Lit Children are the Future... of Broomboys and other GFFA kids

As the title suggests, every new generation rises and falls with its children growing up and trying to overcome their parents, the baggage of the previous generation and attempting to craft their own path and future.

Lets take a look at the GFFAs kids and how they changed over time:

As usual in fictional tales for younger audiences kids are faced with adult situations and enemies to overcome and portrayed as capable to do so, driving,, flying, fighting at an early age that may work for story purposes but not in real life. Yet in real life, kids fight and do all that too in third world countries, so.. lets see:


Before the Prequels, the galaxy was diverse and from rich spoiled brats to kids growing up as slaves for the worst kinds of jobs and all in between existed. One might think nothing changed in that regard despite governments and idealists changing names and fighting for a better future yet retreating the old cycles again and again.

The PT had child slave soldiers growth accellerated to have adult bodies with child minds, the clone army. Lead by the Jedi who are abducted from infancy to be indoctinated into temple dogma as a special forces police and diplomacy force for the Republic.

The Clone Wars turned many kids into orphans and resistance fighters that would fight on even after wars end against the empire, against separatist holdouts or against Hutts and other threats until they were adults and still fighting for their dreams come true.

Then came the end of the Empire and the end of Jabba the Hutt. And this is where it began, all of a sudden the crime syndicates were in disarray as slave revolts lead to a change of power and a revolution. The New Republic tried to create peace and better conditions as the Imperial Remnant fled and got defeated. Not everywhere life got better, Jakku and Canto Bight still were harsh for kids f.e.

The Resistance recruited teens and kids even. The First Order still abducted them to indoctrinate as Troopers. But the Resistance is too small for another major galactic war and the First Order spread too thin taking nominal reign of the galaxy.

How will the future of the kids change and how will they not repeat the mistakes of their previous generations but break the wheel?


Will broomboy get a letter to be invited to a Magic school where he learns to fly his broom via the Force? Taught by Rey and Maz in her new shiny castle?

Will child protection laws finally be passed in the GFFA? Are there any at all?

 

And its time to revisit this underdiscussed topic... With Episode IX over, another generation of "adult" children has dealt with their parent generations leftovers and legacy and survived it or died trying.

While the fastpaced movie adressed a lot, much of it in passing leaving room for later exploration in full, I still hold out hope that the topic of children and next generation characters rising up to right the wrongs of the parent generations will be a focus of upcoming material expanding the glimpses TROS gave us of the galaxy rising up.

There is still time to

Spoiler

show Finn and Jannah lead a Stormtrooper Rebellion including the abducted kids of Kijimi and other places that are undergoing FO training. Stories set in between the victory at Exogol and the victory

montage all across the galaxy can still show this! We do not know yet if the montage is concurrent or few months to a year after TROS much like Revenge of the Sith had the Death Star under construction set few months after the movie itself in its end scenes. While I would not postpone a final victory for too long, few months of a year of cleanup operations and rise ups galaxywide are enough.

I could even imagine a Melida/Daan type of situation where the young rise up to prevent the older generations repeating history and the cycles of war. TPM showed us benevolent Naboo under rule of a child queen as a peaceful tranquil ideal before the galaxy would fall to war and separation. Yet even Naboo had many undercurrents that would be prominent traits of the Empire later on already in its roots.

Would stories inspired by real events like Jeanne D'Arc of Orleon, the Childrens Crusade, the Pied Piper, Peter Pan and the Lost Boys etc. be an interesting next step for Star Wars?

Children rising up, in part to change the world, in part manipulated by adults using them for their goals? Like how the First Order recruited or stole the children of the New Republic, like the Resistance saw the children of the New Republic abandon their ignorant wartired parents to fight back on their own and like once young Padmé and Anakin changed the galaxy in TPM?

A return to innocence? Growing up yet retaining the youthful love, trust and hope and seeing the world through a childs eyes?

The next generation we saw in the ST were already young adults and considered adults (except from the pov of the parent generation through which most of the ST is shown). We need to show actual kids again like Lucas had done and would have. We need to return to the age of innocence and close the circle by finding hope, love and peace with families not torn apart by wars and ideological differences but reunited and healing.

Who might the Pied Piper be that can get the children to rise up? To free the children and to spread the love and hope Leia rooted in the galaxy? Who better than Lando?

He too had been thrown into war, his kid stolen, wronged by the galaxy, yet he returned and took the children away right from under the First Orders noses and had the entire galaxy rise up and amass a fleet that would win at Exogol and tear through the FO galaxywide afterwards!

Gimme Lando, Finn and Jannah teaming up with Broomboy to clean house in the galaxy far far away!

 

Even if I am alone in this topic talking to myself... I have to add to it again. Come on people!

With upcoming tv shows in a multitude of eras, some targeting kids and staring kids by now even, I hope this topics themes get adressed in these and other sources. Even if most so far are clearly pre-ST or in entirely other eras.

Every SW show so far had a prominent kid, from Grogu, Leia, Omega, etc. to who knows what kid will be in Andor and else?

I think it would be great to bring Jar Jar Binks back, a character adults may despise but kids loved and that needs some closure still despite lit having given him some. JarJar played by the great Ahmed Best post ROTJ could fit in well with a kid crew of a starship. He is older now, experienced, still clumsy perhaps and as per Aftermath books a clown that wants to make people happy. But as per Legends and other post PT tales he was a Rebel, too, and had a storied past, even a wife and a son as per SW Mangas. He'd be an interesting known old, yet older and thus freshly new character in a different era.

The Galaxy of Fear Kids, the Arranda Twins, are canon thx to IDW comics. The Graf kids are already adults in some stories but still could have tales in their younger teen years in others told. Plenty of room for exploration of kid topics, and even the High Republic has a brilliant cast of kid Jedi and non-Jedi kids around them.

So, again my question, how about some stories in SW about themes like Jeanne D'arc, The Children's Crusade, The Pied Piper, Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, etc.?

Or where did SW already draw inspiration from these? Some kidcentric TCW episodes maybe?

 

Anakin can deliver some freshly cut sunflowers to Padme.

 

There's a live-action show on the horizon focused on kids having adventures in the GFFA. Maybe this will touch on some of these themes?

Be careful what you wish for, though. Pour one out for J-Squadron, who made it through the Join the Resistance trilogy only to most likely be vaporized a day or two later during the events of TLJ.

 

And a high republic animated show as well.

Furthermore, the lego star wars series have done interesting things with this, such Moxie Freemaker and her desire to live up to her family's heroic legacy, and Dean, a very "broomboy" esque character - a child mechanic working for the Hutts to help feed his family who is invited to become Rey's second apprentice after Finn.