From: darth_azrael@yahoo.com   
      
   Your Name wrote on Wed, 01 October 2014 17:08   
      
   >>  Someone else taking over the helm of Star Wars was   
   inevitable. George Lucas   
   >>  won't live forever.   
      
   >The Star Wars franchise (as well as the other Lucasfilm   
   franchise like   
   >Indiana Jones) should have been given over, under   
   watertight legal red   
   >tape, to the stewardship of Rick McCallum and others   
   already within the   
   >Lucasfilm franchise.   
      
   Given? In what kind of dream world does this happen? Having   
   said that, LucasFilm still exists (although owned by Disney)   
   and many of the people that were working there before Disney   
   are still working there now (although not Rick McCallum).   
   Others who have been involved in past Star Wars films (e.g.   
   Lawrence Kasdan who co-wrote Empire Strikes Back, Return of   
   the Jedi and Raiders of the Lost Ark) are also involved in   
   the new films. It's not like there is no continuity.   
      
   >>  This fact by itself doesn't mean the Star Wars franchise   
   will get better   
   >>  or worse. That remains to be seen. But from the position   
   of a fan, even if   
   >>  mediocre Star Wars movies get released on a regular   
   basis this is better   
   >>  than none for the rest of my life   
      
   >*Only* if those movies, novels, etc. actually fit with the   
   established   
   >franchise. Some new moron(s) going off making huge changes   
   to suit   
   >themselves is not wanted by any real fan of any franchise.   
   Such things   
   >simply create a complete mess of the franchise.   
   >   
   >JJ Abrams claims to be a fan of Star Wars, and yet in other   
   franchises   
   >we have already seen so-called "fans" produce ill-fitting   
   rubbish full   
   >of their own silly ideas of what that franchise "should be"   
   rather than   
   >sticking to what the franchise actually is.   
      
   So why assume the worst?   
      
   >>  which is what we likely would have got from George   
   Lucas.   
      
   >Apparently that is wrong since George Lucas was reportedly   
   already   
   >working on a sequel Trilogy before he sold out to Disney.   
   >   
   >No Star Wars ever again is much better than ill-fitting   
   rubbish that   
   >confuses and destroys the franchise.   
      
   And George Lucas is also reportedly collaborating on the new   
   films. Again, why assume the new movies will be 'ill-fitting   
   rubbish'? The prequel trilogy was mediocre at best when   
   compared with the original, regardless of how well it 'fit   
   in'. Abrams doesn't have to do much to improve on that.   
   These movies aren't a 'reboot' like the Trek movies and at   
   this point I don't think we have any reason to believe they   
   won't 'fit' with the established (movie) franchise. What   
   other franchises are you referring to?   
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