Darth Malgus

I don’t know if this can be defined exactly as an unpopular opinion, but I think that the “Force balance” has a very precise meaning. In my opinion, “Force balance” means two things at the same time: 1) the destruction of the Sith; 2) balancing the Jedi path with the natural human desire of personal love and attachment.

To reach the Force balance the Sith must be destroyed, as they cause imbalance. The Sith don’t submit to the will of the Force and don’t respect the laws of nature, but try to bend the Force to their will and use it to create things that violate the laws of nature, for example the various monsters created through Sith alchemy during the Old Republic Era, or Darth Plagueis’ experiments with the midi-chlorians. Therefore in order for the Force balance to be restored the Sith must be destroyed, as they cause imbalance and the Force rejects them. This is why the Force created Anakin in Shmi’s womb and this is why the Force has a Chosen One who is destined to destroy the Sith. As explained in the Darth Plagueis novel, the Force created Anakin in Shmi’s womb because Darth Plagueis’ experiments with the midi-chlorians had led the Force to become unbalanced, then the Force itself reacted automatically by creating Anakin in Shmi’s womb in order to destroy the Sith once and for all, as the Force was tired of being continually brought into imbalance by the Sith. So, the Sith are a cause of imbalance and must be destroyed in order to reach balance.

However “balance” doesn’t only mean the destruction of the Sith, it also means being able to balance the Jedi path with human passions and emotions. Feeling affection for other people, falling in love and wanting a family are perfectly natural things, they’re part of human nature and the nature of many other humanoid species in the Galaxy. To forbid these feelings is to violate the laws of nature, so It’s a mistake and it’s a cause of imbalance. The Jedi made a great mistake by forbidding the members of the Order to experience these purely natural feelings, because forbidding a person to fall in love and have personal affections is like forbidding a lion to eat meat. It’s unnatural, it doesn’t work and it just creates problems. In fact, in the old EU it’s shown that many Jedi have attachment-related problems, because they felt feelings they were forbidden to feel, and so many of them often felt chained and imprisoned in themselves because of this. Therefore, balance doesn’t just mean the destruction of the Sith, it also means being able to express yourself through your emotions and attachments, but without letting your emotions dominate you. In other words, it means allowing the Jedi to experience the normal feelings of individual love and attachment, but without letting these feelings cloud their judgment.

So, why is Anakin the Chosen One and how he brought balance? Simple: through his fall to the Dark Side and through the Jedi purge he opened the eyes of the Order and made the Jedi see what they did wrong, in fact, after the Battle of Endor and the re-establishment of the Jedi Order Luke allowed the Jedi to have families and affections, letting them to be freer and to be at peace with themselves and balancing the Jedi path with the natural desire of personal love, affection and attachment. In addition, through his redemption, Anakin destroyed Darth Vader and Darth Sidious, destroying the Sith Order forever.

So, as Yoda suggested in Revenge of the Sith, the Prophecy was misunderstood. The Jedi were partially wrong about the meaning of the Prophecy. The Jedi of the Prequel Era were right in saying that the Prophecy foresaw the destruction of the Sith, but they were wrong in believing that they were in balance. The Jedi stopped being in balance when they forbade attachment and love (after the events of the Tales of the Jedi comics) and returned to be in balance when Luke Skywalker, the son of the Chosen One, implemented his less dogmatic and less rigid ideas and built the New Jedi Order.

This is in my opinion the most complete and coherent interpretation of the Prophecy and the meaning of the Force balance. Unfortunately this explanation can only work in the context of the old EU, and only by eliminating the Dark Empire Trilogy and basically everything that comes after the NJO series. However, I think it’s worth it.

My radical ideas to edit (and improve) the Sequel Trilogy:

