re: Rogue One prequel series will debut on Disney streaming service

Star Wars, the OT, resonated with people precisely because it played into traditional tropes that have been around ever since people started telling stories.

Hero on the verge of manhood with no life experience but tremendous potential: Luke

Young man who plays by his own rules but has a good heart: Han Solo

Beautiful princess who the hero needs to rescue: Leia

Wise old man who imparts wisdom to hero, helping him learn to become a man and fulfill his potential: Obi Wan, and later Yoda

Fearsome, thoroughly evil, seemingly invincible bad guy: Darth Vader, and later the Emperor

Immensely powerful weapon that the bad guy plans to use to gain victory: Death Star

If you had no idea what Star Wars was, and I gave you the above information, you could construct a general outline of how the story would go just based on that, because it is a story that is familiar to us. That's why it works. That's also why the prequels don't work as well, because the story Lucas tried to tell in them doesn't contain those familiar elements. And that's definitely why the sequel trilogy doesn't work, because the filmmakers went out of their way to "subvert the tropes," thus proving that they have no idea what draws people to Star Wars in the first place, and also that they are suffocatingly arrogant idiots.

Disney is to Star Wars what McDonald's is to a meal.