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Post #1410463

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SparkySywer
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Prediction for Star Wars X, XI, and XII
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15-Feb-2021, 4:46 AM

JadedSkywalker said:

The real question is how can you have conflict when the galaxy is at peace, i don’t think you can do the Sith/Empire storyline a third time. Nor can you do superweapons again.

Reopening the ending RotJ had was 100% fine, at least in the political side of things. The New Republic failing would have given them the opportunity to dig deeper into a more permanent solution. Especially now, after the prequels and the Old EU and the New EU making the Rebellion out to be an attempt to restore the Republic. Because you can’t just go back to how things were before the dark times, that’s what gave you the dark times.

It kind of makes for an interesting story if the first attempt to stop fascism in the galaxy wasn’t super successful because they weren’t thinking about how to prevent another fascist from taking power, they only thought about taking out the fascist currently in power.

Episode 9 should have addressed how to build a new society, not just a New New Republic, and how it would avoid the flaws of the Republic that led to the Empire and the First Order. But that’s a little bit off topic. What matters is that what comes next for the galaxy after Episode 9 - it should put an end to this particular conflict. They should have thought about how to prevent another fascist from taking power where their parents did not. Especially because the Last Jedi did address these issues, so it’s not like it’s an idea completely removed from the sequel trilogy.

They only really get that ticket to undo the solid ending once. You have one opportunity, and if they reopen Episode 9’s new ending, it would be kind of ridiculous. From a storytelling perspective, it erodes any trust in the finality of an ending, but also in-universe, it makes Rey’s generation look like dumbasses. Leia’s generation gets a pass, they were dealing with something new, but you should have known better.

So, obviously the conflict of a second sequel trilogy can’t be Rebels vs Empire or even Republic vs Empire, but it also can’t be something like Republic vs CIS or Republic vs (Insert political group here), because it’ll make Rey’s generation look like real dumbasses if they didn’t think about how to deal with them either. Maybe if the political group was so foreign to anything the galaxy had seen before (and therefore something so out of the box I doubt most writers would be able to come up with it, because of the similarity between the galaxy’s politics and the real world’s), you could justify it, but I doubt it.

I also think something like Republic vs Cartels would be a bad idea, because it’s implied that the Hutts or the Pykes or Crimson Dawn all kind of only exist because the Republic, later the Empire, allow them to exist. The New New Republic or whatever allowing them to exist also makes Rey’s generation look like dumbasses. Maybe they could simply not be strong enough to take on the criminal underworld, but that feels so weak and disconnected from the conflicts of Episodes 1-9, that I don’t know why you’d even bother calling that trilogy Episodes 10-12. Might as well just call it a small spinoff series.

The same sort of goes for something like a Yuuzhan Vong invasion. It would be so disconnected from Episodes 1-9 that there’s no point in calling it Episodes 10-12, unless you pull some really sketchy “Palpatine did nothing wrong he was trying to save the galaxy” shit.

Plus, with how Episode 9 ends in pretty much the same spot as RotJ, any post-TRoS media involving struggling to rebuild the galaxy, or rebuild the Jedi, or Imperial/FO remnants, really has no reason to be post-TRoS. Post-TRoS Rey might as well be post-RotJ Luke, any story about Rey rebuilding the Jedi would probably be better told with Luke. Same with Finn and Poe and Rose or Jannah or whoever rebuilding the Republic. You’d need a really good reason why it has to be them (and “Oh, in canon Luke/Leia/whoever was up to XYZ when this would’ve had to have taken place” isn’t a good enough reason, most people aren’t reading the New EU and aren’t going to know or care). I don’t think TRoS gives enough of a difference between its ending and RotJ’s ending to justify really anything.

tl;dr: There’s no good conflict for an Episode 10-12. I’ve spent way too long writing this, I have no life.