- Creating a Sequel Trilogy doesn’t make any sense, no matter who created it. The Star Wars story is the story of the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker, Anakin is the protagonist of the Saga. The moment the protagonist dies, then the Saga ends and there’s nothing more to say, there’s no need to continue.
I really don’t agree because of how much of a slap-job the Story of Anakin Skywalker is. 1-3 sort of work as the first half of the story of Anakin Skywalker, in the sense that it’s not a hard sell to say it is, 4-6 do not work as the second half. I’ve got pretty mixed feelings on the ST, which seem to be souring over time, but I’ll never really be upset about them up-ending a unified Star Wars saga when the possibility for that to exist was already nuked from orbit almost two decades before them. Probably even further back.
Here’s a contribution to this thread of my own: Solo is pretty mediocre and the people are interested in Solo 2 not because there was a good story worth continuing, but because they end the movie by implying something interesting might have happened behind the scenes. I don’t hate it, and it doesn’t bug me like it used to, but it’s way overrated.