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Post #1441873

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yotsuya
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I abhor the "X undoes Y's accomplishments" criticism so much.
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30-Jul-2021, 12:46 PM

JadedSkywalker said:

Palpatine did get his revenge and the entire Skywalker line failed and died.

Han and Leia had one son who died, Luke didn’t pass on crap except in Legends canon where he had a Son.

Take away Rey the adopted Skywalker and it isn’t really about the Skywalkers at all.

All too true.

Anakin’s such a great chosen one he didn’t even kill Palpatine and end his reign, and his son turned out to be a failure by any standard, didn’t restore the Jedi. Even his daughter failed to restore the Republic.

That is not true. Palpatine died. He was brought back by his Sith acolytes through something he evidently had planned. An idea stolen from legends. Palpatine even said he died to confirm that Anakin succeeded in eliminating the Sith and balancing the force. Anakin even tells Rey that she should balance the force as he did.

Its all there except for the hope that Rey, Finn and Poe, aka the next generation will fix the last generations mistakes. Fulfill their hopes and aspirations.

If the last generation did things perfectly there wouldn’t be much of a story for a sequel. The sequel is not based on what the heroes of the OT did wrong, it is based on what went wrong as they were trying to rebuild the Republic and the Jedi. They faced challenges along the way and adapted. Luke followed the examples of Ben and Yoda and went into hiding. Leia went back to working in a covert resistance/rebellion operation. Han went back to being a smuggler. Each has an arc that is revealed to have many successes. Some additional information was in the newer novels. Snoke came on the scene and caused trouble. Evidently for Luke and Leia. He corrupted Ben Solo and Luke’s mistake triggered his fall to the dark side. In the books, others found out that Leia was Darth Vader’s daughter and she was basically kicked out of the new Republic government. The fall of Ben tore apart Leia and Han. And as we came to find out, the resurrected Palpatine was behind Snoke and most of the trouble. So the ST skipped the crumbling part of the story and brought us back in for the final success of our OT heroes and the final defeat of Palpatine.

And it isn’t like Palpatine is the first baddie to get resurrected. Ming the Merciless and The Master both have died only to come back again. It would be cool for someone to write a book about how the Sith brought him back and how he orchestrated Snoke’s First Order. But the movies are clear enough as to what happened in the Palpatine/Skywalker saga. Because with Palpatine back and set as the mastermind behind Snoke, the saga becomes the conflict between Palpatine and the Skywalker family.