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<blockquote data-quote="Grainger" data-source="post: 7705795" data-attributes="member: 6779234"><p>By "bleak", I meant the situation where they undid everything the heroes achieved. The sequel had to have drama on the same or greater scale than that of the OT. Blockbuster movies always have to be about stupidly huge threats (see also the Trek films, where the world or universe always has to be in danger), and there was no way they were going to have a scenario that didn't destroy, or at least threaten to destroy, the New Republic. OK, they didn't have to go so far, like killing off Luke's trainees or the examples you give above, but it was always going to be devastating to the legacy of the OT heroes, because the film-makers had to go for events on a large scale. And it was always going to seem nihilistic to someone who ponders the impact on the OT. </p><p></p><p>Sure, it would have been physically possible to make a film featuring a new threat that wasn't as big as the epochal events of the OT, and hence didn't invalidate the work of the OT heroes. Realistically, however, that was never going to happen, due to decision processes like the one you sketched out above. They were always going to reset things to one extent or other - the set-up was always going to be "by the end of this movie, if not the start of it, the heroes of the OT have had their work undone". Hence my point that the problem lies in making a sequel (set within a generation of the OT) - because it's obvious that any sequel made is always going to be a studio-led affair (as opposed to the lone director's vision of the original movie). I also think that rehashing the events of the OT was probably inevitable to some extent (again, yes, they didn't <em>have </em>to do this, but it's not really a surprise that they did, given that it was the path with the fewest risks).</p><p></p><p>They could have made a sequel set a couple of generations later (or perhaps far later), and avoided damage to the OT characters, but I guess they felt they had to have the cameos from the OT cast, so that was out (if it was ever considered).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grainger, post: 7705795, member: 6779234"] By "bleak", I meant the situation where they undid everything the heroes achieved. The sequel had to have drama on the same or greater scale than that of the OT. Blockbuster movies always have to be about stupidly huge threats (see also the Trek films, where the world or universe always has to be in danger), and there was no way they were going to have a scenario that didn't destroy, or at least threaten to destroy, the New Republic. OK, they didn't have to go so far, like killing off Luke's trainees or the examples you give above, but it was always going to be devastating to the legacy of the OT heroes, because the film-makers had to go for events on a large scale. And it was always going to seem nihilistic to someone who ponders the impact on the OT. Sure, it would have been physically possible to make a film featuring a new threat that wasn't as big as the epochal events of the OT, and hence didn't invalidate the work of the OT heroes. Realistically, however, that was never going to happen, due to decision processes like the one you sketched out above. They were always going to reset things to one extent or other - the set-up was always going to be "by the end of this movie, if not the start of it, the heroes of the OT have had their work undone". Hence my point that the problem lies in making a sequel (set within a generation of the OT) - because it's obvious that any sequel made is always going to be a studio-led affair (as opposed to the lone director's vision of the original movie). I also think that rehashing the events of the OT was probably inevitable to some extent (again, yes, they didn't [I]have [/I]to do this, but it's not really a surprise that they did, given that it was the path with the fewest risks). They could have made a sequel set a couple of generations later (or perhaps far later), and avoided damage to the OT characters, but I guess they felt they had to have the cameos from the OT cast, so that was out (if it was ever considered). [/QUOTE]
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