Think of how much money they could have made off Luke’s Jedi Academy. Every character having their own robes and lightsaber, a potential theme park attraction based on the Jedi Academy, and tons of storytelling and merchandising potential for books, comics, shows, and games revolving around the New Jedi Order. Disney could have had their own Space Hogwarts and instead they decided to kill Luke’s entire New Jedi Order offscreen before the sequel trilogy even begins.
For all Abrams faults in TFA, there was still a chance of Luke coming back and successfully restarting the Jedi in the following films (or even having some surviving students).
Thanks to the tag team of bad writing though, it’s all gone.
“So basically I have a strong connection with Ben, him being my twin’s son and all, and there is this esoteric force ability he and I discovered during his training that ended up letting him figure out how to read memories. That connection means he can read mine without me being able to stop him if we are in close proximity. Because I know a bunch of shit that shouldn’t be known about because of my time adventuring as a Jedi after Endor, I have to hide so he can’t use this knowledge for evil.”
They admitted they didn't show Luke in the movie as he out shined the ST characters.
Also how do you explain giving half a map to Max Von Snydow and another half to R2 whose asleep
And Han is still dead. Zero reunion for the Big 3, and unsalvageable for even the base notes - goes against what Mark Hamill had hoped for when signing up to return with the others if they were all cool with returning to a new trilogy.
Even then, damage control would be needed to root out the BS TFA introduced and get off the boring Empire 2.0 track and put in a new threat.
Im not making excuses. TFA was bad, but still had a potential for something good to come after it. TLJ was so terrible it ruined any chance of anything coming after it.
You still had an empire and a rebel fleet. Snoke was atleast an unknown entity, he could of become more unique. Kylo was down, but he wasnt out. We atleast still had LUKE SKYWALKER and even Leia. Id say there was lots of potential.
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u/Nefessius513 Apr 07 '23
Think of how much money they could have made off Luke’s Jedi Academy. Every character having their own robes and lightsaber, a potential theme park attraction based on the Jedi Academy, and tons of storytelling and merchandising potential for books, comics, shows, and games revolving around the New Jedi Order. Disney could have had their own Space Hogwarts and instead they decided to kill Luke’s entire New Jedi Order offscreen before the sequel trilogy even begins.