-The Star Wars license was taken away from Dark Horse comics and given to Marvel, another property of Disney.
is this really a negative? I don't see how it could be outside of being a Dark Horse homer and/or Marvel hater, and given Marvel's recent success I'd even argue it being a good thing...
-The Expanded Universe was thrown under a bus.
the EU was pretty bad outside of the Thrawn trilogy, it wasn't thrown under a bus as much as put out of its misery. The Sequel Trilogy laying waste to the EU is a definitely a good thing as it means we're at least back to normal odds of whether or not the new movies will be good.
-Lucasarts has been gutted, all it's employees laid off.
a bad thing only for sake of nostalgia, its not like LucasArts has done anything spectacular as of late anyway; the heyday was 90s and early 2000s before the taint of the prequel trilogy took over. It can be unfortunate if it comes to it, but sometimes dead weight needs to be dropped for the whole to be better off
-Clone Wars was canceled prematurely, leaving entire story arcs like Maul's unfinished.
another good move, that was just more nonsense pandering far too much to children
-Numerous promising star wars games like 1313 and others were given the axe.
You have to name the other promising games, otherwise it was just 1313, of which that game really wasn't promising because it was Star Wars, it was promising because of the tech behind it, i.e. it wasn't guaranteed to be a particularly good game, the only guarantee was that it would be pretty. Force Unleashed was a promising game with first impressions, but was ultimately pretty average and not very memorable, unlike Knights of the Old Republic or the Jedi Knight series (those games were 10+ years ago now...)
-With Fox owning the rights to episode 4 forever and with the rights to 5 and 6 not falling to disney for many years, we're still no closer to getting the unaltered originals on bluray.
if anything what kept us from getting an unaltered release of Star Wars was Lucas' own ego, which is now effectively out of the equation because he's now no longer in control, meaning the only thing keeping us from getting such a release is lack of demand on the part of the consumers.
its not like studio collaboration is unheard of, Universal put out an Alfred Hitchcock box set that contained films belonging to Paramount and MGM.
2017 will be the 40th anniversary of Star Wars, I honestly would be surprised if we don't see something by then.
The only potential pro seems like Episode 7, which itself could just as easily be a con depending on how it's handled and how much you enjoyed Star Trek Into Darkness.
are you saying Into Darkness was bad? Because the majority feel it was at least nearly as good as 2009 Star Trek with each respectively scoring 8.0 and 7.9 (i.e. very good) on IMDB, and commercially it was also more successful...
I just don't see how Ep7/sequel trilogy can be a con:
1. chances of it being as bad or worse than prequel trilogy is close to impossible
2. we wouldn't even be getting a sequel trilogy if not for Disney
3. if you're a purist who hates the prequel trilogy and like to pretend that only the original trilogy exists, then you can keep doing the same with the sequel trilogy.
its a shame Ep4 already caries the title of A New Hope...because that's exactly what Disney is offering with the new movies and general handle of the franchise.
Sure, they could ultimately screw things up and do a terrible job with everything, but I think they have a far better chance to do good with the franchise than what we had been seeing.
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