I’d rewrite the ending of The Force Awakens so that they don’t destroy Starkiller Base at the end. Instead they’d just damage it heavily or somehow disable it.
Then the second movie would then have to be rewritten to be about the First Order trying to repair Starkiller Base, perhaps they need some rare resource or something, and the rebels are trying to stop them.
The third movie would then also have to be rewritten. The First Order has got the thing working again, so the rebellion would get to destroy it for good this time.
Really, the problem the sequel trilogy had is that they didn’t know what to do with it. The Force Awakens end up as a soft reboot of A New Hope, which is why we got a third Deathstar. But then they blow it up at the end of the first movie, which puts them in a bind as now they really don’t know what to do with the next two movies. What now, a fourth Deathstar? At least this would give some sort of overarching story for the trilogy, rather than the making-it-up-as-we-go mess that we ended up with.
Emperor@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Or trilogy
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I thought the first one was alright. The second one seemed to have it’s moments but was overall underwhelming. Rise of Skywalker was so bad I couldn’t even finish it. It was a good year before I could force myself to sit through to the end… I think my breaking point was when I realized every time they got into trouble Rey would suddenly “discover” she had a new superpower that has never even been mentioned before
mjhelto@lemm.ee 1 month ago
How was the first one alright? Not attacking, just curious.
To me, it came off as just a more infantile version of A New Hope.
Example 1: Darth Vader gets pissed and dudes get choked to death, even through video chat. Kylo gets pissed off and makes life hell for some IT guy by trashing his computer.
Example 2: Why build a moon-sized space station that blows up one planet, when you can make a planet-sized space station that can blow up 7?
I mean, I get the appeal of the explosions and effects and stuff, but in terms of story, it was just the same, but with none of the payoff of the original story. They even tried to steal the big reveal of the relationship between Vader and Luke by revealing the relationship between Kylo and Leia and Han.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
By “alright” I suppose I mean it was the least objectionable of the three… I didn’t have any major issues with it other than it was kind of boring and seemed like it was a little too reliant on nostalgia instead of doing anything that was really new or innovative in any way. I watched it, I didn’t hate it, but I haven’t felt any great urge to ever watch it again.