re: How would you structure Star Wars IX?

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Rey has trained up 12 padawans

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Now that we've seen the destruction of the Jedi Academy, I really want to know more about the Knights of Ren. Were they the handful of pupils that left with Kylo that Luke mentioned? I would assume that means they are force sensitive as well and could really do some damage to the students Rey would be "teaching".

1) Luke wakes Rey up the morning after she gets to the island (and after she had given him the lightsaber).

2) She tells him about the weird as frick dream she had, starting with the dumbass tossing the lightsaber over his shoulder.

3) He laughs as he holds it out for her to see, and tells her she needs to lay off the space brandy.

4) The real training and story begins.

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With what was given to us, I really have no idea how to structure the sequel

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Are we 100% sure this is JUST a trilogy, or is there room for more than just 3 movies?

I've only ever watched the movies and read 1-2 older books (before the prequels ever came out); but my son is a SW geek. I seem to remember him telling me of one story, where Palpatine actually knew (Force precognition) of a greater outside threat, and the Empire war machine was in preparation for that.

If you take that concept and overlay it with the current films- we no longer have much military might, and only a couple Force users left. In other words, the galaxy is ripe for invasion.

Such a situation would push Kylo and Rey together, as they are what little is left to defend.
added- only 2 Force users, one Dark, one Light, neither have a mentor anymore. They are on their own.

Now, to do that justice, you need more than just one movie. However, Marvel has shown that you can string together 18 movies to make a story as in-depth as a TV show; every episode is a feature film. Certainly, a property such as Star Wars can handle that too, if you are patient and craft the story well.

We've seen Kylo and Rey work together well, and we've seen that you don't trust Kylo when it's over. But if you extend the larger conflict so that a single battle doesn't end the threat, he's relatively safe as an ally; he will address the task at hand, and you can always have the "maybe they can finally reconcile him" part in the background.

If you want to take Rose's message of 'saving what we love, not killing what we hate' , then the Resistance (and Galaxy) appealing to Kylo to save everyone from the outside threat actually fits.\

Finn-"I would never trust Kylo Ren"
Rey-"well, we're all going to die otherwise. He's our only hope. And his name is Ben Skywalker, not Kylo Ren. I've met him, I know there's still good in him"

Several series have taken a few episodes to get things rolling, so we may well have greatness still at hand. We might look back and say "wow I didn't see this coming".

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It's not that it has to be. It's that this was set up in VII only to be completed destroyed in VIII. Her reaction to the light saber was fairly specific

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Except that it wasn't really. Maz's line to her in the force awakens told us. We just didn't want to believe it so we spent 2 years building it up.


The force just used the light saber to show her she had potential.

It's just a trilogy. Sure it can change but it doesn't appear that will be the case. In my opinion Rey is totally done with Kylo.

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Except that it wasn't really

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Yes, yes it was.

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Maz's line to her in the force awakens told us. We just didn't want to believe it so we spent 2 years building it up.

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I don't understand this.

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I don't understand this

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She tells rey that rey knows who she was waiting for on jaku wasn't coming back, but someone still could.




This doesn't even get into the timeline issues of her being Luke's kid.


I've said it before. In early stages of production Rey went from being a solo, to a Kenobi, to the idea that she wasn't any of those. That's the direction Disney went with. She is no one

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The entirety of the Rebellion/Republic can fit on the Falcon.

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This is the biggest head scratcher of the TLJ. We are somehow supposed to logically get to a happy ending from this point when the the Rebellion is one lightly trained Jedi and a few friends.

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It's just a trilogy. Sure it can change but it doesn't appear that will be the case. In my opinion Rey is totally done with Kylo.

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God, I hope they figure out that they could expand this. Trilogies were great when you could make 3 good films in a decade; as pointed out, Marvel has shoved close to 20 into a decade.

If you have the right overall story and things start moving, people would forget that it started off clumsy.

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God, I hope they figure out that they could expand this. Trilogies were great when you could make 3 good films in a decade; as pointed out, Marvel has shoved close to 20 into a decade. 

If you have the right overall story and things start moving, people would forget that it started off clumsy.

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I think their goal is to finish this trilogy. Keep up with doing spin off films and do another trilogy in 10 years or so.


Obvisoly that can change.