Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (spoilers obviously)

An animated series would only work If it takes place after the st trilogy. Theirs only like a year the entire trilogy takes place and uh.....not going to lie the cast is way smaller and less interesting to work with then the prequel trilogy had. Even rebels had ot guys they could use as well as returning clone wars veterans.

Rebels also benefited from being mostly set between trilogies. It's set somewhere before A New Hope, with the epilogue being shortly after Return of the Jedi.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Sep 13th 2020 at 1:46:10 PM

They could create a sequel series starring Finn and Poe.

Assuming she's not decanonized, Rey with proper training could become as strong as Kit Fisto or Darth Maul.

Edited by JoLuRo075 on Sep 13th 2020 at 5:49:33 AM

With how small and weak they tried to make the Resistance look, they are gonna need to think hard on how to add more characters and capable people into that mess, honestly.

Speaking of Rey.

Although I don't hate Rey, she seems to be almost universally hated so a series of hers wouldn't sell.

So the only option would be Finn and Poe.

Edited by JoLuRo075 on Sep 13th 2020 at 5:53:42 AM

I think it's less hate and more apathy. Let's be honest she's not really much of a character and is kinda.....bland.

It's hate, I can't get into any Star Wars forum without people complaining about her.

And it is noteworthy that even if the topic has nothing to do with her, everyone will complain about her.

Dare I say she is more hated than Jar Jar Binks.

Edited by JoLuRo075 on Sep 13th 2020 at 6:00:09 AM

That is not a statement one makes lightly.

To be fair, she has a built in out, retiring on the farm never to be seen again.

x2 Yeah, it may be true that the sites you frequent are anti-Rey but we shouldn't confuse that for either the entire fanbase thinking that OR the general public caring all that much.

Even if I'm exaggerating, I don't think she's popular enough to have her own series.

The only options are Finn and Poe.

Okay, humor me. Why do you think Rey is unpopular? And why is this unpopularity so virulent that any work starring Rey post-ST will be a failure?

I honestly don't know, I like the character, but it seems to be a very unpopular opinion.

The angry internet asshole demographic is pretty small.

And Anakin wasn't exactly popular, either, but he did pretty well in the cartoon.

Edited by Blueace on Sep 13th 2020 at 10:22:16 AM

x2 I mean, if you can't articulate why she would be unpopular even if you say that others are very openly so, the idea she wouldn't get a new series isn't that compelling an argument.

EDIT: I think there's a potential problem of Disney being too receptive to reactionary blowback (a la anti-Prequel set up of TFA) but I don't think it would be as pronounced in this hypothetical.

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Edited by Aleistar on Sep 13th 2020 at 6:23:31 AM

"Although I don't hate Rey, she seems to be almost universally hated so a series of hers wouldn't sell."

So if I went and spoke to a dozen random people on the street I would get a universal negative reaction?

Or are we talking about loud nerds on the Internet? Because when has listening to them ever done anything good for Star Wars.

Honestly, I think it's less that the character hsrself is hated and more a case of They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character.

What I would probably suggest is to have a series, ideally a Disney+ Live-Action series, set about 5-10 years after the ST that focuses on the adventures of a completely new Knight/Apprentice pair.

The Knight side of the equation would of been one of Rey's first students, who is now training their own first apprentice. Rey would be a recurring character, appearing mostly in communications and ultimately showing up in person at a key story moment.

This would create an opportunity to redefine the character of Rey in a new environment and a new role, without requiring the audience to buy in on a "Rey series".

And if we are going to just decide that, no Rey wasn't actually the last Jedi because Ashoka/Teen Yoda/Ezra/whoever was out there somewhere, this would be the place to do it.

Yeah, Rey's a great character trapped in a waste of a trilogy.

So is most of the cast.

Sincere question: What forums could you recommend me, in which they do not show hatred for Rey all the time.

Sequel trilogy memes is pretty pro Rey and ST relatively.

At least from what i saw.

There's a year between TLJ and TROS, that's plenty of time to have adventures.

And most of the original EU took place after ROTJ, so I'm confident they can whip up some decent stories to continue the character's lives.

I didn't really like Episode IX, but I do believe you can come up from your low point.

I don't think Rey is exactly hated (except for a portion of the fandom menace), but a lot around her is, namely in the perception of the ST's coming at her expense (e.g the Jedi are wiped out and Luke's a failure to prop up Rey and the like). Feel like she can easily be fixed to the public eye with some clever EU.

For my part I feel like Rey's problems are mostly related to (like nearly everything else in the ST) J.J Abrams's creative decisions in TFA. Abrams very clearly and intentionally set out to make her in the mold of Luke Skywalker and so the character lived chained to that baggage of being Luke 2.0, with Luke himself basically being a fairly bland protagonist propped up by the Grandfather Clause.

Edited by Gaon on Sep 13th 2020 at 6:50:24 AM

And the fandom menace are a bunch of whiners. Pander to them, and they will still call you SJW.

Edited by RedHunter543 on Sep 13th 2020 at 7:10:17 AM

Rey is very...... bland.

Like she lacks Anakin's foibles or Luke's achievements so she comes across as an extremely passive character.

Of course this is to be expected since her entire character arc is just who her parents are. She has to be given an actual arc or something now.

If they do an animated series which takes place in the 1 year jump, the Knights of Ren could get better feats, beyond being killed by Ben Solo in 5 seconds..

In Jedi Fallen Order, two inquisitors were a deadly threat.

A series in which the protagonists are people without force sensitivity or low-level Jedi, the Knights of Ren would be a deadly threat.

Edited by JoLuRo075 on Sep 13th 2020 at 7:12:50 AM