Star Wars - How To Kill A Franchise

No one is happy with the outcome of the Star Wars sequels. I'm sure there are some people who enjoyed the trilogy and it's true that what constitutes a good story is subjective, but I think two things we can all agree on are the general interest in The Star Wars

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is at an all-time high. low of all time and the recent Star Wars trilogy, even if there were moments of merit, was sadly worse than it could have been and when I think about the amazing wasted potential of these past Star Wars films, how could they have been? much more than they were.

I'm not angry or frustrated more than anything else. I'm just disappointed and I'd venture to guess that most of you feel the same, but what's the response to the title? As? Kill a

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. Well, I may have gone a little crazy today because this is the longest video essay I've ever done. In my regular videos, I usually identify a reason why something is great or terrible, but I don't think that's possible. Too many mistakes were made today and there isn't a single reason why Star Wars is now effectively a dead brand, so instead of making one video, say I basically made three each on the top three reasons why Star Wars It is now in the state it is in. now and how strange it seems that Star Wars fans themselves are the ones who hate this recent trilogy the most and in the end everything will be part four in part four I will give my proposal for a complete rewrite of how this sequel trilogy should have been carried out, so stay there, so how did Star Wars go from something that captivated generations of people to something that resulted in shells full of unsold toys and having an audience that seems to hate it more than that? enjoys it if I had to pinpoint why the fanbase feels so betrayed in one sentence it would probably be because the sequel trilogy is a trilogy made just for the average viewer and is explicitly not made for pre-existing Star Wars fans and I know it . that doesn't make sense because we have so many nostalgia gains and what are those but fan service, therefore it's made for the fans, but it's not, and bear with me here, of the three films, by far, the one that is most explicitly specified. made not for the fans is the last jedi, one of the really interesting trends that i have seen not only in all the sequel movies, but especially in the last jedi, is that people who don't care about

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and only watch the movies because there is nothing.

If you're an average viewer who just wants a vaguely entertaining movie when Johnson introduced the spaceship ramming the world, you probably thought it was funny, but you're not as invested in the franchise as the fans, so you wouldn't notice or just wouldn't. Would you care when you realize the terrible inconsistencies. this creates in the world, for example, if a spaceship ramming creates so much damage, why did the empire bother investing ridiculous amounts of time and resources into building two death

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s when they could have crashed some ships against any planet they wanted to destroy? have been much cheaper, so why didn't they do it and also why haven't we seen this tactic of ramming spaceships in other Star Wars space battles so far?

There are no good answers to those questions and now we're leading up to part one because there's one aspect about The Last Jedi that I think is completely indefensible if you want to say that the spaceship ramming was a great moment because it looked visually stunning. I can understand where you're coming from because it seems pretty badass, like when Snoke suddenly dies, you might have really enjoyed that twist because it was so unexpected even though it forced Abrams to resurrect Palpatine in the next movie without any foreshadowing and completely ruined it. the entire narrative direction of the trilogy that you may have loved. the twist itself and from a certain perspective there is a really good argument for why Snoke's sudden death was a good moment, but what is it that I really don't like using this word in peace of opinion video essays?

Not really, but I think this timing is justified. What I think is an objectively bad decision by Ryan Johnson was how he handled Luke. Can I just say that a lot of times he would tell Ryan that we have to think about bands and we said no, we have to think. about the story and we have to think about our movie, you know, just look at the pain on that poor man's face and this brings us to the first part, the first reason why the sequel trilogy was a disappointment to so many people throughout the process.

The trilogy is a bad sequel, in that clip you just watched, Mark Campbell was making a very good point and although he went back and forth on the subject, it is by far one of the biggest failings of the sequel trilogy because, as Mark said, It's about the fans, but it's not just about the fans. about the fans it's also about just making a good sequel to how abrams and johnson failed at this. I will analyze it throughout the first part, but to summarize it, they had two separate philosophies, which brought down Abraham's strategy it was not about continuing the story it was about copying the story that had come before about taking what already They had given us, changing almost nothing and then essentially giving us the same thing twice, but at least Abram's philosophy was better than Johnson's because at least Abrams respected the Star Wars legacy, even if he did a terrible job of expanding it.

For example, throughout Han Solo's entire time in the Awakened Force, Abrams completely respected his character, in my opinion, I think Han Solo's character was one of the Force's greatest highlights. He wakes up to see Han decades later, still making bad deals with criminals and getting into all kinds of trouble. It's exactly as we remember it and it's a lot of fun to see it back in action, but when it comes to respecting the legacy, while Abrams gave it a good college try, Johnson didn't even try, in fact, he actively disrespected him, believing that the best The way to tell these sequel stories was to burn it all down, forget everything that came before, and start from scratch, and when it comes to making a purely good movie, Johnson's approach is genuinely workable, but when it comes to making a good sequel, there's no place It is undoubtedly a terrible philosophy, possibly the worst philosophy it is possible to have and before analyzing it further, I know that most of you watching, like me, are.

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There's only a thousand spots left, so sign up now while you can, but anyway, back to the video, the general opinion on The Force Awakens is that it's perfectly entertaining with some nice performances, good humor, and overall it's pretty useful . I'm sure you remember when the movie came out the response was pretty positive like come on I even hate everything he said he liked it which in retrospect doesn't seem possible I'm pretty sure it's illegal to like things but it's a good movie, it just happens It's a terrible sequel and before we ask why it's a bad sequel, we must first find an example of a good sequel and to answer that, let's look at what is probably the most beloved sequel of all time.

Terminator 2. Now on its own Terminator 2. is an entertaining movie, but when it comes to being a good sequel, it's the gold standard, and what I would say is the main reason it takes what people like. loved the original, but it not only maintains those things, it expands. them, the Terminator is a perfect example in the first film we see him being nothing more than a ruthless monster, but now in the second film we see up close how a terminator thinks, feels and learns as we explore him in new ways. For Sarah Connor in the first film, she was a naive waitress, but now she acts as a soldier with ruthless determination and is definitely more than just a companion, as she has her own agency, such as when she pursues Dyson, the founder of Skynet. , and while Terminator 2 expands on elements of the original and also introduces new elements like we have a new protagonist, John Connor, we have a new villain with creative and terrifying powers, and this is really important rather than just repeating the old survival plot.

Terminator while hunting them, we have a whole new plot in T2 where they plan to take down Skynet before it can be created and I would say this is the reason why many of the Terminator sequels fail to be good sequels because Basically all the movies of Terminator, except Salvation, all essentially have an identical plot. A Terminator goes back in time, hunts the protagonist, and the protagonist tries to survive the entire movie until he kills the Terminator in the final act, if you ask me. terminator 2 is the closest thing to a perfect sequel there is and that's why the force awakens is a terrible sequel even if it does a good job entertaining because the force awakens copies over those original elements but makes the terrible mistake of not exploring them in new ways like Han Solo was a great example, yes it was cool to see them in action again but it's identical to how it used to be.

It's been 20 years, wouldn't it be much more interesting to see what Han is like? changed and developed during this time, you know, instead of being exactly the same except with just adding wrinkles and I'm not saying that Abram should have pulled a Johnson and warped him so completely that he wasn't even remotely the same character as him. with Luke, but I'm saying he should have taken James Cameron's role and taken Han in a different but also totally natural direction that's in line with his character, like we could still have the hand to be the sarcastic, witty gunslinger that always was, but maybe now it is. getting older when they are in Mazes' cantina, he starts limping and tells everyone to go ahead without him because his back hurts or he is trying to hide that he is out of breath because he is not as fit as he used to be and this can really throw. on people's heartstrings because we see his age catching up with him and one hand starts to think that maybe a life on the road is no longer viable for him, he's still exactly the same person he was, but he's starting to think that maybe just maybe he should give the falcon to Chewbacca and Rey finally pay off his debts and retire once and for all.

It would have been a very natural direction to take Han's character in a sequel film and the exact same applies to Leia, Chewbacca and C-3po. and so many other characters and elements, all of these aspects were copied and pasted from the originals without any effort to explore them in interesting ways and that's okay, imagine exploring the elements of an original story in the sequel as a fade to the left. We don't have enough changes in the middle, you have that sweet spot where they're different, but it feels like a natural development in his character. The Terminator and Sarah Connor from T2 hit this mark pretty well and at the right end so did we. many changes and to visualize my point if we were to plot all the elements transferred from the original trilogy to the sequel trilogy, we would have read the entire plot of a new hope c3po r2d2 admiral akbar the millennium falcon lando the resistance the first order, which it's basically the empire with a new layer of pain and Chewbacca and they're all on the far left of insufficient change because everything I just listed, with the exception of a few nuances here and there, are basically identical to how they were in the originals and you see that pointon the right where it says too much change, well, if you look past that, there's a dot that says please, for the love of God, stop, you're ruining it, you're ruining it.

If you've warped this so completely that it's not even remotely close to what it used to be, that's Luke and jokes aside, this is a huge problem for the sequel trilogy because in a perfect sequel everything inherited from the original story should be in that zone of Goldilocks where it's still the same characters and factions, but they've developed in naturally interesting ways that allow for entertaining new directions in the subsequent story. And the sad truth is that I can't think of one aspect of the original trilogy that lands on this sweet spot in the sequel trilogy because he's all an exact copy of who he was before or Luke is and he's changed so much that he's not even remotely the same character and this is the problem with Ryan Johnson's approach to making a sequel because , to expand on what you said before, what Johnson did to Luke was objectively bad in terms of making a good sequel because it completely missed the mark of being that perfect balance between being the same but also having something a little different about them and you want to know the worst part: Johnson bastardized Luke's character when he didn't need to and why Johnson didn't need to corrupt Luke's personality because Johnson could have given Luke Phil the exact same role of being a hermit with a cynical attitude and being that reluctant mentor and at the same time maybe not landing in that sweet spot, but at least dragging it much further back on the slope and doing it much more. like the Luke we knew and how Johnson could have done this right.

