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dalekofchaos · 20 days

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Hux. Short version, Hux reveals Kylo killing Snoke to the FIrst Order leadership. Hux ousts Ben and becomes Supreme Leader. Now Hux plans to exterminate The Jedi, force sensitives everywhere and lead to the death of the force. Long version read here.

Kylo as the villain. Adam Driver said the plan was never to redeem Ben Solo, that was a late change to appease everyone. So my big pitch for Supreme Leader Kylo Ren. To me Kylo Ren is what Vader could’ve been had he reached his full potential. A Vader who was never wounded on Mustafar, a Vader who killed a close family member and his master. He is the villain they were looking for, but no they had to course correct.As for what his motivation could be, exactly what he said. Finish what Vader started. Destroy the Light and reign over the galaxy as Supreme Leader. Long version. Other look at Kylo as the villain

Snoke's essence transferred into Kylo Ren the moment he killed Snoke.

Darth Plagueis was a powerful Sith Lord who could influence the midichlorians to create life and also save others from dying. He taught everything he knew to his apprentice, Sheev Palpatine (aka Darth Sidious), but he eventually lost his power and young Palpatine killed him in his sleep. How could Plagueis not foresee his own demise at the hands of his ambitious apprentice? Why did Plagueis suddenly “lose his power”? The truth is, he didn’t lose his power and he knew Sidious planned to kill him. It was part of the plan. By dying, I believe Darth Plagueis was able to transmit himself into Sheev and assume control of his body, almost like an infectious disease. Ever notice his name? Darth Plagueis. Plague, as in an infectious disease. Darth Plagueis unlocked the secret to immortality by moving from one body to the next, continuing his lifespan through multiple hosts over countless years. Ever wonder why Palpatine was so obsessed with training a powerful young apprentice? Surely he knew that one day the apprentice would want to overthrow him, so why train his own murderer? In Return of the Jedi, Emperor Palpatine continually provokes Luke to strike him down. Why would Palpatine want to be killed if the goal is longevity? Because Emperor Palpatine was assumed by Darth Plagueis and, through his death, he would then be able to transmit himself into a new host body. He wasn’t just looking for an apprentice, he was looking for a new body since Palpatine’s body was growing old. Luke Skywalker was meant to be the next host body for Darth Plagueis. But unfortunately for Plagueis, Darth Vader had a change of heart and defeated the Emperor. Snoke was Plagueis. It’s the only way to make things work. StarWars.com describes Snoke as a seeker of arcane and ancient lore, and the Last Jedi Visual Dictionary shows that he is a collector of rare memorabilia. At some point, Snoke must have found the wreckage of the Death Star on the forest moon Endor, and was infected by Darth Plagueis when he came upon the corpse of Palpatine. Did you ever wonder why Snoke thought it was so important to complete Kylo Ren’s training? It’s because Snoke was Darth Plagueis and he was training his next host body. Plagueis didn’t have a choice but to infect a really old political influencer like Snoke. Kylo was being groomed to become the next host body. Remember the infamous scene in The Last Jedi where Snoke is “predicting” how Kylo Ren will kill Rey? Wasn’t it a little too obvious? Wouldn’t Snoke have been able to foresee Kylo’s treachery? See through his conflict? It’s because he wasn’t predicting Rey’s death, he predicted his own. He knew Kylo would kill him. He deliberately bullied and provoked Kylo in order to stir his anger into hatred to further fuel his dark side and lead him to completing his training.

So Darth Plagueis goal would be to transfer his essence into Rey and in failing in that. He will drain the life force from the Dyad to satiate his own life force.

Thrawn. Cardinal West's Sequel Trilogy rewrite has the best take of Thrawn as the villain

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Rae Sloane.

