Yoda and other jedi are only in as voices due to Chinese not liking ghosts.
I wonder if anyone told those galaxy brains foreign market dubbers aren't recognizable as specific Star Wars characters. They fucked every other market for the sake of the chinks.
*edit* and to pile onto this, in Ancient Greece, Theater was a form of not just entertainment, but also as a way to impart moral lessons and the teachings of the Gods. When you make a theater play involving Zeus, Aphrodite, and Hera, you can certainly turn it into a love triangle drama, but under no circumstances could you make Zeus come across as a bumbling idiot hermit drinking blue tard cum and being unwilling to assert himself and instead just lets Aphrodite and Hera run roughshod all over him. Not only would this be out of Character for Zeus, it would be heretical sacrilege and the showrunners of such a play would probably have ended up lynched.
In kunqu opera (16 century - present), actors who play gods and heroes mark their faces with blemishes (moles or hatching) to signify they aren't really representing a god and speaking in a divine capacity, they're only playing a character:
"There is another aspect called “breaking the face”, that is break as in “break up”, breaking the face. Why break the face? “Breaking the face” means that an actor is acting the part of Lord Guan, but he is not really Lord Guan. He is just an actor, an unimportant actor. That is to say, Lord Guan is divine. He is a divinity that we worship. We should not impose on His Honor. Therefore, we have to break the face. I will feel at ease after breaking the face.
I admit that I am not really Lord Guan, I am just acting the part of Lord Guan."
-- Maestro Hou Shaokui, on kunqu makeup.
As for Driver being Leia and Han's kid, I could forgive him not being handsome, as some people just get the worst combination of features from their parents, but he doesn't even look like them or his grandparents. Especially the nose.
The hair, too. I know this happens IRL, but with everything else it just screamed emo dye job.
And they could have EASILY given Rey the whole conflict about being a Palpatine without bringing the Emperor back, by the way, but I digress.
Nah, fuck this. We've been there done the only way a surprise ancestry conflict could've made sense with Luke, and Vader needed to be alive for that, of course. The only way a conflict can make sense with a dead relative is if Rey inherited the Imperial Remnant and tried to do good with it, and neither the OT-only purist mythical Empire nor the PT newly forged Empire born of Palpy's scheming strike me as amenable to having bloodline succession. Yes, people do struggle with the past IRL, like having happy memories of playing with dad and the new knowledge of him raping other kids, but Star Wars is too grand a tapestry for the logical resolution to a character's conflict to be "just get over it, lol".
That's exactly the audience that she wanted and some extra aka the toxic part of that audience: the crazy cat ladies and the childless wine aunts.
My cat is a distinguished lady of fine taste. She hates this piece of shit trilogy, too.
