I cried for ten minutes watching it. And I couldn’t even care about the ending, except be vaguely aware that it was more and more overly new Hope, but with a fucking Mary Sue (sorry, Charlie Jane, I love you) ending where YOU, I mean, Rey get to fly the Millenium Falcon and then be trained by Luke. Ugh.

Aging is fine. Don’t kill them off. Exclude them, write them out, hurt them so you don’t wonder why they’re not in the movies. Don’t kill off a seminal character who made it through three movies 35 years ago. That’s crap. I don’t care what Ford wanted either.

Yeah, that pretty much sums up my feelings. As an adult who wants a compelling story and understands there are no happy endings (because nothing ends) and also realizes that the actors have aged out of their swashbuckling days, I get all of this. Still, it was the hardest part to watch (besides the stilted dialogue…

The EU’s ending, after like 50 books, manages to be much kinder to these characters than The Force Awakens does in just two hours.

Or as pointed out to me a long time ago, Abrams knows he’s an inferior talent, so when he does get his hands on a hot property he’ll piss all over it to make it “his.”

Why is this surprising? This is kind of JJ’s MMO.

This sounds like someone who has ignored 30+ years of EU , 99% of which is or was canon pre-Disney. The happily ever after only exists if you consider the movies the only Star Wars stories ever told. TFA actually takes it’s two major plot threads, A Solo child going to the Dark Side and Luke’s failure to rebuild the…