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The Future of Star Wars After The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the conclusion to the Skywalker Saga, was released in theaters just a couple of months ago. Does this mean Disney is done with Star Wars? You’d probably guess no, and you’d be correct in saying that. But what new Star Wars content do we have to look forward to? Luckily for you, this episode exists to answer that question! In this episode, your hosts Blake & JJ give you what you can expect from Star Wars in the coming years. We discuss any continuation of Star Wars in the Disney parks, the future of the Star Wars comics and books, the exciting potential of the content coming exclusively to Disney+, and speculate the possibilities of future Star Wars movies! If you thought Star Wars was over, expect to be surprised with the incredible amount of content coming to Star Wars fans.
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I personally really enjoyed “The Force Awakens”, maybe that’s because it was the first film in the franchise I saw but it was good enough I went back to watch the rest, and “Rogue One”; “The Last Jedi” was okay to me but that may be because I’m not a big Luke fan so I was just meh to his stuff. I do not like “Rise Of Skywalker” because I felt Rey taking on Skywalker was cheap; honoring Leia made sense for her so had she taken on Organa that would have worked but she hardly knew Luke so saying she’s Rey Skywalker doesn’t work for me there and if you say it’s because of Ben that really doesn’t work for me because that relationship is SO problematic in my opinion I would really hate for that to be why she did it! I just feel they had her say that because they had called the film ROS not because it actually fits the character so on the whole I’d say the new stuff is good; is it as good as the originals no, but the prequels – that depends.
Ben/Kylo killed Rey’s mentor in Han, he tried to kill other friends of hers, he tried to rule the galaxy, she lost Leia to a sacrifice for Ben – why would Rey ever want to be with him? It just makes no sense to me!
I think streaming/a TV series would work best for Obi because you can fit in little details; a one shot movie is too short to pack in everything and a trilogy is too long as we’ve seen a lot of his major moments already between the prequels and the original film so I’d vote either comics or streaming for that.
If we’re doing old characters I’d personally like to see something on Leia because I feel to be a main character she’s arguably got the least on her; this may be explained in the comics, but not everyone reads comics, but how did she specifically become the rebel leader? How did she feel when she learned she was adopted? When did her powers start to manifest? What makes her the arguably strongest Jedi? I say that as she was able to, for what we saw in the movies, keep the fact she’s his daughter from Vader because he seemingly never figured that out and there’s the whole thing she could save Ben from miles away and she beat Luke on the obstacle course so she’s pretty powerful. 🙂 If Luke got a full on trilogy and Han gets a solo movie the least they could do is give her a film too!
All great points! I like the idea of doing something more with Leia. Maybe that’s your television series,
Thanks for the feedback!
I, as well, really enjoyed the Force Awakens, with it being the first Star Wars film I saw in theaters. I can see how not being a Luke fan can make you not enjoy the Last Jedi that much. Though I find myself liking Rise of Skywalker, you bring up very valid points. I personally like the symbolism of Rey becoming the new Skywalker (Skywalker to me symbolizing the chosen one of sorts), and I would agree with you saying she was inspired more by Leia. But her birth-name is also Skywalker, so that still made sense to me. And, I never really viewed the Rey/Ben relationship like that, that’s a very good point as well. I think I just really like Ben’s character as a whole (being a Solo and all), so that helped me to overlook that. I agree; the sequels aren’t as good as the originals, but I believe they are still good.
Rey could’ve seen bits of Skywalker and Solo in Ben, but…yeah, on my first viewing, I was opposed to the kiss. I think it should’ve been more of a sibling-dynamic-relationship, but I’m not completely opposed to the relationship; I could feel the romantic tension watching through the movies.
I agree with Kenobi being a series; it would work much better. Though I think there needs to be more than four episodes.
Something on Leia would be great! Some of the comics have some great stories of her as a leader. I haven’t read much on her as a Jedi, and personally I prefer her as a really great general then a Jedi. I’d love to see a story of her training as a Jedi! My only concern about a movie or a TV show is that there’d have to be a new actress chosen if we’re doing live-action, and some fans are very picky on who people choose to play characters from the original trilogy, as we saw with Solo. They could get away with this by doing something animated, but that wouldn’t draw as much attention. But something on Leia is definitely something I’d be down for!
Jeremiah, if they do a Leia series I might actually have to look into getting Disney+. 🙂
“But her birth-name is also Skywalker, so that still made sense to me.” – that’s fair Blake. I think the issue for me was the fact Luke is there too so I questioned who was Rey saying that for; again it makes sense with Leia but the others no in my opinion. Yes she liked the boys but she didn’t know them enough to really pay off naming herself Skywalker because of one of them or even the family; Leia was her mentor and Han was her stand in father figure arguably so saying Skywalker just felt unearned to me at that point of her journey unless it’s strictly because of Leia.
I think Adam Driver did a really a really good performance job with the character, you can definitely see the difference between Kylo and Ben, but for me Kylo seemed so whiney at times and kind of “seen it” that I couldn’t get into a lot of his stuff. Ben had potential and maybe had they done more to show his turn I would have cared about his redemption more but because that’s kind of left to your imagination I felt his redemption was meh at best. Honestly, I’m not sure if I’d even call his change a redemption because redemption is usually showing remorse for what you have done and Kylo didn’t do that on screen debatably; Leia kind of forced him into changing and true he changed but not arguably because he himself wanted to you know.
I think another reason I don’t like “Rise Of Skywalker” is because it spends time trying to make up for “The Last Jedi” in places; had they focused solely on their plot points it might have been better but when you pair the poor redemption for Ben to me with Rey’s questionable naming at the end on top of taking time to fix something that wasn’t really that bad then it just leaves ROS as my least favorite film in the franchise (that I’ve seen – I refuse to watch “Solo” because of the spoilers I hear, a stormtrooper should not have named him!).
I can believe Kylo liked Rey Blake for sure, but I never saw anything myself that said Rey liked him. I think she gave him some life force more out of keeping him alive for Leia than she did caring for Ben despite what any later dialogue said about wanting to take Ben’s hand because again she doesn’t honestly know Ben so how can they expect all fans to buy that dynamic? I will ALWAYS oppose the kiss!
I figure any Kenobi series would be at least 10 episodes. We saw big early moments and big later ones so I figure that’s enough to really flesh him out the rest of the way. You do 4 episodes on him growing up and learning he’s force sensitive and then meeting Jin, 4 episodes on his life post Anakin, and then 2 on him watching over Luke – keep it to a mini special if you will because again I’m not sure how much there really is to show on him that we haven’t already seen via the films; there’s little stuff sure not the movies covered all his big stuff.
I don’t need to see Leia as a Jedi like Luke but I would LOVE to see her with a lightsaber more and showcasing her abilities a bit more; does she even know she’s using them when she does because Leia’s powers seem to be really empathic more than physical like Luke’s so if she’s swaying a diplomat in her early years does she know she’s doing it or is it kind of subconscious? I know they had to work with what they had for ROS with Leia but the whole “she laid down her lightsaber to protect her son” plot felt weak so I’d like to see Jedi Leia but I don’t need constant lightsaber Leia – blaster Leia works too just show she CAN use the saber if need be. Yes Carrie is just Leia, even if you got Billie to play young Leia it wouldn’t be the same but that’s just something that each fan is going to have to come to terms with – can you take another Leia or not; I think had Carrie not died it might not be as big of an issue but because she did it just adds to fans’ protectiveness. They would cast someone as young Leia even if she was alive so there’s that. Animation is getting a bit more credit but I can see how you’d say on the whole it’s not as attention grabbing as hearing a show or movie is coming out.
Thanks for the great discussion guys!