cain spaans said:
You are right, this did go off topic. Now what do you think the new threat will be.
I have no idea who the thread will be but I have this suggestion and it's not going to be popular.
Star Wars is a saga.
It has episodes but it's not entirely episodic. There is a continuity of peril and an heroic arc that goes through the whole thing (even the not so good bits).
So if I were doing it the threat from the ST would rise from dangling threads from the PT and OT.
I know the EU in it's continuing effort to make sense of everything claims the Stormtroopers haven't been Fett Clones for a long time after the PT but the headbump joke in AOTC says to me Lucas sees the Fett clone thing as part of his continuity and in his view the Stormtroopers are Clones of a different armour.
The plans of the Death Star would also be public record and there is Leia.... If Vader was kind enough to flag up her potential to go bad it would seem a shame not to explore it.
What happens to good guys when they have all the power and machinery of oppression that the former bad guy had?
Hopefully they are wise enough not to use it but I can see them being tempted.
What happens to possibly millions of Clone slave troops when they have served on the losing side?
Can you put a genie like the Death Star back into the bottle (look what happened to atomics on your planet?).
I would like to see a female protagonist against a female villain in a world where the Slaves of the first two trilogies (droids and clones) are united in revolt against the New Republic with Leia as political leader and Luke as a Jedi Master.
That would have the epic sweep of Star Wars and allow for a small group of real characters to emerge but would also have links to the past.
This may be unpopular as we have just had three crap films where droids fight troopers but A) The idea wasn't bad it was the execution and B) they were fighting each other, here they would be fighting together against populations we could care more about.
The only way to get the series on track is to acknowledge it's a series and pretend the PT was spiffy. It will not work as a villain of the year film franchise (like Star Trek or all those Marvel/DC adaptations).