But that doesn’t make it any easier to see Luke, Leia and Han turn from heroes into screw-ups—for them to have saved the galaxy and then, by their various failures, almost immediately bring it into a sorry state once again.

This is exactly why I keep putting off going to see TFA. I just...don’t want to watch the characters I love have their triumph squashed. And it’s not that I think it’s a bad choice, or even that it could’ve been avoided once the decision was made to have sequels. It’s just not something I personally want to see. I’d…