[CaptainCrunch]

You know, when it came to TLJ and TROS, I look at it as storytelling opportunity lost.


They had so many things that they could turn on its ear, and they in the end refused to take any risks


Kylo Ren - A moment of brilliant justification not for his fall but in terms of his mission and his goal. Let everything die, the Sith, the Jedi, The Republic. All of these things were such destructive moments in the history of the GFFA, they could have made a big bad when Kylo finally gave himself fully to the Dark Side and the idea that power isn't a means to the end, its a mean to attaining a higher goal. A Galaxy in order, peace, justice for all. He should have gone all in on that and done more and more horrible things to achieve it. They could have run with that, and gone against the whole grain. In ESB Yoda talks about walking down the dark path and it forever dominating your destiny. But that doesn't seem to be true. Redemption seems to come way to easily, Vader fine, but then they redeem Ren.


They could have done this brilliant storyline with Rey falling, I know it wouldn't have sold lunch boxes. But having Ray turn, and then Ren being cast aside and going on a journey of redemption, could have been an amazing storyline. And they kept hinting at it. In TFA Rey fought like Palpatine, she had a scowl on her face, and she wanted to kill Ren out of anger. Then she goes into that stupid dark side cavern with its stupid finger snapping and she easily resists its lure of giving you what you want.



They had a chance to supplant Tarkin, with Hux, and seemed well on the way to it in TFA. He was competant, he was a zealot in pursuit of a higher goal. The wiping away of corruption and hypocrisy in pursuit of order. It was a good start to a character, that they then made the galaxies biggest running joke, to a throw away spy story line and execution in exchange for a generic military bad guy.


Don't get me started on Phasma, who was an action figure and stupid.


I would have loved loved loved a story line of force based villainy not fighting force based goodness, but fighting ordinary men and woman that are so tired of the force constantly plunging the galaxy into war on a force level that drags every ordinary person into it. What if we get to the end of the story and there are either no force users, or Rey or Kylo goes into exile to atone. I mean it doesn't mean the force is dead or gone, because we know it eventually rises again.


If TLJ was a complete disconnected mess of same old, silly canto brite story lines, and mustache twirling gullible silly villains. TROS was a attempted apology that actually took the guy who should have been the villain and made him a dupe who is easily redeemed.