Rae Sloane founded The First Order! Sloane was loyal to the Empire, so much so, rather than allowing it to cease to exist, she recruited other loyalists and they fled to the Unknown Territories beyond Jakku. She founded the First Order. Together with Hux, she could usurp control of the First Order and become Supreme Leader, which would start a civil war, those loyal to Sloane and those loyal to Kylo. We can have someone who could be a great antagonist to Leia. The founder of The First Order and the mother of the Resistance. What makes Rae a compelling character is the fact that she believes what the Empire is doing is right. In her eyes, the Empire is doing the right thing, purging lawlessness from a galaxy overrun by bureaucrats that care little for the common people. She’s wrong, but like great villains before her, audiences can see where she’s coming from even if they don’t agree with it. Throughout her many appearances in the supplemental Star Wars narratives, she is constantly pushing for the Empire to be “just.” When things start to fall apart after the Battle of Endor, Rae struggles to keep the remnants of the fleet playing by the unspoken rules of warfare and is frustrated to see the Empire careen into backstabbing and incompetence. You can see Rae’s influence in the First Order with its strict hierarchy and minute by-the-books stringency that makes Palpatine’s Empire look positively laissez-faire by comparison. Supreme Leader Rae Sloane would make The First Order a force to be reckoned with and what better way to end it than with the First Order’s founder?

The Grysks.

The Grysks were introduced in the new canon novel Thrawn:Alliances. They are what brings Thrawn to the Empire in hopes of co-existing to fight this threat in the Unknown Regions. Grysks are a species living somewhere in the Unknown Regions. Creatures half of myth, whom few have ever seen. It is said that they are nomads, with no fixed home, traveling in spacecraft so numerous they blot out the stars. They are said to be terrifying warriors, overwhelming their opponents by sheer numbers and ferocity. The fact that these intergalactic conquerors are not the main threat in the Sequel Trilogy is baffling. You could’ve had Ben Solo sense they were coming during his Jedi days and made the ultimate sacrifice to become Kylo Ren and join The First Order because he knew the New Republic was not ready to face such a threat. It wouldn’t make what he was doing the entire trilogy right, but it would make explain why he turned and what his motivations are.

I don't really have a explanation for Qi'Ra, but she was trained by Maul, took over the Crimson Dawn and you don't waste Emilia Clarke on one movie that never continued. So Qi'Ra as the villain could've worked.

A Mandalorian invasion lead by Fett writes itself.

I know it's technically Palpatine, but it works better because we don't stupidly retcon Anakin's sacrifice. This was planned, but the idiots that be decided it would be better if Ian played him. So instead this is the perfected clone. The Clone Wars were a test for Palpatine to perfect cloning. Throughout the reign as Emperor, he tinkered with cloning force sensitives, created a lot of failures(Snoke) but prior to Endor, he perfected it and kept it as a fail safe should he die. And after Kylo Ren killed Snoke, he awakened. Palpatine reborn. The movie opens at the end of the war. Finn successfully consurs up a Stormtrooper Rebellion and all the FO officers are executed, Hux is captured and Rey beats Kylo Ren for the umpteenth time. The First Order are on their last legs. Until a message is delivered to the galaxy.

“People of the galaxy. Your Emperor has returned after thirty long, lawless years. To the Sith and the Jedi; follow the Holocrons. We have much work to do. Those who remained loyal to me shall be rewarded. For those who relished in my demise, who celebrated what they thought the end of the Empire and believed their treachery had won them the galaxy…only death and suffering await. The great error shall be corrected. The day of victory is at hand. The restoration of the Empire! The Final Order! The Day of the Sith!”

And it's a race. Rey and the Resistance hoping to stop The Emperor, while Kylo Ren is hoping to kill Palpatine, obtain the power of the Sith Eternal and an infinite fleet that will win the galaxy, but in the end, Rey and Kylo are forced to work together. Matt Smith as Palpatine could've fixed the movie

The final contingency of the Emperor. Cloning Luke Skywalker. Palpatine had foreseen either Luke will kill him and Vader or Vader will betray him. So Palpatine orders that Luke's hand be brought to him. Luke is cloned, but imperfectly. He is just a husk of power, so Palpatine has the greatest minds of the Empire indoctrinate this malleable clone to being the heir and the eventual savior of the Empire. This clone. Let's refer to him as Luuke. Luuke learned everything there was from Palpatine. His Machiavellian cunning mechanisms. Mastery over the dark side and fully believed in his master's will and plans for him.

