The long-suffering saga has been kept alive this decade by TV alone – but even that will perish if the new movie fails to extend its universe The long-suffering saga has been kept alive this decade by TV alone – but even that will perish if the new movie fails to extend its universe S tar Wars has always been big on prophecy. Yoda peers into the future like Nostradamus with messed-up syntax, the Emperor cackles that everything is proceeding exactly as he has foreseen, Darth Vader breathes doom