That’s the sad thing going on now with this strange “post-modernism“ time we are living in.A certain side is striving for everyone to be part of identity or group so there is no individual.Makeing it easier to blame the group for past or present actions that don’t fit there agenda.Funny if you did not like the new SW movies you were a ist or phobic of some sort or not going along with a name change to a fictional ship.
I'd argue we're in post-post-POST-modernism.
These things DO seem to have a shelf-life. WARS and TREK had their heyday, then had the inevitable nostalgia-resurgences (with the 90s EU/prequel era and the TREK movies and spin-offs up through 2005). And comics went through their post-modern deconstruction phase with Alan Moore's MIRACLEMAN, WATCHMEN, etc., and have arguably been in a slow decline every since. Deconstruction and nostalgia-milking seems to work only once--maybe twice--in a genre/franchise's lifecycle.
Now, though, time has passed and enough of the people who made these things what they were--made them great and profound works of popular art--have dropped away. The people now in charge, as well as the naive, youthful target audience, don't care about "those old movies". And so we get a copy of a copy of a copy, which not only tears down the original, but also has no longevity or identity of its own to sustain the franchise. We've reached the "creative bankruptcy" and "milking it to death" stage. The terminal stage. A slow fade into oblivion, with them throwing TV shows and books and comics at the wall to see what might stick, even just a little.
STAR WARS, in particular, is the specific vision of one independent filmmaker, who, in a completely unique case in movie history, held sole control over it for decades. The movies are the real thing--the actual STORY--and the ancillaries (books, comics, games) kept it alive during lean times, and helped to flesh out the fantasy and the world for fans craving more of it. A suppliment to the main text, as opposed to Disney's Explanatory Universe, which exists to fix the massive plot holes of the movies AND continue the process of rewriting and tearing down the originals.
But, despite the many twists and turns along the way, Lucas finished his story, and his six-film cycle. The End. STAR WARS arguably ended on May 19, 2005, when REVENGE OF THE SITH came out, since it was Lucas' last artistic statement on his story. Everything else was a fun afterthought, designed to flesh out the unseen corners of the story and keep fans engaged.
By contrast, everything Disney has done has been heavily-dependent on nostalgia. Bait-and-switch, counterfeit sequels featuring the original characters. Unnecessary prequels. A prequel TV series featuring derivative versions of existing characters (Boba Fett and Yoda), which relied on yet more nostalgia-milking (after the unprecedented backlash to the "sequels") by bringing in Luke Skywalker as a season-ending fanservice stunt.
The story of STAR WARS is long since over and done. It had its time, and did what it did extremely well. With apologies to the MCU (...which is also quickly going down in flames. And I much prefer the comics.), STAR WARS is the greatest and most beloved franchise in movie history. Everything since the Lucas era ended has just been rehashing and treading water. Disney should have taken the risk of starting something new, set many years after the originals, with new characters and new problems. Instead, pure creative bankruptcy and rehashing/repainting of old characters, ships, and ideas ("AT-ST! AT-ST! I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!"). A woke remake of the original trilogy which also destroyed the characters, themes, and plot of all six of Lucas' films.
Artistically, it's over and done. There are no new barriers to break, no new ideas to explore. Just increasingly-bland riffs on what we've already seen before. It's now purely about commercial exploitation and desperate nostalgia-milking. STAR WARS (and many of the others) has become a victim of its own unprecedented success. And the stupid rewriting of history--changing starship names, retconning Luke into a failure during the original trilogy era, making Lando pansexual, etc., etc., will get more and more petty and spiteful as the ship slowly sinks.
Prepare yourselves.