1. The Resistance Isn’t a separate group from the New Republic, but is simply what remains of the New Republic fleet. The New Republic has already been destroyed and overwhelmed by the First Order before TFA, and the Resistance is only what remains of the New Republic fleet.
2. Snoke doesn’t exist. The resurrect Palpatine is the direct leader of the First Order and Kylo Ren is his apprentice. The Knights of Ren are basically the equivalent of the old Imperial Guards, but they’re Force-sensitive. Also, the reasons of Palpatine’s resurrection are already explained in TFA. At the time of his first death on the Second Death Star he managed to transfer his spirit to his cloned body on Exegol and so he managed to survive. Just like in Dark Empire.
3. Luke and Rey meet in TFA and Luke explains the reasons of his exile to Rey in TFA. At the end of the film we see Rey starting her training with Luke. Between TFA and TLJ a year has passed.
4. Luke didn’t exile to escape his responsibilities, but simply because he realized that he failed with Kylo. So he felt the need to exile and meditate to understand what he did wrong, so that he could return to action at a later date, with a clearer mind and clearer ideas. He hadn’t explained to anyone why he exiled, so everyone’s looking for him, but no one knows why he disappeared until he explains his reasons to Rey. Luke made the same mistakes of the old Jedi Order, and after his long exile and his long meditation he understood that the Jedi Order Need to be transformed, he understood that attachments must be allowed and the Jedi must not be too dogmatic and rigid. In other words, he understood that the Jedi Order Need to be transformed into what Luke’s Legends counterpart has managed to do. So, “it’s time for the Jedi to end” turns into “it’s time for the Jedi to change”.
5. Rey is nobody. She’s neither a Skywalker nor a Palpatine. Rey is basically the Nomi Sunrider of the Disney Canon.
6. Yes, Luke tried to kill Ben Solo in his sleep. Yes, Ben Solo was already corrupted by the Dark Side. But Luke immediately regretted what he did and tried in every way to redeem Ben and bring him back to the Light, but without succeeding. In this way, the fact that he tried to kill him in his sleep is balanced by the fact that he then tried to redeem him in every way and he regretted what he did. So in this way it doesn’t feel out of character. Luke dies against Kylo in the same way we see in the original version of TLJ.
7. There are no sacred Jedi texts. Rey is trained by Luke, but she can only draw on his teachings, and there’s no sacred Jedi text that contains forgotten teachings by which Rey can learn how to resurrect people through the Force. So, Rey never learns the power of resurrection through the Force, and so this power doesn’t appear in TROS.
8. Leia dies to help Kylo to redeem himself like in the original version of TROS, but Anakin Skywalker’s Force ghost appears and guides Kylo to redemption instead of Han Solo.
9. Rey doesn’t kill Palpatine. In the final battle on Exegol Anakin Skywalker’s ghost (played by Hayden Christensen) appears while Rey is unconscious, after which the ghosts of Luke, Obi-Wan, Yoda and Qui-Gon also appear to help Anakin. There’s a clash of Force powers between Palpatine and Anakin’s ghost, and in the end Palpatine dies at the hands of Anakin AGAIN, confirming that he’s the Chosen One.
10. Kylo Ren redeems himself and returns to be Ben Solo in the final battle on Exegol. He survives, takes Skywalker as his second surname (becoming Ben Solo Skywalker) and begins training a new generation of Jedi with Rey, putting into practice Luke’s ideas for the change and innovation of the Jedi Order.

These are my radical ideas to change the main plots of the Trilogy. Of course, I also have in mind many radical ideas to change the subplots, but for now I prefer to limit myself to the radical changes for the main plots.

Sex Education and Shameless (the US series).

Unfortunately, when I start a series I can’t just leave it and I have to continue it even though I hate the series. Although these two series make me feel completely sick since the beginning, I continued to watch them until the end. I regret it? YES. If I never did, then my life would be much better and I would continue to have some faith In the Human species.

I’ve always been a huge Star Trek fan since I was a kid. Star Trek was the first sci-fi saga I discovered, I discovered Star Trek even before discovering Star Wars. I’ve always loved it and I’ll always continue to love it. But I don’t approve of what Star Trek has turned into after the conclusion of Enterprise. My Star Trek personal Canon is basically this:

• Enterprise (except for some useless episodes);
• The Original Series (except the most boring and cringe episodes);
• The Next Generation;
• Deep Space 9;
• Voyager;
• The first 9 films.

In my opinion, everything else is so far from Gene Roddenberry’s vision that it doesn’t deserve any consideration. To me Star Trek ended in 2005, just like the Skywalker Saga.

All this head-canons MUST be read in the context of the old Expanded Universe.

