I feel like I’m losing my mind reading this prequel discussion. I get wanting a PT reboot, but believing that it’s something that’s reasonably possible is delusional. In the year and a half or so since Disney threw out all the Legends stuff (and ignoring the fact that the PT and TCW were kept 100% official canon), the nuEU has made a point of creating tons of links and ties from the PT to the OT and beyond. It’s a load-bearing element in the continuity, and it’s only becoming more entrenched. I know a lot of you aren’t interested in that stuff and that you’d rather have new prequels, but it should be clear from the fact that Disney is producing this material that they’re not on the same page. We’re in a bubble here, and it’s easy to think the priorities the denizens of this board share are the norm across the fan base, but go look at the Cantina forum. Look at TFN, even though they’re awful. Hell, look at Tumblr. There’s plenty of PT conversation going on, and it isn’t all about how much they suck by a long shot. And there’s a massive TCW following. I cannot see Disney, with all this goodwill from TFA, turning around and alienating that sizable segment of fans by saying, “we’re going to redo that thing you like because those angry guys over there on the other side of the internet feel like they got shafted seventeen years ago”. It’s true that most people don’t like the prequels, but it’s also true that most of those people apart from the obsessive fans have moved on and are just excited about the ST. And those casual fans are where the numbers are. This is a special interest. Maybe fifteen or twenty years down the line I can see them splitting the continuity a la JJ’s Trek films (although please, damn it, no time travel), but I find it impossible to believe that it’s even on Disney’s radar for anywhere in the near future.