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In a word, no. No more Star Wars films.

Don't get me wrong. I'm a fan of the series. I have been since I was young. I vividly remember spending hours on summer weekends bopping from garage sale to garage sale, looking for Star Wars toys to buy. Those were good days.

And I'm not one of those nay-sayers who dislikes the new films with a passion. They are inferior to the old movies I grew up with, but they're still good. The acting's as wooden as ever and the special effects gleefully over-the-top.

Yet... something's gone out of the series for me. And I think that something is over-expansion.

Star Wars is one of the most overblown sagas of all time. I can't think of another story (outside maybe Star Trek) that's spread itself so far. Novels, comic books, video games, spin-off cartoons, even a potential musical... the list goes on and on. George Lucas has plopped the Star Wars brand in virtually every media now, and it just keeps growing.

And that doesn't work for me. Sure, I love the story. Sure, I love the characters. But that doesn't mean I want to linger over their overburdened shoulders forever. How many times are we going to see Anakin save the day before that untimely descent to the dark side? How many times will Han take off in the Millenium Falcon, eventually with a cane at his side? How many times must Luke fight yet ANOTHER dark jedi, despite their supposed rarity?

A new movie would be a total rehash. Almost regardless of what the story ends up focusing on, I'm pretty sure it'll be similar to something somebody else has already done. Star Wars is just too big, and a new movie (or set of movies) would further dilute the magic for me. The new movies already did that by revealing the great, unexplainable Force as a series of tiny organisms living inside the bodies of jedi.

Even worse, all these new movies overwrite already established "facts" about the Star Wars chronology established by other authors, other artists. The continuity is a giant mess, and each new movie just makes things even messier. Why not let the series go and move on to new, greater things? Why must we constantly return and introduce a new set of characters with sadly ludicrous names?

Fine. Keep writing books. Keeping drawing comics. Keep making cartoons, if that'll make you happy. But please, George, don't make another movie. Especially not of the old crew of Han, Luke, Leia and Chewie. I don't think Mark Hamill has it in him to do flips anymore, let alone perform the crazy moves you've given jedi these days.

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