This is so unfortunately true.

Disney and Abrams did on their first attempt out of the gate what he couldn’t do with all three prequel films, they made us care even more about the Star Wars universe than we did before.

I’m not one to defend George Lucas usually, but you have to look at one thing from his perspective. The Force Awakens is a huge hit. It’s fun and while it might be a fan service film to a large degree it also gave us some new characters that we’ve instantly fallen in love with and new worlds to explore and basically…