Then Disney tries to make the Resistance itself more likeable via their Resistance cartoon, but that ends up turning out to be one of Disney's most unpopular properties, and unlike TLJ, nobody talks about it. And the first season is barely about the Resistance and more about racing. Its no surprise that shit got taken off the air and regular to a final season online. In a desperate attempt to try and gain some appeal, they even retconned two of their characters into being gay despite never stating it within the show, and after that backfired, the final season tries to force in as many old EU references as possible to try and attract old fans after failing to attract new fans as if trying to say "Hey look guys! All these things you liked from when you actually gave a shit about SW are back even though we're not doing anything interesting with them! Please watch our show! Also look! We have Saturday Night Live, Filoni Wars and Rebels references! Please watch us!" The show is such a fucking mess that its hard to tell what they're even trying to do. Nobody even watches it right now. Discussions online about it are deader than Blockbuster. The Resistance as a whole (not just the show but even the faction and everything having to do with it) was a monumental failure made all the more worse because you have nu-fans actually cheering for the bad guys and being pissed off that they killed Kylo Ren despite that being the only nu-character nu-fans gave a shit about.
It wouldn't be very hard. They already have a stupid time travel gimmick. Just claim that Son of Mortis jerk at some point messed with time and it created an alternate timeline which was the Disney Trilogy or make some kind of dramatic story out of it. Then shit can move back to a world without Rey, Aphra, Wendig, etc. And I'd rather have it be the Mortis jerk who does it than Rey because quite frankly I'd rather not have Rey be credited as the creator of everything. But again, even if they use it as a way to start fresh, I doubt Feige, Filoni and Favreu can keep Del Rey and Marvel from doing stupid shit, since not even Feige can stop the Marvel comics, Marvel tv and Marvel video games from sucking. Maybe its best Disney just sticks with fucking up its own garbage... and have things they haven't fucked up yet like Mandalorian take place in their own exclusive canon separate from Disney shit.
They'll probably have Aphra as some long lived cyborg freakshow or have her brain put into a droid body. She's already has a few cyborg bits already.
Bot factions are shit. The Resistance is, like, HALF of the power the old Rebellion had, which is pretty fucking stupid if you ask me.
The First Order are glorified terrorists and nothing more, plus their whole design in general peeves me. It's far too clean and "new" to be the new enemy force.
Here's how I woulda done the two, if I had to:
LA RESISTANCE (Hon Hon)
- First things first; NAME CHANGE. I cannot stress enough how necessary this
is; it's generic, basic as fuck and uncaptivating. Change that shit to something more eyecatching.
- Make it more "Guerilla Warfare"-like in it's strategies, if you really want to emphasize who fucked these guys are.
- Make it clear this is a faction born out of desperation, rather than a dedication bringing the balance back to the galaxy; inner struggle in the Resistance would characterize and most importantly, HUMANIZE the characters within the faction. This is a resistance movement; fighting among each other for various reasons is far more interesting than "everybodies in on the game plan, no matter how fucked it is".
- CHANGE EVERY SINGLE BIT OF WAR BASED TECH THEY HAVE, JESUS CHRIST. Nearly EVERY blaster, vehicle and more is dumb looking and most importantly, NOT Star Wars-like. I posted a few billion pages back (Jesus H. Christ has this thread blown up) how the First Shite has dumb looking guns and the like; This is the same for the Resistance. CHANGE THE STYLE. Make it cobbled together and third party, like the weird AK-47 fusions the old Rebels had in the OG trilogy.
The First Order (of my KFC meal)
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THE NAME HAS TO GO. The First Order is NOT a threatening name. It is a dumb one, and inaccurate at that (Empire rang, they're suing for historical theft). Call it the Empire Reborn or something along those lines.
- TECH BOOST AND VISUAL CHANGE,
S T A T. The new Empire should be advanced as fuck. 36 fucking years IN THE FUTURE have passed; things have changed and improved. Show that with the Newpires technological prowess. Power armor, railguns, kick-ass robotics and vehicles, all with that trademark "used" look the Empire nailed; Make these fuckers buff as shit.
- MAJOR FUCKING COMPETENCE BOOST. Being buff and all is great, but having brains along with being buff is another. The Newpire has to be smart as fuck if they want to even have a CHANCE at ruling the Galaxy. Make it clear the Newpire has some tactical genius's on their side; I'm talking Thrawn tier shit.
- MAKE KYLO REN FUCKING LIKEABLE AND COOl. HOLY SHIT THIS GUY NEEDS TO LIGHTEN UP. My vision for Kylo is more in line with what he was like in the last bits of ROS; make him funny, but competant and emotional when the time comes. I want him trolling the FUCK out of Rey and the gang, spewing insults and jabs at the Resistance's failures and scale. Think of Nu-Kylo as an evil Dante, but still with the same jokey, fucking about attitude. It would be great, and a change of pace from the usual serious business type villains we see in Star Wars.
Maybe sprinkle some more details in both factions, and change the motive of the Newpire to something more reasonable rather than blow up every fucking planet, and there you have it. Two far better written factions, all from my comfy chair at home. Step it up, JJ.