One of the worst offenses that he angered so many fans about was how Luke said that he considered murdering Kylo in cold blood while he was sleeping. He is completely out of line with the optimistic outlook we knew. In the originals, who always chose to see the good in people, not the bad, solving this problem is actually quite easy because all we have to do is turn this around, an example of what Johnson could have done when Luke He had Kylo as a student. Kyla lashed out, he was quick to anger and violence and there were obvious signs that Kylo could fall to the dark side, but Luke had faith in him as if this were the Luke Skywalker of the originals, he is an optimist who always sees the best in people and when Kylo shows signs that he is falling into darkness, Luke chooses to have faith, he chooses to believe in Kylo to show him unconditional support, but then after Luke becomes totally vulnerable to Kylo by completely trusting him, Luke embarks on an adventure and Kylo snaps and turns. the few students he could to the dark side and murders the rest and Luke returns and finds his temple in flames and all his students missing or dead that's why he's so cynical that's why he's a hermit because he was a man of pure optimism and he was so focused on seeing the good in people who became blind to the bad in them and Luke is paralyzed by guilt because he knows that his mistake cost the lives of dozens of his students and also betrayed Kylo. him in the most painful way possible and now Luke chooses to be a hermit because Luke doesn't trust himself enough to be in the world and not make it worse because he is in it and when Rey starts to be tempted by the dark side and Luke tells her He says I've seen this brute force only once before, it didn't scare me enough like it does now, I would have landed with a much more emotional hit like God, this change would have been objectively better, that's right, I told him.

I don't like the video, I don't care, not subjectively better but objectively better because we still have Luke playing the exact same role in the movie of being that reluctant mentor, but it would also have made Luke much closer to that curl zone gold i just talked about ryan johnson he has said many times in many interviews that he is a huge star

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fan but i call ryan johnson he is a talented director there is no doubt about it but if he really was a true star wars fan wars, I would have understood about luke. character better than him and now we move on to what I think is the central problem of why the three films as a collective are bad sequels because the heart of this trilogy is a clone of the old original trilogy at its core. about a small group of good rebels fighting a much larger evil empire, that was the story and it worked pretty well, like say what you want about the prequels, but one area where Lucas hit the nail on the head perfectly was how did.

Don't make the mistake of doing the same thing twice because, as Ron Swanson once said, the second time is always worse. Lucas realized that we don't want to see another saga about insurgents fighting an empire because we've already seen that story in Star Wars canon like we want to see that story again, we just rewatched the originals. Lucas knew this, so he changed the dynamic now it's the good guys who are in power and the bad guys are the weaker faction. They plot and manipulate behind the scenes to defeat the good guys because Lucas took the heart of the Star Wars formula and twisted it, he didn't copy it like Abrams, he didn't bastardize it like Johnson, he just twisted it and gave us a follow-up to the originals, as it tells a new story with a new plot in a new setting and at the same time it is still definitely Star Wars.

In my opinion, it was a brilliant decision by Lucas in the prequels, even if some elements of those films could have been done. Better, I think by far the best decision Lucas made here was to have Obi-Wan be one of the main characters because it seems like a natural path to take when making a prequel, a lot of people disagree about whether the prequels were good or bad. one of the main things that basically everyone agrees on is that obi-wan was consistently great, like with obi-wan, lucas did the same thing james cameron did with terminator 2. he took a character from the original story, ran with it and explored it in interesting new ways when disney sat down to solve this trilogy, they made the terrible mistake of doing the exact opposite of what lucas did with the prequels because disney played it safe in areas where they should have taken risks and took risks in the areas where they should have played it safe on the one hand Luke should have simply been a main character in the sequels, it's a no-brainer to forget him as a mentor in one of the three movies, he should have had the Obi-wan treatment of being one of the main characters in all three movies, yes, when you make a sequel you want to add new characters and follow their journey, of course yes, but if instead we had a plot in all three movies, as we follow Finn, for example, when leaves The First Order then meets up with Han Solo and continues his adventure and then we have another equally important plot following Luke as we continue his journey from the original films, since both Finn and Luke are now our two protagonists, it would have really been an A safe choice, but also a very good one, to be sure this would have pleased the fans, but much more importantly, it would have improved the films in terms of being good sequels because they continue the story, but instead of doing that. easy, safe, sensible choice Disney took a completely unnecessary risk by sidelining every original character to be nothing more than a supporting character and replacing the main cast with completely new faces.

This was a useless risk because such a good choice was staring them straight in front. confront in the way of continuing Luke's journey and, even worse, it was a risk that didn't work because these new characters are not as beloved as the originals and, on the other hand, Disney played it safe in the areas where they needed it. taking risks, by far the worst example of this, is the main dynamic of the story we just talked about. Lucas already knew that we had seen the original story, so he took the prequels in a new direction. Disney needed to do that like OMG. they needed to do that, as if I can't emphasize enough how catastrophic Disney's decision was to not twist the Star Wars formula, so we had a story that oozed Star Wars, you know, with the lightsabers and exploring the same cast of characters and at the same time giving it a new plot and a new setting and I would say that I think it's a very good idea of ​​how they should have done it, but I'll save it for the fourth part of this video, where I'll do the complete rewrite of all of this . sequel trilogy, so stick around for that, but the world of the sequels is literally just a repeat of the originals, so Star Wars was previously known for interesting world building that captured people's imagination, all of that has now been gone and that brings us to the second part, a boring one. good world, you probably think the world building of the sequel is exciting, exciting, no it's not, it's dark and boring, oh my god, it's boring, it's so desperately boring, tedious, suffocating, boring and hopeless, the Fear of risk is the death of the imagination too often when a world comes. whether in a movie, a game or a book, and it blows people away, it happened because the creators took a creative risk, you can't create a fascinating world using nothing more than a formula, simply by redoing what has been done before From the thousands of examples out there, a good one is Mass Effect, it's a space opera game set in a world with a lot of new ideas and creative risks, and those risks paid off beautifully because it's a world that captured the imagination of its player base and On the other hand, whenever a world comes along that fails to engage people, it's usually because the people who created it were too afraid to take risks and it's impossible to be creative without taking risks and it happens. that no narrator fears risk more. than Disney, so I said in part one that the mouse made a catastrophic mistake when they didn't change the core of Star Wars in this new trilogy and sure that resulted in a repetitive plot, but it was a fatal blow in terms of the world.

The reason it was built is in the original movies with the empire and the rebels. Lucas explored that world with incredible depth and because in the sequel trilogy we return to essentially the same story, the world has nowhere new to go and when we see that the rebels have a secret base on that salt plain, it's not not even remotely interesting because we've already seen Hoth and by the way, Hof is a much more interesting place than wherever that soul planet was when we see that Rey lives on a desert planet. called jakku is not even remotely interesting because we have already seen tatooine and tatooine by the way is a place explored in much more depth than jakku between the sand natives and mos eisley's hive of scum and villainy because disney decided to play it as safe as possible with its sequels, they ended up accidentally tying their hands behind their backs from a world-building perspective because almost everything that appears on screen we have already seen before and, even worse, the originals, it is better to imagine it if you go to a restaurant and you get a beautiful, like a masterfully made ice cream with fresh clotted cream ice cream and it's just divine, it's the best dessert you've ever had, you loved it and then you leave and you come back to the restaurant a week later full of There are a lot of expectations and they give you a singular, sad, cheap scoop of vanilla ice cream that has no flavor and is called a sundae.

It's like the one you had before, only a much worse version. It would have been better if they tried to season it. instead, with some fresh, warm brownies, even if those brownies weren't very well made, that would have at least been better than having something that is basically exactly the same, only worse, that's how the world feels builds between Lucas films and Disney films. about how the world building was executed, I've seen a lot of arguments on reddit about how realistic the aftermath of the world building is. The most common argument I've seen people make is about whether the first order that came to power under the nose of the republic did anything.

It makes sense and there are counterarguments to that, but I don't want to talk about how realistic the world is right now because I think people doing that distract me from the main point because the biggest problem with the world building in the sequels. It's boring, and a big testament to how boring this world is is that there's a pervasive feeling that nothing is happening off-camera. It's the kind of litmus test I have where I'll know if a world has been built right when, even though I'm not seeing it, I have a strong feeling that things are happening elsewhere, like a big test of whether a world is right. built or not when the setting of the story expands to be more than what we see on the screen or on the page of it, one of the most popular worldbuilding comparisons is to an iceberg, when you are creating a world, the perfect execution is when you build this visible part of the world building above the waterline and it's really interesting and well designed, but also convinces the audience thatBelow the water line, out of sight, is a much larger chunk of ice that is equally interesting and convinces the audience that there is much more to the world than just what we see.

George Lucas was a genius when it came to pulling this off and the Star Wars sequels failed to do it spectacularly and like most movies we could never be sure who made the creative decisions so when I say the names of the directors, know that I say them assuming that they made all the creative decisions, but when it comes to how abrams and johnson handled the sequel films, they both clearly believe that when telling a science fiction and fantasy story, world building is optional, but here's the problem with that philosophy: it's optional in the same way that having sauce to go with pasta is optional. optional, I know I'm making a lot of food metaphors right now, I have no idea why, but when you eat just spaghetti by itself, you won't die if you do and it can technically be called food, but it will taste bland.

