Why We Should Let Star Wars Die

When I was a little kid I watched the VHS releases of the original Star Wars trilogy so frequently I could reproduce a one man show of it. I remember watching them, because that particular release was very memorable. There were interviews between Leonard Maltin and a heaving, rambling neck roll of fat who I later learned was the man that actually made these movies I loved so much. Trailers for The Empire Strikes Back played before A New Hope, and Return of The Jedi before Empire. The whole package was built to pump people up into a Star Wars lather. It was mesmerizing, indoctrinating. 

I know I saw Episode I twice in theatres. Once with my parents and I think once with my cousins. There was a part with a silver ship, and a part where the little boy had to race against an adult monster, and there were big donut ships. I did not see Episode II until it aired on TV years later and I think I'm only familiar with Episode III via a video game that a friend of mine shared when I was 12. Jar Jar Binks is in there somewhere too.

As the years have gone by I've gone from someone who would readily admit to thinking Star Wars was a cool action scifi movie, to someone who appreciates it for giving the Sci-Fi genre a kick in the ass and making amazing use of special effects for its time, to a cynical acerbic old man who looks on the Empire of Star Wars merchandise, video games and media with a kind of ignorant disdain. I do not know what little kids these days like about Star Wars, but I feel like it's much the same things they like about the Micheal Bay Transformers movies, JJ Abrams Star Trek escapades and whatever regurgitation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is still floating around. They have all ran aground, abandoned ship and joined into a colossal, forgettable collective. You know what I remember from Star Trek into darkness? Benedict Cumberbatch, who looks like a foot, trying to be intimidating and FAILING and the colour blue. It was a VERY blue movie. And if I'm someone who tries to remember films, to retain them so I can be a smartass later still with groundless accusations of homosexual undertones and manlust in a series about a space war, what are other people remembering them for? 

What components of Star Wars VII aren't going to just feel like what Star Trek 2009 was: A big, action packed cartoon with some quotes and names that are about 50 years old plucked and pruned to make the film fit the name?