I haven't posted here in a while, but I thought I would put my two cents in towards the ST. I am actually happy they are making this trilogy, as I always wanted the ST more then PT.
The ST is unpredictable and you never know where the story will be taking us, nor which characters will die, whereas the PT we essentially knew what happened and it was just a matter of how Lucas executed those plot points.
I am also happy that the ST will put an end to the propaganda that the story was always about the 'Tragedy of Darth Vader' baloney that Lucas started throwing out during the PT days. We all knew that wasn't true and it always bothered me that my beloved SW movies were now an arc about a cold blood killer? Sorry, that story doesn't do anything for me.
Now the story is what it originally was about, a more macro story in a galaxy far far away, set up as 3 trilogies of 3 generations of Skywalkers.