SPECULATION Knights of the triangular table

The Prequels had some very un-subtle attempts to portray grey area in Star Wars - remember that wierd line from the opening crawl of Revenge of the Sith? "There are heroes on both sides. Evil is everywhere." What heroes, General Grievance? The worst part was how they chose to portray "Count Dooku" in Attack of the Clones. You don't even see him until two-thirds of the way into the movie, and then you can't tell whether he's good or bad from what he says. Who's the villain of that movie? I get that its a trend recently to portray villains as maybe being good, and heroes as maybe being bad (because of the general distrust of most Americans against the US government?), but adventure movies just don't work when there isn't a clear distinction between who is good and who is evil, and Star Wars movies are deffi adventure movies.

 

I find that speculation to be very believable. In fact, it's not the first time I've seen speculation (or supposed "insider secrets") detailing just that -- that the distinction between good and bad won't be clear as it was in the OT. Very interested to see how that would play out.

 

If the Alliance and remnant Empire are joined I could see this scenario. You are always going to have people that believe that government is evil, perhaps a new form of rebellion will arise from the former Empire. There is always an opposition who want to see their ideals be ruling law.

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I think that these new chrometroopers will be the opposition to Luke's new form of Jedi order, Someone other than Sith or Jedi, like the Imperial Knights in the Legacy 2 comics.

 

Ah that's a good idea with the...

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Imperial Knights.

Just changing their color to chrome rather than...

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red so we won't confuse them with Palpatine's royal guards.

Gwen Christie is probably the lead one of these and Boyega, if he is indeed...

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Force sensative,

probably falls into the lines of this organization.

 

I think my latest article fits in well with this topic:

http://www.starwars7news.com/2014/10/the-role-of-the-jedi-in-star-wars-episode-vii.html

 

One of my favorite articles you've published so far!

 

Wow! Thanks!

 

To be fair, the Jedi were boring in the Prequels.

Anyway I disagree that Luke should go into exile or whatever - he's the last Jedi knight in the Galactic Empire, and its his duty to train more Jedi knights, because they prevent Galactic Emperors from becoming all-powerful autocrats. Or something. Either way, the Emperor had to use Darth Vader to kill all the Jedi knights before he could completely take over the Galactic Empire, so its probably important to train more of them.

 

They were boring when sitting around in their sewing circle, when they were in action they were awesome.

 

I disagree. That's just two opinions.

 

Anakin Skywalker : I think Chancellor Palpatine is a Sith Lord.
Mace Windu : A Sith Lord?
Anakin Skywalker : Yes, the one we've been looking for.
Mace Windu : How do you know this?
Anakin Skywalker : He knows the ways of the Force. He's been trained to use the Dark Side.
Mace Windu : Are you sure?
Anakin Skywalker : Absolutely.
Mace Windu : Then our worst fears have been realized. We must move quickly if the Jedi Order is to survive.

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All the Jedi scenes were like this!

 

I must admit, I could have written better dialog for the PT than George Lucas.

 

Wrong.





Just your opinion.

 

Well sure everything is about opinion, but that scene was boring too! No matter how good the choreography for the fight was, you don't care about those characters. There's no tension, you barely even know what they are fighting for. Who are they? Just wierdos in robes fighting in some wierd lit up room for no reason. And it was in the middle of this crazy sequence where four different things are going on with four different emotional tones - it makes it impossible to care!

 

There have been other threads which mention "Imperial apologist" and the concept of differing factions of remnants, some of which might have goals in alignment with our heroes...

What if, the end the destruction, Han and Leia believe that concession is the best course, which Luke finds as falling into the lure of evil....

 

Well, if they do follow any course that has one or multiple Imperial factions, I just hope the diplomatic portion of it is juicy and dynamic. I see the promos for Rebels and note each time they usually refer to it as the "Evil Empire", so it'd be somewhat interesting to see neutral/apologist factions.