Luuke foresaw that there would be problems if he revealed himself. SO he created a puppet, Snoke. Through Snoke, he turned Kylo Ren to the dark side and puppeteered The First Order. Masterminding everything from the shadows and after Snoke and the real Luke Skywalker's deaths, it was time to reveal himself.

Luuke's motivations are to bring Kylo Ren to heel or cast him aside, turn Rey to the dark side or kill her and rule the galaxy as his master intended for him. This dark side Luke would unite both Rey and Ben against him and would give Mark Hamill the opportunity to play a dark side Luke Skywalker.

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radioactive-creative-bug · 1 year

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#kylo ren #ben solo #star wars #star wars the sequel trilogy #adam driver

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cassettoicecream · 9 months

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Armitage Hux in Star Wars: The Sequel Trilogy

#armitage hux #general hux #star wars #domhnall gleeson #the rise of skywalker #the force awakens #the last jedi #star wars the sequel trilogy

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tljisthegoat · 26 days

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#ben solo #ben solo lives #star wars the sequel trilogy

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short-wooloo · 1 year

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Judging by some of the reactions to Commandant Hux and the proto-praetorian guard in episode 23, some people really were convinced (tricked) by clickbait youtubers and/or themselves that the mandoverse was not in the same continuity as the sequels and/or it was going to retcon them out

I mean, you'd think that whole post ROS Rey Jedi Order movie officially announced last week would have tipped them off but no

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popquizhot-shot · 2 years

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all my poe dameron enthusiasts! i have a fic idea~

what if during the events of the last jedi, instead of Vice Admiral Holdo(let's say she died), you are made the acting general and you know the plan, about the abandoned base and all that. But Poe, your best friend doesn't, and the thing is, you can't tell him. It's not that you don't trust him, you just can't :/

So, poe, sweet lovely poe who you're secretly in love with, begins to act cold and distant and at the end, he takes over and prepares the ship for lightspeed after threating to stun you. which breaks your heart and then he calls you a coward.

And then when Leia knocks him out and everyone is leaving, you take one last look at him, and you give leia a letter you wrote for poe where you confess your love for him, along with a gold ring, one that you always wear.

and when poe comes to in the escape pod and listens to leia in growing horror, his eyes tearing up as he reads the letter and holds your ring, his heart breaks. Because he never told you he loved you, he treated you like shit. The last thing he ever said to you was 'coward'.

And as the Destroyer blows up, and everyone is silent. awed by your sacrifice, Poe Dameron clenches his jaw, his heart in pieces as he stares at the explosion. And when he gets up, alongside his mother's ring hanging from a chain, a gold ring glints in the light.

#poe dameron #poe dameron x reader #star wars #star wars x reader #star wars the sequel trilogy #the last jedi #finn #rey kenobi

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wanderinginksplot · 10 months

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Just for Kix

Additional content (in collected one-shot format) for Nobody Listens to Kix that didn’t fit the overall tone.

Oaths

Neutralized

Displaced

Leia

Vent

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yourlocalminstrel · 2 years

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Rey: Vader fell to the Dark Side after being torn away from his only family whom he could not save from death, was under pressure from the Jedi as the "Chosen One", his only father figure died, had to hide his marriage from everyone for years, was manipulated by Sidious, who convinced him that Padme was going to die and she did, and on top of that had abandonment issues and an extensive history of brain injuries, and YOU decided to be evil because you're sad about your parents' divorce and you didn't want to go to Jedi school??

Kylo: ...

#star wars #star wars incorrect quotes #star wars the sequel trilogy #rey skywalker #rey #kylo ren #ben solo #darth vader #anakin skywalker #sw incorrect quotes #sw tfa #sw tlj #sw tros

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hamartia-grander · 2 years

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"ratio" but I comment it on pictures of men who have a nice shoulder to waist ratio

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conjcosby · 1 year

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Stardate: 2023.5.4 ▫ Happy May the 4th be with you all for you're one with the 4th and the 4th is with you. 😊🙏

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waddlesworth · 2 years

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Cuddling with my Hux plushie tonight. ❤️

#general hux #star wars #armitage hux #kylux #domhnall gleeson #hux #first order #star wars the sequel trilogy #star wars villains #comfort plush #comfort character #comfort #star wars plush #custom plush #plush

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dalekofchaos · 21 days

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Context for choice 3.

