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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
It raises an interesting question though, why did they make the decision to move away from the Jedi/Sith lore?
I get why they moved away from a Skywalker story. Mark Hamill can not carry another trilogy. They needed to move away from the old stars and towards new heroes.
But it definitely feels like a conscious decision was made to scrub away a lot of the lore surrounding Jedi as a religion. I find this a bit odd because the religion aspect was never a focus of the original trilogy. I don’t think it was ever even called a religion. Why focus on that now? Was Disney worried audiences, international audiences specifically, wouldn’t react well to that? Was it Rian Johnson’s decision?
Thematically it was one of the few things I didn’t like, I love the Jedi/Sith dichotomy and I never even associated Jedi or Sith as religious fundamentalists.
All that being said, the hardcore fan base is a very small segment of the movie going audience and for better or for worse Disney has tried to move the film into a realm much more palatable for mainstream and international audiences.
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Doesn't Tarkin call it an old religion right before Vader chokes him