I have to tell you this and I mean it: I never understood the thirll of Star Wars. Yes I admit the trilogy has some great moments in but it also has stilted dialogue, a story that isn;'t really that ambitous and isn't at the level of some of the best sci-fi of the genre. (If you ask me when the Oscars nominated Star Wars for Best Picture and NOT CE3K they REALLY screwed the pooch.)

That's why I've always taken every fans shout at any version of Star Wars in the past 25 years (starting with the prequels mind you) as 'ruiniing Star Wars' with two words: RUINING WHAT? This isn't the Mona Lisa or the Sistine Chapel, it's not Citizen Kane or The Godfather and it's certainly not Alien or Interstellar. It's a movie with very good special effects, a great musical score and some of the worst dialogue I've heard in a 'classic' film. Star Wars can't be ruined because it was never that good in the first place.

And just to be clear, what does ruin mean to these people? Does it mean that because shows like the Acolyte exist that they can never watch the original trilogy the same way? That somehow because Jedis are now female or storm troopers are black that somehow they can't listen to Yoda says such impactful dialogue as "There is no try' without thinking "Amanda STERNBERG has tained this forever!" To be clear, I have this same attitude towards anyone who thinks that having female ghostbusters or any of the 'reviision's that Berlanti made to DC characters in the Arrow-verse. The original product did not disappear into the ether just because someone made an interpretation you didn't like. It's still there you can watch in a continuous loop for the rest of your lives. (hELL, we'd be better off if you all did) It's bad enough there are so few original stories being told these days; by saying there can only be your interprtation of it you make it worse.

I honestly think that these people just want to see shot for shot remakes of their 'classic' films FROM Hollywood rather than anything else.

So I think your wrong. I think this is about a bunch of stubborn adults holding on to their childhood. I know the fandom very well. That's all its ever been. You can't even tell them what they liked wasn't that good to begin with and not get the same reaction. I HOPE Disney moves on completely. I really do. Star Wars has had a long, long run but we're far, far away from that time. We need to move on and the fans need to get a life (Sorry that's reference to a different set of fans.)