The portrayal of an ex-Stormtrooper: The Finn poll

The portrayal of an ex-Stormtrooper: The Finn poll Apr 8, 2018 16:57:01 GMT

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Post by formersamhmd on Apr 8, 2018 16:57:01 GMT

Apr 8, 2018 15:46:54 GMT @captaintarpals said:

Apr 8, 2018 15:05:59 GMT formersamhmd said:

The only times the EU hint at a new conflict, it's always resolved and the OT cast are always the ones to do it. The only time they considered a "New Leads" storyline it was with Cade Skywalker, and that was a cop-out because they set it hundreds of years in the future after everyone was dead anyways.

Wrong-o. It's not a cop out with Cade Skywalker.

It is, he's ages after the OT cast have died of old age and there's no "passing the torch". Do that in the movies and all you'd get is a bunch of pissed off OT fans who are upset they didn't get the OT cast back for a "passing the torch" story...which they'd have hated anyways if the new characters were independent leads instead of a bunch of incompetent sidekicks who are there to just make the OT cast look good.

Yousa don't have to kill off characters to advance a saga on to new characters. Only if it makes sense within da context of da saga. And da EU did advance and expand to new characters.

It never made them leads nor did it give them new conflicts they could be the heroes of instead of the OT cast overshadowing everything.

And yes, with Star Wars they did have to get rid of the old cast otherwise anytime the new characters are doing anything the only reaction would be "Why is Rey fighting Kylo? It should be Luke doing it!" or "Why is Finn and/or Poe going off on this mission. Leia should be handling command and Han should be doing the grunt work!"

As long as the OT cast was around, there was never going to be a reason for the new cast to exist in the first place.

Yousa already been given tons of examples in other threads from other posters.

No, they just keep saying "This could've been done so much better" without any examples. The best one I got still made Rey someone who needed Han and Leia to hand her everything because otherwise she's too incompetent to get anything done on her own.