Would have GEORGE LUCAS done a better job?

Yeah it was BS how they killed Luke off - he was badass and then just randomly DIES - because of nothing?

Then all they have to say are 2 lines about it and they all just move on.

In the saga Luke finally becomes a Jedi in ROTJ, then we never see him actually being one - at all - and then he's dead?

Seriously - kennedy trying to push all of the old male characters out in favour of the new female guard is getting a bit ridiculous.

Even Admiral Ackbar man, that pisses me off.

Lucas would of at least been original and focused on the Skywalkers, I didn’t care if the Skywalker or Solo kids were gonna be young, good casting makes the difference, many kids can act well, such as the cast from Stranger Things or It.

George wouldn’t direct anyway so another director could get the best out of younger actors.

And fuck you Kathleen Kennedy.

For once I'm glad I saw spoilers for a movie online. You guys all just saved my wife and I some money--we cancelled our Christmas plans to watch this. FCK Disney and their Turd Wars. I will never watch another Disney Star Wars film. They just lost some fans.

Kathleen Kennedy is an insane feminazi who is taking pleasure in killing all the male characters off.

And Kennedy is NOT on the side of women--my own WIFE thinks it's BS how overpowered Rey is and how Star Wars is trying to kill male influence as of late.

I can't believe I'm saying this but the Star Wars prequels are ALL better--ALL three of them. Amazing...

George's plans were pretty bananas from the blurbs I read of what he had in mind that all got thrown out.

I want the people who make the video games to make the films. They got their shit together.

Lucas had proposed his vision for a new trilogy, and was dismissed. He was going to have a new set of characters, and allow the original trilogy characters to stay as they were when "Return of the Jedi" came to an end.

Much better choice, in my opinion. It's been a letdown with killing off Han pretty randomly. At least Luke got to have a certain poetry to his exit. And now, Carrie is gone, and she won't even have a chance at any exit, except to be gone.

The answer is simple as to why the original characters were brought back: Money. Disney had paid their $4 billion, and were going to get every penny back and more.

No, the answer is no.

People tend to overstate George's contributions to the original trilogy. A lot of his ideas for the first movie were scrapped and rightly so because they were awful. ESB and ROTJ were neither written nor directed by him. Just look at how he treats the original films by crapping all over them with special editions and denying the original edits to the public. He doesn't understand what people loved about the original films or why. And the prequels were shit. These new films would be 100X worse if he were involved.

You absolutely stole my thunder! Yes, way too much screen time given to the "diversity" rebel alliance! This was basically ROGUE 2 and the main characters as side notes! Not even chewy, C3PO and R2D2 got more screen time COMBINED than that BORING Asian tomboy! LUCAS SHOULD'VE NEVER SOLD THE FRANCHISE to ap bunch of "celebrate diversity" CLOWNS!!!