I’ve not weighed in on the ST because I only saw the first one. I’ll say this though, Star Wars would be MUCH better served if they would have gone with known and liked EU novels.

Add me to the list of people who thought JJ was a poor choice to launch the Disney film era. There are SO many respected and loved novels they could have brought to the silver screen. The weird choice to try and correct films from 20 years earlier really seems an odd direction to take the franchise. Particularly when a lot of fans didn’t think those films needed to be corrected.

Thrawn & Mara Jade would have been awesome and better choices of story lines to continue the franchise.