Rey Solo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc

Rey of Jakku and her "laser sword" just like... Joan of Arc, a real medieval woman with a sword.

 

Exactly! Well things didn't work out too great for old Joanie.

 

More like Lucas's poor attempt to make the prequels important somehow by shoehorning in a stupid idea...
How does killing Sidious suddenly bring balance to anything?

 

I don't buy into certain folks interpretations of the first 6 films. Are you are part of the story group? NOOOOOO Are you a director? NOOOOO Its all friendly speculation at the end of the day. I've been a Star Wars fan since 1977 before I came here I was on the force.net boards. Once someone's theory is shot down that thread is dead... everyone scurries about like Womp rats. New theories, interpretation, speculations till ep9. 3 months... its killing meeeee...hehehe

 

Our emotive opinions of what Lucas don't change that he made that choice.

He made it clear that killing Sidious destroyed the Sith bringing balance to the Force.

 

They're padding her name so it's approximately the same size as the next line, that's it.

 

Indeed. That storyline broke as soon as Lucas sold it to Disney and they launched another three films. Luke didn't restore balance or he'd be irrelevant now.

--- Double Post Merged, Sep 17, 2017, Original Post Date: Sep 17, 2017 ---

See above.

 

Sure if they want to alienate a huge portion of fans and screw with the continuity of the most influential films ever.

Could they I suppose.

Will they. They'd be dumb to.

Disney bought LFL and most of the people keep their jobs. Lucas' hand picked successor runs it.

 

Knowig why plotpoints made it into a story has nothing to do with being emotive. Also, Lucas has made clear a lots of things. For instance that there will be no sequel trilogy made by anyone. The man is a walking contradiction.

On the quite contrary to that, the lore made it clear it didn't. Even if you dismiss the EU and only consider the movies, in ep I it was made clear that there were siths before TPM. Considering that Maul, Dooku and Sidious are males and/or from a different species, it's clear that they aren't offsprings of each other, which dismisses the idea that all siths between TPM and 1000 years pre-TPM are survivors from a direct family line. Which means that Sidious just found Maul somewhere and trained him to be a sith. And that Dooku is just a random jedi turned to the dark side (which can happen at anytime).
What is the conclusion I want to draw here? That killing Sidious dosen't end anything. At anytime in post-ROTJ era another sith can rise and train pupils (Especially considering that the prequels made it clear that being a force user is nothing special either. All you need for a sith is some midichlorians and training). And I think this is probably what the ST will address and maybe ends this cycle forever, truly fulfilling the vague prophecy Lucas inserted to the lore after ROTJ.

The storyline never made sense within the lore itself. See the above.

There is already little to no continuity between the OT and PT. Han was in his teens during the clone wars. How in the world is it possible that he dosen't know the jedi or the Force? Maybe Chewie (who knew Yoda personally) should have told him about this incredibly important information... This is just one of the dozens of glaring contradictions.

 

Because the destruction of the Sith meant that the dark side power in the galaxy was no longer dominating and spreading despair everywhere.

 

1) See my post: https://thecantina.starwarsnewsnet.com/index.php?threads/rey-solo.52391/page-55#post-407717
Killing Sidious didn't destroy the sith at all. I don't know why would you think that. Sidious was just one random powerful sith, not the dark side itself...

2) After Sidious died and the Empire was weakened (but not destroyed) the situation very likely got much worse than under Sidious's rule. Long and devastating recession along with a bloody civil war for power.

 

1) Sidious and Vader were the last Sith. Sure, more could rise - but in that moment they were the Sith and they were the beings that were oppressing the galaxy. It's not about destroying the dark side. It's about ensuring that the dark and light were equal. The Sith spread darkness everywhere and thus when these two Sith took over and ruled the galaxy, the dark side dominated the light. The role of the Jedi is to destroy such people and return the balance between light and dark.

2) I completely disagree and that is surely not the message Lucas presented. Clearly, once the empire was defeated in RotJ hope returned to the galaxy. Essentially, the entire galaxy was no longer oppressed but rather in a state of balance again.

 

where did you hear this?

 

You're misunderstanding the name thing about Han Solo. It's meant that he hasn't made his mark in the movie yet. Furthermore Emilia Clarke's character isn't called Kira but Kura. At least according to MSW.

 

MSW claims Kura, but everywhere else says Kira.

 

MSW > everyone else

 

Haha alright I'll give you that.