Like heck, it will be a completely forgettable meal, but a great chef will make a good sauce to go with it, so that the sauce complements the pasta and the pasta complements the sauce and you end up with a meal that is much more enjoyable than the sum of its parts. crafting a story in a secondary world is exactly like that, a secondary world, that is, one that is not connected to our world, yes, the characters and plot are always the heart of the story, regardless of the genre, but when you write in a secondary world you have room to do what most other stories can never do and place your plot and your characters in a new and fascinating environment where the story makes the world more interesting and the story becomes more interesting because of the world and the story becomes more entertaining than the sum of its parts even if its plot is fairly generic, if it takes place in a compelling world, it takes what would have been a mediocre story and transcends it to another level of entertainment value, e.g. , let's see a new hope, what's the plot of a new hope, well it's your standard hero's journey, there's a big bad guy, there's a farm boy who wants to go out and explore the galaxy and if you've never seen it before a new hope, just by me saying those two things, you can guess them quite accurately. what the plot of the film will look like nothing about the plot of a new hope was very recent at the time, but what you have to remember is that the film was released in 1977, decades before the era of CGI as the public saw .

In theaters we saw almost exclusively contemporary films in which each scene was filmed on the streets of a city, in a bedroom or in an office, the only other film on the same level as Star Wars at that time was 2001, a space odyssey to the one where most of the public attended. from rocky like the most out of this world movie they had ever seen and then they watched star wars and when you know the context, what the movies were like before 1977, when you see the epic music swell as the spaceships fly overhead with this great view of a planet below as it is not surprising that back in the 70s this film captured the imagination of entire generations even though the plot is the typical hero's journey, the setting was so innovative at that time that it made people cared about the story a lot more than they would have otherwise if the setting was in a more realistic location like a pirate ship for example, say what you want about the prequels, but all three movies had some really good world building, we saw many aspects of the star. star wars like cloning and the whole culture of the jedi order and the prequels is the first time we see a big open war between two proper armies in the star wars galaxy, the world of the prequels was fresh and creative and as a result , captured people's imagination.

Again, if you're asking me if we're talking about nothing more than world-building, I'd say that the prequels were better than the original movies because the settings and cultures we see are explored in much more detail, but obviously that's just my point. opinion, but as a symptom of this, I know that I am not the only one. About two years ago, you got a bunch of videos giving prequel scenarios spammed in your recommended section, as I know I liked it a few years ago. Channels like Star Wars Theory and Eckhart's Ladder made a series of videos that took off and garnered millions of views each, like What If Macewan Did for Anakin Skywalker?

What if Obi-Wan brought Anakin back to the light? What if Mace Windu trained Anakin? and I could go on for a long time because there are hundreds of these videos breaking the prequel law and using it to explore these alternate scenarios and how they would have altered history, but these videos got a ridiculous amount of views just like the sheer popularity of these videos shows that there was something about the world of the prequels that just grabbed people and still does so much that millions of people are watching videos about Revenge of the Sith more than 12 years after the movie came out.

I'm not thinking of any other film but of any other property that has achieved anything remotely similar to that. You can say that George Lucas writes terrible dialogue. I am tormented by the kiss you should never have given me. You can say that Lucas may be gone. Too far in some places I may have gone too far in some places, but one thing I hope we can all agree on is that George Lucas is a genius when it comes to creating a fictional world, but he wait a second, y'all these. What if the videos were big hits?

Let's touch on the force awakens. And if so? What's happening? So, um, okay, first result. What if the force awakens was better, okay, okay, the second result, the force awakens. What if it's bad? um, oh, okay, a third. What if episode seven? they were a good fourth result, what if rey joined kylo ren? Oh okay, fair enough, here's a proper "what if" video, but it only got 52,000 views and it's the fourth result when you search for "what if" it's not really, it doesn't really compare very good. with the millions and millions of prequel videos we're getting, but if you're trying to find proof that the world built in the prequels sustains people's imaginations better than the sequels, this is probably the best proof you're going to get, but what are some tangible examples of good worldbuilding?

Well, when I first saw Attack of the Clones there was a detail that I loved, like when Obi-wan arrives on Kamino and we see that his fighter can't reach FTL speed on his own and needs an external attachment ring to get through the speed of light and this is such a small detail that Lucas couldn't have included so easily, but I think it's brilliant because it shows the advancement of technology in the original trilogy that the fighters use that the rebels use. They all have internal ftl drives that they use to jump from one place to another, but in the prequels that level of compact ftl has not been reached yet and a small fighter ship needs this external hardware to pass light speed in this way, it's great.

The world building does a very good job of showing how technology has advanced over the years and this is far from the only detail that shows the advancement of technology. Another good example is when Luke loses his hand in Empire Strikes Back and gets a replacement that is perfectly realistic, but in the prequels when anakin loses his hand he gets this ugly metal one that doesn't look so good again, this shows how Prosthetic technology has advanced over the years in the Star Wars galaxy, but that's okay, Lucas carefully considered the advancement. of technology as any world builder should.

How did Disney continue his legacy? Now it's decades after the originals, any good world builder would look at that and call it open season to show us how technology has advanced since then, how did Disney do this? speeders that have tracks, this is so dumb for so many reasons, like I'm going to do a mini race specifically on these speeders because they annoy me so much. In exchange for the Jedi, we see that the stormtroopers have hover speeders and travel extremely fast. and the main reason is because they have no contact with the ground, therefore, they have no friction.

It's awesome technology, but decades later, the stormtroopers have somehow lost this technology even though the cheap, random junk vehicle they're chasing has that technology. this out of the way there is a reason why the cars you see on the street aren't made with tank tracks there is a reason why when ferrari releases their next model the bottom half doesn't look like a damn sherman it's because when it comes to build Speed ​​tracks are the worst possible option because they have a large amount of surface area touching the ground therefore they have a large amount of friction so they move very very slowly and that's not to mention the safety issues I mean what happens if an object obstructs the tracks, I mean that could easily happen because it could kill the occupants of the vehicle and oh what do you know it does?

But okay, okay, let's give Disney the benefit of the doubt, see if there's a good reason for this sudden regression in technology. Look at the law, okay, on the Star Wars wiki page. First Order Tread Speeders were rugged, armored patrol speeder bikes that had a design that gave great grip on unstable terrain. Two of these speeders could be carried on board and this gave great attraction on unstable terrain. Wait a second let's see the return of the jedi real quick tomorrow, that shows that speeders have incredibly good handling so why the hell would they need a huge attraction especially since they are called speeders and their only purpose is to chase and they need to increase the speed, especially since we've already seen that floating vehicles work quite well in Santa Claus, since in Star Wars replacing floating speeders with ones with wheels is literally a degradation in every way, as if it were inconceivable that a first-rate engineer design this monstrosity of a vehicle and his superior didn't immediately slap him over the head for creating a design as catastrophically silly as this one.

I can only assume that Abrams chose to downgrade Star Wars technology not for consistency or to make the world interesting. He just did it. He did it because he thought it looked cool, as if on the one hand we have a world where every piece of technology is carefully considered, where for every minute of screen time it feels like there are 10 pages of history written for every inch of the iceberg. We see that there seem to be 10 more below the water line and for the sequels it seems that for every minute of screen time there are 10 words of law written and I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but my Achilles heel.

In fiction, world building is bad, like nothing makes my blood boil faster than not only a world that's boring, but a world that makes no sense. Let me, let me tell you, styles have really pissed me off these last few years. let me tell you that, we'll talk about the big whirlpool building scheme in a moment and how it affects the whole story in general, but right now I'm angry and I'm going to go through this stupid, stupid world and you can't stop me, let's forget all the novels and comics external for just a second. I'm talking to people who have only seen the movies and haven't read the books, which is the overwhelming majority of you. a quiz a nice and fun quiz, so get your pens ready, get out your paper and let's see how many of you can answer these questions correctly.

Is it the first order, a fairly small government with control over only a handful of systems, or the first order is a massive government. empire that has control over almost the entire Star Wars galaxy, you don't know the answer, do you like it? It's an extremely important question and it's never addressed in any of the three movies, I mean, if they're just a small government with just control. over a handful of systems, how could they have the resources to build a Starkiller base? That doesn't make sense, so they just have to be a big empire, but if they are this big empire, why would they build a death star because they know they're a massive waste of time and resources because all they do is explode the moment they're done, so why would they waste so much time and money on a super weapon when instead they could use those same resources to build tens of thousands of ships and just invade the galaxy the traditional way and if They do it that way they keep all the planet's resources instead of blowing everything up, why didn't the first order build a bigger navy instead of a Starkiller base?

Good question and you don't know the answer, right? When the empire was destroyed in exchange for the Jedi and theRepublic became the main galactic power. How and why did the Republic allow the first order to arise and become as powerful as it was? Didn't you know the answer? Frankly, I'm getting tired of saying that phrase right now, but surely we can guess, we can say that the first order exists, therefore the republic must have allowed it to happen, we can assume that much, but how it happened and the reason Why this bothers me is not because it's a hole in the world, but because it's such low hanging fruit for a really interesting bit of world-building, if any decent fantasy or science fiction writer said so. this story that would probably be the first question they would address if the republic echoed a post-WWI mentality and did a Neville Chamberlain if the first order gradually invaded system after system but the republic allowed it to happen because these systems were not A part of the republic and its leader were so afraid of another war that he simply turned a blind eye or offered appeasement after each invasion if they conveyed to him that in the movies he would have done a wonderful job of giving the world more depth and They didn't have to throw such honest information, they could have at least hinted at it with a few lines of dialogue here and there about how the republic is cowardly and too afraid to establish the first order every time they invade somewhere. or something like that, how did the first order arise?

