Showing posts with label Rey Palpatine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rey Palpatine. Show all posts

Friday, December 20, 2019

A Revitalized Republic and Jedi Order

Star Wars, Rise of Skywalker, Movies, Science Fiction

The Star Wars Prequels were about the Republic and Jedi Order's downfall, The Original Trilogy, the middle part of the story was about reclaiming what had been lost...

The Sequel Trilogy should have been about a revitalized Republic, and Jedi Order facing a new threat, or even the vestiges of Palpatine's Empire, but in that case the Empire should have been the insurgents, not "Resistance" as there would be no such thing since the Republic would be functional and not destroyed in one fell swoop... Instead we got Sequels Showing us, our original heroes, actions were all in vain. They were depicted as failures, and cowards.

Here's how I would have broadly done the Sequels.



Opening Scroll:

The Force Awakens...
LUKE SKYWALKER, JEDI Master is missing! His sister, Chancellor of the New Republic Leia Organa Solo, has taken up the mantle of their mother Padmé Amidala, and united a once war torn galaxy in peace.
Yet darkness rises. Snoke, a darkside force-wielder has unified fragments of Palpatine's old empire and they've begun to wage war upon the New Republic with his warlord, the mysterious Kylo Ren leading Snoke's armies in an extremely effective assault...
Desperate, hoping her brother will have means to combat these two new Dark Lords, Chancellor Solo, sends her niece - Kira Skywalker, a fully trained Jedi, with Han, and Chewbacca in the Millennium  Falcon to locate Luke Skywalker, lost while seeking out a long forgotten Jedi Temple...


OK this is only a quick rough draft of the scroll, intended to give the general notion of what these three movies should have been about.

Here's what we would learn along the course of the trilogy.

Snoke is a Whills, entombed as punishment for practicing dark force use, and he has been influencing events for some time now. Including manipulating both Darth Plagueis, and Palpatine. We also learn before his entombment, Snoke was known as - Skywalker - And the Skywalker family took their name from the myths surrounding this dark Whills. It will come as little shock that Snoke, created Anakin Skywalker from afar...

We learn that Kylo Ren is really Ben Solo who was thought dead while on a Jedi Quest - But what really happened was he came across Snoke's tomb and awakened the dark entity, which seduced him to the darkside.

By the end of the first film, Luke, Han, and Leia are altogether and ready to face Snoke. Kira Skywalker has made a new friend in a Stormtrooper she helped defect from Snoke's insurgent Empire.

In this version of events, there is a fully functional, yet reformed Jedi Order, and of course the Republic is almost fine.

By the second film, Kylo Ren would be turned back to the light thanks to his cousin Kira, and uncle Luke.

And in the third film, it would be Luke, Kira, and Ben all facing off against Snoke.

We would learn Luke discovered the full history of the Whills, including the one known as The Skywalker - Snoke.

Keep in mind this is all broad strokes, but the idea here is not to reset what the Old Trilogy did, and show that our old heroes made lasting achievements.
    

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Kissing Cousins [Rey and Kylo Ren: The Rise of Skywalker]

Star Wars, Science Fiction, Movies, Shmi Skywalker, Sheev Palpatine

Did no one at Disney think to tell JJ Abrams, that Sheev Palpatine is Anakin Skywalker's father?

I'm totally OK with Disney making Sheev Palpatine Anakin's father - This is one of those little tidbits which actually enhanced the overall Star Wars story for me, and is far more satisfying than having an off screen, never revealed Darth Plagueis mess about with the Force to get here.

Its also the simpler explanation.

But it makes this...

All sorts of icky...
....
...



Rey Palpatine, Ben Solo, Kissing Cousins


That... Looks kinda fever pitched and romantic to me. WAY more tongue than anything Anakin ever gave to Padme in the Prequels.

When you are looking at that image.

Sheev Palpatine is grandfather to both Rey, and Ben Solo.

They could have had Rey be a Palpatine without almost no problem - But they would have meant she can't be the hero of the Skywalker Saga, and oh, Reylo could not also still be a thing.

Yet clearly Disney wanted despite their OWN CANON wanted to appeal to the rabid Reylos out there.

Just wait until this fully sinks in once the movie is widely released. Trust me. It will.

And if I am to understand things. Both Luke and Leia KNEW who Rey was all along - One guesses so did Han, and by implication Ben knew as well.

