Ryan McAvoy said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
I've been thinking... with the shots of the distinctly 'adhoc' looking X-Wing landing field and the pictures of Stormtrooper armour. It could suggest that JJ has gone with the "Rebels never actually defeated the Empire" interpretation of the OUT ending to ROTJ. Hell it would make a lot more sense than supposing that just by killing The Emperor, The Rebels magically made the Imperials all go away.
If this is the case. Two things could be concluded. One, that it explains the absolute need for the de-canonisation of all previous EU. Two, that it makes reaquainting the general public with a restored version of the OUT, without SE changes of vital importance.
Fingers crossed eh!
Most of the EU all but ignored the altered ending of ROTJ and went along with the idea that the Empire remained strong following the Battle of Endor, so I don't really see where you're going with this.
Granted I've not read an extensive amount of EU stuff. But I was under the impression that the remnants of the Empire were just lurking in the background and the new Republic was in charge? Maybe I'm wrong. Is all the old post ROTJ EU stuff about the Rebels still on the run and fighting for their existence from an undeminished Empire then?
Wait, looked it up on Wookiepedia legends...
"The death of Emperor Palpatine, in 4 ABY, at the Battle of Endor, signaled the end of the Empire... One month later, the official Declaration of a New Republic was issued"
Do see where I'm going with this now? ;-)
Wookieepedia is written by completeist fanboys who are overeagre to reinterpret everything into fitting together regardless of whether it does or not. I prefer to go to the EU itself, which paints a far different picture.
Here's what happened after people on Coruscant rose up against the Empire following Palpatine's death according to the EU.
The uprising was quashed and the perpetrators rounded up and gunned down.
Wookieepedia itself also acknowledges that the New Republic only captured Coruscant from the Imperials in 7 ABY, a few years after the Battle of Endor, and the Galactic Civil War itself came to a final end in 19 ABY.