As someone who didn’t know what Episode VIII’s release date was before this, I have to say I am not bothered by it.

In fact I just assumed that Episode VIII would not be coming out until December 2018, since once a Star Wars series has started the films have always come out every three years, so this just means that the movie is coming out a year earlier then I thought it would.

Also the fact that Disney is willing to delay the movie I think says something good about how they are treating the franchise right now. It says that in the short term at least, they are not going to rush a film out the door just to meet a release date and I think this should be a standard applied to all movies and games at least. I really don’t want to pay the $17 it will likely cost to get into a movie by the time this comes out only to find the movie full of half baked ideas and feeling unfinished.

I have had a ton of problems with Nintendo in recent years, still I remember something someone there once said in an interview in a magazine and I think it holds true in this case. “A delayed game can still be good at some point, an unfinished game is bad forever.”

This doesn’t bother me one bit and in fact the delay fills me with hope for the future of this trilogy.