It's such a basic question and sure, Luke Skywalker is said to have disappeared and in his absence the first order has risen from the ashes of the empire, but that's all the answer we get in the movies. and sure it's some external media but 99 of the people who see these movies don't read the books so the movies have to stand on their own two feet and cover these questions independently because if they don't the construction of the world will feel superficial. and boring, and it turns out that's exactly what happened, i swear, it feels like abrams and johnson made their movies without any regard for making the world consistent or interesting and after the fact there was a team of writers in the office Disney struggling to try. and plug the holes in the world that both directors created and it seems like they put a lot of effort into convincing fans that the world actually has some depth and isn't as shallow as it appears in the movies, overall, that's probably exactly it. what happened, but hey, here's a really good one like this, he's the worst offender of all in the force that awakens when the first order blows up five planets and murders tens of billions of people.

What are the consequences of that? Did the galactic economy crash? If five countries on Earth simply disappeared, it would be a safe bet that it would cause all kinds of damage to the Earth's economy. If someone declared war of the first order due to its use. from the starkula base or everyone was scared by the first order so they didn't declare war, we don't know that billions of people were killed and it wasn't even acknowledged in the aftermath, but it's okay to compare this with the real world, Imagine if North Korea is like the first order, okay, it doesn't matter, you don't need to imagine it because they basically are, but imagine if out of nowhere they decided to bomb five neighboring countries and completely erase them to ashes, and immediately after some insurgents. they came and destroyed the entire nuclear arsenal of the country like the rebels do when they eliminate the Starkiller base, how would the other countries on earth react to this, where Mr.

UN's country has made a clear attempt to destroy or subjugate the rest of the world, but is it okay? After their main deterrent of why people should not declare war on them is completely destroyed, what would China, the US and the UK do in such a scenario? Well, it's a pretty easy answer, all nations would declare total war on this country. eliminate them as quickly as humanly possible before they can rebuild their arsenal and become a threat again, that is what would happen in reality and this presents a rather obvious question: a Starkiller base was destroyed, what is the main reason why the one everyone was afraid to fight the first.

Order was gone, why didn't every nation and every planet in the Star Wars galaxy form a military coalition to take down the first order during the phase where they had no impediment to do so? So, you don't know the answer, you mean? You can guess that we can stab in the dark and find 23 different answers as to why the first order isn't miraculously destroyed when the last jedi begins. All of those guesses would be equally possible, but we would have to guess because it is an important consequence of the first film that was completely ignored in the subsequent films.

I swear the Star Wars galaxy feels so small now that it doesn't feel like it's a place with tons of nations and factions with interesting dynamics, it's just the first order. and it's just the rebels and apart from them there is no one else, I mean I hate to do it, okay it's actually a lie, I would love to do it, but let's get our markers out, how can we address all this in the world about the consequences of blow up those five planets what I think would have been a nice touch is that during the last jedi we make it clear that the first order is currently at war with the republic in retaliation for blowing up five of their colonies and maybe when finn goes to the stings from kanto, he has to sneak past the front lines of a space battle between the first order and the new republic and when he is on the ground he sees flashing lasers in the sky due to the first order's use of the starkiller base, a navy coalition. headed by the republic is waging a war against them before they can rebuild their super weapon in the last jedi when they are chasing the rebels one of the officers says that they need to eliminate these rebels as quickly as possible because the first order is being facing up. the republic's third fleet in the naboo system and they urgently need reinforcements and then snoke reaffirms this by telling hux that the republic is retaliating after blowing up five of their planets and murdering billions of innocent civilians, in fact, they We're all pretty upset about the whole thing, if they could just deal with those pesky rebels and free their ships and reinforce the front lines right away that would be fine and then when Hux doesn't, Snoke arrives himself to personally deal with the situation because they really want the last of these rebels to be destroyed, but it is also very important that they free these ships as soon as possible so that they can reinforce the front line and help in the war effort.

Could you see it adding just a few lines of dialogue? conversations between snoke and hux and a brief 20-second sequence in which fin slips past the front lines of a battle, the world is immediately more interesting and immediately has more depth as we show that there are, in fact, a galaxy wider than the one we are seeing. and then this can continue to the right of skywalker here's a good question the rise of skywalker when palpatine offered kylo all those ships why did he need those ships why did kylo actually want to have palpatine's navy because he already has a navy and he's already pretty powerful and weakly motivated so we can improve kylo's motivation for that and at the same time improve the world building because palpatine's offer is kylo's last hope to turn the tide in this war because the rest of The galaxy has rallied behind the Republic and they have destroyed most of the First Order's armada between the two films.

Kylo needs these ships to help the war effort; otherwise the first order is finished. There's a nice improvement I think in the overall world building, all this does is stand out. How little Johnson and Abrams cared about world-building because it would have taken very little effort to answer all these questions and flesh out the world! They didn't do a bad job with worldbuilding because to do a bad job you must first try to do that job and the unfortunate truth is that worldbuilding often does more than simply improve a story. Good worldbuilding also allows the audience to understand why everyone is fighting for what they are fighting for and does more than just capture the audience's attention.

Imaginations, it also gives the audience the tools they need to care and I would explain it further, but a space documentary YouTuber who makes some really good sci-fi videos has already explored this topic quite well if you want to check out his channel. there is a link below but here is a clip of his video on the topic without reading the external content of the expanded universe it is extremely difficult to find out what the resistance is, what the first order is and where it came from, and even with that content expanded there is very little context and both sides seem to lack any kind of ideology and I think this problem arises from a kind of unfair and generalized opinion about the prequel films.

I suspect it's been widely reported that people didn't like the politics in the Star Wars prequels, so if they want to take a step back from the politics, I understand that, but I suspect they may have taken just as big a step back. that now it is quite difficult to know what is happening. The original trilogy gave us enough context for I Know What Was Happening without getting swamped in tax negotiations and stuff, but either way you get the sense that the First Order and the Resistance are just these two gangs having an irrelevant fight in middle of nowhere, you don't have the feeling. that all of this is contributing to the overall galactic picture, even though initial tracking assures you that this is the case even if you completely tone down the political side of the story as much as you can to eliminate as much of the perceived boring content. leave some context behind, otherwise it'll be three hours of people fighting for nothing because we have so much lack of world building that it not only makes the world much more boring, but it removes the context we need to care about.

Well, mark the time there is. two questions that the force awakens doesn't answer and as a result it strips us of the context we need abrams doesn't explain how powerful the first order is and doesn't explain why they built the starkiller base and to answer all these questions what they had to do was add two scenes short and I know it sounds like a stupidly small amount of scenes to fix these problems and make the world much more interesting, but that was really all they needed and let's see how they play out so close to the beginning. from the movie we add a scene where kylo ren is acting as an emissary for the first order and is having a face to face meeting with the president of the new republic but before we establish in that call with stoke that kylo needs to secure this trade deal because no one wants to doing business with the first order even though the old empire was destroyed decades ago and they are not as powerful as the old empire was, the people of the galaxy still see them as that empire and they are completely isolated from the galaxy at large because no one wants anything to do with them, so this president offers them a major trade deal that could be their lucky break to finally become a relevant faction again, so Kylo is there desperate to close this deal. and everything is going well until the president does a 180 and says oh, he'll sign the agreement of course once the first order commits to completely demilitarizing and then Kylo's face drops what he thought he It was the first order's lucky break to become politically relevant again.

It was, in fact, a plan by the republic to get them to reduce their military power. Akalu, of course, says no and the president just laughs in his face and says that his first order is a relic of how things used to be. you have 20 systems, half of which are about to collapse how many of your citizens are starving right now because instead of feeding them you and snoke are secretly building that navy blue kylo doesn't say anything but his expression on his face Poker falters with the slightest hint of surprise oh, do you think I?

I didn't know you thought my intelligence offices are so inept that none of them would notice how you've been extracting and importing billions of tons of jurisdil. There's only one reason you're building a navy in secret, isn't there, Kylo? It says nothing more than the president continues, even if you weren't breaking the treaty by creating your own forces, my voters still hate your first order, there's no way they can see me making a deal with you unless you promise to demilitarize, he says. that if Kylo does that, he can turn things around somehow or it seems like the president caused this to happen and he will do itlook great in the eyes of his allies and the public, after all, he is up for re-election later this year. and as the president has this mini monologue, Kylo hasn't said anything, he's just been holding his hand and controlling his anger, he finally says that he won't sign that agreement, then Kylo stands up to leave the barely contained fury visible on his face. trembling.

But just as he's about to leave, the president smiles and says, "Give it two months and they'll be desperate for a deal half as good as this one. Who knows, maybe once their troubled economies completely collapse, they'll be begging." on his knees, feeling generous and then Kylo just bursts out, turns around and says somberly Mr. President, at the end of the week you're going to be the one begging and before you can ask what the hell that means, Kylo storms out and then, a lot more. late in the movie, Get a really cool payoff for that scene as they once used Starkiller Base to destroy a colony of the new republic, that's right, not five entire planets because that's a ridiculous exaggeration, just destroy one insignificant one with perhaps a population of a few million to demonstrate the station's capabilities kailu has an empty call with the president he spoke to earlier and says there is still a lot of charge in the core of his station if he doesn't surrender immediately he will destroy mandalore. , a much more populous Republican planet, is demanding that talks for that trade deal be reopened and hopes the president will be much more generous with its terms.

