How would you jump-start Star Wars?

I would try to reboot it, make New Hope again or turn it into a series where we slowly tell the story of the original trilogy through ten seasons, one hour per episode, as many seasons as possible to slowly tell the story and let it breath.

First thing is hire Drew Karpyshyn period. Him and Timothy Zahn get to select further writers. Bounty Hunters, Vader and Thrawn get some focus. My question back to you is, is the clone thing working? I am not into it with Star Wars much. Also, Holocron stories. I like the notion of the Holocron and always wanted a story kind of like Blade Runner, but with a Force sensitive that does not know that he has talent and activates a nearby Holocron that gives him a friend or a mentor that he does not know is not a real person. So, as the friend/mentor gives the Force sensitive advice, they grow in character and success in conflict. The Force Sensitve keeps telling the Holocron friend that his planet needs the help of a jedi because his people are barely hanging on, but surviving. In the end, he becomes the Jedi he’s been looking for, just because someone left a holocron on his planet and he opened it unawares.

Fire everyone at Lucas and Disney studios. I mean everyone, to ensure that the toxic is gone. Then actually go out at find people that love, understand and appreciate Star wars… Next shitcan everything from the day lucas sold it, Offer free park admission with the return of anything 7 8 9 related and burn it all. Exception is Rogue which was good. Then Apologize to the fans and Gina specifically.

Maybe then balance can start to be restored.

Remove the sequel trilogy from the Skywalker Saga and Star Wars history in general. I’d accept ‘Rogue One’ which was one of the few Disney SW projects I’d actually watch. Re-do the ST but with BETTER storytelling and maybe make it like the EU? I’ve not read much of the EU so I know very little about that side of SW other than the ones I’ve read so far (shame on me I know but I can have only so many books in my cupboards 😳😂). Keep ‘Jedi: Fallen Order’ as that’s a very good game from how much I’ve played on it so far. Also, keep ‘The Mandalorian’ and ‘Clone Wars’ (even though I’ve not seen those yet but I’ve heard mainly positive things about them).

Basically, get rid of anything that involves identity politics and Ms Kennedy and her lot!

Also, yes I too would love to see a Darth Vader film with him hunting down the Jedi and make it a 15 but we all know that Disney wouldn’t do it for obvious reasons🙄

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by DragonLady.

Everything after the sale to Disney…DUMPSTER!

Sorry, but none of it has the true heart of Star Wars. All garbage. Every movie…garbage. Mando, boring, uninspired garbage. Clone Wars was fine ending where it did before the sale to Disney. Every single book released, garbage. Every comic, garbage.

 

The EU was mostly good, but it also had its problems. Perhaps the biggest was that they couldn’t escape the big three characters of Luke, Han, and Leia, so a lot of new and potentially good characters were kept in the background, or were just gotten rid of. This started becoming a big problem about mid-way through the Vong invasion story. Up to then, it looked like they were preparing Han and Leia’s kids to take the stage, but then things went strange for them and continued until the EU stories were stopped.

I completely disagree with this statement….fervently. No, the EU isn’t perfect, and in the coming months I will document where it falls down, but to say it couldn’t escape the big three? What are you talking about? Pre-Vong War uses them as the necessary anchors to expand the roster and set the stage for everything through and past the Vong War. There were entire books in the Vong War that never focused on the Holy Trinity, and the Vong War served the purpose of its instigation to forever destroy the protective bubble around heroes.

That is one of the reasons the Vong War was so good and gritty, because there were stakes and consequences that extended beyond the Vong War…hello Legacy of the Force arc and Jacen Solo. I dunno what you read, but the entire Legacy of the Force arc was about the Solo Twins…they DID take the stage and gave us a sorrowful and compelling arc whose origins go all the way back to the Early New Republic Arc, continuing the trend of consequences and death for heroes…that no one is safe. The Fate of the Jedi gave us more and more characters than the Holy Trinity to focus on.

I don’t know what you can call strange about any of that. It was planned out and followed through on its premises of expanding the Star Wars Universe, which was heartlessly destroyed when Disney took control, completely stopping short real Star Wars stories to tell crap like the Disney Sequel Trilogy, the Mandalorian, and the High Republic.

@Audie

Fair enough, but you are really generalizing with some of what you are talking about…like it was nothing that Jacen goes Sith. To take that so lightly, to generalize it like as “he went Sith and was killed”, dude…there is so much complexity and depth of character building that went into Jacen’s fall to the Dark Side. Everything that goes into his becoming a Sith Lord was massively complex and by no means lightly done, and that includes Anakin’s noble death, because it was in that moment that Jacen began his fall, and had Anakin survived it can be argued that Jacen would never have fallen, but that’s a discussion for after reading Star By Star again.

And I still disagree that no one was allowed to step up. Before his fall, Jacen was the hero who alongside Luke ended the Vong War. That final battle scene in The Unifying Force is epic. Jaina is the star/heroine in the Legacy of the Force arc and was set to have her own Trilogy The Sword of the Jedi before Disney shit all over everything. Not to mention we had the Legacy Era being novelized to look forward to with the return of the Sith Empire and the adventures of Cade Skywalker.

Kyp, well, I will get into my issues with how Kyp was used as the series goes on and roads not taken as I plow through the EU in my re-read. You are not entirely wrong in his miss use, but to say that other characters suffered the same fate, again, I disagree with your generalization and suggest perhaps you revisit the stories.

As I said, I can understand your perspective a little more, now, but you are really generalizing your points and using a big brush to paint in the ideas.

None of what you are describing is as simple as you are suggesting it is from your point of view.

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