How You Can Tell The Magic Of Star Wars Is Gone

The Disappointing, Sad Use Of The Old Cast

This is a notably thorny issue, because of course there's no getting around the tragedy of losing Carrie Fisher, no matter if she was filming anything or not.

That said, aside from Han's return feeling monumental, and his character acting like an older, natural extension of where we left him, it was almost undone in the long run by rushing through his death scene and the impact on all who knew him.

Luke got it even worse, contributing to the final fight by way of Jedi-hologram, only to die from... too much power use? Lando hadn't been mentioned until the run-up to Episode IX, Admiral Ackbar - for as much as he was known for a sentence and remained a meme for decades - dies off screen, and Leia, despite being a memorable presence across The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, will have to appear in Episode IX through discarded older footage.

The overall feeling is sadness, not just for losing Carrie Fisher, but for the scenes we all thought we'd get to see when these movies were first commissioned.

We'll never get a reunion between that lovable group of heroes as their older selves. Even Mark Hamill has discussed at length how he was disappointed by just having a head-turn in Force Awakens, and his last living days in the universe were spent drinking alien milk, complaining about being Luke Skywalker and pretending to fight.

If Star Wars moulded your very being by introducing you to sci-fi and a love of cinema, watching these characters bow out so bizarrely is just off-putting.