You know, I was thinking about one of the key flaws of Rise of Skywalker, in the context of planning fanfiction, and I was thinking that the problem dates back to Empire Strikes Back, metastasized in the old EU, came back hard in all three sequels, but wasn't in the prequels
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I'm referring of course to MegaSuperBattleship creep on behalf of the villains
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There's this constant sense that Star Wars directors and writers feel like they have to maximize the scale of everything. ESB started this with the Super Star Destroyer, which should have been as large as a Star Destroyer can reasonably get and was already pushing it
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RotJ had the already introduced SSD and the Death Star II, and then a chain of EU things did... Basically the same thing the sequel trilogy did: third Death Star but bigger, Star Destroyers with mini Death Star guns, massive fleets out of nowhere, and sun-killers
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But the prequels didn't have any of that. It's weird
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Anyway it's another place where Last Jedi actually sowed the seat for a Rise disappointment, because it introduced both the megaship Kylo is on, and the dreadnought
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Good point! They wanted SO badly to use the plot points from the Thrawn books in RoS. I maintain there are the bones of an Actually Good Story under the layers of bad dialog and absurd technophile CG in the prequels and that shows it. They didn't need a bigger baddie.
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Replying to @bujuananon @BootlegGirl
"You're the heir to the empire Rey" "yes...a dark Empire" -this movie if it was written by me, who is a genius-
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Really the titles "Heir to the Empire," "Dark Force Rising," or "The Last Command" would all have worked
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frankly it's pretty impressive (in a bad way) that Disney, the most stage managed and manicured media corporation I could think of, sat down to pen the sequels to Star Wars, the biggest brand acquisition ever, and was like "let's rip-off the EU but really slapdash & haphazard"
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What's amazing is the property they ended up ripping off the most is the Jedi Prince
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they also seem to have zeroed in on the least rewarding parts of each thing to borrow from, like we didn't get any of the actually cool super weapons or palpatine clones from Dark Empire just the "palps corrupts leia's son" and not even the "womb force powers" part of it!
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No but seriously Rey even looks like a gender swapped Ken Palpatine
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