No. Or to be more precise, there is nothing Disney can do to “ruin” Star Wars. A New Hope is and will always be a classic film; The Empire Strikes Back may be better still, and despite Disney’s penchant for beating ideas to death, Star Wars will survive.

Since Disney bought Star Wars from George Lucas, they have made their best attempt to reinvigorate a series that had a spotty reputation dating back to the release of The Phantom Menace in 1997. In 2015 Disney began a new Star Wars trilogy, bringing back the original cast from the classic films, and telling the story of what happened next to these much beloved characters. When The Force Awakens was released, there was a major backlash from the fan base who felt let down, because this one movie had replaced around 40 Expanded Universe books that already told the aftermath of the Battle of Endor and the destruction of the Second Death Star. Additionally, the movie portrayed these icons as bitter, lonely, and completely accepting of their lives rather than striving for more. They waited to die rather than trying to find something to live for, and for a fan of the old movies like me, it felt like a complete letdown of characters that deserved better. The new cast for the most part was very good; however, the villain was less than foreboding as Kylo Ren felt more like a petulant child than the second-in-command of an intergalactic empire. Part of the film’s climax involved Kylo Ren killing one of the original characters in quite possibly the lamest way for such a well-liked character to go out. In fact, it was so sloppy it felt more like the actor demanded that his character be killed off rather than being the writer’s idea.

Just last Christmas, The Force Awakens got its much-awaited sequel: The Last Jedi. So, how did The Last Jedi follow up a film described by many as uninspired and a retelling of A New Hope? It killed off more of the characters the audience had come to love for the last forty years, but not before making them completely unlikeable. What of the dark, foreboding mastermind of the previous film? Unceremoniously murdered before his story could be told. Even the new characters we were supposed to like were put in situations where any action they took would arbitrarily villainize them, despite their good intentions. Finally, the pacing of The Last Jedi sucked any enjoyment out of it because it felt never-ending. Finally, Disney decided to make two spin-off films to expand on the backstory between the event of some of the films. This is where Rogue One and the upcoming Han Solo project fit in.

These projects unlike other Star Wars movies are not continuations or prequels to the saga, rather they are stand-alone stories that fill in gaps between the movies. While they are fun flicks that one can watch without necessarily watching all the other films first, they are not the greatest when compared to the rest of the series. While it is unfair to critique the upcoming Han Solo movie before it is even released (despite the new actor not looking or sounding like Harrison Ford at all), Rogue One is fair game. It’s by no means a bad movie, it really struggles as essentially Star Wars 3.5. Admittedly, I had wanted to see what happened between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, I was thinking more along the lines of the continuation of Order 66 and the stories of already-established characters like Obi-Wan’s transition to Ben Kenobi. Instead of getting stories of young Lando, Han, Chewbacca, Leia, or Luke we got a handful of characters we had never met not meeting any established characters (other than one or two side-side characters), embarking on a suicide mission that A New Hope already told us the outcome of. It was really hard to sympathize with characters who had no future or past in the main series.

After all of this it would seem that maybe Disney has not been doing a good job with Star Wars; however, I would argue they are trying new things and telling new stories, and while some work better than others, none are horrible. Surprisingly, the worst of the worst of Star Wars came about before the Disney buy-out. Without further ado, here’s the Top Ten Worst Star Wars Stories NOT Related to Disney:

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10) Anything involving Jar Jar Binks: I mean, what’s some casual racism and obtrusive obnoxiousness in a sci-fi movie?

9) Star Wars #53-54 (He-man Crossover): Well okay, it’s not quite he-man, but pretty close. Also giant unexplained Stormtroopers only ever seen in those two comics. Why?

8) Star Wars: Zorba the Hut’s Revenge: Yes, we all definitely wanted to read about Jabba the hut’s daddy issues.

7) Star Wars Attack of the Clones: WORST love scenes ever! Anyone who finds anything remotely enjoyable in Anakin’s and Padme’s dialogue has clearly never seen a romance movie.

6) Star Wars The Phantom Menace: Star Wars: The Phantom Borefest (and Darth Maul).

5) Vader’s Quest 1-4: Ever wondered about the pilot Luke replaced when he joined the rebellion? No? Well here’s his spiel anyway. Spoilers: He had measles.

4) The Ewok Adventure & The Caravan of Courage: Just no. No. No. NO. NO!

3)Star Wars: The Glove of Darth Vader: The Emperor’s cyclopean son, the other cyclops pretending to be his son, Vader’s glove that saved Endor and sent the explosion of the Second Death Star to a pocket dimension? I give up with this series

2) Star Wars: The Crystal Star: Read this if you want to HATE the original Star Wars characters more than in Last Jedi.

1) Star Wars Holiday Special: Burn in Hades’ fire.