Sure, new stuff can just be avoided if it's not your thing. But my bitterness stems from seeing what I actually do love with a passion (the original films) being abused time and time again. It has been fist-fucked in the ass, kicked in the nuts, laughed at and it keeps being kicked when it's down. Star Wars is IMO a freak show nowadays where it has been treated as software for the last fifteen years.

When you cannot walk into a video store and buy a copy of these important titles, it is very hard for me to get excited by imitators. There's only one original which everything is riding the coattails of, and it's still treated as a bastard where cheap pornos have better video releases. Lucasfilm is a company that for more than ten years have actively opposed modern film history by suppressing these classics that built the company.

Lynne Hale (Lucasfilm spokeswoman) in 2006:

"We want you to be aware that we have no plans—now or in the future—to restore the earlier versions."

I presume that statement still stands as where the company stands on the issue today. And as long as it does, I don't give a damn about a new "SW-film" being released every year or so, new spin-offs and series etc. I'm not that kind of a SW-fan that swallow everything new they toss at me, I guess you could say I'm not a "Star Wars-fan" at all in some twisted way (as my fandom mostly contain two classic films made in the 70's) and nor do I think they have us old fans in mind when they're producing this new stuff either...