walking_carpet said:

I am concerned about some rumors of the story because it betrays the OT in IMO.

I thought that was a well written post as you and I agree with alot of things you said. I am go back and forth on whether this trilogy will be good, or will it be the PT part 2.

But I have to respectfully disagree with the one statement I highlighted that you said. As much as all of us here love the OOT, Empire and Jedi betrayed the story of Star Wars in so many ways too. The reason we went with it was because it ended up being great (in most parts.)

If look at Star Wars 77, most of what you see there is a huge lie when looked at in the context of the 3 movies or 6 movies. Vader/Luke/Leia are not related, as that is a HUGE change from the original. What makes the original great, is that each character finds each new character in this HUGE galaxy throughout the movie. Yet when you watch it as the OOT, it ends up being just one small world of one family. What a big coincidence!

OK, its one thing to have Vader as Luke's father, but then Luke/Leia are siblings? Didn't she kiss him in ESB? Didn't he have a crush on her in SW'77?

If this were 1982, and the internet existed, many of us here would be saying, "I hope these rumors aren't true that Leia and Luke are siblings, after they smooched in ESB!!!"

So I am essentially saying that none of these movies were needed after Star Wars in 1977. The deathstar blew up, the good guys won, and yeah Darth Vader and The Emperor were still out there, but the story could have ended, it would be like The Wizard of Oz. But we went with the changes because we liked the movies, and that is why you have to be open to changes for the ST if they do it right.