Saga Here is my unorthodox Star Wars opinion: change my mind!

I could not take Rebels seriously even before Andor existed.

 

The truth is Disney should make Star Wars stories more for adults i loved Andor i even doubt that Lucas would have done something similar in Underworld the majority of Star Wars fans are adults the new generations dont care as much about the franchise they should make more stories like Andor in films and shows

 

Star Wars can be kiddy, and adult at same time. Rebels walked so Andor could run

 

Bah! In many ways Star Wars is more popular than ever. Speaking as someone who grew up in the 80s/90s, I've seen this franchise evolve from near-extinction to cultural juggernaut.
Were you around for the wilderness years after Return of the Jedi? When finding Star Wars toys meant digging through clearance bins and most kids my age couldn't name a character beyond Darth Vader? The franchise nearly vanished from mainstream consciousness.

Fast-forward to now—Star Wars permeates pop culture in ways unimaginable back then. From streaming series dropping year-round to Galaxy's Edge theme parks where kids can build their own lightsabers and fly the Millennium Falcon. Kids absolutely LOVE Star Wars.

What's remarkable isn't just the quantity but the diversity of content. The franchise speaks to different generations simultaneously—whether through nostalgic callbacks or entirely new characters and stories. Kids today aren't just passive consumers; they're deeply invested in the expanding universe.

If anything, Star Wars has proven its staying power by constantly reinventing itself while maintaining its core essence. Rather than fading away, it's become more interwoven with global popular culture than ever before.

 

To be fair, during the 1990s — especially right before the Prequels came out — Star Wars had already started to rise again from the ashes, mainly thanks to the Expanded Universe. So yes, it is true that Star Wars basically fell into obscurity from the release of Return of the Jedi until the mid-1990s, but in the second half of the decade, it had already began to make a comeback. When the Prequels hit, the franchise exploded in popularity, and throughout the 2000s Star Wars was absolutely huge, and the Sequels definitely made it even more mainstream. Yet, honestly, over the last four or five years, I have been feeling a bit of a decline in how popular it is. Sure, it is still way more popular than it ever was in the 1980s, but here in 2025, at least to me, it feels a bit less hyped than it was in the 2000s and 2010s.

 

Completely agree. Hype and cultural "excitement" are hard to maintain. I think any massive cultural phenomenom needs time to rest/go away for a bit to be missed and build anticipation. Whether it's film franchises like Marvel, singers like Taylor Swift, collectively we need breaks in order to reinvigorate, etc.

 

I guess at the time, There not gonna be any Star Wars Movies, so when the Expanded Universe started picking up steam and the special editions and Prequels started coming along it was pure magical..

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The EU helped, but it was Lucas announcing the SE's and the PT, and the release of new merchandise that drove interest. The EU only affected the small fandom that was even aware of its existence. "Casuals" had no clue about it.

 

I was a massive fan of the movies but for some reason the books never interested me as I was already engrossed in other stories on the page... whereas Star wars was always the screen