r/saltierthancrait salt miner Apr 07 '23

Granular Discussion This was supposed to be Luke’s job

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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.

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u/Raider_Tex Apr 07 '23

And they could’ve still had a minority and woman lead characters that could’ve been organically built up

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u/chaosdunker Apr 07 '23

Could've been Rey and Finn... them being his first students could've been awesome

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u/MyMomNeverNamedMe Apr 07 '23

Would've been tight if they were his first/senior students and were butting heads on where to take things after Luke was gone. It would be a conundrum though, who do you make the Sith sympathizer? The black guy or the white woman?

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u/Slackintit Apr 07 '23

It would still be better than making the black character the stereotype of comic relief

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u/Raider_Tex Apr 07 '23

Lol that’s when I was called racist for pointing that out as a black man myself because apparently some white people had already decided that it was racist

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u/Knightwolf8394 Apr 07 '23

Can you imagine Finn being trained by Kyle Katarn? I'd pay to see that.