What's the point of this trilogy?

this about sums it up for me:



the OT heroes' legacy is at stake.
reconciling Vader's "redemption" is at stake.

Rey is the hero who will save this family.
she can't make it whole again, but she can give it peace and purpose, which was Luke's last lesson to her.

 

I see three themes/points for the ST:
1) becoming a family
2) a nobody becomes somebody (Rey, Finn)
3) a somebody tries to find his place in the world (Kylo/Ben)

 

Should we really have the answer to that question only two films in?

If the OT is anything to go by, we probably shouldn't. I don't think anybody had the answer to the overall point of the trilogy after seeing Empire.

The prequel trilogy is different because that's just the nature of prequels... plus it was essentially told to us beforehand.

The options you have in the poll could be true, multiple could be true. Everything listed above me could be true. But we're not gonna have a definitive answer until we walk out of the theater on December 20th, 2019... and that's okay.

 

To be honest with that kind of terrible management that has gone on behind the seasons, we are lucky to have got the quality of films we have done, I know the OP (like many others) loves The Last Jedi, Some people are massive fans of the the Force Awakens, I myself have learned to adore Rogue One. So i guess we have to be grateful that we have got this considering, but i think we are pushing our luck if we are expecting more then that from these films.

Their is no plan and no point, at this stage it is as pointless as asking who Snoke was or who's Reys parents where based on the events of the Force Awakens, their simply isn't an answer right now apart from 'to make money', Maybe JJ can pull the trilogy together and make it feel like a cohesive story with a point maybe he can't, but at this stage i don't think their is a point.

 

Well I suppose since the Star Wars saga follows the Skywalker lineage, it is about Kylo.
The story begins in the middle of Kylo's real story. We missed the beginning part, where Snoke seduces Ben so on so on. Snoke is not an important part of Kylo's story at this point. In the beginning yes. Right now is what I believe to be Kylo's redemption story.
We almost need a trillogy between the OT and ST.

 

It's about whatever you take from it. It has lots of themes and a linear you could take away.

 

There is no point now. It's 3 Star Wars movies that will hardly have anything to do with each other in terms of continuity when compared to the OT, because they allowed individual contributors too much freedom to guide the story. As much as I don't like TLJ, the continuity points and questions raised in TFA are meaningless if you raise them, unsure if the next movie is going to handle them (or if you supply the set ups but NOT the answers to your set ups). The ST, is hardly even a trilogy (IMO). It's just 3 SW movies with a rotating set of writers and directors trying to understand what the trilogy is themselves.

 

Your opinion has been noted.

 

This precisely sums up how I feel about the treatment of the character of Han Solo. My favorite fictional character of all time, wanting only to bring his family back together, and they shove a lightsaber through his chest and drop him into a bottomless pit like a sack of garbage. Needless to say, I was not entertained. If their point was to turn me off of Star Wars completely, they came within a hair's breadth of success.

As to the overall point of the trilogy, I'm going to say that it may have to do with maintaining the balance of the Force. The prequels and the OT were about bringing balance to the Force, which was achieved through Anakin's redemption and Palpatine's death. Rey and Kylo, I think, might discover that the Force requires both dark and light to remain in balance. They each essentially embody their respective sides, as powerful as they are. Perhaps, the point is that the light side and the dark side should essentially "agree to disagree" in order to maintain balance. Rey will have her new Jedi, Kylo will have his Knights, and they will exist as checks against each other, perpetually in conflict, but neither side ever claiming victory.

Anyway, that's an idea I had...

 

We need to watch episode 9. If you only watched Star Wars and The Empire Strikes back you would say the same thing. It's too early to judge a trillogy that isn't even finished.

 

all the more reason to save his son, whom he loved more than anything.
otherwise his death is truly meaningless. : o (

 

Force ghost Luke could do it?

yeah, i'm almost sure it had been intended to be Leia. : o (
or at least she'd be the remaining one to welcome him home.

but hopefully they can find a satisfying way to make it work.

 

Well Han could've been on medicaid, then playing bingo down at the local galaxy senior citizens old folks home all through TFA then died while getting a colonoscopy. Would that have been better?

 

I'll say this. If it ends up being the catalyst for Ben's redemption, then Han's death might have meaning. If he realizes that Snoke had been manipulating him all along, that none of his choices were his own, we might see the real Ben Solo shine through.

 

the movies have given us hints of this:
Leia saying it was Snoke who seduced him, Luke saying his heart had already been turned even when he was still innocent.
and there are strong indicators in the EU that support this even more: hints in Aftermath, and apparently lots of grist in the TLJ novelization that support the brainwashing of Ben Solo since he was a child.

ultimately he has made a lot of choices that he will have to answer for, but i believe there is some evidence of diminished responsibility and/or mitigating circumstances due to manipulation. the relationship between Snoke and Ben is so clearly predatory and even in TLJ, we see Ben struggling to find his footing once Snoke is dead. he's literally making decisions in the moment because he never had a plan for this and the creepy jerk in his head is no longer guiding him.

 

I’m hoping the point of the Trilogy has to do with the Balance of the Force with Rey and Kylo Ren. I don’t know how JJ will weave these 2 characters with the Force and give us a theme for this Trilogy that will give us closure for the 9 movies. The Trilogy needs to make previous Trilogies better on a macro level while telling the personal story.