#StarWars
*THREAD*
I think the reason you see so many people willing to believe the idea of them erasing or retconning the sequel trilogy, (beyond just gullibility) is due to the abundance of other franchises who’ve done so in recent years...

Alien, Predator, Terminator, Halloween ; all of these and more openly dismiss poorly received entries and make these sequel/reboot hybrids that essentially act as a do-over. And while these have worked on occasion, (Halloween); other times this has lead to devastating...

results, most prominently with the Terminator franchise. Terminator Salvation, Genisys, and More recently Dark Fate, were each meant to be the beginning of a new trilogy and each time failed spectacularly; to the point where they’re effectively out of goodwill....

I don’t know a single person who can honestly tell me they give a damn about modern Terminator or whatever the next attempted reboot will be. You can only tell your audience “that doesn’t matter” so many times because eventually NONE of it will matter to them...

This is where Star Wars is different from almost every other franchise in existence. When it comes to the movies, it all matters; and this has never been more true than in the Disney era.
In the days of George Lucas the extended materials where “mostly” treated as ....

a sort of pseudo-canon, you can enjoy them and count them as part of the universe in your head but George could render them contradictory with the next film he decides to make, George and his movies were above all else.
With the Disney era you have almost a full reversal...

of that. With the creation of the new canon everything was deemed to be on an equal playing field, every game, comic, novel and show are presented as being on par with the canon of the movies and with the exception of a few missteps this has remained intact...

The movies still seem to take a more serious precedent than anything else which is why in the case of the few new canon missteps the expanded materials still have to refit themselves to anything presented in the movies. But on the whole the canon ecosystem works well...

It’s this canon system which prevents it from falling where so many movie franchises have before, because it’s not just a movie franchise; it’s a conglomerate of different mediums.
If one were to retcon or erase a trilogy of movies you’re effectively pushing over ...

a series of dominoes, everything that prevents star wars from becoming the terminator franchise would be gone. Star Wars works as well as it does and has the surviving power few others do because it all matters, it all counts, no matter how you feel about it.