I have a dude on my twitter timeline claiming Star Wars was just mindless fantasy genre till all this Disney era politics...
Cuz yeah this never ever had political messages till Disney.
I hear that stuff and I have to laugh, especially in light of recent interviews that have shed more light on the current parallels that George Lucas was trying to draw in the OT. Hell, he just spoke about some of that when he sat down with James Cameron for that show he has on AMC. Lucas said very clearly that he intended for the Empire to be a representation of the United States in the time of the Vietnam war, and for the Rebellion to be the Viet Cong. The fact that OT fans want to disregard that is entirely on them. They never looked beyond the surface of the material that they hold in such esteem. So when it comes to all of the negativity from these so-called "fans"? It's more and more clear that they just don't get it.
I think the period between the OT and the ST is fertile ground for new story telling. It has only been explored in print thus far. And now we have this show that takes place in the decade after Endor, and Filoni's show that takes place in the decade before TFA. I think that Favreau has come such a long way as a filmmaker. I love what he did with Iron Man in the MCU on multiple fronts: writing, directing, producing, etc. He has a great visual sensibility. He knows the material. And I'm really optimistic about where this is all going to lead.
A post Imperial era is interesting to explore. Because a fledgling New Republic will encounter a lot of challenges: the remaining factions that may be loyal to the Empire, and eventually became the First Order. The crime syndicates like Black Sun or the Hutts. And keeping the peace in this new era.