Whatever the president stutters in terror. Oh, and one more thing Jakar says. Kylo Jakar, the presiding teacher when I was a kid. Jakar was nothing more than a lifeless rock, but I listened. the republic has been terraforming it to inhabit it, as I understand it, the terraforming was completed just a few months ago and the first settlers are about to arrive, give me what the president is shouting, we spent 20 billion credits terrorizing Jakarta, are you crazy? Then Kylo turns the man behind him. the commander prepares starkiller to destroy mandalore and the president yells at him to stop and agrees to evacuate his people from Jakarta and hand over the planner at the first order, then Kylo says and one more thing that the president says on the verge of an attack out of nerves he begs what he begs and then the president kneels and begs for mercy and Kylo makes good on that threat when he says that at the end of the week he will be the one begging as if the force would awaken if it had just been those two. scenes like maybe some people wouldn't have liked politics.

I get it, but I think they would have done a brilliant job adding depth to this world by showing that there is a wider galaxy out there and how powerful the first order is and why they built a Starkiller base in all those questions so they can go from one petty government to a sudden superpower as anyone who challenges them is destroyed, but anyway, in short, the sequel is a bad world and now, to the third part, a confusing vision and an arsenal of unfired Chekov weapons . I trust you fired Chekov's gun in half an issue, what do you mean by this and what is this?

If there's one piece of advice I would give to anyone writing a story that spans multiple installments, it would be to make a plan, which some people do. They prefer to improvise their story as it goes, but when you're telling a series of connected stories where you write the first version, then you write the second and so on and you do all of that without any plan, this can be extremely risky because when you do that, This can result in you having a whole arsenal of unfired Chekhov's Guns that you promised in the first story would have a reward later on, but you end up never shooting them or when you do shoot them it's like a wet firecracker because the reward wasn't as good as you.

I promised it would be JJ Abrams, sorry guys, I have a really bad cough today, but when you tell a series of stories without a plan, it can result in mysteries that have completely disappointing answers and character arcs that go nowhere except when they tell . a story without a plan and on top of that you have a tug of war between two directors fighting to tell their version of the story you get the star wars sequel trilogy the post child of why when writing a series you need to know in which direction We are heading again to Even though the prequels were heavily criticized, they at least had a consistent vision.

Lucas knew exactly what his end point was and every step of the story he was working towards it and I think the best example of one of Chekhov's many unfired guns in this trilogy is Finns and the idea of ​​him being a soldier. As a deserter stormtrooper, the Awakened Force was extremely derivative, but we've never really seen a stormtrooper's side of the story. It's a new twist that helped the only new twist in the sequels. We had and if we had a thorough exploration of how a stormtrooper thinks and works, how he operates, what his tactics are, what it's like to be a deserter, what it's like for Finn to kill people knowing that underneath that helmet is a human who looks exactly like him. .

The person who used to be Finn had almost unlimited potential to be a fascinating character, but he wasn't given any exploration, although that's actually saying it's overly generous because not only is the idea of ​​him being a stormtrooper unexplored. , but has been completely forgotten - for example, considering Finn was once one of them, he should feel quite conflicted when he takes the life of a stormtrooper, instead, every time he kills one of them. them, jj abrams reacts like this, you had a good idea, a genuinely creative idea that could have resulted in something really interesting. character and you wasted it, although Johnson wasted it too, so you're not the only one to blame here.

JJ Abrams presented Chekhov's gun to a defecting stormtrooper, promising the audience that it would be shot, but he ended up losing Chekhov's gun to his back. off the couch and then forgot where he was, in fact, if in the force awakens finn was just a random dock worker who decided to join the rebels, the next two movies would have basically required no changes because they would have done exactly the same amount of In a sense, that's an example of one of the many broken promises throughout this trilogy, but of course it's not just broken promises, it's a confusing vision and well, a great example of that would be the force awakening and how it is clearly set up.

Kylo Ren wants nothing more than to live up to Darth Vader's legacy and I will finish what you started. You're afraid you'll never be as strong as Darth Vader, but in the next movie, Kylo says time gone kill him if you want. This was a very poorly handled aspect of Kylo's character and it happened partly because there was no plan, but mainly because the directors wanted two different things in one movie. He has tremendous respect for Darth Vader's legacy, to the point that he models his appearance after him. and he modulates his voice to be more like him and in the next movie he abandons all that and is preaching that you shouldn't worry about the past and why Kylo has made a complete change in his aspirations, well it's because at the beginning of the last jedi snoke he said take that away and that's it because snoke tried with kylo that one time kylo's character made a complete and instantaneous U-turn on what he wanted in life the problem is not the change itself because the characters that the arcs that They submit will always have changing opinions and desires as time goes by;

Instead, with how quickly the change occurred, he suddenly hates his past and suddenly wants to be his own man at the beginning of the second film, as would make for a better execution of this arc. If Kylo spends the entire Force Awakens trying to be like Darth Vader, then in the Last Jedi he tries and fails to be like Darth Vader, maybe he's trying to intimidate people and it doesn't work or what I think would be a better option is he makes a decision because he thinks that's the decision darth vader would have made but it ends up going terribly wrong for him and as a result it gives him this crisis of faith because his whole identity is based on being like darth vader but now he realizes that he's not Darth Vader, so he doesn't know who he is, and towards the end of the second movie, Kylo has this crisis of faith that propels him on a journey of self-discovery for the rest of the second movie. and the entire third film until at the climax of the last film he finally realizes who he is and decides to denounce being the next vader decides to be his own man and turns to the light side if as a result of his extensive trilogy In the arc He turns to the light side, which would have made his entire journey much more compelling than it was, and it's been said that when Abrams handed the reins to Johnson at the end of The Force Awakens, he gave Johnson some notes. about which he had been planning the sequels and it's pretty clear that this was one of those things on the list like in the force awakens, abrams was clearly setting himself up as the basis for this kind of arc for Kylo as he progresses in this journey of self-discovery. but instead of moving forward and giving his character a nice line, Johnson went all nafam and ruined Kylo's arc, not because he thought it would make Kylo more interesting, but because Johnson wanted Kylo to embody his message of letting die. the past, king.

It's also another great example of a confusing vision, so in The Last Jedi it's revealed that his parents were nobody and this was a bit controversial at the time, but on its own I think it could have been brilliant. This is a crushing moment for Rey and it changes his trajectory in what he wants, however I think this moment had a really poor foundation if in The Force Awakens, it certainly would have made this more powerful if Rey makes a big deal about who her parents are, she says at three separate points in the film where she just knows that her parents are important, she just knows that they put her on that planet for a reason, maybe it was to keep her safe because someone was chasing them, perhaps it was to prevent her from fulfilling her goals.

Destiny, she doesn't know why they put her there, but she desperately wants to leave the planet, go find her parents and discover this great mystery. No one has ever told her that she was put there for a reason. He just came to believe it and now built his entire life and identity around this quest to find his legacy, if that foundation was laid in the force awakens, like they knew what direction they were going with his character, that would have made this revelation in the last jedi of his useless parents will work so much better, but this revelation works well as it definitely could have been done better, but now we have raised the question of how he will define who he is when he doesn't have a legacy.

It's an interesting question that could have been a fascinating character. exploration in the third movie, but wait, there's more, forget everything I just said because everything has been completely thrown out the window when Abrams just stabbed Johnson's lightning bolt reveal in the back. Rey's character progression has been completely invalidated in this tug-of-war of creative control. because surely her parents were nobody, but her grandfather was Palpatine and because of this constant coming and going, Rey does not have a direct line throughout the trilogy, as if they had followed the path of Rey's parents being don nobodies, which could have worked very well as she struggled to find. her place in her life without the legacy she falsely believed she had if they followed the path of a king having an inheritance of evil as if her grandfather was a monster and discovers that her parents were also monsters already that they abandoned her not because they wanted to. keep her safe, but because they forgot about her and just didn't bother to come back and pick her up and just left her for dead, maybe her parents are a pair of ruthless bounty hunters who have now killed a lot of good people.

Rey struggles to prove not only to other people like Luke but to herself that she won't be as evil as her heritage says she should be and in the trilogy we have this whole exploration of nature versus nurture, can someone come from a place? of pure evil and becoming a genuinely good person if they had followed either of those two paths it could have worked out very well the problem was they followed both and king's journey ends up being a confusing mess and there are so many examples of how The Creative Differences between Johnson and Abrams ruin the consistency of this trilogy, like I gloss over a handful of them pretty quickly, like Edward was meant to be the antagonist of the trilogy like Snoke and Johnson killed him and I'm sure some people They really liked the fact.

That Snoke was killed suddenly and unexpectedly, but the problem is that Johnson left no viable alternative for the main villain of the third film. He can't be Hux because they made him a joke. It can't be Kylo because Rey kicked his ass. in every fight they've had and he has a fairly minimal threatening presence and on top of that, Disney clearly wanted himKylo was redeemed at the end to give JJ some credit, he was left in an impossible situation because now the main bad guy is dead and there is no one left to replace him, so Abrams resurrected Palpatine, a move that had no foreshadowing and arose from the nothing, but abram's hand was forced by johnson's because they really backed him into a corner with nowhere else to go in terms of who was going to be the main villain and do you want to know the cost of subverted expectations?

Well, there's the cost and another example is Luke in the last Jedi. Luke is this dark, cynical idiot, but in The Rise of Skywalker he's suddenly the same Luke we know. from the originals, when rey approaches his force ghost he smiles and supports him and he looks nothing like he was in the last jedi and the reason he suddenly goes back to how he was in the originals is not because his character learned a lesson, it's because Abrams didn't like the fact that he was a cynic, so he pulled the rope back to his side of the line and did a U-turn with Luke and God's personality, There are so many inconsistencies, another one at the end of the last Jedi.

