SW E7 and it's tie into the overall Canon.

I still think they should mention the kiss between luke and Leia. Maybe Han could make a Crack about it. After all it is canonical. I know at the time it was not intended for Leia to be Luke's sister. But GL inserted that gem in rotj. Now let's get the canonical explanation but the incestuous kiss.how do they explain this. Maybe on alderan it's normal but since she didn't knowhe was her brother that ccan't be used. Maybe that's why luke is missing.......big Jedi Master loves his sister........hahahahahahaha
also there was no brother kissing sisters in the PT at least they got that right
just saying it's kinda funny but it is canon

 

I'd love to see some evidence for the statement in the original post, that OT fans are the minority. Referencing a poll on a Star Wars board does not count as evidence.

Disney is playing this smart, they know that classic style Star Wars remains a phenomenon, so the PT references should be minimal. Besides, storywise the prequels will be so far in the past they won't need that much PT-related material.

 

That's the crux of the biscuit, IMHO. By the time of Episode 7, the events of TPM will be almost 70 years in the past. The fall of the Republic and Anakin's turn to the dark side will be at least 50 years in the past. Most of the key events in the PT films were things that only a few people were privy to, all of whom are long dead by the time of Episode 7. Not only is there no need to reference PT events in the ST, it really wouldn't even make much sense to do so.

 

Whether or not there are people who have interpreted "ignore" to mean "retconning", the fact is that those are two completely different things, and nothing that's been said by the production team or LFL has given the slightest indication that the PT will be retconned. "Some people may say," that "ignore" = "retconning", but that doesn't mean that they have any basis in fact for that claim.

The same goes for the idea that there will be no CGI whatsoever in Episode 7. People say all kinds of outlandish and baseless things. Doesn't mean that we need to give their claims more weight than they deserve. Seems to me that most folks hereabouts have a far more reasoned view of what to expect from Episode 7 and the ST.

 

So the most obvious thing is that there can be no Sith in the sequels. The universe must basically be human with the odd alien stuck in a criminal hold, planets must basically be Earth-like wildernesses and no place truly fantastic can be seen. The incredible scope and scale of the visions seen in the PT must also be set aside.

To go against the prequels means to also go against the original movies as well since they are intrinsically linked. All the holes and omissions in the OTwere filled in by the PT. There must be no heroes journey, no mentors, no rogues, no clowns, no villains, no...well just about everything.

Since this clearly isn't going to happen and everything that has been said over and over is about a shared universe with continuity the likes of which has never been seen then I think we can dismiss that.

Right away we have all sorts of PT things coming over in Rebels not the least the Inquisitor himself whose race was first seen in III.

Will they be constantly referring to specific events from the PT? No not anymore than they will be about OT events. I think that material will be handled in other media.