Star Wars Stand Alone Films

Sun Wukong said

You know what's crazy? I knew conversations like this one would inevitably happen with Star Wars after Disney got them, but I figured we would have at least a decade of solid times before the varnish started to wear off. And here we are 4 years into the partnership talking about changing leadership at Lucasfilm, plummeting toy sales, divided fan bases, etc.

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That is pretty mindblowing, especially just a couple of years removed from TFA pulling in $2 billion. What's done is done, but for all the problems with TLJ I can't help but wonder, had they just listened to Mark Hamill and given Luke Skywalker a more satisfactory story, how different would the situation be today? Think about the Darth Vader scene in Rogue One -- literally like 15 seconds of pure fan service -- but how much did that one scene improve the movie? How much better would TLJ hold up if it just gave fans just a little bit of the Jedi master we'd been waiting 30 years to see, or at least not killed him off so you could hope to see him in episode IX? And how could no one see that would cause problems with the fan base?