CO said:The problem is and I think the PT really spelled it out: SW has lost its magic, and it will never regain the magic from the OOT.
It happens with every movie series, somewhere along the line, the movies get stale, and if the quality decreases, either the movie series turns average or just flat out sucks. I don't care if this series had Luke, Leia and Han, it would still suck.
I understand Lucas can still make money off of SW, but for the sake of the series, just put a fork into it, as now it feels like the final seasons of some of those great sitcoms. I remember watching the final seasons of Roseanne, All in the Family, Cheers, etc, and even though you still tuned in cause of the characters, the show lost its magic somewhere along the line, and when you watch them in reruns, you can usually see where the show jumped the shark.
This Clone War movie will be the first thing that has a SW name on it that I don't put money down for EVER! Heck, I tuned into the frickin Holiday Special when I was 6 years old in November 1978, so I have been there through thick and thin with Lucas.
I love SW, I love the OOT, but I can't get up for anything new in the SW world anymore, it just wont be as good no matter what Lucas does. I mean you have a character called 'Stinky the Hutt?' how good could it be?
No, I totally agree with you on all points. I agree that Star Wars should be over. I agree that it's gotten stale, and it's better to cut the losses than to bury it in its own crap. And I agree that, if my hypothetical scenario did ever happen, I'd be driving to the theatre shaking in my boots that what I was about to see would be a total disgrace to the original trilogy. But my point is, I would be going to the theatre if it was based around the OT storyline and characters, and at least partly because of the fact that I would be so surprised due to the oversaturation of the PT in recent years.
To elaborate... when I first saw the trailer for CW (not knowing prior to that that it even existed), my reaction was, "Whaaaa?!" followed by, "Oh..." Had it been about Luke, etc., I still would have had that "Whaaaa?!" shock, but it would have followed by, "Oh!"
An OT-based movie would have elicited enough curiosity that I would go just for the sake of that. But this doesn't even pique my curiosity.