Would Darth Plageius had been a better way to go with the

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Post by moviebuffbrad on Dec 28, 2019 21:21:05 GMT

Dec 27, 2019 4:15:51 GMT Waxer-n-boil said:

Dec 25, 2019 10:35:00 GMT moviebuffbrad said:

Well, speaking of Abrams and his decisions in TRoS, isn't there some plot with Palpatine channeling all the Sith? Couldn't they just do that with Kylo? And instead of Sith GPS satellites, maybe he gets ahold of one of those Sith amulets from the EU or something. Get those Knights of Ren by his side and set it some time after TLJ.

YES! Something like that actually could work! It condenses the time needed to develop Kylo into a threat. It could fit the mythos.

Make it like a Rocky movie where Kylo kicks her ass in the first act, and the rest of the movie is her trying to get her groove back and learning to channel all the Jedi.

And now you just touched on the one possible drawback. Having Rey lose her mojo for most of the movie. Some Rey fans would grab ahold of the same complaints that Luke fans did in TLJ. “They really diminished her character! That’s not the Rey I fell in love with!” Etc. Additionally, Abrams would be challenged to get a script like that approved. I can already see Iger and Kay Kay’s faces puckering at the thought of Rey not apexing through the movie until “the third act”.

Alternatively, hire a better writer than me and the BvS guy.

If only. The writing, writing, ITS ALWAYS BEEN THE WRITING that’s been the biggest problem and weakness of this trilogy.

What I would have liked, given the yin/yang themes of TLJ, is that they cancel each other out and both die. Rey still wins again as expected, but sacrifices herself in the process so it's not a clean victory.

An ending like that would be something to geek out on for mythos buffs. But they were focused on having Rey “ride off into the sunset, victorious”.

Well, they did okay a morally ambivalent and eventually dead Jyn Erso, so maybe they could be swayed.

But hey, who needs their hypothetical support, I'm just happy I got you semi-onboard.