It's just money at this point. Disney is going to milk it until it dies a slow and painful death. And as long as they have people visiting their Star Wars hotels for $10k+ per night, they won't stop. The whole franchise went south. The best they could do is revive the animates series Clone Wars or Rebels with the old show runners in charge.
Out of the new movies, yes, that was the best one by far.
Scares the hell out of me!
Yeah I am not sure how the whole Russian thing fits into the over all story, other then the being the 80's cold war etc, and or giving these characters more of a story arc. But if the latter it's kinda distracting because it worked better when they were supporting the kids not doing their own thing. Hopefully they will tie it together like they did with the last episode of S4, which was well done but kinda predictable.
The Cold War was pretty prevalent back in the day. So... I think it fits and is pretty thematic and adds a bit of terror/fear?
