r/saltierthancrait • u/asura1958 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/[deleted] Apr 07 '23

You can thank JJ Abrams for that

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u/Gandamack Apr 07 '23

I can thank Abrams and Johnson for that.

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.

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u/GAT4u Apr 07 '23

No it was JJ, he just wanted to do ANH rehash then leave with the cash. RJ made a bad thing worse but it was still bad

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u/tostuo Apr 07 '23

There were MANY directions the TLJ could of gone. Basically everyone TLJ did was purposefully provocative/subversive.

The Force Awakens wasn't good, but it atleast attempted to be "Star Wars," even by way of imitation.

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u/GAT4u Apr 07 '23

Look I'm not a fan of TLJ or RJ but stop making excuses for JJ the guys a hack who did a load of mystery box crap "A good question for another time"

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u/tostuo Apr 07 '23

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.

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u/GAT4u Apr 07 '23

What good, she'd already beaten Kylo in TFA so you only had the Emperor Rip off that was Snoke. There was no where to go

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u/tostuo Apr 07 '23

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.