Every new Jedi they introduce just widens the plot hole question of why none of these dozens of capable Jedi Knights and masters never joined the rebellion. Personally, I think it stopped making sense when Ahsoka popped up in Rebels but she's Reddit's favorite so she gets a pass.
Some of them did, only to get killed long before the Battle of Yavin. At least in the EU.
The UK comes pretty damn close.
I personally think that number is too high. If you told me that maybe a dozen at most, mainly being padawans or those already in the boonies were there, I'd buy it. Especially since it'd be just enough to restart the Jedi Order with some training, but not so much as to make you go "why the fuck are there so many of these cunts. Why aren't at least a couple of them around actively during the rebellion?"
It's hilarious that Dave keeps trying to make her this big figure but keeps being forced to invent excuses for why his shitty sue isn't there. It's hilarious that he keeps forcing the lore to make her try and become Star War's Gandalf at best (seriously, faggot actually thinks this he likes art and I think commissioned art of this fucking arrogance of his), or the incarnation of the force itself at worst, and then she never shows up.
So Kylo kills 80 year olds and 90 year olds jedi that were too old and irrelevant to help Luke in the Original Trilogy? Are they alien Jedi like Yoda or an unusual human like Darth Krayt? If not, are they trying to make Kylo seem more of a pathetic character?
Yeah, that never really bothered me when you really crunch the numbers
That's not too hard to figure out, I'm afraid.
Leia flying through space still keeps it a bad movie. Maybe it is better in a marginal sense, but it's still bad. Holdo scenes have to read in about in a based way to work, so DEI is out. Casino planet is still a Gaiden chapter that doesn't need to be there.
In this hypothetical Leia would be replaced by uh..... Sheevena Valorum III, distant ancestor of Terrance Stamp's character in TPM and leader of the... lets go with the Republic Remnant fighting against the....erm....Sith Hegemony circa 2000 years bee bee why
While TLJ was atrocious, I think TFA doomed the trilogy, and entire franchise by extension, to the point it was unsalvageable no matter who did anything after.
Honestly I gotta disagree. TFA was trash, don't get me wrong, and not only was it trash but it was given entirely undeserved accolades solely because it was seen as technically "better" than the prequels on first glance due to how less clunky the script and acting seemed to be. However it was trash that, with some decent spackling, could have been a springboard to something better even if only by a little if the movie was handed to someone who actually gave a shit about the franchise more than shitting out a retarded self declared "deconstruction" trainwreck.
But this is my point. It would have still sucked and at best it would have kept the honeymoon phase going for few more films, but it signalled the death of SW, at least under Disney.
My point is that there was a hypothetical future viable for the franchise after TFA, even if the chances of it amounting to much before going into a talespin were slim, and that a halfway competent director writer combo could have wrapped up the sequel trilogy in a way to kick the can of franchise stagnation and collapse down the road a while longer.
These are the same people who insist TLJ is a masterpiece because of how it "questions" and "deconstructs" Star Wars themes which when pressed for elaboration amount to repeating shit thats been the norm in the franchise since the getgo and presenting it as some shocking new perspective (i.e. a Jedi can have humble origins, even heroes of old can be reduced to exile in the wilderness after some personal failure, the war machines of both bad guys and good guys can be funded by the same malevolent party) or the most contrived bullshit imaginable that is supposedly genius because of how it *drumroll please* subverted expectations.
