Finally got around to reading this article. I rarely comment around here, but I found it weird that only one person had this opinion.
loc978 said:
From the perspective of the owners, he's absolutely right. However, from the perspective of fans who were grinding up copies of the Thrawn trilogy and snorting it (figuratively!) before prequels or remakes were a glimmer in George's disturbingly Gammorean eyes... to us, the resurgence of massive popularity is the worst thing that could've happened to Star Wars. Much like every other aspect of geek culture that's gone mainstream... I'd like my niche back.
The Force Unleashed games and Clone Wars cartoons are what we got from the resurgence of Star Wars, both of which were mediocre at best. X-Wing Alliance and the Jedi Knight series were what I was playing when The Phantom Menace was announced. I adored every single Star Wars game that came out of the original trilogy. The quality of the prequels and the controversy around GL's faffing about with the originals did indeed help with the resurgence of the franchise, but is that what we needed or even wanted? I'm not sure.
Maybe keeping the franchise alive that way is good. Perhaps the new trilogy (or whatever) will be great and we'll get a nice big franchise with 6 great films and 3 bad ones. Who knows, maybe the noughties will be known amongst SW fans as "the ugly years" (I'm aware of how unlikely this is). It's possible (highly probable, I'd say) that without the prequels the franchise would have faded away and only the die hard fans would remain to give a frell. I'm still not sure how bad that latter outcome would be.
I agree with Yahtzee that the new films will most likely be mediocre, safe, just OK! I don't know whether it was preferable that the prequels be bad instead of mediocre or non-existent though. The fans were doing fine arguing about the morality of blowing up a space station that's under construction [http://youtu.be/iQdDRrcAOjA].