1. We know every time Anakin was given periods of leave from military service during the Clone Wars, he took advantage of it to spend time with Padmé. Well, during a week of leave granted to him by the Council, one evening Anakin returned to Padmé’s apartment completely drunk. Since Padmé’s handmaidens all resemble her and since Anakin was completely drunk, he accidentally kissed Dormé thinking she was Padmé. No one has ever known it except Anakin, Padmé (Anakin told her later) and Dormé herself.
2. Sabé (Padmé’s handmaiden) has a crush on Obi-Wan. It’s a completely useless head-canon, but at the same time I like to think it, because I recently read a Fanfiction based on it, and after reading it I like to think she had a crush on him hahaha. 😄
3. I don’t take into account the Revenge of the Sith novelization, because I don’t like the way Matthew Stover portrayed Anakin and Padmé’s relationship. However, the part of the novelization In which it’s said that Anakin wanted access to the restricted section of the Temple archives is still Canon to me. So, while I don’t take into account the whole novelization, in my head canon the reasons Anakin wanted to become a Jedi master are the same as in the novelization.
4. After Attack of the Clones, Jar Jar began taking diction lessons in order to better speak Galactic Basic. At the time in wich the events of Revenge of the Sith happened he was already able to correctly pronounce sentences like all humans, but we don’t see it because in the film he didn’t say a single word.

EDIT

I’d like to know if there are fan edit versions of the Special Editions of the Original Trilogy that are basically the Special Editions of 1997, but with the addition of Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine, Luke’s green lightsaber, ghost Hayden and the 2011 victory celebration, and maybe without the scene of the kiss between Luke and Leia.

EDIT: Never mind.

Attack of the Clones:
Change the the color of the fabric that Padmé is packing, as it changes from red to blue between shots.
I may or not add the scene with Anakin meeting Padmé’s family. The problem is that it’s too different in picture quality compared to the rest of the movie, and I don’t think there’s any way to make it work with the lossless Dolby Atmos track

Hal 9000 did a great job adding scenes with Padmé’s family, modifying their quality and making them feel like the rest of the film. So you could take Hal’s The Approaching Storm fan edit as a reference for the deleted scenes you want to include. In general, I recommend you to take Hal’s fan edit as a reference until the kiss scene in the lake on Naboo, after which you can continue with the rest of the film as it is, but deleting the scene in wich Anakin confesses to Padmé that he killed the Tusken.

Revenge of the Sith:
Fix the continuity error of Padmé’s nightgown pearls being tangled in one shot.
Fix the shot where Palpatine has Anakin’s lightsaber handle, a holdover from a deleted scene.
When Anakin lands on Mustafar, add the black glove back to his right hand, as he puts his hood on.
Maybe replace Vader’s “Nooooo!” with the Russian version.

I recommend you to include the deleted scene in wich Qui-Gon’s spirit talks ti Yoda through the Force. You can find it on YouTube.

Hey, Hal, have you thought about creating a version of your ROTJ Special Edition where you keep Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker’s ghost? I know this is an extremely unpopular opinion on this forum, but I actually prefer Hayden to Sebastian Shaw. This is a very small change, which doesn’t affect the rest of your Special Edition.

I would also like you to send me the version of ANH in which you changed Obi-Wan’s words on Anakin’s lightsaber to keep consistency with the Prequels. I have always interpreted Obi-Wan’s words on Anakin’s lightsaber as a lie (after all, he told many lies to Luke). But perhaps it would be better if they were changed altogether.

I never liked the absurd levels of power Luke is capable of using in the Legacy of the Force series and subsequent works. After the NJO the levels of Force power have become extremely exaggerated, Luke has come to the point of being able of becoming one with the Force and resurrect at will. It’s so crazy! I mean, I understand that Luke is the son of the Chosen One and he’s very powerful, but these are powers that even Anakin couldn’t have used if he had been able to acquire his full Force potential. They’re absurd powers and they make no sense at all. You can say anything you want about Starkiller, but Starkiller had a power limit. Starkiller has never been able to become a Force ghost at will, the most powerful thing he did was make a Stardestroyer fall to the ground, which is a very impressive, yet still possible thing.

EDIT: Wrong thread

Some days ago, I found a fan edit version of the 2003 Clone Wars show that could work as a replacement for both TCW and the Clone Wars Multimedia Project. Since the 2003 series was part of the Clone Wars Multimedia Project, then some subplots are left open because they’re later solved in the “Star Wars: Obsession” comics. But in this version no subplots are left open (for exemple, Durge dies once and for all the second time Obi-Wan kills him and Don’t resurrect a third time).

