The Force Awakens was J.J. Abrams’ attempt to prove that “Star Wars” was back after the prequel trilogy altered the formula from the original trilogy. The OT took cues from samurai movies, dogfights, and classic science fiction serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers stories. The prequels went to a more traditional war story mixed with a political bend. Abrams was so trying to convince you he was going back to the previous tradition that he basically ripped off parts of the original movie’s concept in the story. (Imperials/First Order and Death Star/Starkiller Base being the more obvious ones.) For a movie banking on nostalgia you’d think the big moment would be seeing the old cast together one last time before passing the torch to the next generation of star warriors.
As we all know, that’s not what happened. Instead, Han is killed before Luke is brought around, and now even some of the actors are gone in real life, including Carrie Fisher and two costumed actors, Peter Mayhew and Kenny Baker. It’s now impossible to have all three main human characters of the trilogy back together in any capacity. Well, as Mark Hamill recently stated in an interview, the movie that was trying to use Star Wars nostalgia to bring back the fans who rejected the prequels purposefully dropped the ball and didn’t do the most nostalgic thing they could do. That is why they fail.
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