No. People are dumb. Porgs will be interesting, occasionally funny, and loved by a new generation of SW fans.

No character has ruined any of the SW movies. Some are just lower on the quality or interest scale, but its all pretty awesome.

He gets that from the Crywalker side of the family.

They love the word "Noooooooo!"

Excellent! I can feel The Darkness growing within me!

"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.

Pretty much this. While I enjoyed TFA, it was pretty dull and definitely not original. I liked the prequels, except the first one, for what they were. At least they were interesting and different.

I don't think they would. If they play a main role than yes however if there used as a cute/funny one liners than i wont have an issue.

Star Wars has always been about this. Sometime it works and sometimes it doesnt.

lol that's hilarious. 

Not interesting or different...

- New force abilities never seen before

- Awesome aerial dog-fighting far better than anything in the series

- Finally provides a backstory to how non-clone storm troopers are created

- Finally showed how non-clone storm troopers could actually get shit done

- While starkiller is an extension of the deathstar, it freakin wiped out an entire system.

- bb8!

Yes, the story is a clone of ANH. However, all of the movies are cylical and clones of each other to lesser degrees (http://www.starwarsringtheory.com/). TFA was just more obvious due to the major story elements (desert newb jedi and deathstar, however even RotJ had a deathstar). I can already tell you what the overall arc will be in TLJ as it was done in AotC and ESB. (young newb training, getting better, does something not really ready for to save the day/family/friends, bigger battles at set location, big reveal about primary character, big fight between primary characters, "bad" side wins big with ominous ending....)

TFA had interesting characters I want to know more about. Even the side-cast was interesting and fun to watch. I had far more laughs in this than anything before and the final fight between Rey and Ren was far more emotionally involved than almost anything before it. (one big plus goes to TPM ending fight scene as arguably the 2nd best to that of Vader/Obiwan in RotS)

The problem really is all the adults who attempt to watch these movies in your adult lives and get overly critical on asinine points. Even TPM was a good SW movie. It was the lowest quality of writing of them all with a failed character, but it was still a good SW story. 

TLJ looks awesome so far just as TFA was awesome (in my top 3 SW movies).

Porgs? No.

Porg fans? Maybe.