LordHorusNL
Well-Known Member
This is the exact kind of thinking that is wrong with fandom. The fans nor the fandom is owed anything. Just because we pay for a ticket doesn't make us the heart of the franchise. We don't own it. It's not our property. From the moment Lucas put pen to paper to the moment he cashed the Mouse's check, George Lucas WAS Star Wars. He was its heart, its soul, its creator, and its judge. Now, as much as you may not like it, LucasFilm the company is the heart. Star Wars is not yours. It's LucasFilm's, and they may do whatever the Hell they want with it. THEY decide what is and isn't Star Wars. Not you. Not me. Them. Just because they decided to move on to the 21st century, while you stay in the 20th is not their fault. It's yours.
The fandom is owed everything, without the fans there would be no Star Wars. Disney can do whatever the hell they want with the franchise they paid for however without the support of the core audience it will do them little good.
You can't do what Kathleen Kennedy and other employees at LFL have done and simply say that the people that supported your franchise for all these years are simply no longer the people you make these movies for.
I'm not stuck in the 20th century and i don't want new Star Wars movies that are exactly like the old ones, i want fresh new ideas with interesting characters that exist to serve the story and are not simply there to fill some diversity quota or because of certain present day political narratives. The Star Wars universe is endless in possibility and the only thing they can come up with are terrible remakes of the original trilogy.
The problem i have is that Disney is not making new additions to the Star Wars universe, they are simply altering the universe that George created with no regard for the past 35 years of fandom. That's why what we needed were new movies with new characters for a new audience/generation, without messing with the already established characters.