Will Porgs Ruin Star Wars: The Last Jedi?

[DevilRising]

"Will the Porgs ruin Ep. VIII?"

That's kind of a trick question. Disney already ruined "their" era of Star Wars right out of the gate, with TFA. The foundation has already been set for this trilogy to be irredeemably bad. Which is funny, because people shit on Lucas SO hard. Then he sells to Disney, which they're all initially thrilled about, only to learn what post-Lucas Star Wars really means:

Expanded Universe no longer canon. GOOD Star Wars games cancelled, Lucasarts killed off. Lucas' ACTUAL stories for Ep. VII-IX thrown in the trash so fans will likely never know how these stories were ACTUALLY supposed to go. Disney giving Star Wars "the Marvel treatment", meaning whoring the franchise out to such a degree that they literally want at least one new SW film in theaters per year.

For his faults, Lucas never would have done or allowed any of that shit. It's absurd that people acted like they hated the prequel trilogy THAT much, that they gleefully invited this trainwreck instead. Personally, while they could/should have been better (with the same exact actors and plot even), at least the prequels were Lucas' actual story, it was the story he (the Star Wars creator) wanted to tell, and they were ORIGINAL stories, filling in some nice background for the original trilogy. As Lucas has himself since said, he doesn't approve of The Force Awakens being a rehashed nostalgia trip, and he's right. They SHOULD have kept Lucas' original story, which was doubtless far better. But even so, there was a way the story they went with could have worked, but they were so obsessively fixated on making sure they had some kind of reference to A New Hope every five minutes or so, throughout the film, that they forgot to give the film itself any real substance.

And it's not as if it will magically get better with Ep. VIII either. We now know they're literally going to have a Hoth-ian ice-planet battle, complete with AT-AT walkers. I called it as soon as I left the theater after seeing TFA, that the next one was going to just be a blatant clone of Empire, and what do you know? And these spinoff films are worthless. First the mess of a re-shot Rogue One, full of characters and a plot almost not one cares about. And then the demystifying of Han Solo's mysterious background that no one asked for, once again (huge shocker) rife with reshoots and even a director change. And the director of Ep. IX ALREADY quit, leaving hack-master Abrams to come back instead. And ultimately, the person to thank for just about everything wrong with Disney Star Wars, as it becomes more and more apparent all the time, is the same person who made the call to throw away Lucas' stories and cut him out of involvement in the first place: Kathleen Kennedy.

But please, tell me more about how Star Wars is so much better off without Lucas now.

Pointless cute creatures are the least of this franchise's troubles. The very least.