Got a bit bored and looked up the crew sizes of the various ships that appeared in TLJ, the total manifest across all first order ships was about 4,900,000. and the total manifest of resistance troops was about 2000(?) (not certain).

My conclusion from this is that the First order were extremely prolific kidnappers and or the remaining imperial troops that formed the first order were very "prosperous"

It's from JJ, so I doubt it will be good. I found myself liking Episode 7 less and less with each viewing. The movie is pretty mediocre and plays it too safe. The Last Jedi had issues, but I take it over Episode 7. Episode 8 try to add some new stuff to the lore and did some risk to keep things new. I hate the Casino filler crap in the movie, but I enjoy everything else about the film.

Episode 8 is far from great in my opinion, but I still take it over the prequels and Episode 7.

The only Star Wars related thing I'm excited for these days is the upcoming TLJ re-edit by Ivan Ortega of YouTube. The trailer for it is already out for those that are interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d8_-6pCgpM

Well, it was kind of stated outright by Finn if I recall correctly. Or at least very heavily implied.

My take was “Disney had no idea what they were doing.”

Looks interesting but it’s from JJ Abrams. I won’t get my hopes up.

Nope, still not interested.

Yeah trailer wasn't all too interesting. I might go see it anyway just to wrap up/close the sequel trilogy.

In other news, EA is making another Star Wars game. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. And get this, no microtransactions, entirely single player/story focused.

EA. If this is true, you finally learned your lesson. However, this is still EA. They've had a huge terrible track record in recent years. No microstransaction may mean "a shitload of paid DLC". Plus there was the whole debacle with Battlefront 2's microtransactions prior to and after launch.

So imma press the doubt button. The trailer for it looks good but i'm gonna wait and see what legitimate, non-shill reviews come out

EA has not been good in over 15 years. So I have very low hopes on them making a good Star Wars game.