I'm boycotting Star Wars Episodes 7, 8 and 9

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To me, it doesn't matter to me because I'm a Star Wars fan until I die and I will go see it, regardless.

What I'm more interested in is when the next batch of Star Wars video games are coming out.

Hmmm thing with that is, from what I understand the books came after the movies and were not written by the same person who wrote the movies...so there is nothing to say they have an exact correlation. Also though if you look at movies based on books they will change things up some and so with continuing the movies it would make sense they would be different than books someone else wrote based on the movies.

I don't know I probably wont boycott it unless it really sucks, but I may as well give it a chance since I've seen all the other movies.

This has probably been done somewhere, but it only now occurred to me to imagine the Star Wars and Star Trek universes intersecting.... while so many of the original casts are still around.

I find it hilarious that everyone is trying to define what's canon and what's not, and what either has or hasn't or will or won't ruin Star Wars forever.

I find it even more hilarious that people are fearing that Disney is going to turn Star Wars into something lifted out of either their animated or live-action family feature films, rife with pretty princesses and fluffy animals.

Here's the thing:

The original Star Wars trilogy was the closest a space opera could get to a Disney movie. Compared to most science fiction (Star Wars is closer to fantasy) that hit the silver screen in the 1970s and early 1980s, Star Wars was one of the more family friendly ones, despite featuring a dismemberment, blood-thirsty Sarlaccs and Rancors, and a horribly scarred cyborg- it had a comic relief duo of droids, cheesy dialogs, fairly predictable archetypical characters and motivations, and a very happy ending. The only thing missing that would have put it on a par with Disney movie sentimentalities, was the singing.

For F's sake, stop treating Star Wars like it was a deep and dark work of sci-fi that took the genre to higher levels. Its main contribution to the history of cinematography is its excellent special effects. Everything else about it was neat enough, but not groundbreaking. Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi are good popcorn movies. Menace, Clones, and Sith forgot that they were supposed to be good popcorn movies, and took themselves wayyyy to seriously. Let's hope that Disney can take Star Wars back to its roots and, while building on the notes that Lucas handed to them, remember to keep it fun first and foremost.

William Shatner, retired from Star Fleet, falls in love with Natalie Portman who has now become manager for Jar Jar Binks who is now a professional wrestler...

The second trilogy already ruined it for me, but now that it will be done by the same people who brought us Miley Cyrus, I'm going to stay even further away.

I'm not a serious Star Wars fan, just a casual one. I do however remember that first scene with the ship chase in the very first movie kind of blowing me away. I also remember having to stand in a long line to get in. It was a movie phenomena.

The second series did not bother me. I never really understood what the fuss was about. I liked quite a few parts scattered across the trilogy, such as the expansion of showing Jedi culture, and the clones, and the mystery of what was going on in the backround. Yeah there were 'eh' parts and some weak characterizations, but the battles more then made up for it to my mind. The tone was different, which was purposely done, to show a government in decline.

I look forward to the new series, as I don't know what to expect and won't try to find out. I prefer going in cold. The new crew might blow it, or maybe do a good job. I don't think that's really predictable. But they do have an uphill battle matching the name, simply because it is Star Wars.

I'm fine with this, the novels were always the just the novels and the writers of the movie shouldn't feel like they have to have they're hands tied because of the books. The novels at this point should be considered apocrypha.

I had an epiphany of sorts the other night---What if all the novels from BEFORE Chewbacca died are still technically canon?

I believe that the new Star Wars movies should be assessed on the basis of:

- The number and quality of lightsaber duels (positive)
- The frequency of Force Lighting being deployed (positive)
- The number of badass one-liners (positive)
- The number of rancors (positive)
- The number of Jar-Jar Binks and Ewok type characters (negative... unless they get eaten by the above-mentioned rancors)

... and not on its compatibility with material that may or may not be canon.

Remember: It could be worse. Just think of what D&D 4th Edition did to the entire Forgotten Realms franchise...

What I was most looking forward to is Grand Admiral Thrawn - had a huge crush on him and realyl wanted to see him on a big screen.

Whatever the new trilogy brings us will still be a nice change of pace I guess.