Here is what I mean about The New Republic and The First Order.

What happens after you win a war? How do you not make the same mistakes or become the thing you fought. What happens in a power vacuum? The New Republic should have been the dominant emerging power, and the Remnant should have been a small, secretive, unknown order, striking strategically from the Unknown Regions where they hid, and causing fear and panic to spread in the NR. After the Galactic Civil War, The New Republic commanders the Imperial Fleet and starts protecting systems who join the NR, all while chasing down and fighting any of the Remnants (Moffs, Warlords, Crime Lords, etc) who have grabbed power in the resulting vacuum. We could have seen an evolution of ships from Old Republic to Empire to NR ones. They could have renamed Star Destroyers into Star Defenders. Hell, they could have had a Republic of independent systems, each with their own sizable military, so that power isn’t centralized.

But no, instead of telling an interesting story, we are force fed the recycled poorly written rehashed Rebels vs Empire and the Rebels are made to be weaker than The First Order. The First Order are a terrorist movement, they should not be reigning after Hosnian Prime’s destruction, ESPECIALLY AFTER LOSING STARKILLER BASE!

Choice 4. Here is how I would give Kylo Ren motivation as to why Ben Solo fell and his main motivation as Kylo Ren.

Choice 6. I don't think there was absolutely no need for a Palpatine clone and eventually Palpatine himself(🙄) we all knew what was happening around the time this trilogy was being made. Trump. Base Snoke around the mango Mussolini and his lunatic fringe followers. An Alt-Right cult leader who cultivates the worst people imaginable. All The First Order needed to be was pointing out The New Republic brought the galaxy to an age of scum and villainy. A lawless state that usurped the rightful rulers that brought law and order. Basically "Make the Galaxy great again with Imperial Greatness"

You see, originally Lucas was going to make Palpatine JUST a politician and base him around Richard Nixon.

“George Lucas has spoken on various occasions of the way that the Nixon administration and the Vietnam war had an important influence on how he shaped the plot of the early films in the saga. The impact that these two events had an American in the 1970s started him thinking about the ways in which democracies can sale and how they deteriorating to dictatorships when corruption goes unchecked. He’s quoted as saying that Nixon - Who he viewed as having subverted the Senate and as acting an increasingly imperialistic way - what is the direct inspiration for Emperor Palpatine the supreme leader of the evil Empire in the first Star Wars trilogy”

So I don't see why they couldn't do something similar with the CLEAR FUCKING EVIL going on in the world at the time this trilogy was being made. No Sith master was needed.

In this scenario, I would call The First Order, The Imperium

Now you might have questions. What about the Stormtroopers and Kylo?

Stormtroopers? Don’t abduct kids, nationalize and recruit them willingly. Abducting children and training them to be Stormtroopers instantly made The First Order out to be cartoonishly evil from the start. So what do you do instead? Use propaganda. Nationalize them. Make them believe The Empire was right and convince them that the life of a Stormtrooper will help bring order in a chaotic galaxy. We’ve seen cults do something similar, Far Right Wing groups do it and we’ve seen Trump radicalize and nationalize white supremacists, so it’s not impossible for The First Order to do the logical thing.

Finn only leaves because he sees they are murdering unarmed civilians and chooses to leave. He is an example that it isn't too late to leave harmful fringe cult movements.

So how would Ben turn in this scenario? He's radicalized by Snoke. Ben starts hearing passionate speeches in the senate and Ben is moved. "I know he opposes my mother, but he's making a lot of sense" "He's right, we need to bring order to the galaxy" and Ben is radicalized by this Imperium movement and what he believes is Snoke's righteous cause. To Snoke, Ben represents everything great about the Empire. Snoke collects Sith Holocrons and uses the holocrons to turn Ben Solo into Kylo Ren.

