AnonMC

The current Disney management cares jackshit for fan views/opinions and relations, and they did buy the rights to the name and franchise, so there's not much that can be done. They are foolishly convinced they are oh-so-cool and almighty. Time will tear their world apart (and serve justice), but the damaged they've caused is irreversible...

And, yeah, I already have, in a way. Disney has no hold over me or my Star Wars fandom. But it's still a big-big shame what happened to such a rich overall fan culture... :'( I can't help but mourn it...

That review, done by James Rolfe (AVGN) is truly worth the time watching, by the way! As a passionate movie maker and lover, he gets many subliminal and film culture related points spot-on in that review.

Namely, a culture.

They claimed to own something, and took forceful control of it, that rightfully belongs to the people.

What Disney did with this rich material and its culture was incredibly ignorant, immoral, horribly wasteful, and completely irresponsible. It's much alike to burning books because they don't align with a single person's view (dictatorship, totalitarism).

You can base a literary course just on the study of Star Wars and its ties with world culture.

Even Superman (DC) can't compete with that, yet alone Marvel...

Lucas has always encouraged fan culture, continuation, and community world-building during the decades since Star Wars' creation -- in the same spirit he, too, built Star Wars.

And that's not mentioning the continued culture that sprung from it from the hundreds of works that were created based on this rich literary start, and the community that grew around this culture.

Also, Lucas has enriched his original work with a ton of film culture references, as well pointed out in this film study/review, so that Star Wars is not one film, not even a trilogy, but the acculumation of a whole culture into a literary work: http://cinemassacre.com/2009/02/28/star-wars-movie-review-part-1/

Well, for instance, the structure of the storytelling in the original trilogy was based on Joseph Campbell's cultural and mythological studies, and principles defined in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which Lucas carefully studied before embarking on the writing journey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces

Marvel is fiction. Star Wars is culture.

To compare the Star Wars universe to the Marvel universe is quite degrading to Star Wars, actually.

...instance, Star Wars has a long cultural history and rich literary content that isn't tied to any particular author. In that sense, Star Wars has become a worldwide cultural relic.

Actually, no, I did a research into the cultural literary values of the Star Wars stories, and their worth to modern literature and future generations is quite significant. As far as film culture and storytelling in film goes Star Wars is at the top in terms of impact and significance. So not exaggerating at all.

And, yeah, that's true, but while Marvel never had quite that literary significance, and such wide contributions to its lore as the Star Wars Expanded Universe, for...

What other fictional universe do you know that has had such a cultural history and significance?

And, yes, the corporate villain is named and defined by their actions.

One of the greatest fictional universes ever built... A treasure built on historical human culture and of rare chance and circumstances...

Just a retrospective on an enormous, many-decades-old, incredibly rich, community-built, fictional and cultural wealth lost. What arrogance, what crime, and what a waste... I'm still mourning...

Best to tell it like it is, is it not? Why hide it?