SPECULATION Star Wars: The Ancient Fear (Revisited)

there was like a whole month in 2014 where everyone was talking about that possible title for ep7.

imo, absolutely that was or is the title for a Star Wars movie. apart from anything else.... it's a bloody cool name for a SW film and they should use it.

 

I guess it's a logical step for the LF storygroup to go back to the past for multiple reasons:

1. Stories in a distant future (centuries beyond the sequel trilogy) would either limit the artistic freedom of future projects or cause contradictions in canon.
2. People have always cared about the origins of the jedi, the sith, etc. Filling blank spaces in the past with meaningful stories can improve other movies. I think that R1 improved ANH for example.
3. There are already a lot of interesting EU stories set in the distant past but only very few in the distant future
4. Making Snoke an ancient evil would support the idea that star wars is more about the galaxy far far away and less about individual events. It's a massive universe full of stories and heros and not just the biography of Darth Vader. I guess they are already trying to do this with the standalone movies

So yeah, ancient evil seems logical from a storytelling point of view.

 

i had a weird thought..

Yoda: "A prophecy that misread could have been"

what if the prophecy that a 'chosen one' would bring balance to the force was actually not a prophecy.. but instead a warning.. a 'fear' of what could happen? aka.. an ancient fear?

 

Would be quite a twist if this ancient fear was actually the Force.

 

I remember it well . I think it came from Harry Knowles here: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/67205

 

This spawned the Darth Plagueis theory.

 

I can't find any links, but I'm fairly sure there was a lot of speculation around the time that the end of Episode 7 would see the re-birth of the Sith. I always imagined that Bane, Plagueis or some other Sith Lord would be bought back to life 'Voldemort style' with sorcery and the eye of a dead Jedi, that kind of thing.

 

There was also the thread in the old EU about Jacen Solo (cough/cough, ahem...Ben) on a voyage of discovery in the unknown regions, and this was instrumental in his eventual turn to the darkside. He also picked up some new Force powers there such as timewalking. Seems like stopping a blaster bolt is a new Force power that Ben learned from somewhere that wasn't a part of Jedi lore/teachings.

 

Ben seems to be a mix of Revan and Jacen, with his own uniqueness added.

 

I had just gotten into the SWTOR game and was learning about Revan, so when I saw Kylo and Rey, I was wondering if it was just the costumes that were similar, or more than that. They say BioWare is not canon, but I can't help but see a lot of game similarities to the movies. I am curious to what the plan is for VIII since Rian is changing the game.

 

When that title came out, Harry obviously was guessing and got wrong info since "The Force Awakens" had the same letters, and it hadn't even been written yet. As they claim there was no kind of story arc from TFA to Episode 9.

 

It did but I never thought of 50-60 years as ancient.

I think the Ancient Fear was a natural starting place. The novels following ROTJ involved Luke's academy on Yavin 4 with one of the students dealing with a darkside undead Exar Kun. After causing probs for a few students Exar tried to possess Luke.

Even this story was revised in the EU with Exar Kun being a Jedi who discovered an undead darksider Freedon Nadd who taught him darksidyness. Exar destroyed the spirit thing who was trying to use him. And then started a was within the Jedi.

Its safe to say that until ancient knowledge is benign or Snoke proved to be not some sort of monster from way back when the Ancient Fear idea will remain. Until the Sequel ST when it will come up.

 

Yep, it's most likely more the "Blue Harvest" kind of thing.

"Oh no, my young Harry. You will find that it is you who are mistaken, about a great many things."