In this scenario, I wouldn't redeem Ben. He is far too gone. He's committed atrocities in Snoke's name, for The Imperium and to bring order to the galaxy. While Finn represents those who could break away from Right Wing movements and Cults. Kylo Ren is far too gone, he's radicalized to the point where he's a die hard believer like Hux and Phasma and he's willing to fight and die for this indoctrination.

Choice 11. The Episode IX rewrite with Ben living and Reylo ending

Choice 12. The original plan for the Sequel Trilogy was to just get three young directors together to direct the Sequel Trilogy. It was supposed to be JJ, Rian and Colin Trevorrow, but Colin's IX was bad and his Jurassic World trilogy was terrible. So I would make either Matt Reves or Greta Gerwig as the director for Episode IX and ideally they would plan the trilogy out together instead of JJ setting up Mystery Boxes and expecting Rian and others open said mystery boxes and Rian subverting expectations.

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radioactive-creative-bug · 5 months

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#kylo ren #star wars #star wars the sequel trilogy #adam driver

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theclonesdeservebetter · 2 years

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Someone help, I have created wax wings and I want to feel the warmth of the sun

Not me rewriting the sequel trilogy for camp nanowrimo 💀

#sw tst #star wars the sequel trilogy #rey kenobi #finn star wars #poe dameron #rose tico #my posts #so glad i have very little followers so I don't have to worry about people finding this lmao #and to my 3 followers: i DO appreciate y'all #and i am so sorry for my hubris #but not sorry enough to stop 🔥

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tljisthegoat · 9 months

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I LOVE how disillusioned & bitter Luke is after failing Ben & his family.

Rey inspired both Luke & Ben to stand up again. Rose inspired children that they could be heroes, too, just like the legendary Luke Skywalker.

Her disillusionment & loneliness are overwhelming. In this moment, she finds herself growing compassionate about a man she'd rather shoot first ask questions never.

Some creature in a mask hiding a lonely soul just like her own.

She finds belonging & love in the most unlikely place. But she also fought for who she truly believed in.

Ben Solo

#i love reylo sooo much #reylo #the last jedi #tlj is an underappreciated gem #tlj rey is goated af #star wars the sequel trilogy

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short-wooloo · 2 years

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Ok, so we all know that the perception that the prequels were mostly cgi is incorrect

But the misconception has had an effect, good and bad, on modern star wars projects

On the one hand, the (unjustified) fear of being perceived as like the (awesome) prequels has lead newer projects to emphasize real sets, locations, props and costumes

And that's good

Especially when you consider the mcu

The props, costumes, sets, all cgi,

Hell, it's become a trend for mcu productions to not even have the actors acting together in the same scenes!

They're filming the actors separately and cgi-ing them together later!

On the other hand, the lack of cgi has lead to a lack of creativity (in live action at least, animations pretty good on this) in location and character design

The desire for real locations means that we're kinda just repeating environments

Desert, forest, grimey city

ROS for example has 2 world types we had already been to in the same trilogy (Pasaana and Aljan Kloss) plus kijimi,which is cold world plus city/crime world

It's not a coincidence that the most visually interesting and unique places in the sequel trilogy are the most cgi heavy ones

Crait, Jakku starship graveyard, the Death Star ruins in the ocean of Kef Bir, and Exegol

Stunning and intriguing locals

All making great use of cgi to be brought to life

And then there's the character design side of things

Apparently we can cgi in a whole Luke Skywalker, but using it to make Ahsoka's montrals the right size? Waaaay outside the abilities of cgi

Like, I'm reminded of how POTC pulled off Davey Jones' tentacle beard, and I'm like "Yes! Do that! That's how you pull off live action Ahsoka!"

The actress doesn't need to actually wear a full headpiece, just something that doesn't restrict movement or makes stunts difficult that you can cgi over later

#sw #star wars #wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #cgi #sw prequel trilogy #sw prequels #star wars the sequel trilogy #sw sequels #the mandalorian #solo a star wars story #solo #rogue one

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