Joek3rr
Master Member
As far as JJ goes, I don't think he respected the characters either. Everyone wanted to see Luke and Han back together again in at least one major scene.
Harrison Ford has been wanting them to kill off Han for years. They needed a mentor-ish like character to kill off, so they picked him, and Harrison got his wish.
Any number of Lucasarts game or Star Wars novels would have made FAR better stories than having a 3rd "death star" with no explanation for where the resources came from, no glimpse of what the "New Republic" is even about (how odd that Leia seems to be an outlier when she helped create it and make it possible) before it's blasted into space. No idea in TLJ who the heck Snoke is/was or where he came from and why he seems to have Emperor like Sith powers. It's all just filler CRAP to have an excuse to have lightsaber battles and blaster fire. And yet the masses eat it up ANYWAY.
Shall we have a gander at the very many super weapons of the EU? There's been 25 planet destroying/devastating superweapons, only 4 of those belong to canon. Which means the EU had 21 superweapons........ouch
Wait, do you mean you want politics in Star Wars? Because the last time we got a glimpse into what went on in the ruling government that didn't fly too well with fans.
And what about Snoke and no backstory. Uh, I seem to remember an Emperor who didn't get a whole lot of exposition. Like we never found out he was a SIth or learned his name, heck his first name isn't even given in any of the films or The Clone Wars. And when we finally see him in the flesh, he's shootin' lightning out freakin' fingertips! Wow, that came out of the left field.