Yes, it would be so easy to rant and rave about those prequels and these sequels. How they didn’t live up to what I’d imagined they could have been (should have been?) But no. That would be wrong. What the audience assumes or desires for what the continuation of fictional characters should be like is on them, not the characters creator. I don’t “own” them, they’re not mine. I can be happy with or unhappy with the the execution of these films but I can’t critique them because they didn’t live up to the imagination of a 22 year old fan (which is what I was in 1983).

As I say in the last lines of my comic, I’m not the intended audience. The directions these films took was not so much to continue the adventures of the characters we first met in 1977 but to end their stories and to  introduce new characters and adventures to a new generation. And like I said, I’ll always have the original trilogy. I trilogy of films that I, as a 16-22 year old fan enjoyed and will always remember.