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They wouldn't have even had Luke's ghost be the voice of reason. He's a white male, so Rian Johnson would have subverted expectations by making Luke's ghost continually wrong as Rey demonstrates time and time again that she's just a font of Girl Power and doesn't need any stupid old fuddy-duddy from the past telling her what to do. In fact, if they set it in the future, the plot would probably revolve around Rey dealing with the legacy of the Luke-era Republic's racism, and Luke's Force Ghost would be useless precisely because his racist/sexist/homophobic outlook has rendered him irrelevant, and the whole trilogy would be nothing more than a hamfisted allegory for the 1619 Project.
To be precise, both JJ and Rian (and Alan Horn and Kennedy) would have all wanted that. JJ already undid the characters' achievements beforehand by making Luke be a useless loner much like KK always wanted, rendering Leia's New Republic completely useless just so he could do a Rebels 2.0 plot, and Han an even bigger and more incompetent loser than before whose character was completely reset except he wasn't an atheist now, and JJ was already calling people racist on twitter before TFA came out over petty bullshit while telling Kasdan to leave the characters as broken messes so his new empowered diversity-hire cast could shine more easily. JJ is as big of a woke fag as Rian, Kennedy and Horn. Luke was never even going to teach Rey and send her off to learn with a female substitute. Hell JJ wanted to start the movie off by having Luke's hand and saber just floating through space for 30 years before landing in Yellow Yoda's backyard if that wasn't telling enough.Rian Johnson would have subverted expectations
Snoke is gay though (both figuratively and literally). Even the name still sounds fucking ridiculous to me. Funnily enough, the name used to belong to a Rebel pilot from Jedi Prince who died via kamikaze.Or you have Luke missing because he's been put into force-prison by Snoke.
Which is why the movies were better off taking place long after the original characters died so the new characters could be whatever they want and maybe even have whoever runs the governments in the future be the villains without having to make Luke, Leia and the rest be the assholes who fucked things up or became evil. Hell even the Legacy project understood this concept well enough by just having Luke's descendant be the broken mess in need of his ancestor's guidance while the government implodes from corruption and sabotage. Or just do a full reboot with recast of the originals if they don't want to be original with the plot.The problem with having Luke/Leia/Han being successful is you run into YA novel "Low stakes because the adults have it" problems. Which while its en vogue to shit on YA shit, YA is great for kids in that young adults in western cultures where its better to merely Not Fuck Up, and while its formulaic it doesn't need to be high art. (However people being 29 and still holding Harry Potter out as the pinnacle of Literary perfection... fire away.) The problem is that the sort of constrained-stakes of YA doesn't translate well to Space Opera where everything is to be exaggerated and melodramatic. Which as discussed, while star wars has enough space for you to tell whatever stories you want to tell (i.e. Jedi Academy) for a main-line Numbered Release you don't want that.
Or better yet, we were better off without a sequel trilogy at all. One wasn't needed. Much like how "30 years later" reboot/sequels for Terminator, Robocop, Dumb and Dumber and so many others weren't needed. SW films were better off going the way of Back to the Future and just focus on making re-releases and spinoffs for those who wanted to see what happened after. And no amount of what-ifs will change the absolute mess that is this garbage sequel trilogy and how it made complete clowns of what came before just to satisfy the greed or woke agendas of uncreative hollywood-disney hacks. And people will try and claim that the prequels already ruined SW, but whatever your opinions on them are, the major key difference is that they're "prequels" not sequels and anything you may not enjoy about them ultimately did not change the ending of the saga or render the characters hopeless messes in need of salvation from mary sues.
Also it will never not amaze me how Terminator Dark Fate was exactly like the Disequels, from making everyone losers, ruining their accomplishments, making the villain a gayer donut steal and replacing the main characters with strong female sues with minority niches who end up doing a better job than those that came before just because despite having zero connection to them. Its like Hollywood has some sort of checklist or guidelines by a faggoty bunch of pr execs that demands that all their reboots now have to follow the same formula.
There's also Shadows of the Empire Evolution which ties up some loose ends from SotE.Ninja'd by @The Gangster Computer , but since he's illustrated the ties to the Marvel comics before me, I wanted to add this:
I'd recommend you add the Dark Horse adaptation of Shadows of the Empire as well as Mara Jade: By The Emperor's Hand to your comic marathon...the latter especially works as a great lead-in to The Thrawn Trilogy by detailing Mara's experiences as the consequences of Endor unfold.