I want to respond but I can't tell, in my own mind, how much of my disappointment with the franchise now is based on most of the new films, or if it's really just about how disastrously mishandled Luke was in TLJ. They had the opportunity to do something grand with Luke...one final big blow-out for/with Luke... you know, let's send this badass Jedi hero off with a BANG! rather than the SLAP (in the face) we got when Riann castrated him and turned him into a babbling senile old hermit. You can create something new and interesting while still being respectful of what came before. It was Johnson's mission to "kill the past". He could move on from the past without making a mockery of that character and the whole mythos that has been created over the last 40 years. It felt like Johnson was giving the finger to SW fans, the world Lucas (and Co.) built, and hell, he may have given the biggest finger of all to JJ!
I hadn't seen any Johnson films previously but had read much about them and typically always fantastic reviews. The film I saw was not like those reviews at all.
Solo, looks okay. The casting of Ehrenreich is confusing. On the one hand, it's Disney at the top, so you know it's 60% or more about the money, period. Yet they cast someone to play the character, a character that was portrayed by an irreplaceable actor. An icon. For the true SW base, this story doesn't need to be told and probably shouldn't be told when they have already put in place what I foresee as being a constant insurmountable problem that will disconnect viewers from ever achieving "buying into" the movie. Alden may knock it out of the park, but it still won't be Han Solo (for me). And for that reason, I probably prefer that simply not made the film at all. And this is also the same reason why someone new to SW will probably love Solo, because they aren't having something they are very familiar with and loved mishandled and prostituted out for... money? Again I'm not sure what Disney is going for with Solo, since they didn't go with Ingruber. At least with Ingruber, I could just pretend like I'm really drunk with blurry vision and believe that is a young Harrison up there. That could never happen with Ehrenreich. No part of the trailers, thus far, when showing the character Solo says to me that I am seeing or hearing Han Solo. In fact I am struck every single time that I am absolutely NOT SEEING Han Solo. And it makes sense. I know we love him and adore him and all, but HF isn't necessarily known for his acting chops. Han Solo basically is Harrison Ford. We know this because every character Ford plays is nealry the same character: Harrison Ford. Always short-tempered, always gets the job done somehow.
They needed HF himself or a near facsimile of HF to pull this off.
Kennedy is s******* the bed with Lucasfilm. I'm begging to think that this was all George's plan from the start to pay back all the haters for the prequels. "I'll show you whiney bastards. I'll let Disney have the franchise and SJW it into the Tattoine sand! You'll be begging for the old days whe Georgie was at the helm stuffing wooden dialog and Jar-Jar poodoos everywhere. Yeah, you Aholes will see..."