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Couldn’t agree with you more. I have NO-O-interest in further SW films. Why? The public no longer wants what SW was: a good/evil myth with good winning. Today’s audiences want evil to win. They don’t even believe evil IS evil, everyone is equally good and bad and value judgments are out. We saw that with Ep1-the only one I saw in the theater. Anakin was BAD, he was dangerous, he was flawed-yet he was given access to even more power. If Lucas had wanted to show how good can fall, he would have made Anakin like Luke-not a greedy,whiny,easily duped punk. I only saw the end of the third one on tv by mistake and almost wet myself laughing when the new Darth Vader started stomping around like Frankenstein singing ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’ in the Mel Brooks movie!Some good guy turned bad! Some bad guy to fear!
Now the anti-hero is revered. All the talk I hear is for the darksiders to prevail. Add to this the absolute necessity for Disney to make back the money they paid for the franchise and you have a custom-designed-to-appeal-to -every demographic disaster in the making. I expect vampires, teen angst cutters,transvestites,gays and Teletubbies( the damp diaper set has to be cultivated) to be represented. If EpIV were made now it would bomb. The Empire would have to slaughter all of the foolish Rebels and PC would be in every line of the script.
I wish they would leave SW alone. You don’t keep dumping excrement on perfection. Lucas did that. He pimped out his original idea, changed his own attitude re. heroism & morals, then sold it to a bigger brothel-Disney. Disney never has, never will, and cannot produce Epics. It is a mouse house that has to fill Disney stores with juvenile merchandise. All we will get from a mouse house is mouse crap. It won’t be MY Star Wars-any more than cat crap offered on a buffet would be my dinner. I pass...and pity those who will swallow-and buy-anything.