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ST ST Criticism Discussion Thread

Discussion in 'Sequel Trilogy' started by Pro Scoundrel , Jun 1, 2018.

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  1. Christus Regnet

    Christus Regnet Jedi Master star 3

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    That's why Luke should have said to him:

    "At an end, your reign is... And not short enough, it was..."
     
  2. eko32eko7

    eko32eko7 Jedi Master star 3

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    This is sort of what GL did in the prequel era.
    1. Darth Maul
    2. Darth Tyrannous
    3. General Grievous

    I enjoyed the story of the prequels, but this rotation of bad guys did rub me the wrong way. I always wished that Dooku was referenced or was in the background of TPM and/or that Grievous was setup, in some way, before ROTS...

    Add to this that I do not want Star Wars adopting Marvel or Star Trek type methods and you can easily see I am not swayed by your reasoning here.
     
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  3. Alliyah Skywalker

    Alliyah Skywalker Force Ghost star 5

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    I`m also not convinced the people who don`t think Kylo Ren is an effective villain necessarily want him on the good side. To me, he would make an even less effective, well, lets start with anti-hero. At least as a villain, with some work done on him, he could become more effective. I mean, at some point he must outgrow adolescence, doesn`t he? If not at 30, then possibly at 35?
     
  4. AhsokaSolo

    AhsokaSolo Force Ghost star 7

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    But Sheev was in the background of every movie in the PT. He’s the villain. The OT switches it up more with Tarkin (side of Vader) —> Vader (side of Sheev) —> Sheev (Vader redeemed).

    At least there was a coherent story being told over three movies in both those trilogies. If Kylo isn’t the villain of IX, and we just have some rando, this story bearing any resemblance to a cohesive story that ever warranted a trilogy goes out the window. The only plausible non-Kylo villain that doesn’t destroy this as a cohesive story is if Snoke is brought back as the main villain. I’m all for the KoR showing up and being badass, but you can’t establish a rando in the third movie as the big bad villain. The KoR were foreshadowed as little more than really really cool canon fodder in TFA. They were there to make Kylo look cool, and to foreshadow making a hero look cool when they’re defeated, but not to be independently cool and big bad scary. Sheev in TPM is how you foreshadow a scary big bad. Villains, especially in this saga, have to be larger than life. They can’t just stumble into the villain role and expect anyone to care.
     
  5. Ender_and_Bean

    Ender_and_Bean Chosen One star 6

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    Some said you can’t kill someone like Snoke in movie 2, have Rey or Ben fighting together or give Luke Skywalker a dark period of exile where he’s cut off from the Force entirely and changed...

    And yet... here we are.

    We kind of watched an aspect of this play out not too long ago actually in a third movie. Thor Ragnarok introduces Hella, among other new antagonists, who bring Thor & Loki closer together by the end. At least here the Knights were hinted at in the first film as so significant so as to be part of her Force vision and also mentioned by name. The compressed timeline helps massively here too because TFA through TLJ has only been like 5 days or so. Short enough for Abrams to be able to present them as usually being a larger part of the antagonism within the Order but out on some mission. Heck,if they really wanted to make it easy make it some weapon of power they bring back that the one new bad keeps for themselves.
     
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  6. christophero30

    christophero30 Chosen One star 10

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    I think the Knights of Ren will play a BIG part and hopefully it is awesome. [face_praying]
     
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  7. StarWarsFan91

    StarWarsFan91 Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    A bit of a complainet is a lack of seeing still working Imperial era Star destroyers. Having a new model star destroyer is fine but for a series set only 30yrs after RoTJ I wish we saw the First Order still forced to rely on some older designs because they lack the amount of resources the Empire had.

    According to the Wookieepedia (indirect mention in bloodline) some are still in service within the FO.

    They should show up in IX. What if the good guys are able to acquire one of those old Imperial 1 class star destroyers.
     
