More Star Wars thoughts

 Back in the late 80's and early 90's Star Wars was fading into obscurity and the only people who cared about it was the RPG company West End Games. Marvel dumped the rights to produce anymore comics and an unknown upstart in the comic book world called "Dark Horse" picked them up instead.

The books were meant as nothing and were licensed by Lucas to be only 3. There were no plans for anymore.

Then came the EU revival.

Zahn pioneered the way with renewed fan interest in the saga, followed shortly by Dark Horse's amazing "Dark Empire" story. Before you knew it, the EU was breathing new life in a dead franchise that most of the world forgot!

From the EU came the re-release of the original films in theater and the interest of the corporate "big wigs" was renewed. They could now make big money once again off the franchise. So next came the Prequels, then the vomiting of Clone Wars episodes about a war that took 2 years (according to the film) but lasted over 10 in story telling.

Now finally, another big business has assumed the rights and they want to make even more money. They get the "hotter" Director in Hollywood because it's make business sense. They bring the original cast back for the nostalgia effect it'll have on the fans and they plan to slap together a money train in under a year so that they can package it up and sell it (and eventually an entire new series) to come.

The Franchise has ostracized the EU fanbase that gave it life and have moved on to becoming a corporate cash grab once again. So when Disney made this announcement, it made it's message clear. "Thanks, but we don't care about you anymore."

Message received Disney,  message received.