This cannot be a bad thing. New Star Wars material hasn't filled me with "Oooo, more Star Wars!" delight in over a decade. Hence, if George announced a new Star Wars 7, or new tv show or something, I'd have absolutely zero hope or anticipation for it. If it was the mess I was expecting, .... actually, this was on the page that led me here, just refer to this:
You see, I can imagine George ignoring all the bile directed at his prequels and edits (for the most part, not undeserved). That's a fact, he continues to edit them even despite how cold a reception they get.
That's either dedicated, but misguided, artistic expression, trying to create a vision that only he seems to be enthused about; a business model to sell the same product again and again with little effort; or a evil, sadistic (and successful) troll, for feeding off the hate of others.
The idea that the property is going to someone else's hands, most likely a team of people under instructions to brainstorm how to sell Star Wars again, well, surely that's only good news for the franchise. After all, I'm sure someone on that team has looked at Star Wars on the internet in the last decade or so and can put the idea that, "Hey, looks like those prequels weren't liked very much. We should figure out why so we can get more people to watch our movie." And if anyone there is interested in the idea of selling to the huge potential but embittered fanbase, they'll be trying to reel them back in with a quality movie. I'm not excited per say, but there is a lot of curiosity, and perhaps even a glimmer of (a new) hope. Am I the first to make that joke?
Then again, as some people pointed out, there is "Disneyfication", I think there was another famous franchise that merged with Disney not so long ago. What happened to that Avengers thing anyway? Violence free kiddy-stuff and Mickey Mouse ears from start to finish, right?
