I feel two ways about new StarWars.
I like the idea of using all the old characters and ships to draw the two eras together.
On the other hand, it is even tough to suspend disbelief when you think about how the MF would be an outdated POS rustbucket after being built 60 years before the Battle of Yavin, or 60 BBY. Then add to that 4 years between Yavin and Endor. And the new movies take place 30 years after Endor. So the MF'ing MF is about 94 years old.
Apparently C-3PO was constructed 112 BBY. Plus 34 years makes him 146 years old. These two examples are admittedly non-canon.
In a "used future" galaxy where FTL travel has existed for tens of thousands of years, I have a little trouble believing in the efficiency of a 94-year-old light freighter or in a non-obsolete 146-year-old protocol droid.
The caveat to these plot holes would be a canonical explanation for why technology in the SW galaxy seems to evolve but is stunted to such a ridiculous degree. I am not aware of such an explanation that is SW canon. Without an explanation, the droids and MF are just plot devices which bridge the age differences in movie goers and bind the years together.
TL;DR - I guess I am saying that Star Wars should not continue with the old ass MF and droids.
I like the idea of using all the old characters and ships to draw the two eras together.
On the other hand, it is even tough to suspend disbelief when you think about how the MF would be an outdated POS rustbucket after being built 60 years before the Battle of Yavin, or 60 BBY. Then add to that 4 years between Yavin and Endor. And the new movies take place 30 years after Endor. So the MF'ing MF is about 94 years old.
Apparently C-3PO was constructed 112 BBY. Plus 34 years makes him 146 years old. These two examples are admittedly non-canon.
In a "used future" galaxy where FTL travel has existed for tens of thousands of years, I have a little trouble believing in the efficiency of a 94-year-old light freighter or in a non-obsolete 146-year-old protocol droid.
The caveat to these plot holes would be a canonical explanation for why technology in the SW galaxy seems to evolve but is stunted to such a ridiculous degree. I am not aware of such an explanation that is SW canon. Without an explanation, the droids and MF are just plot devices which bridge the age differences in movie goers and bind the years together.
TL;DR - I guess I am saying that Star Wars should not continue with the old ass MF and droids.