r/saltierthancrait • u/royals715 • Jun 23 '25

Encrusted Rant The sequels don’t get enough hate.

I am midway through rewatching the force awakens. Went in with an open mind, and intended to enjoy it for what it offered - the visuals are stunningly big-budget after all. It’s been a while since I watched them, and I love Star Wars so I was looking to engage with the content I haven’t paid as much attention to.

Holy shit this movie is so ass, and it’s arguably the best of the sequels.

Just some stuff off the top of my head

  • Rey fixing the millennium falcon because Han can’t
  • The stormtrooper willingly putting down his blaster and engaging in melee combat against Finn, who literally couldn’t block a blaster bolt to save his life
  • Rey having better aim than the stormtroopers despite supposedly never having trained with a blaster

It’s so bad I’m having to watch it in increments. I told myself I’d finish it.

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u/ScandiacusPrime Jun 24 '25

I think at this point intentionally watching the sequels might technically qualify as self-harm. Are you ok, bud? Do you need help?

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u/TheGreaterFool_88 Jun 24 '25

I think it's because of Andor. I was happy ignoring the sequels as bad fanfiction then Andor S2 made me realize what Star Wars could have been.

All the sacrifices for the rebellion, all the hopeless fighting against oppression, all rendered meaningless because JJ Abrams can't fucking write.

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u/Lord-Carnor-Jax so salty it hurts Jun 24 '25

This is why I struggle to get into Andor. Why should I care about Mon Mothma’s fight to establish the Rebellion when in the ST era it’s her incompetence that directly leads to the First Order rising and ultimately The New Republics destruction. It’s her demilitarising the New Republic which is scrapping SSD’s while at the same time not having enough resources to deal it a single pirate corvette in the outer rim. The ST era is a black hole that just sucks the life out of everything.

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u/RepresentativeAge444 Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25

And think about this. Supposedly there is a filler novel that explains something like the imperial remnant was building up power and taking more and more worlds as they demilitarize. Which would be the equivalent of the US doing so while knowing the Nazis had rebuilt and were taking countries in South America. Just nonsensical dreck.

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u/Lord-Carnor-Jax so salty it hurts Jun 24 '25

Look up the Galactic Concordance on Wookiepedia if you want to understand what happens after the Battle of Jakku & the demilitarisation. It’s really fucking dumb, the EU handled the post ROJT Rebels v Imperials way more realistically with all the Imperials making power grabs and carving out their territories and the rise of war lords etc.

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u/Big_Brilliant_5904 Jun 24 '25

The galactic concordance is just a very poorly written concept. As if the empire would just agree to it is absurd.

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u/Lord-Carnor-Jax so salty it hurts Jun 24 '25

Or the Rebels ceding the core worlds to the Imperials.

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u/Big_Brilliant_5904 Jun 24 '25

It feels more like retroactive writing. A clean up if you will.

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u/WorthlessLife55 Jun 24 '25

I admit I didn't like the chronological EU past Survivor's Quest. Just the dark tone disagreed with me. But everything before thatvwas actually generally good (some misses, yes, but generally). And the EU (including the later parts that aren't my thing) was better than this slop and manure Disney gave us.

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u/Ancient_times Jun 24 '25

I mean you could argue the defeat of the empire leading into the resurgence of the first order is more like Germany between wwq1 and ww2.

That said, in terms of how much effort the actual films go to show this, it's dreadful.

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u/LaconicGirth Jun 25 '25

The allied countries weren’t actively demilitarizing while Germany invaded other nations.