Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Sorry but I have to jump into this fray cause its such a fun topic.
There are a few clarifications.
If you look at the original concept of the 1-9 idea behind Star Wars and George Lucas' original vision, beyond the fact that the Emperor was orginally not a force user, and that Vader wasn't Luke's father, the entire story that you saw in episodes 1-6 were represented in 1-9 without us even seeing the Emperor until I think Episode 7. Episode 9 ended with his death at the hands of Luke and the overthrow of the Empire. There wasn't a post empire story written with the exception of a epilogue where the galaxy live happily ever after.
Lucas was fairly clear that the whole Star Wars story as presented in 1-6 was the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker, with his death that was pretty much it, the whole Lucas had the vision of the after empire was pretty much a creation of fanboys based on what Lucas said in interviews where he speculated what happened after the death of Palpatine.
As far as what the future holds in terms of stories, I'm not sure what you can do. The main enemy the Sith are gone extinct and wiped out except in the EU which for the most part is terrible post BOE. But the Sith line is dead, the force is balanced, the Jedi have been reformed. Palpatine is dead, he didn't come back as a supervillian clone, Anakin is redeemed and gone.
The Empire is pretty much gone, they showed the revolutions happening in ROTJ, you might have an over powering fleet, but it seems like for the most part the leaders of the fleet were pretty much bumbling morons fits for kitchen duty "Sir theres a ship coming" "Good our first catch of the day" then loss. The storm troopers in the GFFA were pretty much incompetant replications of the original clone, but they were worthless and dumb.
So the empire is dead.
So who are the enemies to the Republic?
Could you dip into the EU to pull something up.
Some mysterious warlord like Thrawn? Maybem except you'd have to pull out a far better tactical genious then a blue guy who loses pretty much every key battle, losses control of his body guards and stares at art all day.
Maybe the Sith can rise again? Doubtful the cool idea of the rule of two is that the master passes on his knowledge to the apprentice until the apprentice is strong enough to kill the master and take on the apprentice while growing his power. With the death of Vader and Palpatine that knowledge is gone, any Sith rising would have next to no Sith knowledge and would have to start from square one.
Maybe something from outside of the galaxy like the Vong, a religeous race of sadists that shoot snot, lava and bugs at people. ok maybe not.
I doubt that you can re-engineer another direct attack on the jedi or a new republic in three movies.
To me the cool thing about the 6 episodes (And I liked them all with some part exceptions) was you have a repulic that had stood for 10's of thousands of years that fell due to corruption, ignorance and subtle pushes from a great villian concept. You saw a empire rise and fall for the same reasons as the republic. You saw a good man go bad for the right reasons and because he believed his father figures lie.
You can dislike Jake Lloyd and the young Anikan concepts, you can hate Jar Jar (Even thought he did put a nail in the coffin of the republic ) you can hate the whole lost the will to live thing. But the story from 1-6 was to me fantastic anchored by some really great characters, amazing effects some strong writing at times and a good vision.
I would prefer that they don't extend the story line, that they leave what happened after the Jedi alone.
There are other amazing times that I would like to see.
Pre-old republic, the formation of the Jedi and the original schisms between the light and dark side of the force.
The great hyperspace wars that lead to the founding of the Sith who were exiled Jedi.
How about the Old Republic stories the Mandalore wars.
I would love love to see a movie based on the Ruusan wars the destruction of the Sith brotherhood by one of their own and the rise of Bane and the rule of two.
You could even do a trilogy between 3 and 4, theres like a whole rising of the Empire and creation of the Rebels and if you want dark, that's dark.
I'm hoping they don't go past episode 6, there's no point
See ya
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