Somewhat to be expected. The best part about Star Wars during the peak of the hype (both eras) was that there wasn't a glut of stuff coming out every year. Oh sure, there were video games, comics,...
Somewhat to be expected. The best part about Star Wars during the peak of the hype (both eras) was that there wasn't a glut of stuff coming out every year. Oh sure, there were video games, comics, and maybe a TV special or three involving wookies and ewoks we don't talk about in this household, but there weren't movies in every year from 1977-1983 or 1999-2005. Hell, during the second wave, the only Star Wars movie we got outside the main prequel trilogy was 2008's The Clone Wars where the best part about the movie itself was that it gave us a pretty cool TV series.
Ever since this third wave of Star Wars mania started, not a year has gone by without something Star Wars related, so naturally there's going to be a burnout. Solo not making gangbusters could have been called by anyone at this point. If Star Wars is going to be given constant new material, it shouldn't be in the form of movies. Do what Game of Thrones is doing— make a big-budget ongoing TV series. We didn't need a whole sequel trilogy; using The Force Awakens as a launchpad would have been perfectly fine.
Somewhat to be expected. The best part about Star Wars during the peak of the hype (both eras) was that there wasn't a glut of stuff coming out every year. Oh sure, there were video games, comics, and maybe a TV special or three involving wookies and ewoks we don't talk about in this household, but there weren't movies in every year from 1977-1983 or 1999-2005. Hell, during the second wave, the only Star Wars movie we got outside the main prequel trilogy was 2008's The Clone Wars where the best part about the movie itself was that it gave us a pretty cool TV series.
Ever since this third wave of Star Wars mania started, not a year has gone by without something Star Wars related, so naturally there's going to be a burnout. Solo not making gangbusters could have been called by anyone at this point. If Star Wars is going to be given constant new material, it shouldn't be in the form of movies. Do what Game of Thrones is doing— make a big-budget ongoing TV series. We didn't need a whole sequel trilogy; using The Force Awakens as a launchpad would have been perfectly fine.