Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33154547-20150126113820/@comment-24750690-20150422165222

Coolbuddy379 wrote: I can watch new movies in theatres, but the recent film was in 2005, at which my age was around 3, so....

And I wasn't introduced to Star Wars until in 2011/2012. I could watch Episode VII here in India, but I doubt that I'll have interest enough to watch it. I learnt some days before that Disney has made a whole lot of things non-canon, so, I might lose my interest quickly. Oh, so it would be difficult to get it from a movie store or online? Okay then.

And tbh, while I'm a little ticked off that Disney has retconned a lot of the universe, it's not any of the information in the movies. See, Star Wars has been around since the 70s, and a lot of people have been adding to it since then. Novels, Comics and some video games, mostly. If any of that content is ever mentioned in the movies, it's only in vague passing, and a person can get the gist of the story without going through the stuff Disney is getting rid of. They're really trying to pare down the story so that it's just the previous 6 movies that matter, which sucks because a lot of the expanded universe was cool (in a perfect world, the Thrawn Trilogy would be the script for VII, the Yuzhong Vong wars would be the plot of VIII and IX, and I, II and III would just be the Old Republic Video games) but none of it really hinders or helps the actual movies. They are either awesome or sucky on their own.