  8. godisawesome

    godisawesome Skywalker Saga Undersheriff star 6 Staff Member Manager

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    I'd say all this, but adding in some amount of characterization and some mini-character arcs. One reason I like the idea of one or two Knights maybe being redeemed is because even just flavoring these mini-bosses with some characterization could make the fights better; the audience sees a developed character, and they know that the character is at least somewhat less expendable. Plus, they could give Kylo a few characters to confide and interact with who aren't Hux or Rey.
    Yeah, I fundamentally don't see Kylo leaving the main physical threat position of the ST. He was an very effective Heavy villain in TFA, TLJ was about him ascending to the leadership of the villains, and frankly no one *should* be introduced who can take that role from him now. He's got two films' worth of villainous momentum, evil deeds, and build up as the biggest threat on the villains' side once Snoke was killed.

    It's fundamentally lacking in dramatic tension if someone else got introduced to try and usurp his position when the audience knows that Kylo is the one they've invested their time and energy in, and is not going to get killed by some random interloper.
     
  9. eko32eko7

    eko32eko7 Jedi Master star 3

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    I absolutely agree with your take and the spirit of your response. Sheev is, for sure, the main villain of the PT, even though the protagonists don't know this until its too late. I don't want to discount that, by any means. I'd like to re-iterate that I really love the story of the PT. I watch the prequels all the time.

    I see a contrast between the OT and PT, however. Darth Tyrannous and General Grievous could have had a better setup.

    After ANH, the OT does not need to introduce any new big bad villains. That, I believe, is as it should be.

    Agreed.

    In a trilogy, the main big bad villain should be set up - in some way, shape or form - during the first movie. If it ends up being the KoR, fine. You are correct, however, if they are intended to be the big bad villains of IX, their conspicuous absence in TLJ will become a point of contention for me too.
     
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  10. Christus Regnet

    Christus Regnet Jedi Master star 3

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    The good guys should have whold fleets of old imperial star destroyers
     
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  11. Ender_and_Bean

    Ender_and_Bean Chosen One star 6

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    In Marvel Civil War they subverted this conceptually



    by eventually revealing all 5 of the other winter soldiers were dead and trying to get the heroes to fight each other but if you look at that flashback conceptually (I personally think it could be done much better even) and imagine good intros to the Knights and one in particular I think they could pull it off.

    To be clear, I think that this would NOT be the original plan they perhaps explored in earlier scripts when they had Leia to help with Ben Solo’s redemption but if they planned redemption in any way with Leia involved and still want that redemptive arc things become a lot harder for them without Leia there to help that process.

    Between having to fall back on less than ideal antagonism or better ensuring their redemptive arc or anything else they wanted for the character later pays off I’m betting they’d opt for less than ideal antagonism. Especially since we all know the heroes are meant to win anyway. There’s strength in numbers and 6 Dark Side users has the potential to feel very threatening if they establish them as such. Have them working in perfect unison and make it seem like they can’t be beaten. That’s basically what Ragnarok did. Hella came in like she was unbeatable and that allowed the audience to have some fun Thor and Loki moments in the end.
     
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  12. Admiral Keller

    Admiral Keller Jedi Knight star 1

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    I'm going to be real honest. I would want to see the heroes with an Executor-class. Or we could canonize the Super-class finally, but that would probably confuse the living daylights out of viewers.
     
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  13. Force Smuggler

    Force Smuggler Force Ghost star 7

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    Wedge and company using the Super Star Destroyer Lusankya in the Eemy Lines duology in the EU was amazing.
     
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  14. Admiral Keller

    Admiral Keller Jedi Knight star 1

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    Also the Guardian in NJO

    I miss the days when I was in the middle of reading the X-wing Series too. So many late nights of reading. Helped get me through a lot of crap in my teenage years.
     
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  15. AhsokaSolo

    AhsokaSolo Force Ghost star 7

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    I didn’t say it can’t be done. I’m saying it can’t be done well. TLJ just supports that point as far as I’m concerned.

    SW movies don’t operate like Marvel movies. The PT and the OT gave genuinely frightening villains that were legit more powerful and in control than the heroes. Both trilogies told three-movie stories. They certainly can turn the third movie of the ST into a stand-alone, but it’s a frankly terrible story-telling idea that doesn’t remotely work in the SW Saga context.