There's a big point that they're waiting for reinforcements to arrive so the people of the galaxy will show they care and come rescue them and they never do. It has been proven that no one cares about the rebellion and they want to leave them. they die, but in the sequel we get the exact same story where reinforcements are waiting and a whole armada arrives, but instead of being exciting, it's just head-scratching because these are the people who didn't appear in the last movie. so why do they suddenly appear now and there are so many inconsistencies and broken promises but I feel like my head is about to explode so let's get on with the Star Wars sequel trilogy it was a complete waste of potential it could have been much more and that? takes us to the fourth part a better story up to this point I have done nothing more than explain why the sequels were bad, but now I am going to try to present an alternative story and let me emphasize that it is not supposed to be a fix the story we have because you fix a story the same way you fix a car when there's a small accident or just one or two parts need replacing, you replace them with the Star Wars sequels, so you know when a car is so completely totaled that there's no point in fixing it and you better get a new one, that's what sequels are, so this is a complete rewrite, but I'll make an active effort to keep some of the characters and stuff, that's how I thought.

Instead of just listing all the plot points, I thought it would be fun for me to do a sort of dramatic outline where I'll develop several key plots and scenes, but summarize a few others, so sit back, put your feet up, and wait. You enjoy it, so first of all, let's set the scene in the opening title. Cruel says that a war is being fought between the first order and the new republic in this new story. Kylo has the same role as in the originals, he is the apprentice of the first order leader, but instead of the first order leader being Snoke, that role is assumed by a woman we will call Darth Khan, the first order empress. order and she is pure evil, no ifs or buts about it, she is not a morally complex villain, she is just a tyrant who rules in fear like your true evil sith lord, she will speak like a kindly smiling mother offering sympathy in a moment and then he'll skin you with his mind the next when the empire falls apart after the death of the emperor this Woman, this Darth Khan came out of nowhere and held the last fragments of the empire together under all the infighting and reformed it all in the first order and under his leadership during these last two decades, the first order has been steadily growing in strength and now the political tension is at a boiling point as a fierce and brutal war is fought between the new republic and the first order , but I know what you might be thinking, what's the twist, how is this new story taking the Star Wars formula in a new direction?

Hang on a minute because we'll get there soon enough, so after the first credits, we scroll down to see the opening shot, a huge space battle between the Republic and the First Order around a red giant sun. We see her through Poe's eyes since he is not a rebel fighter but this is a star pilot of the republic and his squadron is flying in circles around the Thai fighters and they are winning almost alone the battle that we established from the beginning that squadron pose they are all amazing pilots, then Kylo, ​​who has been watching the battle on his bridge gets into his fighter and he just destroys them one by one, only Kylo takes out these ace pilots until he is left, while the battle space epic continues in the background, one thing we show is that even though Kylo wiped out the other rebels who were all very good pilots, Poe is giving him a real run for his money, as if we had something in this opening scene that Never before have we seen a dogfight between two of the best pilots in the galaxy in a Star Wars movie.

It's a lot of twists and turns, not only do they fly aimlessly, but they also perform incredibly complex maneuvers that we've never seen before. Kylo closes in behind Poe to finish the kill as Post spins his ship around and as he flies back. The shots at Kylo force him to separate and then there is a split second before the rear pose crashes into the hull of a starship, regains control of the ship and flies through a tight space and goes back to attacking Kylo instead of just being told that Poe is a good pilot where people are screaming, we see that while all the other pilots are just getting steamrolled, poe is actually keeping up with this sith lord kylo in this intense fight between the two and as kylo and poe charge towards each other with their thumbs on the triggers as they are ready to open up and see who is the best once and for all.

The warm crimson light of the nearby red giant suddenly stops. A shadow is cast over them both and both Kylo and Po look up to see the red sun eclipsed by a ship of terrifying size. It floats there for a moment, then it gives off a big green pulse and every ship shuts down, every thruster stops, every light in the cockpit goes out and in an instant the raging battle stops completely, but the Poe and Kylo ships are still there. on a collision course, so they collide with each other and merge into one, they watch each other closely as their two ships are now effectively gained and this hunk of metal slowly but surely falls into the gravity well of a nearby planet on which The two great navies are broken into pieces. the atmosphere because they can't stand the tension and the last shot we see is of Kylo and Poe, they are fighters who burn themselves upon re-entry.

That's the first scene and then we fade to a karma shot showing a sea gently lapping a beach and then children. wearing jedi clothing studying and as one continuous shot we pan up to show Luke looking at his students and his jedi temple in his face, he then looks at an ancient book in his hands written in a language we can't read but inside him. one thing we do see quite clearly is a diagram of a giant stone door opening to reveal a pure blue line. The temple was a modest place in the middle of nowhere.

See, here's the problem. When Darth Sidious came to power, he rewrote the history books. I'm sure the empire is gone now and before order 66 the jedi were a force for good in the galaxy and yes palpatine is dead he's not resurrected this time but palpatine did a good job smearing the name Jedi and erasing any record of their good deeds that people do not remember them as these noble knights peacekeepers, they remember them as dark mythical monsters who kidnap children to join their ranks. The New Republic views the Jedi with superstitious fear as does the entire galaxy and even now the Republic has crossed over into the Empire's policy of a permanent reward of a few million credits for anyone who kills or captures a Jedi because of this.

Luke has to keep his Jedi order a secret, knowing that if the location of his temple were ever known, there would be no end to bounty hunters. For him and his students to live kidnapped on some quiet planet, we want to continue Luke's story in this sequel trilogy because it is a sequel and the goal of a sequel is to continue the story well in the originals he was fighting for. . the student, so now it makes sense that he is striving to be the mentor, he is learning to teach these children how to be jedi knights and he is far from perfect at it, he has a few dozen students, some of them are just children, some of them are teenagers, but two. of them are young adults, her older students, one of whom we'll call cal because I've been playing too much jedi fall in order lately and the other is rey and we clearly established from the beginning that rey is incredibly strong with the Force, she has talent, Ray and Cal are training, but Rey bests him, then looks at Luke for approval, but he just looks at her with a blank face without a hint of pride and we see how much this hurts. from smiling to suddenly feeling very depressed, then Luke walks over, pats the cow on the shoulder and says you'll do better next time and then walks away.

In this scene we establish that Luke is a genuinely understanding mentor, we see him being like Yoda to the children imparting wisdom and being a great teacher to the teenage students, he is again understanding and supportive, in fact he is a genuinely excellent mentor to everyone, except for king, for some reason, he treats her dispassionately, as she constantly seeks his approval, constantly trying to make him proud. all the other students make him proud, but he never is, no matter how well he does and we end this scene when luke has an assembly with his students and says that he will be gone for a while and that he needs to recover something important, the secrets of the jedi and leaves cal in charge and while he gives cal lots of parting advice and words of encouragement he doesn't say a word to rey not even a goodbye so then we go back to poe he's still falling in the atmosphere so Ejecting from his fighter and parachuting into a thick jungle, he quickly encounters a stormtrooper with a broken helmet and they fight a desperate battle.

Poe almost grabs the blaster from him and is about to kill the stormtrooper when Pogue suddenly freezes, then flies away and floats into the air. He steps out of the tree line with his hand raised, he's holding Poe back with force. Kylo quickly identifies him as the pilot he was fighting and Poe tenses, taking a deep breath preparing to die, but instead Kyla reaches out and shakes his hand. Even though Poe is the enemy, Kylo takes the moment to show respect to someone he considers an equal, someone who is clearly incredibly skilled at a fighter, even if he is on the other side of the war, so he handcuffs Po and they take him as a prisoner. and like I said before the stormtrooper's helmet broke, he took too much damage in the crash and asks Kylo if he can take it off because now the HUD is failing and it's more annoying than useful.

Kylo gives him permission and takes it away and we reveal that he is Finn in this story Finn does not defect he is a career stormtrooper who is fiercely loyal to the cause and a member of Kylo's personal army the 5-0 first a legion reserved for the best soldiers in all of the first order and one steeped in bloody history and what we will see over the course of these films is a friendship built between poe and finn poe is fiercely loyal to the republic finn is fiercely loyal to the first order they disagree on So many things they couldn't They are no more different as human beings, but as the movies progress they build a genuine friendship despite the huge political gap between them, so Kylo pulls out an empty map of their area and sees that There are friendly signs of life everywhere. planet, it seems that a large part of the first order forces survived the battle and reached the surface of the planet, so the three head towards the nearest signs of life, but once they are passing through a thick jungle, Kyla brings She opens the map again to see where she's going and there are a lot fewer lights than before Finn says it must be a glitch or maybe the iff signals are being jammed, but then they notice that one by one the lights They are going out, something is hunting. and killing the survivors of the battle and then their march turns into a race and now we come back to Luke, one thing I haven't mentioned before in this video and I regret not doing it sooner, but there is one thing I really hated.

The thing about the sequel trilogy was how I intended the prequels to never happen, like there was a moment in The Last Jedi where Luke says that at the height of his powers they allowed Darth Sidious to rise up and create the empire and wipe them out, and when I saw this in the cinema as if it were not a joke, I really felt chills because I recognized that the prequelsreally existed, which is something I didn't expect, think about it this way, Star Wars has been six movies before and this sequel trilogy has basically completely ignored 50 of the main entries in the Star Wars franchise, don't you think that's a waste total potential?

