Latest rumors (likely false) claim that the protagonist played by Felicity Jones is a "morally ambiguous" character with "personal ties to Palpatine"

Hmm.... Maybe that WAS a Mara Jade-esque person's grave Luke was standing near when Rey arrived

The cheapening, it's happening!

Never say never...

I must say that I was a bit skeptical when Disney bought Lucasfilm. I thought we were gonna get some sort of Disneyed-out product. After seeing TFA, I pretty much felt that it was a good thing that Disney took Lucasfilm off of George Lucas's hands. Best thing that could've happened since, at that point, Lucas was just cynically exploiting Star Wars w/ his shitty re-edits of the original trilogy, and just tarnishing the franchise.

Maybe out of naïveté or wishful thinking, I somehow thought that Disney would only do a sequel trilogy, a few TV series, and maybe at most, reboot the prequels (possibly the next best thing they could do for the franchise, if they can get J.J. the Redeemer to do it). But no. If you see how Disney is really trying to squeeze every drop of blood out of the Marvel IP, and th announcement of a film based on Rogue Squadron and a rumored Obi-Wan trilogy, they'll do the same w/ Star Wars.

On the bright side, Han shoots first, or simply shoots since he fries Greedo's ass before Greedo has a chance to shoot. It's canon.

Well, they rebooted the Spider-Man franchise when it really didn't have to be—other than to make money—but if anything needed to be rebooted, b/c you know, it was actually bad, it would be the Star Wars prequels. Maybe there's just not enough hype for that at the time, but that's what marketing is for.

Maybe there's fear that this could open up the possibility of rebooting the original trilogy, but that would be sacrilege.

Two reasons they will not "reboot" any of the existing saga films: ep. 7 is close enough to a re-hash of A New Hope, and the Star Wars universe is vast enough that it's really not necessary. 

Making another version of Anakin's story is over-kill. Enough already, let's see some more new, younger characters, Skywalker or not.

Quite looking forward to this. Could be better than Force Awakens. We'll see.