When we were fist getting info on the production of the sequel movies, I got really excited at the name “The Force Awakens” because I took that as a hint to a possible KOTOR2-like storyline, with The Force Awakens introducing a Kreia like character or entire faction that recognized and learned to despise that the Force had a kind of semi-sentience or will - the Force awakens as almost its own character as it does in KOTOR2. The second movie could continue that narrative with escalations in anti-Force sentiment in the galaxy’s non-force users who grow increasingly fed up with damage caused by the light vs darkside conflict; and the third movie, the grand finale to the trilogy of trilogies, would culminate with the Force itself being fully destroyed and freeing the galaxy from both the Jedi and Sith’s (and other smaller force-using factions’) effective subjugation of the average Joe-blow in the SW universe.
Instead we got A New Hope 2.0, whatever non-memorable bs that the second movie was, and Return of the Jedi 2.0
I should replay those… it’s been ages.
When we were fist getting info on the production of the sequel movies, I got really excited at the name “The Force Awakens” because I took that as a hint to a possible KOTOR2-like storyline, with The Force Awakens introducing a Kreia like character or entire faction that recognized and learned to despise that the Force had a kind of semi-sentience or will - the Force awakens as almost its own character as it does in KOTOR2. The second movie could continue that narrative with escalations in anti-Force sentiment in the galaxy’s non-force users who grow increasingly fed up with damage caused by the light vs darkside conflict; and the third movie, the grand finale to the trilogy of trilogies, would culminate with the Force itself being fully destroyed and freeing the galaxy from both the Jedi and Sith’s (and other smaller force-using factions’) effective subjugation of the average Joe-blow in the SW universe.
Instead we got A New Hope 2.0, whatever non-memorable bs that the second movie was, and Return of the Jedi 2.0
TLJ was the best of the sequels, and is second only to ESB in the whole saga.
Glad you liked it. I didn’t care for it personally, but ‘eye of the beholder’ spiel.
word. thankfully there’s plenty of SW to go around!