Star Wars Stand Alone Films

that's one of the points that i think is crucial but we don't talk about it much
these aren't "our" star wars films - ours were 30 years ago when we were kids/teens/YA - these are films for today's kids/teens/ya - and not just american/european, but global

it's similar to when we grouse about "why are they remaking my favorite movie/show from when i was a kid"?
producers are not trying to find ways for us to re-experience our childhood - they're taking proven stories and updating them for our kids/grandkids and also for people who didn't have first run access to the 'original' incarnations

the problem SW faces is the same one that all content providers are facing now - whereas a SW release used to be a genre oasis in a desert of scant sci-fantasy offerings - now there's a glut of them
and since fanboys are making it abundantly clear that nostalgia (for something that never really existed) is WAY more important than updating stories, they're probably seeing any story in the Skywalker-verse as diminishing returns - whicg i guess is fine - i'd much prefer KOTOR to Boba Fett at this point

Believe me, I understand the point you’re making, however you can’t do a complete remake when you’re talking about part 8 of a 9 episode saga.

This isn’t Star Wars Part 2 or Star Wars: The New Batch.