The EXACT Moment Star Wars Lost Its Way

The Current Problem

Disney let someone take the reins who didn't have corporate longevity at heart, planting a storytelling seed that very few auteurs will be able to effectively weaponise.

Modern Star Wars has a ruptured hull because we've seen its limitations. To not honour the potential of what could be is fundamentally lacklustre; fundamentally backwards or neutral, and fundamentally... just that little bit boring.

I'm sure Expanded Universe/Star Wars Legends stories will continue being the most fascinating and progressive tales possible, but for the cinematic side of things, on the scale of mass marketed Hollywood blockbusters? They have an un-quantifiably steep mountain to climb.

Even worse, millions of us need to be convinced to even watch them try.

Disney's plan is to travel two hundred years into the past for a whole new setting; before all the mistakes of the last few real-world years, to reset the playing field even more drastically, restoring clearer cut notions of good and bad across the galaxy.

Will that satisfy? Can Star Wars ever be more than it was?

Clearly the IP needs to find a whole new way to exist, because the past has died whether we wanted it to or not.