Haha yeah...I too am an old school star wars fan. I think I had damn near every book (at least all of them before the Vong series. Definitely all the Zahn books though). I've never understood why people obsess over all that...nitpicky bull****. I don't know what it is about star wars (and star trek I think, but I only watched DS9) that draws people to do that.
I just want a competent, decent story that I haven't seen before. Sadly, none of the Disney **** has been anything we haven't seen before. TLJ tried some new ideas and failed miserably, but even that was a lot of the same old same old.
As much as everyone ****s on the prequels (and rightly so for many reasons) at least they did new-ish things. Granted, their entire story arc was already built into the background of the OG trilogy, but still. Obviously superhero R2D2 and the Amazing Spiderm- I mean Yoda were dumb, Darth Furniture had a double lightsaber and that was...his character, but I thought seeing Palpatine before he was emperor was brilliant (all the practical issues of a Sith Lord chilling in the midst of the Jedi aside).
Rant over. Movies today make me sad.