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- Apr 14, 2018
I know many people have discussed this but I want to bring my hat in the ring for some ideas on how to improve the Sequel Trilogy though these are incomplete ideas
- Keep Rey as an OP Jedi but she would still be a flawed character and not really be in control of her powers due to being a reckless and more cocky character with her character arc about growing more humble and wise throughout the trilogy. She could even be a reckless fighter but lose due to her opponents relying on their wits then brute force which Rey could pick up in her fights.
- Finn’s Stormtrooper arc has been talked to death as a good rewrite opportunity but it could be about a man who was part of the remnants of the Empire due to believing that the Empire would be a more reliable form of government compared to the New Republic’s incompetence and would want to support his family. Over the films he could grow to fight for the cause and initially join the good guys either due to being separated from his crew and wanting to blend in or was a spy. He’d feel remorse over those he killed.
- Show The New Republic being incompetent by having only a small number of scenes showing bureaucratic corruption or show the effects of their mismanagement on the galaxy without dragging out the politics like in the prequels.
- Have the First Order be like Space ISIS and they start off as weak villains but are trying to get resources to make a super weapon that would make them intimidating or a more credible threat to the galaxy at large so they’d be a small scale threat at first. The trilogy would show their progress in it with the second movie’s climax showing them completing it and showing the threat it poses by possibly destroying planets, maybe those the characters spent time on to actually get a personal feeling about the planets blowing up.
- Snoke could be a Sith Lord who had been biding his time during the Empire to make his move and took advantage of the remnants of the Empire to form the First Order in secret by establishing his power with the force to them and using charisma to win them over, having a cult of personality of sorts, this could be used to justify getting Kylo by promising him a more ideal galaxy compared to the current state of things as it could make Kylo sympathetic in how he would believe his actions would make the galaxy a better place.
These are admittedly half baked ideas that I’m unsure would be good, but feel could improve the sequel trilogy.
Since many people seemed to like my half baked ideas, I could give a few more ideas:
- Flesh out the Knights of Ren. You don't need to make a large origin story but give them actual character besides being grunts or edgelords. Make them all defect from Luke for various reasons such as believing in Snoke's cause, following because of Kylo, seeking power for themselves, and make like only one of them a sadistic psychopath because if one is a psychopath then it would have more of an impact than all of them being psychopaths.
- Have Kylo go through a negative character arc where he believes he is fighting for the right cause but over the course of the trilogy he descends into madness from realizing that he was actually not helping maintain a better galaxy. He could either just stick with Snoke but show reluctance towards his role as he has nothing left to lose or go completely insane that he betrayed everyone for nothing to contrast Vader's redemption and parallel Rey's arc in this theoretical ST with Kylo becoming more unhinged while Rey becomes more calm and collected.
- Have Luke's failures come from his own character flaws that many of his students abandoned him due to his more optimistic view on the world and being more trusting. Luke would become a bit jaded similar to how he was in The Last Jedi but due to how he believes he failed his students, but he wouldn't be like this permanently and try to regain control of the situation after Rey comes to him to train. This is admittedly a cliche idea, but it could work I think given the circumstances.
- Hux is a devout follower of The First Order and is essentially Space Goebbels, essentially his role is the same as TFA where he actually was intimidating but it would be kept consistent or he gets even worse over the course of the trilogy. Phasma would mostly be a silent warrior who would take no shit from her fellow officers and would not show much of her fighting capabilities till later on, would mostly carry an intimidating presence.