Star Wars Episode 9 Release Date Delayed After JJ Abrams Joins As Director/Writer

@lordbeefjerky: JJ Abrams was given the freedom to take the Star Wars Universe wherever he wanted it to go. That's why all the stuff that was written previously was canned and labeled "Legends." JJ Abrams crafted the basic outline of the three movie story arc. While Katelyn Kennedy and some bigwigs at Disney can overrule him or force him to rewrite some things the story will be 90% of JJ Abrams vision. JJ Abrams doesn't know how to resolve stories without cheating. He did it on Star Trek by allowing teleportation across the universe. He did in with the Force Awakens and he'll do it again with episode 9.

JJ Abrams really didn't write many memorable characters either. Poe was a complete waste. What in the film really shows him as being worthy of being a hero? Captain Phasma? She rolled over and gave the keys to the Star Killer base without so much as any threat to her physical well-being. It would've been more interesting had she resisted and the rebels had to revert to more devious means...in particular having Solo show a darker side to explain Kylo Ren. Did General Hux even need to be a cast role? There needed to be more introductory scenes explaining Rey's sudden mastery of the force/lightsabers. I didn't find Maz to be an interesting character.

While I thought Rogue One had a slightly better story than the Force Awakens, no where in my comment above did I praise it. I'm tired of Death Stars. They are always blown up at the end of the movie...so really what's the point in the bad guys continuing to make them?

@darthrevenx: "the Clone Wars animated movie was okay.....the show was terrible, too child friendly"

Totally opposite once you get passed Season 1 and maybe even 2. By the time the show ended it had some rather dark plots to it and really made it not feel like a child's show to me. I cringed at the movie myself, but after pushing through that first season the show had a lot more maturity to it. Hell the TCW was darker than all of the prequels.

Happened to Rebels as well. Went from childish to having some pretty brutal episodes.

@TheAlmightyCow: cus if you look at what everything means, if SW Battlefront 2 is gonna be canon then the new order starts as soon as the rebels win on Endor, so no break, no celebration even though that's what the movies show, the people celebrating and rising up......nope, forget that, right into war........the next battle....

they want a franchise based on perpetual war.....and think about the people of that galaxy, they suffer decades where the leaders sat on their asses then when some tried to strike out alone a war broke out, then the gov got more corrupt as time went on then it turned into a tyrannical empire where for 20+ years people suffered, died and became corrupted and broken then finally it ends on;y to see a new war take it's place and a new war and a new war and so on.....that's what they want....

it's like our would going from WW1 to WW2 in days then from WW2 to Korea in a day and Korea to Vietnam and so on and so on all through the decades one war after another, had that happened there'd be nothing left, America would be poor, people would be flooding other nations if they could and Earth would be ruined by our constant need for war.....and in the multiverse there's an Earth like this.....if the multiverse exists and if we could access it there'd be a version of earth for every possibility.....

just saying this SW isn't the one i signed on for in the 80's when i first saw the trilogy....

SW7 was bad enough not to wanna continue, Jar jar was bad but Kylo is worse......

@TheAlmightyCow: Absolutely agree with you, with Episode 7 (which I loved) they had there work cut out for them, people overwhelmingly disliked the prequels so they put 1 foot into the originals and 1 foot into the future. It was a hard job and (in my opinion) pulled it off. Ep 8 from what little is known looks awesome so I think people need to relax a bit, lets wait and see how 8 is, and then wait until trailers for 9 come out before we judge.