The sequels present a world that ends up making no sense, and I don't just mean in the "where did the infinite Star Destroyers on Exogol" come from, that's pretty easy to solve as that perhaps unfairly bashed tweet shows
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But they confirm that space is tiny, everywhere is ten seconds apart, this vast Galaxy is just a bunch of shallow set pieces, and they set up a bunch of characters with SO MUCH potential as ideas - a Force sensitive rogue stormtrooper, a scavenger in-universe fangirl, a Vader fan
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And they ended those characters' arcs with... nothing. Nothing of substance. The chances any of the actors will return to fix this is definitely close to nil
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But outside of the issue of the specific character arcs, which were betrayed in cruel and sometimes even racist ways, we're never going to get a Clone Wars set during the First Order era because no one ever bothered to try to make that era make sense
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People like Chuck Wendig and Claudia Grey tried to do this, and they might even have succeeded, if Abrams hadn't jettisoned the attempts at worldbuilding they made to chase nostalgia
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Abrams set up a TON of mystery boxes in The Force Awakens, and it's legitimately my favorite movie in the series because of the joy I had at getting what I felt was "real Star Wars" back. But it introduced so many Mystery Boxes, not just Rey.
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Other people should have been allowed to open and fill in the answers of the contents of those boxes. One person got the chance, and Abrams walked him back in ways that affect not just the plot of the trilogy, but of the whole universe
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In other words: many people grew to love the Galactic Republic era bc of the Clone Wars show, but because of how badly Abrams answered his own questions, such a thing is nigh impossible for the First Order era
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
How long have critics and fans of SciFi/Fantasy/Supers/HP argued against answering _every_ question? These worlds thrive in our imaginations _because_ there are gaps for us to imagine into.
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Well, there are good unanswered questions and bad ones. It's my judgment that the ones in the sequel trilogy are either bad questions, or answered badly (Rey is clearly the latter)
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I'm not saying that I really want to know Maz Kanata's whole backstory, but I also think you'll be hard pressed to find any fans who still consider a fascinating mystery
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"Where she got lukes lightsaber" is whats known as a bad question. Theres no fucking reason anyone should have that thing after it fell off cloud city
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Replying to @Plutoburns @arthur_affect and
maybe it fell into the world between worlds
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