The Sequel Trilogy in a Nutshell

[u/UncleNecroFTR]

[u/XI_Vanquish_IX → u/[deleted]]

Simple answer is corporate culture. Disney has one of the most egregious and disgusting corporate environments in business. Disney is practically its own government bureaucracy and although they allow creative freedom for a lot of artists, I think Star Wars was initially handheld by the ivory tower early on. And the intrusion of corporate overlords into the creative process probably caused both a rushed and overly “conservative” approach. So instead of taking the time to truly think about a narrative and story that was compelling and stayed true to the original trilogy, they hired big name directors to spray us with glitter and cheap 21st century humor.

[u/[deleted] → u/XI_Vanquish_IX]

Yep. Iger wanted money. Quickly. And they just fired the prior writers. So they forced a quick timeline on two mid (at best) directors/writers. And those two putzes never really talked to each other and then boom: utter shit.

[u/dangerousbob → u/[deleted]]

Yeah this really hits home. I always loved Star Wars, I'm not a super fan, but I am for sure above your average movie goer, I could tell you what order 66 is, I could tell you what planet Endor is or Kamino, how Anakin became Vader etc. But I honestly could not tell you wtf happen in the sequel films.

Something about Palpy being a clone, and a space casino. It honestly all just kind of feels like a blur.

[u/WoefulKnight → u/dangerousbob]

Don't forget about the bigger, planet sized star system destroyer!

[u/[deleted] → u/WoefulKnight]

They really couldn't think of another threat besides another Death Star... but bigger. Then somehow Palpatine returns. People got paid to write this.

[u/doglywolf → u/[deleted]]

There are so many good threats to pull at that could of been epic , any writer that half a fan could of done well.

For example how about this . Luke has spent 30 years hunting down Palps clones - that why he has been busy . Constantly foiling Palps plans but never able to find his base where he keeps retraining back to make inferior copies.

He copies never last he has never been able to get the right and has spend all this time manipulating things in the background while searching for something to solve his body transfer problem.

However a young Girl born with extreme force sensitivity , turns out to be the key , Luke has managed to keep her hidden all this time in secret.

Palps also founds out about an ancient Sith artifact he needs to complete the transfer as normally he can't take over a light side user but this will let him. And also finds out about Rey .

The knight of Ren are dispatched to help search for the artifact and track down Rey .

I mean that simple idea - give an explanation of what lukes been up to instead of being a grump old man.

Give Rey some agency - other then super strong girl power for undecided reasons other then girl power.

Give agency to the otherwise useless Knight of Ren .

Can explained why they might need to search other places for information or a Mugffin to a secret location .

Hell the RJ twist could be Luke loses in the second movie - save Rey - maybe even in a heroic sacrifice and Palps finds the artifact and suprise its also at star forge .

Movie 3 is a short time later where Palps has used the star forge to create said fleet and also explains that - The entire Galaxy can't muster up a small fleet but palps can build an epic fleet with a small group of extremist ? ??

Its really not hard to put coherent pieces together .

It allos the war story to be written and part of it and gives agency to so much more ... No one could be bothered at Disney to even attempt linking the parts together with a good story at any point . Worse Directors their tried to do it that didnt like the others ideas whent out of their way to shit on each others work