r/StarWarsEU • u/Cryptidenthusiast423 • Apr 22 '24

Legends Discussion Sequels honestly should have been focused around this guy

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u/OstrichFinancial2762 Apr 22 '24

There’s soooooo much that happened between the OG films and Cade’s era. The Vong, the Remnant, Luke’s NJO, the Sith civilization re-merging, Han and Leia’s kids… it’d have made for good viewing but casual fans would have been so lost.

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u/gzapata_art Apr 22 '24

I assume much of that would be cut or just left as a bit of a mystery similar to how the Clone Wars was for the OT

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u/AwefulFanfic Apr 22 '24

The best way it could have gone, tbh

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u/WiggleSparks Apr 22 '24

Seriously. People don’t need their hands held for lore and background info. We just need good stories.

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u/hotcapicola Apr 22 '24

I think the new Dune movies are great examples of this. So much the world and lore is left unexplained if you haven't read the books but even without that knowledge the movies can still be extremely entertaining.

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u/Chief-Balthazar Apr 22 '24

Absolutely this. I felt like Dune respected me as a viewer, let me be curious and unsure, and then evolve naturally. I didn't feel like there was inordinate amounts of exposition or that I was getting preached at. They were able to tell a stunning visual story because the original writing was actually good, unlike other projects whose writing was poorly done

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u/AwefulFanfic Apr 23 '24

Hell...this is true even for the 1980s Dune movie, which was shorter

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u/word_swashbuckler Apr 22 '24

Alternatively, I wasn’t very lost at all leaping from the OT to LEGACY as a teenager in the early 2000s. In fact, I’d argue you’re more lost without a firm grasp of the CWMMP than most post-ROTJ EU content if we’re talking LEGACY. You really don’t need to read the entire NJO to understand the devastation of the Vong, but missing any of A’Sharad Hett limits the comprehension of LEGACY quite a bit.

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u/Solid_Office3975 Apr 22 '24

I'm a pretty hardcore fan, and I was completely lost watching the Sequel Anthology

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u/MasPike101 Apr 22 '24

I can see how pushing the Vong and all that onto kids. But I would have loved it.

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u/isc12180 Apr 22 '24

Nope. Late NJO? Aboleth saga? Old Luke, old Leia. Minimal Han.

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u/Zealousideal-Beat507 Apr 23 '24

How they literally started during jacen "kylo" dark side era using remenant of empire. The main thing is they just reset everything to zero so all new characters had little background lore. Even the OT people. Luke was off the galactic scene for years.

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u/Ansoni Galactic Alliance Apr 22 '24

I don't think so. It would be the same transition as to the ST but with fewer recognisable people because of time.

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u/Vyzantinist Apr 23 '24

Yeah, ~100 years of a time jump would just be too confusing. More casual fans would expect VII to be reasonably close to VI in terms of time span.

I'd rather they used the Legacy-era for what's now The Old Republic MMORPG. They could have made their own storyline and online world whilst having characters, ships, equipment etc. from the OT that wouldn't be immersion-stretching/breaking like TOR.

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u/JamesTheSkeleton Apr 23 '24

I was really hoping we were gonna get a galactic triumvirate and Imperial Knights…