"Make it New" or Go Retro? (The Disney-Lucasfilm Star Wars Movies)

A little while ago I remarked the swing of the pendulum between fealty to the original and the attempt to go all-out in "contemporizing" a franchise as it gets on in years demonstrated by the Bond continuation novels. So, one can see, did it go with the latest Star Wars trilogy. Cowed by the reaction to the prequels J.J. Abrams played it very safe in Episode VII, hewing very closely to the pattern of the original, while Episode VIII went in a different direction--and now, well, now we have a flummoxed Disney-Lucasfilm not quite sure what to do, but as part of its dilemma doubtless wondering how to balance the old with the new.