Writers were afraid to create something new, I guess...

Rating: 2/10 (27 May 2016)

I remember when the long expected SW1 was released, many critics didn't enjoy some new elements (jarjar, a never-ending race, and many other aspects of the story...). I share their views and I was disappointed by the episode. It seems that the writers didn't want to take the risk to create anything new in the plot and therefore just took the SW4 scenario, slightly modified the characters (in worse) and delivered a no-risk blockbusters. What a pity when we learn during the movie all the interesting stories that happened in the ellipse between SW6 and SW7 and that could have been the potential scenario of a great SW7, like for example : - how the New Order rose from the ashes of the Empire - how Luke created a new generation of jedis - how Han and Leia's son betrayed him - where the new big bad guy comes from ... and my favourite : how to deal with the defeated side once you militarily won the final battle ? That's my favourite because it has a contemporary echo (what shall we do once we defeated Irak or Libya or Afghanistan...) exactly like all the good episodes of SW have (first trilogy=WW2 , prelogy=trade used as soft power weapon, weaknesses of democracies). SW1 was bad too. Let's hope that SW8 and 9 will improve as SW2 and 3 did.