Yeah - 'cuz this looks perfectly safe. O_o
"I'm just going to lie down on this little metal sled, and rocket down this ice tube face first. What could possibly go wrong?"
NOPE.
As I keep griping about the FIA ruining F1 with their incessant "safety" regs; "If it were
safe, everyone would do it, and nobody would care to watch."
Something I have seemed to notice ever since just before Disney took over Lucasfilm (not going to be a Disney bashing thing, just establishing a timeline). It seems more and more people are not wanting to see Star Wars based around Jedi and Sith. While there is still a focus on them it seems to be being pushed further to the back. Just seems odd to me that the one thing that really set Star Wars apart is seemingly becoming more neglected. But maybe I'm just biased.
No accounting for taste.
What, in your observation, has taken over the plot line? I'm barely a casual fan of the franchise and never watched Ep.1-3. Just reading some of the posts in this forum, I woud say that only Ep.1-3 had anything to do with Jedi and Sith. Ep.4-6 there was no mention of a Sith; we only had Jedi. You could say that Ep.7-8 continued the non-Sith mention because I didn't hear about it there either. So I would say that the franchise itself left the Sith behind in the prequels for a reason, which had nothing to do with Disney, because the original trilogy was so long ago. I'm don't know what I'm talking about, just making my own observation.
If you watch 1-3, you'd know
why 4-6 don't deal with the Jedi/Sith struggle.
Again, like I said, I am biased. Without the Jedi/Sith/Force aspect of Star Wars it would hold no interest for me. Main reason I am all for an Old Republic film(s)
Without that aspect, you simply have another generic sci-fi story. <yawn> I think DJ said it best, "They blow you up today, you blow them up tomorrow." (Or something to that effect.)
I would definitely like to see SWOR movies with some more powerful Sith and Jedi battles. I too prefer the focus on force users over the focus on "normies" trend currently. I get the nice PC message, average people can make a difference too, but like DT says, that is not why I like to watch sci-fi movies like Star Wars.
On the flip side of the same thought, average people can also suck and be cruel to one another. The Jedi/Sith struggle breaks us away from the everyday, in the same way super-heroes/villains do.
I have no problem with movies/shows not using Force sensitive characters in them, and the reason why, is because the Force sensitives have always been relatively rare. There is no reason to not use regular people with trained abilities, because there should be fewer people with special abilities. Just my view, but yes, I'd love to see more about the Jedi and Sith. A TOR movie(s) would be awesome.
I'm totally against participation trophies. "Normal" is boring and so overrated I want to puke. Don't begrudge people because they are exceptional, but don't praise them either. And always remember
But, instead of Rogue One..wouldn't have been much better to had a film about Vader hunting a Jedi.
Yeah, like The Force Unleashed.