According to the author, the original purpose of this fan edit is to be a version of the 2003 show that can fit into the Disney Canon. But I think it can also work as a valid replacement for both TCW and the Clone Wars Multimedia Project. This can be a valid alternative for all those who think TCW feels like a different universe from the Prequel Trilogy, but who at the same time are too lazy to read the books and comics of the old Clone Wars Multimedia Project,

This fan edit divides the show in 4 large episodes and creates a self-contained Clone Wars show.

I repeat, I’m not the one who created this fan edit. I’m just sharing It, since it’s a public fan edit and it’s freely available on YouTube.

Here is the link of the
YouTube playlist with all the 4 episodes:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUa1TbIRNJ6hl1vmsdyaXFknHQHby5S-7

What I think happened is that the whole prequel Jedi philosophy simply didn’t gel well with modern audiences, so people came up with interpretations that placed the Jedi as the ones who wronged Anakin rather than Anakin just being in the wrong. It’s perfectly fine to choose to interpret the prequels as being critical of the Jedi. I just don’t believe that was George’s intention when writing them.

Well, in the Expanded Universe continuity the Prequel Jedi are clearly wrong, and I support this idea regardless of Lucas’ thought. Also, I tend not to trust George’s statements about this specific subject, because they often contradict each other. So I prefer to give my own interpretation, which I think makes a lot more sense than the “Anakin was wrong” interpretation. No, Anakin wasn’t completely wrong. Of course he had his responsabilities, but the Jedi were wrong either in prohibiting something completely natural as the love between two people. Everyone has a certain amount of responsibility for Anakin’s fall: the Jedi, Palpatine and Anakin himself. It’s neither all Anakin’s fault nor all Jedi’s fault. Even assuming that Lucas wanted to convey the message that the Jedi were right and Anakin wrong, he did so in a way that doesn’t allow people to identify with the Jedi cause and literally leads everyone to see Anakin as a victim of circumstances, Palpatine’s manipulations and the Jedi dogmatism, rather than a victim of himself.

I think Luke’s depiction and philosophy in the old Expanded Universe are much more consistent with Lucas’ two trilogies than Luke’s depiction in The Book of Boba Fett.

The rules of the Jedi Order of the Prequel Era are absolutely flawed, if not even terrible. Being totally selfless is impossible. Love always requires a certain degree of possessiveness. If I love someone, I want to be with that person not only because I like him/her as a person, but also because the presence of that person makes me happy and makes me feel good. If the presence of that person didn’t make me feel good, then there would be no reason for me to engage in a romantic relationship with that person in the first place. In love, you have to give and receive. You give your love in the hope that your love will be reciprocated and that the exchange of that love will make you happy. A stoic love without attachment is simply not true love, but a generic feeling of relative interest. Like it or not, attachment is an absolutely natural thing that is part of human psychology. We are all attached to someone. It’s not right to kill someone to save a person we love, but at the same time it’s absolutely right to worry about those we love and wish they are well. If we find out that someone we love is in danger of life, then it’s right to try to save him/her. Not just because we want that person to be good, but also because that person makes us feel good. In life one cannot be either entirely selfless or completely selfish. You need a balance, and that’s what neither the Jedi nor the Sith (as well as George Lucas himself) have ever understood. Being concerned and afraid for the people we love is absolutely natural, we just have to learn not to let these fears dominate us and cloud our judgment. Expressing all emotions, even negative ones, is absolutely right, and that’s what the Jedi should have taught. Not teaching that attachment is something that should be avoided at all cost, but understanding that it’s natural, understanding that the negative emotions that arise from it are absolutely natural, and therefore learning to control them and not letting them dominate one’s judgment, basing on the personal situation and personal needs of every single individual.

I’m sorry, but “Be happy for those who turn into the Force” is not a balanced and human teaching, not at all. On the contrary, “Protect the ones you love, do everything you can to make them feel good, but if in the end you don’t succeed, then, only then, you have to learn to let go”, this is a deep, human and healthy teaching. But what did the Jedi do instead? To avoid the Dark Side at all cost, they simply preferred to bypass the problem. Instead of studying and understanding the personal situation and needs of each individual, and instead of teaching how to express your attachment towards others in a balanced and controlled way, they acted in an extremist way by eliminating the possibility of having any attachment. Instead of teaching to have good relationships, they simply forbade having relationships in the first place, teaching to repress any negative feelings. And what has this led to? It led Anakin to be immersed between two opposite extremes: pure passion and pure stoicism. They taught him to repress every negative feeling, leaving him unprepared for tragedies. And guess what, when people are unprepared to deal with a tragedy then, when a tragedy happens to them, they offen react violently. No wonder Anakin went completely crazy and turned to the Dark Side. They didn’t teach him to deal with his negative feelings in a human and healthy way, they let him be manipulated by Palpatine who fed his negative feelings by gradually teaching him to deal with them in the wrong way, and as a result the Galaxy has been completely fucked up.

