Taking each character from an existing series and expanding their story line is how you expand a universe . Did you expect that a They would make movies within the universe with no point of reference to the original series or b Expand deep back stories out of the gate ? Like what ' s Uncle Owen ' s story ? Did he have some moisture farming conundrum we want to see flushed out ? This is how you expand a universe . They ' re doing the same thing with Marvel . I do think it would be interesting to see a Star Wars TV show . Like Chewbacca , PI or Lando The Later Years . But I do think that they are doing what canonically is expected of people who extend a franchise , and that at least the very first chapter made me want to see more . I don ' t expect it to be the same as the original series , but I think it looks like it ' s going to be more good than bad . And I certainly didn ' t feel that way when the second trilogy came out . So I ' m optimistic . Also Obi Wan got a back story already . It just wasn ' t done very well . But it lasted 6 hours and frankly I would rather watch a Behind the Music on The Cantina Band before I see more Obi Wan .