To make things worse a bunch of ideas were just stolen from Avengers: Endgame…
Everyone keeps saying that, but it’s just not true! Given how secret Disney keeps their scripts, there’s no way JJ could have known what was going to happen in Endgame while he was writing TROS, and the two moments that everyone says were stolen (the cavalry arriving and the “I am” one-liner) are pretty common fantasy blockbuster tropes. Those moments were pretty dumb, don’t get me wrong, but not because they were ripping off Marvel.
So what they’re hoping to achieve by making a new episode (beyond trying to forget that stuff)
DING DING DING DING DING!!! 😉
Like I said when this movie was first announced, my number one hope is that it will be good enough for a faneditor to remove all references to Palpatine’s return and Rey’s bloodline, add an opening crawl explaining that Kylo and the First Order were defeated offscreen, and retitle it “Episode IX: The Skywalker Legacy” or something like that. It’s the only way for me to truly make peace with the sequels.