I think Luke’s philosophy in the old EU is much more consistent with the 6 original films precisely for this reason. Luke learned from the mistakes of the old Jedi Order and created a philosophy that doesn’t necessarily violate the old Code, but at the same time allows people to express themselves freely and deal with their negative emotions in the correct way. On the contrary, his philosophy in The Book of Boba Fett isn’t consistent with the films, because Luke proves that he has learned nothing from the mistakes of the old Jedi and conveys the message that what happened with Anakin was exclusively his fault, and not even fault of the dogmatic interpretation the Jedi of the Prequel Era had of the Code, a dogmatic interpretation that forbade absolutely normal feelings.

In addition, I think Lucas’ quotes regarding the whole “Luke shouldn’t marry” thing should be contextualized, because they’re quotes dating back to the time when Lucas had his first divorce. At the time he had strong anti-marriage feelings because of this, so we shouldn’t take those quotes as if they were his immutable thought.

darklordoftech said:

The fans who argue “If it wasn’t supposed to be canon, Lucas wouldn’t have allowed it to be published.” Based on that logic, Lego Star Wars is canon.

The difference is that there was a very precise Canon hierarchy before 2014.

• G Canon: The 6 original films
• C Canon: The Expanded Universe
• S Canon: The works created before the Thrawn Trilogy (they were only partially Canon)
• N Canon: The non-Canon works

Everything about Lego was part of the N Canon level, so It was never Canon. Never. The sarcastic and satiric material is not Canon, it doesn’t take a genius to understand it…

I’ve read with great interest the long discussion between various users and Stardust1138. I would like to express my own views on George Lucas, the Prequel Trilogy, the revised history of Star Wars, etc, from a Prequel loving prospective. Well, I have a very simple and effective philosophy with which to approach the whole George Lucas and revisited history problem. My philosophy Is the following:

When I watch the original 6 films I can see a coherent story, from The Phantom Menace to Return of the Jedi. To me, the original 6 films created by George Lucas work as an hexology. Now, can I be honest? I don’t give a shit if this was planned from the beginning or if It was a process that took place film by film. What I care about is that it works for me. The same applies to the existence of the Prequel Trilogy. Was it planned all along? Was it planned only later? Can I be honest? I don’t give a shit. What really matters is that it works for me. And if I wanted, I could apply this argument to every single thing in the films! For example, was the love story of Anakin and Padmé well planned when Attack of the Clones was written? Was it not well planned and botched at the last moment? Can I be honest? I don’t care. To me it works, and it’s the only thing that really matters.
If there are people for whom the original 6 films don’t work as a single story then I can’t do anything about it, but at the same time I can’t even pretend that for me they don’t work as one story. I see consistency in the original 6 films, but I don’t care if this consistency is due to the fact that the story was planned from the beginning or if it’s just a coincidence. To me what really matters is that I can see consistency, and if others can’t see this consistency I can’t help but respect their opinion, but without agreeing. In my opinion, the original 6 films work as “The Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker”. I don’t care if the Saga was planned from the beginning to be the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker or if this is a retcon that was made later, what I care about is that TO ME the 6 original films, if taken as such, work as the story of the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker, regardless of whether they were planned from the beginning to be so, or not.

So, I think it’s totally pointless to argue about what really happened and what the real history of the Star Wars franchise is. I think it’s much more useful to focus on our personal opinions and our personal tastes, on what we personally are able to capture from the films. Everything else is secondary.

I opened this thread so that if any of you are looking for some Fanfiction in particular, you can text here and see if anyone knows some Fanfiction corresponding to what you’re looking for.

