OOC - Rancor Pit (OoC Chat)

[Shunna Maza]

It seems, and this is only my opinion, that they know that half their audience are young people (Millennials) and this audience is just going to grow larger.  They also know that this younger audience have different attention spans than us older folks and they love flashy lights and things that go boom.  (Hey, I like that too but not at the expense of the story) So they want to finish all the older character's story arcs to make way for a younger generation.  I can understand this because the sudden death of Carry Fisher must have really threw them into chaos.  I'm sure they wondered how many more movies can Mark Hamill (66) and Harrison Ford (75) do before they (might) suddenly pass away too.  

Harrison Ford wanted Han Solo to die for a long time so I'm not too annoyed with his death scene but we miss out on seeing Luke do so much cool stuff by them killing him off.  They did show that Force Ghosts can now do a lot more than they use to so maybe they will let his ghost do some amazing feats.  They also had their chance to give Leia her tragic send off but instead the lady in charge told the writers that she wanted the audience to see Leia use her Force powers.  So they came up with the Mary Poppins/Supergirl scene.  So now what will they do?  Just hospitalize her for all of the last movie?  We don't know what additional footage she filmed so it's possible they will use that to finish her arc.  To me, if they wanted to kill Luke they should have waited until the 3rd movie and had Leia pass away in The Last Jedi.