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Originally Posted by Wormius
I get the feeling that Abrams isn't going to stray too far from the familiar, if his Star Trek films are any indication. There might be some nods to EU themes, but I doubt he's going to explore those in any great depth. I'd speculate it will be about the tribulations of rebuilding of the Jedi council on Corruscant, and scouting for younglings who he and Leia can train. I assume Leia would be his first apprentice, and they would go from there.
I would think stumbling upon a dark planet, would be the wrench in his plans and create the conflict for the movie.
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I guess I've been tainted by the EU, I've never thought that Leia would become a full fledged Jedi, I'm pretty sure that if they were to re-establish a republic, the last thing that the people would want would be another force user as the head of the Republic. Especially when it got out that Palpatine was a evil force user.
As it stands, I could see why people wouldn't even want the Jedi to have a hand in a new republic. Every war in that galaxy seems to come down to the eternal war between the dark and light side of the force.
Most people would want to thank Luke for getting rid of the Emperor and then tell him to piss off as they had work to do establishing a democracy.
Its not that I don't mind the idea of a dark planet, I always thought though that it would be a poor reason for a fall to the dark side.
I would think that JJ isn't going to re-invent the wheel at all. I think we're going to get a not main villain in the first movie, the fall of a established in the first movie character in the second movie and a very dark ending (Luke gets run through with a light spear) a battle for redemption in the third movie.
And Tom Cruise with Val Kilner on his wing.