV show, or book quadrilogy or whatever) you don’t like anymore and effectively just… leaving it alone at the point it stopped working on a consistent basis, and moving onto almost anything else. This is why I don’t have any Hobbit movies, for example. I only have two Spider-Man movies (Spider-Man 2 and Into the Spider-Verse) in my collection. My Marvel films actually SEEN (or owned) account for less than 1/6th of the studios’ total output (if that - I’m not good at math). I know that The Walking Dead is still on the air but I know almost nothing about what’s been happening because after the 2nd season and whatever its cliffhanger was I decided I didn’t need to continue on, that it wasn’t going to get any better. Same with Game of Thrones (bailed out in Season 4) and The Dark Tower books (book 3, I think?). In fact it could be argued that checking out ANYTHING else once you’ve run into the same wall of dissatisfaction repeatedly is a much healthier use of time, instead of consistently going back to a thing you now mostly dislike in the hopes you’ll MAYBE like it again, the way you only have twice, in a time long, long ago.
Ultimately, it’s just movies. There’s a million more of them out there. Granted, not all of them have space wizards and lazer-swords. But at some point you have to wonder if its worth all the time and effort to keep hanging around a party when you don’t like the hosts, or the hors d’ouvres, or the DJ’s selections, or the beer in the fridge. There’s always another party.
Like the thing you like for what it is, not what it could be. And when it stops being the thing you like, you are under no responsibility to stick around anymore. You have no duty to support fiction that consistently isn’t speaking to you anymore. The thing you DID like will still be what it was, and you can come back to it whenever if you’re nostalgic for that specific feeling.
Thankfully, in this case, there are people making sure the exact version of the thing we do like is available to watch in HD. Which is a low-key miracle in multiple ways.