Rogue One

It has been a decade since the last Star Wars movie, episode III. There has been a Star Wars 'drought' if you will, but like the prequels did, a new trilogy is bringing Star Wars back, again. This time, it comes back with even more. Disney is taking their newly acquired property and running with it. Along with the new trilogy, Disney has announced that multiple spin-offs are planned, including the newly announced Rouge One.

 Rouge One is supposed to feature the famous Rouge Squadron from episode IV, and have little to do with the main cast at all, hence it being a spin-off. It's exciting to get to dive into these new sections of the Star Wars universe we have not been familiarized with yet. It would be sad if in the end if Disney's episode VII flops, making all of these planned movies do worse, but ill keep thoughts like that away for now. 

Think about what this means for Star Wars in general though. Think of any area of Star Wars you want to dive deeper into, but know it's not enough for a major movie. There have been rumors of a Boba Fett spin-off, which would be incredible, since he is hardly in the movie. Other cool spin-offs could be Darth Maul, Count Dooku, or even as simple as life as an average Stormtrooper would be really interesting. With this in mind, I am carefully, cautiously, hyped... I don't want my hopes to be incredibly crushed when Disney doesn't deliver, but thats not to say they are destined to fail. The way of going about all this new Star Wars news and rumors is simple. Don't dive in, don't expect something that is impossible, just expect nothing. If the prequels taught us anything, it's that we need to expect nothing going in, so everything good about the movie is a bonus, and if it is bad, we don't feel robbed. It's hard be calm, to not board that hype train. But I promise it's not taking you anywhere you want to go.