Baronlando said:

It will be cool to read the really in-depth, behind the scenes dirt on this period. Some articles out there have mentioned a big power struggle between JJ Abrams (who wanted Bad Robot to steer the ship for all these sequels and spinoffs) and the Disney/Lucasfilm side of things, with Abrams losing.

In the meantime I'm weirdly fascinated by the different reactions out there, especially my favorite crackpot blog, the Prequel Appreciation Society, rejecting the spinoff because the writers didn't pass the Star Wars purity test (they said mean things about the prequels).

Speaking of the "purity test," wasn't Rian Johnson pretty outspoken about the SE's?