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#1319215
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Unusual <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Exactly. All mentors are contractually obliged to perform a noble sacrifice. And they tend to return in some form. Gandalf (ressurrected because God said so), Dumbledore (meets Harry in purgatory), Obi-Wan (Force ghost), etc… Actually, this makes me realize there is no such figure in Avatar, one of my go-to examples of a fantasy epic like the other three, unless you count that one monk Aang liked who died in the Air Nomad genocide.

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#1319059
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Unusual <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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What if in TLJ, we intercut between Rey and Kylo for a training montage? Luke teaches Rey Jedi stuff while Snoke tasks Kylo with retrieving a Sith artifact on Mustafar to prove himself. Hell, maybe remove the artifact and have this taking place in Snoke’s garden (hence the trees), with Snoke watching. That way it would look more like training.

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#1318656
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<em>Star Wars: The Clone Wars</em> To Return With New Episodes
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I know, and as I said it played really loose with its connection to EU material so it doesn’t really matter, but if we were to nitpick, then CW season 7 is technically part of both continuities. CW is such an oddity canon-wise. It is, as you say G-canon, so it trumped all other content, yet it was also made to fit within the time-jump in Tartakovsky’s CW cartoon, hence why season 1 starts with Anakin being a Jedi and why it never intended to show the attack on Coruscant. However, despite being the last part of Legends, it was canonized as the first non-movie content in the new EU and has been treated as the starting point for new animated series. The reason I find this funny is that it’s a canon series that was made to fit within a non-canon series, yet they continued several unresolved arcs in a canon sequel series, which means that the Legends version (regardless of whether season 7 counts) will most likely always be unfinished.

The weirdest part is that without Tartokovsky’s CW, Grievous and Ventress just sorta show up outta nowhere.

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#1318642
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Unusual <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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What if we ended TFA on the shot of the Resistance watching Rey leave? It allows for the implication of a time jump, confirmed in a modified crawl for TLJ, during which Rey and Chewie search Ach-To for Luke’s island. Ending on this hsot could also allow for better poetry with TPM and ANH, assumign you can emphasize it as celebratory.

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#1318451
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Star Wars: <strong>The Rise Of Skywalker</strong> Redux Ideas thread
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I think the Force healing works thematically, it’s just on a lore/continuity level that it fails. For that reason, I think it could work if we make it so that only dyads can heal each other. Pretty much all you need to do is cut Rey healing the snake and have Palpatine or somebody clarify that this is a property of Force dyads.

And I absolutely agree with StarkillerAG on Rey’s parents. Rey Palpatine doesn’t work, we all agree on that, but Rey’s parents ditching her to protect her does. The thing is, Rey’s parents being drunkards works far better.

I suggest we have someone mention that First Order troops have been sent to Exegol. That way, we’d solve the “where did this army come from?” conundrum. As for where the Star Destroyers came from, we could have them say they were stashed there during the imperial days, explaining their imperial design.

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#1318442
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Idea: 'The Sequel Trilogy - complete redux' (an idea and discussion thread)
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Gothamknight said:

hk47awesome said:
I do think they missed an opportunity at showcasing a new dynamic. . . . I would have much preferred the new dynamic of the New Republic battling a small faction known as the First Order that still believes in the ideals of the Empire. . . . Technically, in canon, it’s been thirty some odd years but TFA is literally the first film after ROTJ, in the main saga, and so the fact that we go from “we did it!” to “welp, it was nice while it lasted” just like that is disappointing.

And:

LordPlagueis said:
The lack of political context irked me at first. Eventually, I realized the relationship between the Republic and the Resistance is at least roughly analogous to the relationship between the French Resistance and Free France in World War II.

You guys are circling the central point of the framing that I wish had been done with these sequels: an analogy with the rise of Hitler and the Nazis between WW1 and WW2.

  • The Allies punish Germany too harshly / the New Republic bullies the Imperial remnant
  • German resentment soars, and a young, bitter corporal named Adolf blames Jews and communists / Imperial resentment soars, and a young “Hitler” blames uncontrolled, unaccountable Force-users for supposed incompetence and the failure of their “sorcerer’s ways” to carry the Empire to victory
  • Hitler rises to power by tapping German resentment and desperation; outlines a plan for a fascist, antisemitic state and brand new war machine / The Imperial “Hitler” outlines a plan to destroy Force-users, rebuild the Imperial war machine, and get vengeance on the New Republic
  • The Allies didn’t take Hitler seriously until it was too late to prevent a new war / The New Republic doesn’t initially take the Imperial resurgence seriously

I mean, good grief and bantha poodu, the parallels that could be drawn throughout a sequel trilogy!!!

I’m also considering a new TFA-TLJ amalgamated crawl that actually sketches these parallels, with the opening scene on Jakku being all about an Imperial hunt for Force-users.

Getting a serious Legend of Korra vibe here. It’s an interesting idea. However, it’s not really compatible with having Force users running the place.

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#1318242
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Star Wars: <strong>The Rise Of Skywalker</strong> Redux Ideas thread
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So because that plot twist wasn’t well executed, I’m likely gonna ditch it altogether.

Why did I read that as “I’m likely gonna ditch the alligator.”

Seems to me the fact that it’s the ending of the Skywalker saga is the very reason not to introduce “using the Dark Side for good.” I’d be okay with that concept in and of itself; it was explored in the New Jedi Order storyline - but there it was developed over the course of several novels. I can’t see that working within a single film.

That was a typo. I meant it’s not the moment. Lemme fix that post.

Either you provide a believable explanation as to why she’s so powerful, or else the fact that she’s so powerful (sans training) is absurd.

She could just be from an undiscovered or unidentified powerful lineage. The Force works in mysterious ways. Besides, in the context of the films, she never felt OP to me.