"What girl?!!!!!!!!"

That line now takes on bigger implications.

EMO Kylo lusting after his cousin. On purpose.

The innocent kiss by Leia to Luke in a A New Hope is NOT the same as this.



Tuesday, December 17, 2019

The Mandalorian and General Thoughts About Star Wars

The Mandalorian, Star Wars, Disney, Baby Yoda, Movies

I like the The Mandalorian, its not a perfect show, but so far its the best Star Wars we've gotten from Disney. I fear though, that might not last.

I also like Rogue One. It took great pains to not stomp on A New Hope, or the Original Trilogy, even going as far as to kill off its new characters to preserve canon. I can only assume at the time, Disney's Star Wars Social Justice Writers Room had not yet become brave enough to jump off that cliff when this movie was made.

The Mandalorian, would do itself a BIG favor if it avoids referencing anything from the Sequel Trilogy, AT ALL.

The problem is. This is still Disney Star Wars, and there remains a certain sort of politically charged mindset in Hollywood in general and at Lucasfilms in particular. Its only a matter of time before this all comes crashing down around us.

That is sad a prospect given the looming implosion that is going to be the The Rise of Skywalker. JJ Abrams might not have liked what Rian Johnson did in The Last Jedi, how it stomped all over The Force Awakens. Stomping on the Original Trilogy and making Luke Skywalker and Anakin;s sacrifices meaningless, does not help even it hinders. Even if you think you are doing a course correction.

Making Emperor Palpatine's granddaughter the Apex hero of the Skywalker Saga undercuts any of those supposed corrections to Rian Johnson's mess of a film.

Sure JJ Abrams, Rian Johnson stomped on your plot points and you just undid everything Lucas built in one fell swoop by crowning Rey Best Jedi EVER!

"I am all the Jedi!"

Its hard to even describe what a narrative mess this is, given it rips apart a great deal of "settled", supposedly according to Disney, untouchable Star Wars lore.

To reiterate, The Mandalorian needs to stay FAR away from this mess at all costs, or Star Wars is truly DONE as long as Disney owns it.

Ishtar In Space [The Rise of Skywalker]

Ishtar in Space, The Rise of Skywalker, JJ Abrams, Star Wars
Its quoted, by Doomcock that someone in the Disney Star Wars writers room congratulated the writers on making "Ishtar in Space". This happened in regard to retconning Rey, to be the Chosen One and the Last Hope of the Galaxy. The figure Yoda alluded to Obi-Wan to, in The Empire Strikes Back.


Think about that.

Yoda clearly meant Princess Leia, but Disney couldn't even let that stand and needed to supplement even Leia's place in the canon, for Rey. A PALPATINE as the Last Hope of the Galaxy.

Never mind making a Palpatine the Apex hero of the Skywalker Saga a huge narrative, and storytelling blunder. But its not really a blunder on their part as its all part of the agenda. Disney has for whatever reason, always loathed the Skywalker family.   

If you don't know, Ishtaris a notoriously bad movie.

So how bad is The Rise of Skywalker?

Seemingly so bad, that usually reliable Disney shills have already come out and begun to pan the movie. Even they can see the train wreck that this film is.

Rats fleeing a sinking ship...

The Leaks Are Real [Rise of Skywalker]

Star Wars, Rise of Skywalker, JJ Abrams, Disney

Doomcock was correct, his sources are real and The Rise of Skywalker is a dumpster fire that destroys the Original Trilogy.

Rey Palpatine, steals the Skywalker name and becomes the Chosen One.

Someone by the name of ProfessorHov, posted the Opening Crawl, which is a clear clue to exactly what sort of disaster this film is and how it stomps on the Skywalker Legacy and over all of Star Wars.

Opening Crawl

EPISODE IX THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

The dead speak! The galaxy has heard a mysterious broadcast, a threat of REVENGE in the sinister voice of the late EMPEROR PALPATINE.

GENERAL LEIA ORGANA dispatches secret agents to gather intelligence, while REY, the last hope

of the Jedi, trains for battle against the diabolical FIRST ORDER.

Meanwhile, Supreme Leader KYLO REN rages in search of the phantom Emperor, determined to destroy any threat to his power....

*The original Reddit leaks look to have been more or less on target, and of course Doomcock reported how those leaks and the film kept being reshot, and edited differently following really awful test-screenings.