Star Wars is a multi-media franchise started by George Lucas with the release of the first film, then called ‘Star Wars’.
Currently, it is owned and painfully mismanaged by Disney. films
I don’t recognize anything that was created by Disney to be canon. As far as I’m concerned, the old Expanded Universe (or ‘Legends’) is canon. For this reason…I’m just not really gonna talk about it at all.
This also applies to The Clone Wars – the 3D animated show – which I don’t recognize as canon either. Disney’s canon is built entirely around that show and, well, it ended up breaking everything when it came out.
My perspective is that Disney canon (and The Clone Wars) should be eliminated from canon, with the original EU being used as a foundation for new content instead.
If you’re interested in my reasonings why, I’ll link a few relevant videos here. But for a channel that has proper Star Wars lore, focused around the EU, go to Manda-LORE.
I’ll keep it mostly barebones for now.
The franchise overall is very good, I’d say. Though with notable hiccups.
I think that the original trilogy is…good, though not as good as it’s often made out to be.
Episode VI is obviously the weakest and the least sensical, though it’s debatable just how bad it is.
I really don’t have that much to say, honestly.
Having grown up watching these films, I have a slight bias towards them. However…I do think that much of the frequently-levied criticism towards these films is not valid.
A lot of strange decisions were made during the production of these films, but it’s also clear that a lot of thought went into it as well.
Among the things that I’d say were good:
Among the things that I’d say were bad:
But that’s all I’ll say for now. I have a preference for the Clone Wars era, however.