Does anybody even really care anymore?

I'm probably not even going to see this one at all.Leia,Luke and Han are gone.These next generation newbys just don't interest me much.

Do I care? Well, I can take it or leave it.

I do its still the greatest franchise

I've been a Star Wars fan literally my whole life. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of the original trilogy. In fact, when I was a kid, we called them Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

The original trilogy has been my favorite set of movies of all time for as far back as I remember. Still is.

The prequels were disappointing but I still felt the Star Wars magic in theme.

I originally loved The Force Awakens and was over the moon to have what I'd considered to be something close to the original trilogy back again. Time went on, however, and my opinion of TFA started to change for the worse. I must have had nostalgia goggles on--the same ones that had me initially loving The Phantom Menace. As more time passed, I grew to hate how the Big 3 never shared a scene together and never would. I grew to hate Kylo Ren and found him whinier than Anakin. I hated how Rey seemingly needed no training to be a Jedi with how overpowered she was...and I was one of her original defenders! Old IMDB archive information can prove that I was a HUGE defender of TFA. Some people here might even remember me.

Then, the spoiler information came from The Last Jedi. I thought it was bad fanfiction at first. When I realized it wasn't I did something I've never done in my entire life: cancelled my movie ticket. My wife and I share the same lifelong fandom of Star Wars and she was just as appalled as me. We didn't watch it--even with people around us saying: "come on! Just give it a chance! It's STAR WARS!". Nope--didn't watch it. Lost all interest and became very angry with the crapfest spewed out.

We finally did catch it on Netflix a few months ago and it was actually WORSE than people said! I was thinking (hoping against hope, I guess) that maybe it would be better than it sounded. Nope. Horrible. Simply horrible. I was actually bored to tears with it as well...that has NEVER happened to me before. Even the middle section of Attack of the Clones was more compelling than this SH!T.

I hated every single thing about The Last Jedi--especially the Finn and Rose scenes. I hated all the Kylo/Rey exchanges, Snoke, emo Luke, that weird purple-haired SJW character, the PETA-pandering scene on that stupid casino planet...ugh! UGH!!! Just awful.

Star Wars is so tainted for me now that I can't even bring myself to watch the original trilogy anymore. In fact--I've been avoiding buying all Star Wars merchandise--not out of protest, mind you--but simply because I cringe every time I see it now. I know that, eventually, I'll take up the original trilogy again and forget about all this Disney garbage, but...I'm sort of off Star Wars for now. I'm still a fan of the old films (that won't change) but I can't get into it right now. Disney killed it. They killed my characters. They killed their futures and their happiness. They killed the lore.

When you're a lifelong fan of something it's hard to watch it blow up in your face. Not to sound melodramatic, but the feeling of it amounts to something similar to betrayal.

There's no saving this dumpster fire for me just short of Disney selling the rights back to Lucas and de-canonizing the whole mess. NOTHING they do at this point will change the damage they've already done. We'll NEVER see Han, Luke and Leia together in the present and we'll know that they all received miserable outcomes to their futures after that happy Return of the Jedi ending. Nothing can fix that.

Episode IX makes me feel insulted as it's nothing but a giant "We're sorry! We're trying to make amends!" with their obvious "Please come back, fans!" campaign. Palpatine? Seriously?

No. The only things I am interested in are: John Williams' final "Star Wars" score, and Palpatine being back.

Stopped caring when Lucas started to mess with the original films, then really lost interest with the prequels which really could have been any type of film in the end.

These Disney ones are just beyond awful. And the SJW shit makes me walk away at the best of times with movies and tv shows.

Basically saying anything like this makes you a bigot right? Well according to the 'newest' fans of the SWU at least.

Why would I care? This franchise is not for me. I'm just an old white male who saw the original movie in the theater so by the definition of Disney SW I'm an evil, backwards oppressor who is everything wrong with SW... Why would I want to watch exactly? It would be like going back to an abusive relationship at this point.