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#1393266
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Unusual <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Has anybody thought of replacing Supreme Leader Snoke in TFA with Palpatine? The Snoke we meet in TFA doesn’t really align with the one in TLJ, but it matches Palpatine perfectly. The surprise of his reveal on Exegol could be preserved by obscure his face even more than it already is (which is a lot) and his different voice is accounted for with the “I have been every voice you have ever heard inside your head” line. The only issue is its placement, as at this point Palpatine has not yet been discovered. What reason would they have for talking to him?

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#1391992
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<em>The Rise of Skywalker</em> - Rewrite Discussion Thread
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I think I would keep Palpatine, but only as a resurrected spirit, rather than having a tangible body.

Calamity Palpatine?

See also Giygas and Sauron. It’s a tried a true approach, so I think it could work.

So, during a majority of Act 2, Kylo is working alongside our heroes, albeit with a lot of tension and reluctance, for obvious reasons.

Oh I like that.

And speaking of ATLA, I feel like Zuko and Kylo Ren get compared for obvious reasons, and I wish Kylo’s redemption arc could’ve been as strong as Zuko’s!

I remember thinking that when TFA came out.

Overall really like your pitch RogueLeader, and it makes for a nice change of pace instead of repeating RotJ’s throne scene for the billionth time.

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#1391869
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Unpopular Opinion Thread
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I think having Yoda and Palpatine duel each other with lightsabers was a missed opportunity to show off new powerful Force abilities, perhaps learned only by those two great masters.

Agreed. Should’ve been like a shonen fight. They sorta touched on it throwing senate pods but didn’t go as far as they should have.

Is that unpopular? Felt like it was a pretty popular opinion among the prequel crowd.

Anything post CW S6 is technically not Lucas approved, and yet everyone still goes on and on about how much they love The Mandalorian.

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#1391453
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Unpopular Opinion Thread
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I find TRoS more interesting than The Mandalorian. I just like my big epic Saga, okay? I don’t really see the appeal of Mando.

I think Last Crusade is the worst Indiana Jones film.

I actually agree by virtue of retreading too much ground from the first film. Abrahamic artifact, desert chase, Sallah, Marcus, Nazis (okay, this one I can sort of excuse, but it is still weird how out of the four movies only these two share villains), etc…

ROTJ would get absolutely savaged for the amount of runtime wasted on teddybears if it came out today, and only gets a pass because it’s been out for 37 years. It’s great, though.

In some circles (like here), it already does.

The PT & ST reflect each other perfectly — equally terrible in diametrically polar ways.

Is this really an unpopular opinion? Thought it was cannon…

From what I’ve seen, most fans love one trilogy, loathe the other, or enjoy both. Fans who dislike both trilogies seem to be in the minority.

While yes, those who hate both are relatively rare, most would agree their strengths and weaknesses are directly opposite.

I love Jar Jar and find him to be criminally underrated.

Jar Jar gang rise up!

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#1391448
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George Lucas's Sequel Trilogy
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After the Rebels won, there were no more stormtroopers in my version of the third trilogy.

(…)

Episode VII, VIII, and IX would take ideas from what happened after the Iraq War. “Okay, you fought the war, you killed everybody, now what are you going to do?” Rebuilding afterwards is harder than starting a rebellion or fighting the war. When you win the war and you disband the opposing army, what do they do? The stormtroopers would be like Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist fighters that joined ISIS and kept on fighting. The stormtroopers refuse to give up when the Republic win.

They want to be stormtroopers forever, so they go to a far corner of the galaxy, start their own country and their own rebellion.

There’s a power vacuum so gangsters, like the Hutts, are taking advantage of the situation, and there is chaos. The key person is Darth Maul, who had been resurrected in The Clone Wars cartoons — he brings all the gangs together.

(…)

Darth Maul trained a girl, Darth Talon, who was in the comic books, as his apprentice. She was the new Darth Vader, and most of the action was with her. So these were the two main villains of the trilogy. Maul eventually becomes the godfather of crime in the universe because, as the Empire falls, he takes over.

The movies are about how Leia — I mean, who else is going to be the leader? — is trying to build the Republic. They still have the apparatus of the Republic but they have to get it under control from the gangsters. That was the main story.

It starts out a few years after Return of the Jedi and we establish pretty quickly that there’s this underworld, there are these offshoot stormtroopers who started their own planets, and that Luke is trying to restart the Jedi. He puts the word out, so out of 100,000 Jedi, maybe 50 or 100 are left. The Jedi have to grow again from scratch, so Luke has to find two- and three-year-olds, and train them. It’ll be 20 years before you have a new generation of Jedi.

By the end of the trilogy Luke would have rebuilt much of the Jedi, and we would have the renewal of the New Republic, with Leia, Senator Organa, becoming the Supreme Chancellor in charge of everything.

This is a direct quote from George Lucas from the book The Star Wars Archives: 1999-2005.

I wonder where the cosmological stuff like the Whills would’ve fit in.

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#1390613
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Doctor Who Edit Ideas
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I’m thinking of calling my earlier mentioned edit The Dalek’s Master Plan: Regeneration Edition. Here’s how I think it would go (there were some errors and less details in my last rundown):

  • The Myth Makers but Katarina doesn’t join

  • The Massacre but without the Doctor’s Speech or Steven’s false departure

  • All the Steven and Dodo stories unaltered up until…

  • The Savages but without Steven’s actual departure

  • The Daleks’ Mater Plan 1-6 with Dodo in place of Katarina

  • The War Machines/The Feast of Steven mashup but with Steven’s departure from the Massacre and, get this, Dodo as the hallucination of a guilt-ridden Doctor (she’s in non-missing episodes so this is probably only the only feasible way to account for her death but it works out nicely)

  • The Smugglers unaltered (if you really wanna watch it)

  • The Tenth Planet without the regeneration or hints thereof and with Steven’s return from The Massacre

  • The Daleks’ Master Plan 8-12 with:

    • Ben and Polly added to the cast (not sure what I’ll do about the one non-missing episode)

    • Mavic Chen revealing himself to be the Master (a headcanon of mine that works nicely with and was indeed spawned from the story’s title)

    • Steven’s departure from The Massacre

    • The Doctor’s speech from The Massacre (not sure I’ll deal with Ben and Polly being around when he says “They’re all gone now”)

    • The Doctor’s regeneration from The Tenth Planet (now with color regeneration energy)