7 Reasons To Give Up Star Wars

You may dismiss the quick pace of an annual Star Wars by holding up the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies as an example. We get two of those every year and things aren’t stale, so surely it’ll work for Star Wars, right?

Well, the MCU movies are allowed to be a lot more versatile than Star Wars films. We can safely assume that Spider-Man: Homecoming will be drastically different from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 because they are very different genres and have almost no overlap in terms of the larger multi-film narrative the MCU is telling. Star Wars movies, however, can not escape one particular subject: the conflict between the Empire and the Rebels via the Skywalker family. Sure, The Force Awakens says the Empire is gone and has been replaced with the First Order, or some crap like that. They’re the Empire in everything but name. They use Stormtroopers and TIE fighters.

Ever wonder what it’s like to be just an average person in Star Wars? How does the conflict look to someone who isn’t invested or involved in the outcome? Can a good person support the Empire because it’s actually improved his quality of life?

Well, Disney has shown they have no interest in anything like that. The questions they seem to focus on are: “What throwaway lines of dialogue from the original trilogy can be made into movies?” and “People will lap up whatever we put in front of them as long as it says Star Wars, right?”

Repetition is annoying, but it’s not always inherently bad. We know the good guys will win and the bad will lose. That’s not the problem. The problem is when you know the good guys will win because they already won several movies ago. They want to tell the same story over and over: not just a story that is similar to ones that have come before; they actually want to just keep telling A New Hope over and over again.

Maybe this time around, we’ll find out about the squad of Sandtroopers who murdered Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. What was happening on Alderaan when it blew up? Make it a movie. Luke had to sell his landspeeder in Mos Eisley to afford to pay Han. Who bought it? Give him a movie.

Disney doesn’t care about the integrity of Star Wars. They don’t want to preserve it for future generations or anything poetic like that. They want to milk it for all its worth. They want to suck as much profit out before people lose interest, leaving a withered husk of a corpse behind. They don’t care about opening up the franchise to a new audience because diversity is a positive thing; they’re doing it to make money from people who’ve never spent money on Star Wars before (and it’s working).

If you don’t want to witness the decay of Star Wars, you might want to look away.