I agree. It humanizes the character way too much. He should be monstrous and untouchable, not canoodling behind the reactor with some floozy.
FreezingTNT2 said:
I hate the concept of Darth Sidious having progeny in general, it completely goes against his nature.
Yep, could have been good. Sadly, we got… what we got.
That’s a cool idea. Honestly you could’ve had something similar to what was already in the films. The First Order could’ve been your Imperial Remnant, fighting with the New Republic, then a Sith Cult out in the Unknown Regions introduces a new threat that brings the two factions together. Maybe they wanted to resurrect a Sith Lord and begin a new Sith Empire. Could’ve been Sidious, or Darth Bane, or a brand new guy.
I would have loved to see 7-9 be about an outside threat that forces the New Republic and the remnants of the Empire to join together and fight as one. Stylistically it would have allowed the film makers to use all the old ship designs etc and come up with a whole load of brand new stuff.
Can we get a much lower budget episodes 10 to 12 set 100 years in the future directed by Rian Johnson, with story ideas about the Force being front and center? The goal would be to explore the meat of the concepts we’ve been shown and about building the Jedi back up without there being a ‘holy crap bad guy uberthreat.’ Small scale, spiritual stakes on a personal level. Could be made soonish, with the ST characters all having died by that point, but could be referenced or perhaps shown in flashbacks. Luke and other Jedi could always pop in as ghosts, but this would have to be done soonish for much of that.
This is what VII-IX should have been minus being set 100 years in the future. Instead of having the bad guys be a threat to the galaxy, have them be a treat to the characters
Actually, coming to think of it, if you remove the whole Rebels vs Empire aspect of the sequel trilogy, it makes for a much better story… Of course there’s no way you could edit Stormtroopers out of the movies, but from a scriptwriting standpoint it would be so easy to have it just be Snoke and his guys vs. the protagonists who are part of some renamed Resistance (not an Army of the New Republic, since the Rebels “learned the lesson” of having a standing army)
Clip from TROS. Oh dear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCPiBWrIaSI&feature=emb_logo
and hope for a good explanation in the film for Palpatine’s return.
It’s JJ… I still can’t believe how he could miss that much the target with TFA. I’m pretty sure TROS is gonna be a fun ride to watch with great visual work and a damn fine Williams score, but also something totally useless and bland. It’s what JJ does: forgettable and dumb movies. I don’t even get why people are expecting something good or worth the Saga at this point. After 2 movies the ST has no plot, no real characters, nothing. The last entry just looks like a big fat ROTJ rehash…
Sadly, I agree with you. I could never have thought I’d be this unenthusiastic for a (saga) Star Wars film. It’s just going to be a big, flashy load of… nothing.
Will Riker Of The Force…
Could just be a misdirection.
Perhaps they go somewhere where they have to leave their weapons outside and 3PO has to hold them and wait outside… echoing the cantina in ANH. And then his head gets knocked off and a Battledroid comes along and…
If they have Threepio deliberately firing a weapon, I’m going to vom.
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