re: Rumor: Disney considering splitting Episode 9 into two movies

I have never denied that I do. You just make up fake lies because youre entire life is based around it.

Godless fake fan.

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This is a stupid thing to complain about.

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Ehh, I disagree.

It's a pretty huge headscratcher in relation to the rest of the SW universe.

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The opening crawl of TLJ literally says that TFO is busy occupying the entire galaxy.


Where did they get the time to do that? The film starts the second after TFA ends. It makes no fricking sense, and you would agree if you were intellectually honest.

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The only way the First Order controls the entire galaxy, is to say Return of the Jedi (and the entire OT) was a failure.

Yes, they killed the Emperor, and they temporarily carved out the New Republic. Which apparently was a small system, capable of being wiped out by the destruction of a planet (or couple of them). So the First Order (Dudes in Stormtrooper gear, with Star Destroyers, TIE fighters and all the Empire's gear) remained in control of vast areas, and have since regained total control.

If that's the case, why the frick was Luke running a Jedi camp instead of continuing to work against the real enemy- tyranny and military oppression?

Did they really just make a syfy version of Crimean independence from the Soviet Union?

I thought it was established canon that the Galactic Civil War didn't end until 4 years after the Battle of Endor with the Battle of Jakku ending the war.

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This is why I say TFA was worse for Star Wars than TLJ.

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I'm actually starting to agree with this.

TFA should have done more world building. We should have gotten some exposition as to how the First Order came to be and why the Resistance had a merely loose connection to the New Republic. I initially shrugged off those complaints because I thought for sure the second film in the trilogy would answer some of those questions. Silly me for believing that was going to happen.

Agreed. Plus, focus on Han, Leia and Luke together one last time as things begin to unravel or something. Build on established things and slowly establish the new characters. That COULD have been done but it wasn't.

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Then why the frick are they making a trilogy into a four film saga...cuz TLJ sucked and they know it

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They aren't. It's a bs rumor.

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Possibly because The Last Jedi did hardly anything to advance the story.

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But it subverted expectations!

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This may have been Disney's biggest screw-up, was to take the cannon Star Wars universe and expanded it into the realm of books/comics and try to satisfy the EU fans who loved reading things that were outside of the movies.

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There was a lot of garbage in the old EU, but this new EU just isn't good. Nothing worthwhile happens in the comics/novels because they're afraid to confuse the casual movie going audiences.

If given enough time though, Disney will muck up the new EU in their own way. You might say they've already started. Did you know that Luke Skywalker's first duel with Darth Vader did not occur during ESB?

I think what Disney was most concerned with when they rebooted the EU was not wanting to box in the writers/directors of potential new films. Probably not many of them are going to read 30 years worth of Star Wars fiction to make sure their movie set in between films doesn't conflict with established lore.

That said, I do wish that they would've left parts of the old EU alone, primarily the old Republic era as well as some of the novels set pre-TPM like Darth Plageius and Cloak of Deception.

OK, how to sum up three books in a short space...

One of the few remaining Grand Admirals (Rae Sloane) has control of most of the remaining Imperial Navy. She is being "advised" by a shadowy figured named Gallius Rax, who was born on Jakku, discovered there and raised by Palpatine. Palpatine creates a secret base on Jakku and tells Rax to go there in case anything were to ever happen to Palpatine.

Rax dupes Sloane and has a larger portion of the surviving fleet go to Jakku. he New Republic finds out and goes as well. Giant space battle occurs, in which a damaged Republic cruiser uses a gravity well to pull a Super Star Destroyer to the surface of Jakku. Large ground fight as well.

Most of the Empire is destroyed. Rax dies. Sloane takes what is left of the Imperial forces and flees to a predetermined rendezvous in the unexplored territories beyond the outer rim. Starting over is their "first order."

Hux's father was the head of the academy that trained stormtroopers. He is abusive to Hux, but both go with Sloane. Sloane vows to protect young Hux. So I guess he grows up to become General Hux.

The New Republic capital moves around for system to system, but a large part of the infrastructure starts to get built on Hosnian Prime.

Leia gives birth to Ben Solo just as the third book ends, so using his age, you can tell how long the wreckage has been on Jakku. It also lets you know that Hux is a few years older than Ben/Kylo.