Careless, unloving end of spiritual Saga

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2019)

It remains a kind of mystery as to what George Lucas must have had in mind as a young, vibrant storyteller when he started working on Star Wars.
And I do not mean what story, but what ideas and feelings he had about the world, about the future, about duality, about spirituality.
Something of value had landed into the mystical vessel - his brains - and it came out as a fantasy-, SF-, bildung-novel- epos, with links to esotericism, anthroposophy etc.
In interviews, over the years, I see a tired, sick man and I get the image of someone from whom - to use his own terminology - The Force was literally pulled out of his body, in order to be able to commit himself to this huge, energy-consuming project Star Wars, its many spin-offs, but also the digital novelties developed in the Skywalker Range.
A man with great talent, but robbed from life-force and tired?
No idea, but it seems almost unavoidable that someone carrying such an innovative burden on his shoulders is unable to bring such a monster project to a worthy end.
And so it happens.....
The last three episodes XII, XIII and IX, are nothing more then merchandise, sentiment, spiced up with tasty action.
But this last episode? Unloving, careless, tired and nothing more than a corpse where the last drop of blood is pulled out, because nobody is in charge of the heart of the story anymore.
A disgrace.
In Memoriam:
For me, the power of Star Wars ends with the final scenes in part III, where Luck and Leia are born. To me the most moving scenes of the entire saga, where production design score, context and continuity build a symphony of hope and overwelming curiosity for that mystical universe that we are about to enter.
The seed that George Lucas has planted, the spiritual consequences of what the story is really about, is not dead. It only grows differently and in places other than expected.
Because it's 'true'.