There could have been some really interesting ways to give references and explore the world of the prequels and I thought of a really good one for this, as well as a solution Luke is on a mission to the Jedi temple on Coruscant and we see that the Jedi temple has changed so much since last time we saved it it is now a museum dedicated to the heavily edited history of the jedi who once lived there and as luke walks around as part of a tour led by a droid guide he sees holograms of the jedi we saw in the originals, we see kit fisto and master yoda, but right in the middle of this row of holograms is this man with a grumpy face and evil eyes and Luke stops for a moment curiously and the artificial voice on the screen says that this is Mace Windu, the most evil Jedi who ever lived and lists his horrible crimes and says he's a murderer and all sorts of horrible things and says he tried to murder Palpatine in cold blood in order to gain more personal power, it's never explicitly said. , but the kind of subtext behind this is that Mace is the only Jedi to ever best Palpatine in single combat and the fact that Mace came so close to killing and disfiguring him angered Palpatine so much that he made sure to focus his slander on Mace to edit his legacy and show him as the most despicable evil Jedi who ever lived and he did it purely out of spite, so The tour continues and maybe we'll see some easter eggs in exhibits here and there and finally it reaches the heart of the museum and We see this ancient door with archaic writings and runes carved into the stone, the same door we saw in that one. book in the opening shot with luke and the droid tour guide says that behind this door is the holocron vault of the jedi masters behind this door is where the jedi sword its most powerful artifacts and its most dangerous secrets the door has not been moved in 50 years.

I have never been able to get in with physical force, not for lack of trying, there is some kind of energy in it and it can only be opened by a Jedi Master, but the guide says the problem is that all the Jedi Masters died decades ago in order 66 and the secrets to opening this were lost with them, it's quite possible that the vault behind those doors and all the dark hidden secrets of the Jedi behind it are lost forever and then Luke rubs his chin and walks around the corner, he says the guide. She approaches him to ask him where the hell he's going, but she turns the corner and there's no one there.

The droid appears to glitch for a moment as his head moves and then says that it really needs to be recalibrated and then returns to the group. we fade into the night once everyone is gone Luke jumps down from the rafters where he's been hiding the entire time, pulls the book back out of his pocket, and as he studies it, he reverently rubs the door in a specific, complex pattern by wait a moment nothing happens then the big stone doors creak like a mortar and pestle a bright blue light cuts through the seam and illuminates luke in pitch black luke smiles and then walks in luke has come here because he has always known that this Jedi vault existed and it is said that within it is a treasure trove of hidden Jedi knowledge that he would love to have in order to rebuild the order to its former glory;

However, like everyone else, he has never been able to figure out how to get in, not until he found that book and while Luke searched in childlike wonder. on his face as he walks through all these wonders and artifacts in this perfectly preserved vow of the ancient Jedi order, something catches his eye, there's a holocron cube on a shelf and it doesn't look sinister, but Luke just feels something in him, a disturbance . In the force, something replaces the shock on his face with terror, so he reaches out and activates it. A hologram appears showing a middle-aged man in a cloak held by a chain.

His hair is largely black with just hints of gray in it. edges and on his belt is a lightsaber with a curved hilt. He introduces himself as Jedi Master Dooku and the holocron is his complete report on an encounter he had on the Outer Rim. They resurrected Tarkin with CGI. They can totally do that with him and Count Dooku. tells a story and as it progresses we get a full flashback of the middle-aged Count Dooku, and this takes place 10 years before the prequels take place, when he tells him that there was a battle between the republic navy and a band of pirates who had been attacking nearby settlements and dooku was sent there acting as an emissary for the jedi council on a peacekeeping mission to protect the locals from pirate scum, but as the battle escalated and he watched everything from a command bridge, He noticed something very far away. far away, a normal human eye could never see it, but with his heightened Jedi senses he saw clear as day a point of dull light from a ship's drive against the darkness of the stars, something was watching them, he ordered that the force could be applied in his direction and the scans showed that there was nothing there, whatever that ship was, it was so advanced that it had full stealth technology. and dooku was not aware of any ship that had that level of technology and once the battle, the ship disappeared in the blink of an eye and dooku had the most terrible feeling, he didn't know why, but his hair stood on end. and he knew that whatever it was, it was a sign of something dark and terrible beyond comprehension, so he embarked on a mission to hunt it down, and after months of searching, he scoured every nearby system with his Jedi senses because there was apparently no other way of detection. was good enough, Dooku finally sensed the same ship he found refueling on an asteroid, so he sneaked away, used his lightsaber to gut an entry point to the hull, and once he was on board he was immediately attacked by monstrous fur creatures. gray with sharp teeth.

Soulless eyes and a skull nose, they had incredibly powerful weapons technology like nothing Dooku had seen before. There were only four of them, but they came together with such speed and ferocity that even he, a Jedi Master in his prime, could barely keep up. With the skin of his teeth he killed all but one and as he held the saber to the throat of the last creature, it growled with a harsh voice of nails on the blackboard your strength is weak my people are strong you can do nothing but die who are your people asks dooku and the creature with what could have been a laugh gasps the answer the you jean fong the creature presses a button on his wrist the ship burns in alert and dooku immediately senses that a self-destruct has been activated and with that severs the creature's head.

Dooku then escapes the ship moments before it can destroy itself and postulates that the ship must have been some form of advanced scout, what it was a scout for he couldn't guess as It was clearly beyond anything previously encountered by the Jedi, but its purpose was obvious, it was observing the battle, evaluating our strategies and technologies, it was gathering intelligence for an unknown force, a force that had to be outside the galaxy itself. and Dooku closes his report by saying, please forgive me, Master Yoda, I have failed you. I haven't done this since I was a child, but I confess I'm afraid, so Luke hastily touches another holocron from the same shelf.

We see Mace Windu and Master Yoda walking down a hallway discussing Dooku's report and they say it's beyond worrying, so they secretly deployed 200 listing probes to the edge of the galaxy, their sensors focused on the galactic void, If they ever detect these so-called Yu Zhan Vong, their probes will give them early warning and give them valuable time to prepare for what is to come, then Luke will rush. the room until he finally finds the control panel for the ancient Jedi probes Mace was talking about with a symbol on the board for each of the two hundred and all of them flashing red with text overlaid on it.

Extragalactic ships were detected that Yu Zhan Vong have arrived. We cut back to Kylo Poe and Finn as they rush towards the waning signs of friendly life and they encounter the same creatures that we saw in Dooku's flashback and they are terrifyingly powerful and we get a big shootout between Kylo, ​​these stormtroopers and these creatures, okay, for those. Of you who don't know, the Yuuzhan Vong are a race that already exists in Star Wars, they were just in the legends, which is the canon that Disney basically removed again, but they are a race of incredible power and there was this whole Arc from the story where they invaded the Star Wars galaxy.

Now, what's this trilogy's big twist on the originals? You have the powerless little good guys fighting the big bad guys in the prequels, it was the other way around, with the good guys having all the power. and the bad guys plan to defeat them. Well, now both the good and the bad are equally powerful, but they have to work together because these invaders are monsters and they are about to kill all life in the galaxy, so the jedi and the With the republic and the empire, They hate each other like God, they hate each other, they have so much bad blood between them, but if they don't unite under this common threat, they are all as good as a debt.

I imagine. Purely evil Sith Lord fighting a Jedi like Luke to attack a base or complete an objective and rescue prisoners, just think of all that lovely potential conflict as they disagree on how they should do it and whether they should execute survivors like Jedi. and the sith clash and hate each other but have to work together for the common good, like if you're looking for a twist on the star wars formula I think it would be perfect, not that I'm arrogant about my own ideas or anything. the style. Over the course of this trilogy, we see this massive war unfold as these incredibly powerful invaders with much more advanced technology invade the galaxy and kill everyone they encounter or worse, and along the way we meet Han, Leia, Chewie and all the old cast when they join the fight and we see how much they have changed over the years, there is the main premise of this new trilogy, but at the end of the day, the character is just as important as the plot and back to Rey.

We're going to develop her a lot more, so throughout the entire first movie we see Rey basically pretty depressed, like she feels like an outsider with no family or friends, even though she's a Jedi student, she looks up at the sky and fantasizes about she. how one day she's going to go out and find her real family, find her place in all of this. Luke told her one day that he opened her door and found her as a baby delivered to her doorstep without any note, or anything she didn't know. He knows why they put her there or even who her parents were, but she was strong with the force, so he took her in as a student, but Rey says she knows her legacy is one of greatness, she just knows that her parents were brilliant people and she. she was put in the jedi temple for a reason, she just needs to find out what that reason is, if she could find out the reason why her parents left her in the jedi temple, that will be the key to finding her place in life, but since I said Before, Luke doesn't trust the rape as if he clearly has no faith in her as a person and gradually his anguish over this increases until right at the beginning of the second movie, Rey says that she demands to know why the best she can ever is good enough.

