I liked Star Wars as a kid and even know I like it but not to the same extent as back then.  The Star Wars movies were fun and all but it was the various games I played based on the franchise that really got me into the series.  I am not ashamed to say that I liked the prequels though I will easily admit there was a lot done wrong in them, especially the Phantom Menace.  That said, what the Prequels managed to do was show how the Empire came to power and what the Republic was like before the Empire which was great at establishing lore.  Just knowing what the Jedi Council was like and how many there were during that time period was exciting and interesting.  Quite a few fun games were made based on the prequels that I had a lot of fun with and I did enjoy the Clone Wars series, even if it was a bit wonky.

Despite all the flaws, the Prequels opened up so much of interest to the fans about the Star Wars Universe, and prequel series like Knights of the Old Republic were fun and amazing, with quite a bit of influence from both the prequels and original sagas.  Fans' imaginations soared and tons of role plays and games made the community feel alive.  Also there are plenty of games like Jedi Knight that were placed after the original series and based on the Expanded Universe that were quite interesting, unique, and fun.

Then came along Disney with the Sequels and the first thing they do is declare the entire Expanded Universe as non-cannon.  Ok, so technically that makes sense as you wouldn't want to be bound to the Expanded Universe when trying to make a sequel which is fine, but just the fact that they had to go out of their way to point that out was a bit concerning.  It was a red flag for me, though a small one.  Still there was a lot of good characters and story lines in the expanded universe, though admittedly I knew mostly just the game stuff but there were definitely a lot of good story lines and characters to mess around with.  Also there were a lot of interesting politics that I gleaned from the few books I read about the New Republic and the challenges it faced, the sequels basically just blew it up, literally.

The rebels in the original were exactly that, rebels who were rebelling against a cruel and corrupt government that had changed a Republic into a Dictatorship.  The resistance in the sequels were a group of basically militia that was attempting to stop the expanse of a somehow really powerful empire remnant group while the New Republic sat on its ass having parties and not caring about this rising menace because they weren't threatening the core worlds...like really?  What happened to the other empire remnants?  How did the New Republic become so corrupt, incompetent, and lazy in such a short time?

We have a resistance that cosplayed as rebels, we have a Republic that apparently only cares about money rather then running a galaxy, and somehow the Empire had some secret order that rose to Empire levels of power and construction despite not having access to the core worlds?  It was all just so...[i]random[/i].  Yes [i]random[/i] is probably the best word I have for the Sequel Saga.  Old characters either went in completely weird directions or regressed back to their earlier days.  New characters had weird development and most things that would have made them interesting, was pretty much completely ignored as the movies were bounced between directors.

The world building was strange and just seemed out of context with everything that had happened before.  I could not find the new characters interesting enough to want to get to know them.  All of the villains seemed weird or just incompetent.  The New Republic government was literally blown up in the first movie by a weapon bigger and stronger than [i]both[/i] Death Stars which had the manpower of an entire Empire behind their construction.  Hyperspace was completely messed up with a ship becoming a ramming weapon stronger than most conventional weapons.  There were just so many strange and, in my opinion, bad world-building choices in the Sequels, I would never be tempted to play a game or do a role play based on the the Sequel Saga.

Is Star Wars dead?  No and I'm sure it never will be; however as long as Disney continues their current course, they will continue to see massive declines in anything Star Wars related, especially if it is related to the Sequel Saga.  The Sequel Saga is a dead saga in many eyes, I for one greater prefer LEGENDS to the new canon despite its obvious flaws because I just find it so much more interesting.  The Sequels nuked the politics side of Star Wars with a big gun and I just found the Saga dull and uninspired.  I'll stick with Kyle Katarn and the Jedi Academy Star Wars over the Sequels thanks.