Star Wars Numero Seven

I saw where J. J. Abrams, one of the recent wunderkinds, will sit in the captain’s chair for the next Star Wars movie. According to the film news mill, since Disney bought Lucasfilm, the next three films in the saga will finally emerge. The long lost dream from back in ’77 of a 9-part series. These next three will supposedly take off some time (haven’t heard yet how many years) after Return of the Jedi. From what I’ve heard, we’ll see Luke as a Jedi master, Leia, too, perhaps, and Han and Leia with little Jedi juniors running around.

I do have some questions, though. Abrams’ successes mostly concern him as a producer. He’s had some success as a director, especially with Super 8 (2011) and Star Trek (2009). Much as I loved the new Star Trek, he could’ve tightened it up (at least he didn't call it Star Trek: The Second Motion Picture). Loved the new batch of actors, great action sequences, the storyline, well, I always have trouble when we get the whole time loop thing in there. Spock Old and Spock Young, both existing at the same time? Wouldn’t that do something bad to the space-time continuum? Ah, well, it was still a really good film. And, I hope J. J. can pull off Star Wars part Seven. Good thing is, maybe he can keep check on Mr. Lucas and keep him from creating the mess he made with Star Wars One, Two, and Three.

I'm hopeful, though. Abrams had a truly tough job with firing back up the Star Trek franchise, which had been dying on the vine for a long while. What I hope is that he brings back to Star Wars a simple, powerful story, like in the original Star Wars, throwing in some of the darkness of Empire and Return. So, let's see what he does. First things first, though. Don't just call it Star Wars: Episode VII.

'til next time... Adios.