I mean, that’s one of the biggest problems of the sequel trilogy. They incorrectly identified politics as the reason the prequels were bad (there were numerous other problems with the prequels) so they avoided worldbuilding almost entirely.

So even after 3 movies I still feel like I don’t really have a good sense of…

So we are all living in the Star Trek dark mirror universe

‘Whiny fanboys’ weren’t solely annoyed because Luke wasn’t the big hero. ‘Whiny fanboys’ were annoyed that the writers decided to put the main character and biggest hero of the previous movies front-and-center, near his prime, and did precisely fuck-all with him. They minimized his and the other heroes’ accomplishments…

why is this even a question?

The EU for all its uneven quality at least had the right concept for following RotJ. It was a continuation of the story where it left off rather than the lazy reboot and retelling done by TFA. The script was flipped. The Rebels were the new order and the Imperials, what was left of them, a scattered (though well…

You are right, I meant Darth Tyranus. Point is, the Jedi seem to train more Darths than the Sith do.

Hm. That’s....a better use of their talents TBH.

(radioactive fossils are a natural occurrence).

One thought I have heard and pretty much agree with is that RotJ didn’t need a sequel. RotJ very neated tied up the story of Anakin Skywalker and the Emperor. Yes, it left us with two living Skywalkers, but the continuation of their stories is not really a sequel to the story of Anakin and the Emperor. It is more like…

Yeah, and I wasn’t a fan of that.

I think the first point here is flawed even though it’s acknowledged that the first trilogy had the upper hand. It’s faulty to say that ROTJ failed to tie up the enemies list because several decades later Abrams and company decided, unimaginatively, to resurrect them in the form of the First Order and later still…

I saw the original trilogy when I was five or six. When I discovered that there were novels and comic books depicting what happened to our heroes after Return of the Jedi, I was excited until I realized they were still fighting the Empire for many years after the end of RotJ. Then I got a little older and I…

“...maybe The Rise of Skywalker is saying that history is doomed to repeat itself.”

Do you consider Jon Faverau to be more unimpeachable than Dave Filoni? I would argue Filoni’s got the better track record. But I’d be comfortable giving Faverau the keys too, or even Waititi.  Just keep JJ Abrams the hell away from everything.

After Return of the Jedi, one single, populated planet was blown up.

No. If we take RotJ as we did back before the sequel trilogy existed, we have our heroes, victorious over the Empire. The scruffy nerfherder has won the heart of the beautiful princess who has helped give her homeworld justice. You can expect her to push forward into rebuilding the Republic, maybe even gathering the…

Wuhan! Got you all in check!

Elisabeth Moss discussed how The Invisible Man is about the fact that victims of abuse are rarely believed.