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\"Kylo<\/a><\/div>\n

I don’t mind that the vast majority of Star Wars’ sequels and spin-offs have been declared no longer valid by Disney (what nerds call “canon” — or “cannon”, if they are exceptionally illiterate). I only wish Disney had taken the additional step of declaring it all<\/strong> no longer canon, and started over from scratch. The Force Awakens would have been vastly improved if it had not been dragging along the baggage of the last 40 years. Every time they trundled out the cast from the 1977 movie (including the robots), the film ground to a cringe-inducing halt. What’s more, the most egregious plot holes were directly the result of shoehorning those characters into the story.<\/p>\n

Ah, well. The film appears to have served its purpose, regardless. It’s the most successful toy commercial ever made<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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