    The KoR aren’t behind the FO’s power. They didn’t plan anything. They didn’t outsmart the heroes or do anything at all yet. They’re irrelevant to the stories of TFA and TLJ. Defeating them in IX would never, ever be comparable to taking on Sheev in RotS or RotJ.
     
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  16. Admiral Keller

    Admiral Keller Jedi Knight star 1

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    While I agree, I think some at Disney sorely wish they did operate like Marvel movies.
     
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  17. StarWarsFan91

    StarWarsFan91 Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Besides the new Resistence gaining access to some old Imperial tech, I wish JJ allows for some New Republic military to survive, even if it’s very small. Those new T-85 X wings deserve a chance to put some pay back on the First Order.
     
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  18. Harbour

    Harbour Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    I would be kinda happy to see the remnants of the Resistance to find the old shipyard with Venator-class star destroyers from the Clone Wars era. Would be at least a nice nod to the beginning of the saga with Resistance using Venator-class to fight FO new star destroyers.
     
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  19. eko32eko7

    eko32eko7 Jedi Master star 3

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    I enjoy the idea that this could also give a legitimate augment to the look of the resistance, which has been irritatingly bland thus far.
     
  20. Thrawn082

    Thrawn082 Force Ghost star 6

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    The problem is, Kylo is specifically described as being the MASTER of the KOR, and given that none of them are shown using lightsabers besides him in TFA, they might not even be Force Users.

    So if he's their master, and he feels like no real threat, then why would they suddenly be one?
     
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  21. Ender_and_Bean

    Ender_and_Bean Chosen One star 6

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    Well, they set up (theoretically) that some were Luke’s former students. If that’s the case those people are Force users. Perhaps they abandoned sabers for different weapons. I’ve said this before but I can imagine the appeal of leaving the Jedi and joining Snoke being initially presented as more free and fun. Think a little bit like the coachman who runs the amusement park in Pinocchio who offers no rules and all of the vices young boys want until he enslaves them later (they turn into donkeys in Pinocchio). That kind of thing. There are some real world parallels, too. When terror cells recruit they promise slave “wives” and make shooting weapons seem cool and offer drugs to calm nerves, etc.

    So, I have long thought that Snoke’s entrypoint into the FO was through his guard. I think he perhaps offered his services for security to the emerging FO and then took over. This is also why I think the Knights have some weapons reminiscent of the Praetorian guard. I imagine Snoke with a weapons vault and making it seem open to the recruits and trying to make them seem like the old rules of the Order are no more. Total freedom from rules! Which of course would be a lie.

    As for students overtaking their master... I’m not really sure why any Star Wars fan would think that couldn’t be presented in a way where the new threat was scary since that process played out in the Sith by design. Plus, strength in numbers.
     
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  22. MagnarTheGreat

    MagnarTheGreat Force Ghost star 5

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    Did I imagine it or did I once read somewhere that there were no other Force users than Snoke and Kylo Ren in the First Order according to Hux in the TLJ novelization? Yeah we know it's not binding upon IX, Trevorrow and then Abrams and Terrio weren't sitting around reading the novelization, it's just an odd thing to bring up in the first place.
     
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  23. Thrawn082

    Thrawn082 Force Ghost star 6

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    They also played up that the ONLY other person who Luke had seen who had as much power as Rey, was Kylo.

    So that doesn't exactly point to "oh the KOR can totally take him out."
     
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  24. Admiral Keller

    Admiral Keller Jedi Knight star 1

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    With the talk of the NR and Resistance. Did anyone else find it extremely infuriating how throughout TLJ they kept switching from Rebels and Resistance? Honestly I'd prefer it if they just call themselves the New Republic at this point because Leia would be the only legitimate leading authority left in that arena as far as I'm concerned.
     
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  25. JoJoPenelli

    JoJoPenelli Chosen One star 6

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    They played up Rey and Kylo being equal re the saber, too....

    Hm.
     
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