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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9643796" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean, that's fine as a personal opinion, but I'm talking from a "success of the setting/brand/IP" perspective, rather than a "lol [insert thing] sux haha" kind of one.It doesn't make sense to make a massive time-jump when there's absolutely nothing about the sequels and their ending which would require that. If they'd ended with the galaxy either being made perfect and safe for at least decades with President-for-life Rey, or civilization across much of the galaxy being basically destroyed or something, that'd make sense/be needed. As is, very little was locked down by TRoS (one of the few positive aspects of the movie). The returned Palpatine and his hard-to-explain fleet were destroyed, and the First Order scattered or destroyed (like the Empire before them). Almost everything else is up in the air.Developing a new aesthetic, new ships, and a new history and so on for 100 years on is going to be a lot more time-consuming and expensive than just going 5 years, where modern X-Wings could still plausibly be in service and so on. Going 100 years also means you're taking a big risk, because if you deviate too far design-wise the audience could be put off by that. And whatever you might think, there are probably a lot of younger people out there who actually like some/all of the sequel characters, so there's potential for re-using them.</blockquote>