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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 7887311" data-attributes="member: 710">This seems really a pretty clever little twist. It still wouldn't be my favorite possible Star Wars continuation, but it seems something that could really be done with a few reshoots and post. You really pointed out the one more objective flaw of TLJ (stuff like "Jake Sykwalker" and what else is always also personal preference) - the situation at the end of TLJ is the same at the beginning, just with some little number tweaks. By the way, ESB didn't just bring the whole Vader is Luke's father thing in - it also put in a very concrete "next step" for the characters - we need to find a way to save Han. "We need to free X" sounds like a good thing.But I think Rise needs more changes, too, then, because Kylo Ren's role as in a "flux" state as not the leader he presumable wanted to become, and a potential subordinate to Palpatine really needs more fleshing out. But maybe that just can't be done in the alloted run time, and still tell the rest of the story.I think Rise could actually benefit from keeping Rey the "nobody" Kylo claims she is. It is the variable that Palpatine did not plan for - The Force Awakened, and it created Rey (and maybe Finn). Rey will avert Ren's total corruption to the Dark Side and Palpatine's will, and Finn might turn the Storm Troopers around - a Reverse Order 66, maybe his latent force abilities allow him to disrupt their mental conditioning, just as he overcame his own. (So, both Rey and Finn end up as being force avatars for freedom.)</blockquote>

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