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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7564062" data-attributes="member: 37579">It's not nearly as hard as you make it. Heck, after Empire it looked like Star Wars 3 would be all about saving Han and a big rescue mission. Instead, they resolved that whole plot arc in like 15 minutes and then moved on, pretty much dropping most of the seeds sown by THE BEST Star Wars movie in favour of recycling the plot of Star Wars 1.There's no shortage of directions they can go. Heck, it's significantly easier to think of storylines for Episode IX than it was to think of a story for Episode VII. Story Hook 1: Hux vs RenThe Resistance has gone to ground, hiding and rebuilding its numbers, waiting for its time to strike. The First Order has been cementing its grip but the tensions between General Hux and Kylo Ren for control and leadership have been growing, and are now reaching a climax. With the First Order poised to turn on itself, they're distracted and now is the Resistance's time to strike a decisive blow.Story Hook 2: Knights of RenSeeking to end the threat of Rey before she can become a full Jedi and begin training others, Ren dispatches his Knights to hunt her down. The story is more of a chase, as Rey tries to elude the knights, fighting them when she thinks she has the advantage. But the longer the hunt goes on the more tired and injured she becomes. Story Hook 3: Another Spherical Super WeaponThis is almost certainly what they'll do, because Abrams hasn't had an original idea and all his films copy something else. So he'll do a big homage to Return of the Jedi and cycle back to the First Order making yet another planet destroying weapon that a fleet of ships needs to blow up.[video=youtube;yd0j97RhZUQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd0j97RhZUQ[/video]Regardless, Episode IX will be about the death of Kylo Ren. He's the final member of the Skywalker line, which has been the heart of the "Star Wars Saga". He needs to die and end that storyline, freeing up the franchise to go in different directions rather than being shackled to the idea of an Episode X, which will invariably have to negate the victories of the heroes in Episode IX. I'll come out and say it: Rebels was okay at best. A far cry from the amazing peaks of Clone Wars. Rebels got better but it started weak. Really weak. Nowhere planet. Irrelevant stakes. Unlikable characters. Plus, having a surviving Jedi that lived despite being a young Padawan, making the deaths of so many trained Jedi seem cheap and minimizes the survival of Obi-Wan and Yoda. It got better around the later seasons when they started building to the Rebel Alliance and brought in Ashoka. But they couldn't even give her a proper death and chickened out. And funny how you're silent about Resistance...</blockquote>

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