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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
I think that "playing it safe" would have been to choose the path of the EU: Thrawn regroups the Imperial Navy, clones a Jedi while Luke, Leia and Han struggle to keep the New Republic together.
I also believe that it would have been much more fun.
They would have needed to recast the roles to make story shortly after ROTJ but look, they've already re-cast Han Solo and Lando Calrissian (and Chewie, for that matter). Sebastian Stan would have been an easy drop-in for Hamill, leaving only the part of Leia, which could have been easily cast from such a wide range of excellent actresses working today.
But instead, Abrams and Kasdan chose to dump the past, dump any EU stories, start fresh, introduce "new" characters, which were basically clones of the original trilogy and use the past characters as a excuse to move forward.
The blame doesn't lie with Abrams or Kasdan, the blame lies with Kathleen Kennedy. She's the person that set the new Star Wars galaxy in motion and IMO, the only film so far that's "felt" like Star Wars is Rogue One.
The new trilogy is pointless.
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Right, I should clarify. JJ and KK are playing it safe from a “storytelling” perspective when they basically decided to reboot the original trilogy with mysteries that led to similar payoffs we already saw in Empire Strikes Back (Luke-Yoda, Vader-Emperor, Han-Space Chase, etc etc).
Rian just decided to subvert all of it to avoid rehashing ESB and to make sure this trilogy wasn’t a pale, listless shadow of the OT. Time will tell on whether or not that will be looked back upon favorably, but honestly - if this trilogy fails, I think that’s largely on KK for giving JJ carte blanche to reboot A New Hope.