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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 7313670" data-attributes="member: 710">Star Wars is basically a fairy tale. When the Evil Queen is defeated and Snow White gets her Prince, of course they live happily everafter. We don't expect the prince to get estranged from her, their child turning out to become a mass-murderer. Of course, you could deliberately write a story doing exactly that - but since Snow White is public domain, there can be many stories about the aftermath, be it the one where she is long estranged from her prince or one where she has to defend the Dwarves against the Troll invasion army or where she is sucked into the real world or whatever. So there are many alternative futures, and it doesn't really matter much.Star Wars is a Disney property. Only they get to tell stories about Luke Skywalker. So if the one they tell just doesn't quite gel because critical pieces of his character development are never really shown and earned, it will remain a broken part of franchise.I don't have to ask myself that - I know it doesn't fit my preconceptions for the characters. The preconceptions are the result of me remembering the original trilogy and the themes layed out there. A writer has every right to subvert them - but then he better show and not just tell.</blockquote>