This new series? Wasted opportunity, and gives off the distinct impression of a deliberate and pointlessly petty exercise in tearing down the old characters in an effort to make the new ones look better. I'm no big Star Wars fan, even though I was the prime target age during the OT ( was way more of a superhero comics and monster/horror movie fan). I can still pick up on it, though, this sort of underlying "Those original people are old and busted trash, these new guys are where it's at" message. But they're not. They're all blank cyphers, just as wooden and lifeless as any of the prequel characters. I enjoyed the original movies for the goofy adventure series they were. Everything since has been an attempt to make "films of importance," when they'd really be much better off accepting that it's all just nonsensical pop filth and running with it. The biggest problem with Star Wars is that it's always been a patchwork of constant retcons in an attempt to build some sort of foundation to a meaningful universe, when the source film was nothing more than "I think it would be pretty cool to remake The Hidden Fortress but with Flash Gordon characters." It was clearly never intended to be more than one movie with a distinct ending, not some endless movie franchise.
