[RocktimusPryme]

Im a huge fan. I have Star Wars tattoos even. But I am having a hard time geting as excited about these new films as I feel like I should be.

Obviously I love the movies. But over the last 10 or 12 years Ive been really deep into the Expanded Universe. Which makes up a lot, books, comics, video games. I read a lot anyway, but last time I counted I had read just short of 100 of the books. Some are outliers in weird spots on the timeline, but for the most part they follow a linear path and keep things intact in a story arc.

Well when Disney announced they were creating new films and brought JJ on board, they also announced they were 100 percent throwing all of the EU out of the canon. So basically I just got told that I wasted my time reading something like 40,000 pages. That is a really tough pill to swallow.....

Now obviously Ive read plenty of books that found their way to the bigscreen, everyone takes liberties in the film adaptaion. Equally obvious is that Disney and JJ Abrams want to tell an original story. I get that they dont want to make a movie with that has the same ending as a book hundreds of thousands have read. But I just really feel that there is a middle ground that could have been had. If they had kept the family structure the same, Luke is married to Mara Jade, his sons name is Ben, Han and Leia's kids are Jacen, Jaina, and Anikan.....if they had just given me that bit of continuity I could really take any other changes in stride.

Ill end the rant there because I could go on and on. This is one that just strikes a little close to the bone for me. I will go see the movies, I hope they are good. I just dont really know how I will feel until I see them.

The trailer to me feels like the director is trying to tell me a story about my 12th birthday party. I was there, and he wasnt, and he has all the facts wrong.......