Happy seventh observed Star Wars day.

• First. (I was oblivious)
• Second. (The Disney deal dropped)
• Third. (Episode 7 started production)
• Fourth. (Episode 7 wrapped)
• Fifth. (The Force Awakens)
• Sixth. (Rogue One)

Saw "The Last Jedi", twice in the theater.
I'm putting repeat viewings in comments now, so no more multiple links to chase around.

I loved the shit out of it.
But with "the fandom", it's the most divisive since the prequels.
It still made 1.3 billion, so fuck those little bitches.

Yeah, I thought we'd be free and clear of this shit after this one, but it looks like we're stuck with whiny fanboys until generation X and Y fucking die.
Generation Z is grateful for all 9 of 'em.
They're where we were in the 80's.
Pure and unsullied by hipster-ism.

I have a feeling sooner or later, the hipsters will be eating a big bucket of apology.
Can't wait.

Anyhoo, from last time...

See you next year for "The Last Jedi", and some news on Han Solo and anthology three.

The first is taken care of above.
As for the other two...

• Lord & Miller were fired from Han Solo, and Ron Howard was called in to fix and finish the flick.
• Reshoots my ass, he remade the damned thing.
• "Untitled Han Solo movie", was finally titled "Solo: A Star Wars Story".
• Solo had its teaser trailer and teaser posters.
• The Solo teaser posters turned out to be ripoffs.
• Solo had its full trailer and another poster.
• Solo had its final (?) poster.
• And, the future of the third anthology flick is still as murky as ever.

Also...

• I did an update/sequel to the infographic evolution thing. 
• No word yet on how Episode 9 is going to deal with the death of Carrie Fisher. 
• Whatsisname was fired from Episode 9, and J.J. Abrams is wrapping up the sequel trilogy.
• Whatsisname landed on his feet, he's directing Jurassic World 3. 
• Rian Johnson is making his own trilogy. 
• Benioff & Weiss from GoT are making their own trilogy. 
• Jon Favreau is developing the live-action TV series. 
• Disney/Lucasfilm is retiring the Wilhelm scream. 
• I re-reviewed the prequels.  (I don't hate 'em anymore)
• I ranked the first 8 Star Wars films. 
• Rebels finished off, and it was awesome, and left seeds for the third series. 
• They didn't go up to "Rogue One", but what they did was even better.
• With Thrawn being in two seasons of Rebels, that's as good as the anime Thrawn trilogy I wanted. 
• One of the high up story-group guys at Lucasfilm said they're going to pull more and more from the old EU. So Thrawn was just the start. *Crosses fingers for Mara Jade*
• The third animated series is called "Star Wars: Resistance".
• Star Wars Land is called "Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge".

So, I'm writing this post three weeks ahead of time, cuz I couldn't stand the wait anymore.
I'm gonna do that now, instead of backlogging the news in the comments of the previous year.
If any new news drops between now and then, I'll add it in.

By the time this goes up, Solo will be a couple weeks away.
Then, that'll have to get us over the massive hump before Episode 9.
By next year, there should be some Episode 9 news, maybe a title.
And hopefully, we'll have some news on the next 2 trilogies, anthology three, animated series three, and the live-action TV series.
And oh yeah! "Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge", should be built by then!

Up until Rogue One, we were going movie to movie, now the universe is going to explode out to the size it was in the 90's with the expanded universe.
I'm genuinely excited.
Good time to be alive.
And absolutely none of this existed this time in 2012.
So, you never know.
See you next time for more cool stuff we don't know now.