the post-rotj setting is just so RICH with storytelling potential and infinite opportunities, only to end up severely LIMITED by the sequel trilogy’s destructive lack of imagination and creativity. For everyone’s sake, apologize and decanonize3yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/saltierthancrait
imagine Rey and fellow students of Luke are on an undercover mission led by Finn, all disguised as Stormtroopers...3yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/fixingmovies
characters definitely needed scenes and moments to breathe so they could shine, rather than leaping from plot point to plot point, start to finish, J.J. Abrams Style3yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/saltierthancrait
If you’re a businessman who’s all about money, then destroying the New Jedi Order and New Republic is definitely killing your billions, even after refusing to put storytelling first and foremost, never mind the countless series of video games, comics, novels, tv shows and films, merchandising etc.3yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/saltierthancrait
In a better written story, what if Finn’s failure on the Supremacy, after abandoning his Jedi training on Achc-To with Rey and the other students under Luke, had been learning the hard way he couldn’t save and turn every Stormtrooper, it’d take more than the Force alone, etc.3yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/saltierthancrait
New Republic troopers since the ST didn’t bother to show what would’ve been the successor to the cultural impact of Stormtroopers since 19773yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/saltierthancrait
Imagine a scene to breathe with Chewie teaching Rey to speak Wookie, watching Finn and Luke with his other students train through the window on the ground below3yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/saltierthancrait
what could’ve been...what other creative and imaginative things could’ve been done, examples of the New Republic and Jedi Order, the Imperial Remnant, the Stormtrooper Rebellion led by Finn, etc...in great detail3yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/saltierthancrait
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the exact “feel” for lack of a better word as a sequel after Rise that The Last Jedi needed after TFA, something vastly different...and new...even to the point of treating TFA as “test” followed by an immediate retcon3yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/saltierthancrait
This image alone, you can create a story. Vaidel is one of Ben’s best friends and has two little brothers, one named Billof. The academy falls and Ben kills Vaidel when he turns, but leaves Billof alive, only for him to grow up lusting to avenge his brother, teaming up with Rey3yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/saltierthancrait
Maybe if Luke and Jake were two separate characters, the former a Grandmaster of his Academy, the latter a fallen Jedi Master on Luke’s council, who failed another Padawan now turned Knight of Ren3yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/saltierthancrait
as one of the multiple events that led to a better written Finn’s defection, imagine Finn and his team are abandoned and left for dead as they’re evacuating civilians during a Destruction of Jedha-like event, barely making it out alive, realizing how expendable Stormtroopers are seen and treated3yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/saltierthancrait
In Star Wars where anything could happen as long as it makes sense lore-wise and whatnot, imagine Luke and his students are out on a field trip to the junkyard-city planet of Jakku and one of them, Rey, finds and repairs a unique droid she befriends then turned eventual fighter of the New Republic3yr ⋅ Snowyo52 ⋅ r/saltierthancrait
