Bingowings said:
rpvee said:
The way Disney has been phrasing this... "there will be more films"... it's not like they're even trying to convince us they care about the story. The story ended at the end of Jedi, simple as that, but they say "more films" as if they'll keep making them until people stop paying to see them. They didn't say "another trilogy". "More films". However many that means. Star Wars will lose its identity. But at least the original six will maintain their status, since they'll always be seen as officially Lucas' vision/ideas.
Honestly, I'm really worried about the scores. A Star Wars feature, live-action film without John Williams? Unthinkable.
There you go again.
The story only ends with Jedi if you think it's about the living flesh of Anakin Skywalker (something that would never have crossed anyone's mind until 1999.
If you think it's about wars in the stars of a distant galaxy a long time ago you can have hundreds of legitimate episodes.
I suspect that there will be suckage but there is the potential with billions of clones, former Imperial generals and the like to try and unsteady the new republic, not to mention Leia going off the rails and Anakin existing as a ghost to keep some of that continuity going (just not the the EU one).
It sucks space balls if the saga ends with Jedi anyway, it's a really bad film and almost as bad as the PT.
The story ends with Jedi even in terms of just the OT. The bad guys we've encountered since Star Wars are dead, the good guys we've loved since Star Wars are happy, their arcs are complete, story over. Even if Jedi isn't the best of the trilogy, no one has outright called it a bad or incomplete ending to the saga, so why should it be now?
I'd be fine with more Star Wars movies if they just didn't use the "Episode" thing. The "Episodes" should be left be, done and over with, the tale of Luke Skywalker and his father (or Anakin Skywalker and his son, whichever) made by George Lucas and respected as that. And from there, we can have "Star Wars: The New Jedi" or "Star Wars: Boba Fett" or "Star Wars: Winds Forming Sand Dunes on Tatooine"... just not "Episodes".