John Doom said:
The movie “remixes” most of the plot points from the OT, from another droid on another classified mission, to the destruction of the Nth DS-alike.
Luckily the film is not as overt in it’s mirroring than it is with the whole put droid in Mcguffin and most everything SKB related.
That’s much more ROTJ dared to do back in the days with DSII.
For how shitty SKB was it did differentiate itself quite a bit in a way Dearth Star 2.0 didn’t. Also the destruction of the Hosnian System and the Republic Fleet is going to ripple throughout the rest of the ST whereas Alderaan was just there to show how evil The Empire was.
Let’s not forget the fact that Death Star 2.0 was an integral part of the plot in ROTJ whereas SKB is kind of there for a second and then is kind of sidelined. Even it’s destruction is just background noise to the Han. Kylo Ren, Finn and Rey drama.
There’s a world of difference between:
-trying to make something unique by building on different sources and putting them in a new context;
-building mainly on itself, especially when recreating the same plot points.
The intent doesn’t really matter when you can look back and still see that ideas and plot points were taken from another project. Remixed or not. I mean STAR WARS taking stuff from multiple films (whether it be small things like stealing the opening crawl straight from Flash Gordan to bigger stuff like nearly stealing/reworking entire plot points like in Dam Busters) and TFA’s mirroring of the OT still doesn’t bother me but I won’t justify it.
Stopping remixing events from earlier films from the same series would be the first step into the right direction for most of us: I remember asking about this here sometime ago, and people said they don’t want Disney/LF to keep remixing for the next episodes.
I agree. Mirroring of the OT should be nil in the sequels, but if they are going to create new stories they’re going to have to find a way to make it still feel like Star Wars. Because in the next films assuming they’re mostly original (and even if they’re great films) the next big complaint is that they don’t feel like Star Wars.