Yes, all the complaints I heard about TLJ the ones that stood out the most was how derivative it was... 
The stand alone films are far superior
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I like all four of the new films to varying degrees, though I was very disappointed by a lot of the character and storytelling choices in TLJ. I just don't talk about it here in the SW Forum as much because sadly a not insignificant chunk of the people who are critical of TLJ here are doing it for racist or sexist reasons, or have completely gone off the deep end and started hostilly obsessing over Rian Johnson, Kathleen Kennedy, Kelly-Marie Tran and others and behaving almost like creepy stalkers, and you don't want to even peripherally be lumped into the same group with them just because some storytelling and character choices bothered you. Rian Johnson didn't murder my cat, he just made a movie I have some issues with. I'm not going to put a franchise fatwa on his head.
I think the standalone films do a good job of telling straightforward stories that capture the tone and feel of the original trilogy better, but then again, that's what they're supposed to do, while the new trilogy is supposed to forge its own path. Unfortunately, TFA kinda squelched that when they rehashed ANH, which had already been rehashed in ROTJ. But it was still funny and charming and exciting and fun and had characters I loved, so I forgave the derivative story.
Where I think the new trilogy excels however is in the likeable new group of heroes they've created, especially Rey, Finn, and Poe, or at least Poe from the first film before he became a mutinous, misogynist, homicidally negligent hothead who got everyone he commanded killed in the second. But yeah, that's "challenging expectations" alright. I was not expecting his personality to completely change to a total bastard like that in the matter of hours or days between films, and he wasn't the only one who was changed, but I've debated that enough already, so I won't go into it again.
Rogue One's and Solo's most memorable characters are strangely the smartassed droids. Which is not to say that I dont like the other characters, they just haven't grabbed me in the same way Rey, Finn, and TFA Poe have. I'd love to see more of Enfys Nest from Solo, but it was such a brief part of the film that I can't really count it as a fully fleshed out character.
All of the films have their issues, and all of them have their strengths. I can't say that the two standalones are better or worse than the two trilogy films. If I had to list them, I'd rank Rogue One and TFA together in the top spot, and then Solo and finally TLJ, which had its enjoyable moments and was beautiful to look at, but was ultimately unfulfilling and disappointing in its treatment of the characters and story developments from the first film, IMO.
I think the standalone films do a good job of telling straightforward stories that capture the tone and feel of the original trilogy better, but then again, that's what they're supposed to do, while the new trilogy is supposed to forge its own path. Unfortunately, TFA kinda squelched that when they rehashed ANH, which had already been rehashed in ROTJ. But it was still funny and charming and exciting and fun and had characters I loved, so I forgave the derivative story.
Where I think the new trilogy excels however is in the likeable new group of heroes they've created, especially Rey, Finn, and Poe, or at least Poe from the first film before he became a mutinous, misogynist, homicidally negligent hothead who got everyone he commanded killed in the second. But yeah, that's "challenging expectations" alright. I was not expecting his personality to completely change to a total bastard like that in the matter of hours or days between films, and he wasn't the only one who was changed, but I've debated that enough already, so I won't go into it again.
Rogue One's and Solo's most memorable characters are strangely the smartassed droids. Which is not to say that I dont like the other characters, they just haven't grabbed me in the same way Rey, Finn, and TFA Poe have. I'd love to see more of Enfys Nest from Solo, but it was such a brief part of the film that I can't really count it as a fully fleshed out character.
All of the films have their issues, and all of them have their strengths. I can't say that the two standalones are better or worse than the two trilogy films. If I had to list them, I'd rank Rogue One and TFA together in the top spot, and then Solo and finally TLJ, which had its enjoyable moments and was beautiful to look at, but was ultimately unfulfilling and disappointing in its treatment of the characters and story developments from the first film, IMO.
Will Salad be getting his own stand alone movie, too?
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According to the writer of a Legends Boba Fett story “Last One Standing”, he was contacted a few times by someone from Disney to tell him that they were considering adapting the story.
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