Star Wars needs more moral ambiguity

polygon.com:

The Star Wars franchise is constantly producing a stream of profitable new merchandising and material, includingvideo games,novels,comics, andanimated shows. But the film and TV side of Star Wars feels like it’s struggling. Over the past five years, Disney has repeatedlyannounced plansfornew movies, thenunceremoniously canceled them, or just kept themsilently back-burnered. Disney Plus’ recent Star Wars live-action shows keeppromising new directionsfor the franchise, thenpulling backandmixing messages. There’s no clear vision or coherent narrative direction for the screen versions of the franchise, even though they’re the most visible and mainstream part of Star Wars. Everybody seems to want something different out of this grand, sprawling story.

So Polygon is gathering some thoughts about the franchise’s future under the loose banner of What We Want From Star Wars. These opinion essays lay out what we love about the Star Wars universe, and where we hope it’ll go in the future … or a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

Star Wars is filled with people who lose everything, only to pick themselves up and fight back. From Luke standing in front of the smoldering wreckage of his family’s Tatooine homestead to Rose losing her sister in the opening minutes of The Last Jedi, the franchise is built on the backs of people who righteously refuse to give up in the face of tragedy — or even really take a beat to process what just happened. Times may be tough now, the Star Wars movies suggest, but you too can head straight to a local Resistance recruiting office and enlist, to turn that pain into something more.

But after literal decades of watching the Star Wars universe, there is exactly one vibe I want from future outings