ColonelColon
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Because I am 100% confident that given the giant universe they have to play with, they don't need to reuse those old characters, who have all had their stories wrapped up any way.
You call the new Jedi temple The Skywalker School for Gifted Youngsters. That's it. We all get it.
If you're deliberately cutting out as many connections to the original films as you could, then there's really no sense in calling it Episode VII, except as a cynical attempt at appealing to fans of the OT, who will just be disappointed that the original characters don't even have cameos. If there aren't any connections to the OT, then it won't feel like the next "episode" of a single story. It would be more like a reboot.