For those who are conflicted over TLJ, I recommend playing the game Kotor2 (with the restoration mods of course). The latter shows you how to challenge and subvert Star Wars while still being respectful of the source material. Just an awesome game/experience.
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But isn’t that game set a long time before the prequels? so it doesn’t have anything it needs to follow and nobody we know from the films even in it. So no built up expectation in out minds or in the books people have read as to what a certain character should be.
Exactly so. Which is why it works.
But how can that even be a way to show how you should do a so called respectful version of the ST when it doesn’t even have to follow anything that came before it? It can’t.
A respectful way of subverting Star Wars…not a respectful version of the ST. To subvert Star Wars using the OT characters is disrespectful. Han Solo had completed his arc in the OT…but he reverts in TFA to being “solo” again.