By drax on Skatehive
La commedia è finita. Game over. That is all that can be said about the future of Star Wars, one of the most popular and lucrative media franchises in history that, deservedly or undeservedly, has captivated generations for almost half a century. Although it was hard to expect that any of the sequels and various spin-offs would ever have the power and impact that the retroactively titled A New Hope had back in 1977, or that any sequel would be as surprisingly good as The Empire Strikes Back, it is still difficult to accept that the plunge into Hollywood mediocrity represented by the last trilogy would be so sudden and utterly devastating. Perhaps the best testimony to this is that no major Hollywood blockbuster staple in recent years has been met with as little enthusiasm and as much contempt as The Rise of Skywalker. The reason, of course, lies in The Last Jedi, which among franchise fans caused so much disappointment, anger, and poured so much vitriol on social networks that Hollywoo