They keep adding characters without fleshing out any of the newcomers first
This world don't give us nothing. It be our lot to suffer... and our duty to fight back.
I'm old enough that I watched the originals in the cinema. I actually enjoyed Revenge of the Sith but for me the series ended with Return of the Jedi. I consider the rest to be unrelated spinoffs. 7 was alright, some cool moments but something of the soul of the originals was missing. Same goes for 8 but it had so many things wrong with it. From the look of this trailer it's going to be more of the same, all 'cool' moments (backflip over a TIE fighter) but no soul.
Also I watched the live trailer reaction and Finn got no cheers lol.
Even if they bring back Palpatine that still doesn't account for the big ball of nothing that was Snoke. Who was this guy and why did the First Order follow him? And why is Kylo able to just assume command the second he is gone? There should be almost constant attempts by members of the First Order to take out Kylo Ren since it is well known he is just a child prone to temper tantrums. Before TLJ he was just the supreme leader's favorite rabid dog, now he's a rabid dog sitting at the controls. Unless there is some history of him being a competent leader buried in material that is not the movies, the First Order should not accept him as a leader.
in the old extended universe, palpatine has the ability to transfer his essence into other bodies. he has a gigantic stock of cloned bodies on the planet dromund kaas, that he uses to keep himself virtually immortal.
IF the directors are smart, they will pull from the EU and use this. not just some shit of him surviving and hiding. it would be very easy to say that explosion of energy when he died was his essence traveling to his cloned body.
Why would he? He doesn't do anything except knock down an opponent that the film decides needs to die so the floor opens up and kills only them and not anyone else. It doesn't even look like he gets to be a jedi, which I know a lot of people were hoping for since the second they saw him holding a lightsaber in TFA promotional materials.
I think it's pretty clear that this trilogy is all about the failure of the Jedi/Sith dichotomy, and how things are more grey than that.
No one else think that ''Rise'' is an echo to ''Return'' and ''Revenge'' ?
In the SW universe, a dark side user can bind their essence to an artifact. They can't become force ghost (as far as we know) so its the next best thing if they don't want 'move on'. I would make sense for him to have bound himself to something that was in the Death Star, if not the Death Star itself.
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I feel like they really missed an opportunity with him. If they had killed his character off at the end of the first movie it could have created powerful motivation for Rey to be tempted by the dark side, making her infinitely more interesting. There was a lot of untapped potential in the first movie tbh.
This was one of my main criticisms with the new trilogy (I have many). Seriously who the fuck are the first order? What do they want? Who is Snoke, why does he lead them? Where did they come from? How did Kylo meet Snoke? When did Snoke recruit him? Why does Kylo follow Snoke? How/why did nobody between film 6 and 7 do anything about them? How did they gain so much military power?
I just had no idea from the jump to 6 to 7 what happened and why. It was like going from Episode 6 to 8. As for episode 8 itself kill it with fire.