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re: Star Wars Viewing Figures Show Disturbing Lack of Faith in Sequel Trilogy
Posted on 5/5/26 at 10:23 am to WicKed WayZ
Posted on 5/5/26 at 10:23 am to WicKed WayZ
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Plenty of other movie series have done the same where they create sequels based on the original and ignoring other movies in the chronology
I dont see that working well. Its just a big ask of the audience. Even the newer generation have a set idea of Luke and Leia and Han. Bring Luke in as the Yoda of the new generation and start over with the others.
BUT, anything is possible with good writing and production. Its not rocket surgery. Hell, Disney had a chance for it to be really good in their own style and they ruined it.
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Posted on 5/5/26 at 11:57 am to Purple Spoon
I have never watched a second of the Last Jedi after seeing it in the theater. I hope Nielsen is tracking that.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 12:07 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
They have thousand of years of Jedi and Sith stories to play with yet they keep focusing on the same timeline.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 12:10 pm to RougeDawg
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I have never watched a second of the Last Jedi after seeing it in the theater. I hope Nielsen is tracking that.
This is the message I try to hammer home any time I've interacted with Lucasfilm online.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 12:16 pm to WicKed WayZ
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I fully believe that after enough time has passed, they will recast Han, Luke and Leia and do a sequel trilogy based on them, completely ignoring the Rey/Kylo trilogy.
They need to do the Thrawn Trilogy as the actual real sequel to the OT. But they'll frick it up by doing something like casting Sophie Turner as Mara Jade. Or, even worse, Zendaya.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 12:34 pm to RougeDawg
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have never watched a second of the Last Jedi after seeing it in the theater. I hope Nielsen is tracking that.
i tried once. i got to the Poe prank call with Hux and was like, oh yeah now i remember, then i turned it off.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 12:43 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
The Force Awakens was ok. There were aspects of the Last Jedi that pissed me off but it took risks and I at least found it an interesting entry. Rise of Skywalker was absolute shite. I really dont care to re visit any of that timeline or characters.
Andor, Rogue One are pretty much the only thing that has come out of Disney Star Wars that I have found really compelling to watch. Oh and it it may be a hot take but Solo was pretty good too and didnt deserve to be maligned. Of all the post OT films out there it is probably the closet imo to the feel of those films.
Andor, Rogue One are pretty much the only thing that has come out of Disney Star Wars that I have found really compelling to watch. Oh and it it may be a hot take but Solo was pretty good too and didnt deserve to be maligned. Of all the post OT films out there it is probably the closet imo to the feel of those films.
This post was edited on 5/5/26 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 5/5/26 at 1:28 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
Posted on 5/5/26 at 1:44 pm to finchmeister08
say what you will about the rise of AI (i for one welcome our robotic overlords), the ability for people to make hilarious shite like this makes it all worth it
dark 3PO bumbling around in the background making canon corrections is something i'd watch three films worth of
dark 3PO bumbling around in the background making canon corrections is something i'd watch three films worth of
This post was edited on 5/5/26 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 5/5/26 at 2:06 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
The prequels are extremely flawed but I still can watch them and thoroughly enjoy them as Star Wars movies. I loved them as a kid and then I thought ROTS was the only one I liked. Years later, I like them all but that could be the fact that the sequel trilogy is just God Awful outside of the Force Awakens. The Force Awakens doesn’t hold up bc the next 2 took massive shites on it.
They need to delete those from canon and pretend they never existed.
They need to delete those from canon and pretend they never existed.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 2:15 pm to Purple Spoon
I remember getting pretty hype for Force Awakens when they released this photo of everyone. Imagine at that moment if they had an over arching storyline of the 3 sequels instead of splitting them up and having the directors do whatever the frick they want for each film. They wouldn't be having the problems that they still do to this day with the franchise.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 2:31 pm to boxcarbarney
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They need to do the Thrawn Trilogy as the actual real sequel to the OT. But they'll frick it up by doing something like casting Sophie Turner as Mara Jade. Or, even worse, Zendaya.
That's just it. Should Disney wipe away the trilogy they created? Yes. Of course. That is the type of bold move Disney should be making. Are they capable of producing something better? I doubt it. They are too wrapped up in including things that aren't important to the story.
Recast the leads and write the Thrawn storyline using Zahn's three novels. You probably have 5 or 6 movies right there. Story is done. All you have to work on is production.
The ONLY reason I think Disney would even consider doing it is that they don't move Rey Trilogy merch. That's where the real cash is.
Doomsday will prove that fans don't give a shite about wiping away crappy movies from canon.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 2:35 pm to hg
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I remember getting pretty hype for Force Awakens when they released this photo of everyone.
the fact that they had the opportunity to put Han, Luke, Leia, and Chewie on the screen together again and didnt is unforgivable regardless of how the rest of the trilogy played out. they could have written ANY STORY to make this happen, and instead they made one a girlboss, killed one off, and banished one to an island
Posted on 5/5/26 at 3:11 pm to Fewer Kilometers
I am part of the Prequel generation and you are absolutely right, it is my generations Star Wars. We have our own affinity towards that trilogy. As a kid, I loved Jar Jar binks humor, I loved pod racing, I didn't care about midochlorians one way or the other. I wanted to see awesome light saber battles and the prequels absolutely delivered on that, I'd argue leaps and bounds over the original trilogy. What that affinity setup was an appreciation for the original trilogy and its story telling and dialogue, which was leaps and bounds over the prequels.
Then there are the sequels...and I thought TFA was decent enough.
Then there are the sequels...and I thought TFA was decent enough.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 3:57 pm to GeauxOn
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I am part of the Prequel generation and you are absolutely right, it is my generations Star Wars. We have our own affinity towards that trilogy. As a kid, I loved Jar Jar binks humor, I loved pod racing, I didn't care about midochlorians one way or the other. I wanted to see awesome light saber battles and the prequels absolutely delivered on that, I'd argue leaps and bounds over the original trilogy. What that affinity setup was an appreciation for the original trilogy and its story telling and dialogue, which was leaps and bounds over the prequels.
good post
how old are you? just curious. i was a senior in high school for TPM and then in college for AOTC and ROTS. i liked them ok at the time, and still have an affinity towards them myself to an extent. i was a huge original trilogy fan as a kid, even though i was too young for the original run. i guess elder millenials such as myself didnt really get a Star Wars of "our" generation.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 4:03 pm to Sam Quint
Just turned 30 so I was probably about 5 the first time I actually watched Phantom Menace
Posted on 5/5/26 at 4:42 pm to Sam Quint
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had the opportunity to put Han, Luke, Leia, and Chewie on the screen together again and didnt is unforgivable
And the fact that Leia hugged Rey after Hans death instead of Chewie, how did that make it through what must have been 100s of reviews of some sort
Posted on 5/5/26 at 8:41 pm to s0tiger
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And the fact that Leia hugged Rey after Hans death instead of Chewie, how did that make it through what must have been 100s of reviews of some sort
Bc girl bosses gotta boss
Posted on 5/5/26 at 8:43 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
Millennials and Gen Z love the prequels. It’s the boomers that hated them.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 8:54 pm to Proximo
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Phantom menace being 2 is kind of crazy, but it’s probably because of the new Maul show
It's evidence of Generation patterns.
Genx and elder millennials grew up watching the original trilogy, so we consider those to be a part of our childhood, whereas younger millennials and genz were young kids when the prequels came out, so they consider that to be the Star Wars of their childhood.
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