He apparently hates her even though she has never done anything wrong to him and at her outburst of anger, he swallows in fear and finally tells her the story of Kylo Ren. He says that Ren used to be Luke's student and that he was like Rey in many ways. as Luke says every time he saw Kylo, ​​he saw the darkness in him just like there is darkness in Rey, except Luke reveals that Kylo Ren is more than just a random Padawan, he is the grandson of the Emperor himself and Luke tells him. he accepted knowing it was from Palpatine. grandson knowing that he had a heritage of evil but still the optimistic luke skywalker whom he met in return of the jedi had complete faith in kylo luke fed kylo taught him everything he knew and he doesn't say it but by the way luke tells the story , it is clear that Luke loved him as if he were his own son and it plays out like that solution I suggested earlier in the video, one day when Luke was on some adventure, Kylo murdered the rest of Luke's students and burned his temple to the core. graft it turns out that darth khan, the leader of the first order, found a way to communicate with kylo from inside the temple walls and this woman of pure evil corrupted kylo and took him to the dark side and sure that luke is someone of incredible persistence. with an iron will he did not let this tragedy and betrayal destroy him he rebuilt the temple in a new location and accepted new students but the betrayal did not make him bitter at all he is still the same luke we knew he is a little more pessimistic he is a little more reluctant to see the good in people and after his faith and Kylo were portrayed, how could he have faith again, especially in Rey, especially becauseevery time he sees her he doesn't see the same darkness that was in Kylo, ​​but rather he sees a worse version of this and of all the students Luke has had, Ray has by far the greatest darkness within them and by far So, he gets angry in shock, with no feelings, no idea what to think, he says, so why did you accept me if from the beginning everything you ever did?

You saw that there was evil in me, why didn't you send me a way to live somewhere else? and Luke doesn't say anything, but there's a look of pure embarrassment on his face and we get a strong feeling that there's more to this story. again following the lightning bolt we saw in the first film, she is desperate to know her heritage, she believes that knowing why she was sent to the temple will be the key to knowing her place in the world and she begs Luke who I am, who I was. my parents and again he doesn't say a word and then king firms his lip and says there's a war, I'm going to join her and she's kind of like wherever my home is my real home, it's not here or in In the beginning From the second film, Rey flees to help the war effort and fight Yu Zhang Vong.

Sure enough, Rey ends up meeting Kylo Ren and we see a Jedi and a Sith fighting together back to back against these invading aliens, but here's the kicker. Kylo sees how talented Rey is and starts giving her advice, saying that his sword form is wrong, that's not how you use form three, that's how it is, and imparts all the wisdom that Luke taught him. Kylo, ​​a Sith Lord, actually shows more faith in Rey than Luke ever did and ultimately feels happier than ever before in her life, as she feels like she finally found a mentor who truly cares about who she is. as a person, but while he falls to the dark side, Luke intentionally did not.

Teaching Rey about the dark side because Luke had some sort of mistaken belief that the less he knew about the dark side, the less likely he was to fall into it, but now we see that Luke has failed to be a good mentor because he is not enough equipped. realizing that he has fallen to the dark side because he doesn't really know what it is, what the symptoms are and all that, and what we have to remember is that this is still Luke's story, he has his own journey and once he realizes learns what happened to rey, that she is now essentially kylo ren's padawan, he collapses incredibly depressed knowing that he has failed again, that another student of his has fallen into darkness, he feels so miserable here, but then a force ghost in a brown jedi robe and with aged red hair he's a little older than we remember he's owen mcgregor's obi wan and he sits down and gives luke a talk, suddenly it's like luke isn't a mentor anymore as if he had become a student again and expresses his doubts and obi-wan gives him some advice obi-wan seems hurt and with difficulty says did I ever tell you how your father became darth vader luke looks at him confused, enthralled and obi-wan wan says he had a vision a vision of your mother Padmé died in childbirth and he was so afraid of her death that he did everything he could to stop it and your mother died not because of childbirth but because in the search for Anakin of ways to defy the prophecy, she became a monster that she could no longer. love and without the person he used to be she had no reason to live if anakin had never had those visions if he had never known the future that same future would never have happened as obi-wan says this is on the verge of tears because remembering those days brings him a lot of pain and finally he says that the prophecy only came true because your father believed it would and Luke, shock in his eyes, whispers that I failed him and Obi-wan nods grimly and Luke ends the talk finally realizing that He has been a terrible mentor who has lost faith in the good of people and because of his failure he has forced Rey to fall to the dark side and now Luke is determined to fix it by going after him and supporting her to be the mentor. that it should always have been to get her back and as Luke walks away determined to right his wrongs, Obi-wan begins to fade, but before disappearing completely, he says and Luke tells him the truth, the whole truth, and then later on in the second movie.

Luke confronts Rey, but it's not easy. She has really grown to resent him, but he apologizes, confesses that she has been a terrible mentor, and Luke finally reveals that he liked her all along, but lied to protect her. The truth is that his mother is Darth Khan. The most evil person in the galaxy, he reveals that his mother loved her more than anything, but she was kidnapped by a defecting imperial officer who wanted to ruin his plans and this imperial officer, after kidnapping Rey when she was a baby, tracked down Rey. Luke approached her and made Luke promise to take care of her, but he reveals that Rey's original purpose in life was to be groomed to be the next Darth Khan to be his apprentice and this shakes Ray to the core. the deepest because, like us, it was established before that he hates Darth Khan as if Ray knows the terrible acts he has committed and we have made it clear that Ray simply despises that woman who really considers her a monster, but now it turned out to be Rey's mother, the person who always wanted nothing.

More than knowing and loving, what does Rey do? It's been an established point that Jedi are seen as these monsters, but Luke shows up and does incredibly heroic acts in the war and convinces people to believe in the Jedi once again and Luke dies heroically. sacrifice that proves to the galaxy as a whole that the jedi are not what palpatine wanted everyone to think they are, here's the thing, yes, luke died and it's twisted to seem like a hopeful moment while inspiring the galaxy to believe again, but we finished the second. movie of rey approaching this darth khan unsure of himself twiddling his fingers and unsure if she should be ready for a fight or ready to love her rey reveals who she is and khan immediately drops his lightsaber and crushes rey in a hug while condensing every hugging a mother could we hand over a childhood to one and finish the second film in which they both hug, the daughter and the mother reunite and rey decides to embrace his legacy and join his mother on the dark side and The third film is where the war ends and despite the horrible costs, they have defeated the Yuuzhan Vong once and for all, but Rey is truly falling to the dark side as if he is inches away from becoming a full-fledged Sith Lord. , his mother loves Rey completely and together they make a great and terrifying team. and while darth khan treats literally everyone else horribly, she treats rey like the most valuable person in the world and the love between them is actually quite clear and we see how kylo ren has basically been sidelined since rey returned to darth khan because now khan has his daughter back, Kylo was always essentially his surrogate heir, but now he has his daughter back, why the hell would he need Kylo like that?

So he just rejects him while Khan gives all his attention, love and attention to Rey but this is the thing because now Kylo is distanced from Khan like he now has independence and no one is hovering over him and making decisions for him. Kylo realizes that he hates who he is all the time while Khan treats Rey with all kinds of crazy Sith powers like force lightning etc. But just before Rey commits his first act of true evil and falls completely to the dark side, he finally finds out about his father. King's father was the irrelevant imperial officer who kidnapped her when she was a baby and gave her to Luke.

He finds out that Khan captured him after he did and tortured him and she put him through the most brutal agonizing horrors that anyone can imagine and many horrors that no one can, but after all the most horrible tortures in the galaxy, He never gave it to her because he loved his daughter and knew what would happen to her. she did tell the truth and learns that her father, a man she loves desperately despite never having met him, wanted nothing more for her than to defy his legacy to be the opposite of her evil mother, in fact, he I wanted her to do that so much. that he was willing to give his life for her to have that chance and this shakes Rei as if she is starting to realize that legacy shouldn't define who she is and maybe she should be her own person and she sees herself with his red lightsaber.

Her face pales and she realizes that she has essentially become a carbon copy of her Sith mother. He is no longer king. She's Darth Khan, just a younger version of her. She is the monster that her father gave her life to so he could have the chance not to. being what he is now and while this is happening, Kylo is also going through his arc as he is now free from the influence of Darth Khan and while all of this is happening as Cal, that other older Jedi student, he died and in the last breath of Cal tells Kylo. the location of Luke's new jedi temple and says that they have no leader, but instead of going there to capture all the students and turn them into sith, he goes there to rescue all these padawans before Yu zhang Vong can reach them and a time Kylo hid them all in a nice, quiet, safe corner of the galaxy and when he fully returned to the light, he goes on a mission to kill Darth Khan and rid the galaxy of his evil once and for all and we we echo the end of the return of the here jedi, kylo tries to kill her, but khan is too powerful and kylo is disarmed and khan electrocutes him.

He's about to die and then Rey makes his decision, he raises his saber towards his mother to confront his legacy and we get a final epic fight between Rey and his mother before Darth Khan is killed once and for all and we end with a note where the first order has essentially been completely destroyed and because of Luke's heroic sacrifice and how it has changed people's perception of the republic's Jedi. He agreed to return the temple to the students and with the blessings of the republic, Kylo and Rey returned to the original temple with the rest of Luke's padawans.

With both of them back in the light, we see the stewards and soldiers of the republic walking away and knocking down all the museum exhibits as the museum is now being repurposed back into a temple, but now because the first order has been destroyed, what will happen to finn because he was loyal to their cause but now they are completely gone and he is without a job, without a leader, without an army to be a part of, but then Kylo approaches Finn and offers him a placed as a guard at the new Jedi temple and now Finn and Poe are part of the security team protecting the temple.

This is just a solution. It doesn't have to be exactly this and in the final shot of the third movie we see rey and kylo mentoring these students and teaching them lessons when rey looks up at a ledge and a dozen force ghosts appear we see yoda and obi-wan and mace windu and qui-gon and anakin, but right in the middle is luke, his face finally shining with the pride she always wanted, he nods to rey, she nods back, and we see the ghosts of the old jedi masters staring with pride in the next generation in a new golden age of the jedi about to begin, then the credits roll, if you ask me, that would have been a much better sequel trilogy.

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