I want to be the first to make a request. Are any of you aware of a fanfiction set in the Legends universe, in which Anakin’s Force ghost appears to the Skywalker family and explains why he fell to the Dark Side? It would be interesting to read it. I would like this Fanfiction to be set in an Alternate Universe in wich despite the Solo Kids are already adults the Yuuzhan Vong War doesn’t happen. But it’s not an essential requirement, I’m happy even if it’s set after the events of the NJO novels. In particular, I’m looking for something like that:

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/2450596/1/Ghosts-of-the-Force

But with the entire Skywalker family.

BedeHistory731 said:

Speaking of another unpopular voice actor opinion, Matt Sloan’s Vader voice does not work at all for serious portrayals of the character. His Vader started as a comedic impression (for the webseries Chad Vader) and only really works in comedy roles (e.g., Lego games, Lego animated features, spoof media, etc.). During Force Unleashed, I half expect Vader to be talking about his duties as the day shift manager of Empire Market.

I actually like his voice for Vader. Just my opinion, though.

BedeHistory731 said:

Mat Lucas > Matt Lanter, as far as Anakin voices go. Mat actually sounds vaguely like Hayden!

I totally agree! Since I’m a huge Anidala shipper, when I listen to Anakin talking to Padmé with Mat Lanter’s voice I feel very angry, because it’s like Padmé has a romantic relationship with another person who isn’t Anakin, and all this because of Mat Lanter’s voice. I swear, the more time goes by, the more I can’t stand it. I don’t think he’s a bad actor at all, really, he’s just not Anakin and he can never be. Mat Lucas is way better.

I’m just pointing out that Darth Malgus had a similar read to what you said as I did. That’s all.

Although in my initial post I stated that I agree with you, actually my speech was a general speech, it wasn’t addressed specifically to Ken-Obi. My speech was addressed in general to all those who accuse only the Prequel fans of being toxic. I perfectly understood what Ken-Obi said in his original post, and my post wasn’t addressed specifically to him, but was a general speech. Anyway, I think both of you should calm down and make peace. There’s been a misunderstanding between the two of you, but there’s no point in turning it into a war. It’s pointless. Let’s all calm down.

I agree with Stardust1138. There are many Prequel fans who behave toxic and offend all those who don’t think like them, but there are also many Original Trilogy fans who do the exact same thing. Idiots are everywhere, no matter what their opinion is. If a person is stupid no matter what his opinion is, he remains stupid regardless, because what makes a person stupid is not his opinions, but his behavior towards others. Explanations aren’t universal and there are things that can work for some people, but that cannot work for other people. For exemple, some people say that Revenge of the Sith doesn’t work as an introduction to the Original Trilogy, or that Rogue One doesn’t work as a prequel to A New Hope. Well, I have never felt this way and I have never managed to understand the point of view of those who support these ideas, but I have always respected their opinion, because the fact that those two films work for me doesn’t mean they can work for everyone. Thank God I became a Star Wars fan in 2018/2019, when the Prequel hate was already pretty much disappeared. If I had been a Star Wars fan between 2005 and 2012 I would have been treated like shit literally by everyone, since I love the Prequel Trilogy and I’m absolutely not willing to compromise on my personal tastes. I was lucky, because my personal tastes came to coincide with an historical period in which they weren’t considered stupid and attacked by everyone. But I don’t want to imagine what the Prequel fans had to go through between 2005 and 2012…

An extremely random thought.

The physical appearance of Anakin and Padmé is the same physical appearance I always imagined for Adam and Eve. I mean, since the first time I read the Book of Genesis I always had a very precise mental image of Adam and Eve, and when I saw the Prequels I realized that the mental image that I always had of both of them perfectly matches the real physical appearance of Anakin and Padmé, especially their appearance in Revenge of the Sith. But that’s just me. Lol.

I don’t know if this is exactly an unpopular opinion, but still…

Having a Star Wars personal Canon is the only way to be able to enjoy the Saga with stillness, serenity and without heaviness. If you don’t like something, then just pretend it doesn’t exist and ignore it. If you don’t like something, then it’s not Canon. Simple and effective. I can say from experience that those who live with this philosophy can be more relaxed and have the best possible Star Wars experience, because they’re not forced to fight daily with the idea that something they hate exists in the universe, because they can just ignore what they don’t like and pretend It doesn’t exist.

I wish the Sequels had never been created to begin with. So I never had any desire for them to be “reworked”.

I don’t have this problem, because I can perfectly rewatch all 6 original movies and even Rogue One. The only movies I’m not interested in rewatching again are the Sequels and Solo.