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Rey can probably lift an entire planet with the Force by now```

Did anyone read Jedi Academy? Good trilogy right up to the end

At which point Mara Jade *force-pushes the entire Imperial fleet away from the planet they were attacking*

I've heard that the new between-lore has a bunch of cool stories about the new republic smushing what's left of the empire but having a hard time of it, allowing it to exist in pockets

and on how Leia's status as a politician of importance was shattered once the truth about her father was #Leaked by someone

I haven't heard much about Luke's new order, though.

Yeah, I think I would've much preferred a trilogy about the between-years, but ford, hamill, and fisher were too old for that

Regardless of the objective failures, though, I enjoy a good spectacle movie and TLJ and TFA had some great scenes that I can still enjoy.

IMO the one huge change that should've been made in TLJ is that

you can keep Holdo as this other general who's important

but let Ackbar do the suicide jump

It's a mon calamari ship ffs

*t h e n d o n ' t m a k e t h e m o v i e s*

Have him say that the resistance is surrendering, and spin the ship around to be boarded, but just as he's about to jump the first order computers detect that the ship's charging lightspeed

And if you wanna *do the thing*, have Hux say that it's a trap and then have Ackbar blow the snokemobile clean in half, down the middle

interesting point you raise

and maybe have the *whole thing* get destroyed as Rey and Kylo duke it out

Because the lore behind the 'new' universe helps to make sense of all the questions that were raised in the movies

Except you shouldn't need to know all that shit in order for the *films to make sense in the first place*

It's information that we needed *in* the movies, obviously.

:/

Maybe dedicate a nice quiet scene in TFA to Leia talking to Finn and maybe Poe about the first order

before the rescue mission but not so close to it as to make it seem like a weird stop

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takl about how the empire was harder to get rid of than just destroying one battle station, and that the republic refused to become a new empire and so allowed chunks of it to survive

"ohhh, so the Republic is cool and actually 'in power' but you've got this kinda-covert ops thing going on with 'the resistance' against what are supposed to be remnants of the Empire that exist in various sectors or something, cool"

*meanwhile in the film*

THE NEW ORDER IS ALL-POWERFUL AND ENCOMPASSING, SWEEPING ASIDE PETTY REBEL RESISTANCE, AND STRONG ENOUGH TO HAVE DEVELOPED AN ENTIRE PLANET THAT SHOOTS LAZ0R BEEEEMS

and from those chunks the first order came in

prequels > sequels

Okay no, but it's very close.

there's actually a cool idea about where Starkiller base came from

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yeah true

>there's actually a cool idea about where Starkiller base came from

BIGGAR DESTH STAR

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the thought is that Starkiller base was a planet that the Jedi once used to mine Kyber Crystals, hence the supercannon that uses kyber tech

yes, this is an old theory

and that it was originally out in the other half of the galaxy nobody can easily get to

doesn't change much though

and that the first order just used some old plans and turned the mining operation into a battle-cannon

>the thought is...
So just unconfirmed fan theories?

again, if you can't understand stuff in the movies without outside material, your movie sucks

the thing that noonse seems to mention, and that gives me the shits, is how... what's his face, the black guy, his character

We clearly see he is a stormtrooper