Simon Dillon
1 min readNov 2, 2024

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Interesting observations.

Some thoughts from me:

1) My loyalty is the cinema rather than Star Wars, so I'm not really a "fan" in the strictest sense. The original trilogy are groundbreaking classics (impossible to argue, even if you hate them, and I certainly don't - they were an integral part of my childhood).

2) Despite their technical proficiency (and the peerless John Williams) the prequels were a disappointment, and I've written extensively elsewhere how I would have handled that story. Yes, inevitably rose-tinted nostalgia will kick in for some, but objectively, they aren't that good (just as I have rose-tinted nostalgia for, say, The Goonies, but objectively it's not that good either, unlike Back to the Future, for instance, which I saw around the same time).

3) The sequel trilogy is a mixed bag. The Force Awakens is fun but hardly essential. The Last Jedi is the only genuinely essential Star Wars film since the original trilogy, for reasons I've written about extensively elsewhere. The Rise of Skywalker was a tepid climbdown that should have doubled down on the fascinating ideas explored in The Last Jedi.

4) The TV series? I don't much care, to be honest. Star Wars belongs in the cinema as far as I'm concerned. I quite liked Andor, but it doesn't feel like Star Wars. Less space fantasy more dystopian sci-fi.

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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