I think it’s pretty disingenuous to say they’ve killed all the OT heroes. They only killed Han and Luke. We have no idea what they’ll do with Leia, and if they do kill her, it’s very possible that they only did so because their hands were tied.
Not to mention saying that Luke died as a failure… well obviously if you think that you missed the point entirely.
Victories aren’t forever, everyone dies. Once again, I go back to what I keep saying. People who are mad that things got turned upside down in the ST didn’t truly want the ST to begin with (and that’s okay).
Yes, but that’s a very cynical point of view in my opinion. Victories don’t last forever, in the real world, but there’s no denying this trilogy has deflated victory in the Star Wars universe in a huge way. It has undone everything the OT heroes fought for, literally resetting the galaxy back to Empire versus rebels. There’s another Jedi apprentice turned bad versus another new hope. They’ve done nothing to explain how the previous victory was undone. What’s to prevent a Second Order to rise from the ashes of the First One, after the next socalled victory, and a Third Order after that? Victory is hollow now in the Star Wars universe, because another director can just undo it to keep the galaxy in a perpetual state of conflict, without having to explain anything. Just pull another dark side master out of thin air with unlimited resources. I was watching RO today, and was struck how it expands the Star Wars universe. The ST universe feels very tiny by comparison.