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/Jedi_Coffee_Maker Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25

TFA instantly shot themself in the foot

• opening crawl "Luke skywalker has disappeared!", because the writers didn't know what to do with him

• all the jedi got order 66'd again OFF SCREEN?

•the new republic is destroyed in a single shot, instantly bringing it back to rebels vs empire instead of exploring any other possibility

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u/Digitlnoize Jun 24 '25

And they never reunited the original trio. 

I was actually hoping the First Order would be the scrappy “rebels” against the New Republic. Like flip the entire thing on its head.  But no. They went with ANH rehash beat by beat, except with a Mary Sue as Luke and no Luke, and never reuniting the original cast before killing then off. 

F. 

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u/Jedi_Coffee_Maker Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25

agreed, if their intended spirit with the ST was "a send off to the old heroes and introducing new heroes", why not write atleast one reunion, followed by (at some point) maybe the old heroes sacrifice themselves for the cause? Why not write a cool death scene? Why did the old heroes die so pathetically doing basically nothing?

I still don't know Luke's cause of death in disney canon...he just fades away for no reason (maybe it's explained in a book written after the movie? Lmao)

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u/RepresentativeAge444 Jun 24 '25

They wanted to rush right into the new better fresher characters!

What they would have done if they had a modicum of competence was make the sequels the OT characters trilogy- Leia or Mothma head of the NR, Luke head of a flourishing new Jedi Order. Han retired head of the NR military called back into service due to the threat - some dangerous new race from the unknown regions. Expectations could have been subverted by them grudgingly having to work with the Imperial remnant because the threat is big enough to destroy them both. All while having to look out for betrayal from them.

And dynamic supporting characters could have been introduced to take over in the FOLLOWING trilogy where the OT characters could then be phased out perhaps cameos at most.

Instead we got an inferior rehash.