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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs  I suppose it's weird for him having made several films with George Lucas and now movies with other directors and writers who are trying to be faithful to those from the late 1970s and early '80s |
All these new films represent how unfaithful they are to Lucas's original vision of what Star Wars represented in the mid 1970 to early 1980's. I've never seen such a complete mess in my life.
The only reason I can see is that Disney have a set agenda to how they see the vision of Star Wars, not how Lucas envisioned it. There's a very clear distinction between what was developed and created in all six films made by George Lucas and Lucasfilm back then. The Disneyfied Star Wars of today is very PC and has very cold characters that you just don't feel for in both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. No wonder Disney executives turned their noses up at what Lucas was developing in Ep's 7, 8 and 9.
Lucas wanted to move away from Han Solo, Luke Skywalker etc. And considered creating a new cast of characters with a new threat. Plus having a more grounded story arc, rather than having the plot endlessly move all over the place, with very little inter-relationship with the characters that we see in The Last Jedi and The Force Awakens.
All I see is this alternate trilogy treading on old ground by copying or taking elements from the original films without giving what went before any respect what so ever.