Brian Earl Spilner said:

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"I will finish what you started, grandfather."

Ghostwriting a business book today and using wholesale Star Wars examples to illustrate how storytelling is better than fact-telling because of the emotions involved.

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-9-force-awakens-plan-last-jedi-retcon/amp/

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The story that we're telling, the story that we started to conceive when we did The Force Awakens was allowed to continue. Episode VIII didn't really derail anything that we were thinking about.

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Could that be because,

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While Abrams did sketch out drafts for the other movies, a case can be made he didn't have anything exact in mind for where the story should go.

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I'm also not sure I believe the plan was always to bring back Palps. Maybe they thought about it in the beginning, but then what was the point of Snoke? Just someone to blame for Kylo's turn?

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the best thing for Abrams to do is to just follow The Last Jedi and build off what Johnson did.

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You mean rebuild the entire f-ing resistance bc TLJ decimated it?

The resistance is no less decimated than the Alliance was at the end of A New Hope - the Falcon 2 Xwings and a Ywing.

The upcoming comics have Leia going to Mon Cal to try to rally them in wake of Ackbar's death, so hopefully they'll be back in the fight.

By the way, I predict the resistance uses star destroyers against the first order. That shot from the D23 trailer looks like a place someone parked a bunch of mothballed or reserve destroyers, and none of them have crews.

Rumor is, that's Palpatine's fleet that he's either kept in waiting or has been amassing in secret. But yeah, I love the idea of the Resistance somehow commandeering a few them. In fact, based on the trailer, with Finn and Jannah seemingly being the ones who discover the fleet, and Finn's background with the First Order, that could be a great plot line for him - heading up a covert commandeering effort. In fact, Finn being the one to ultimately use his former employers' ships and weapons against them is just too perfect. Count that as my prediction.

I figure that's the rumor, bc most people see old destroyers and put that with Palpatine back and just think it adds up.

However, first order already has ships. Resistance needs ships. What better way to get some? Maybe some Bothan spies learn the location of the Empire's secret stockpile that has been left unguarded.

And as you said, from that trailer it looks like Finn is looking up at them. Do we really need another scene if him sneaking up on some enemy ships in a cloaked transport? Just makes sense to me

To be fair, none of that existed in 1977.

If it's a fleet of abandoned/lost ships in the middle of nowhere, I hope they call it the Dark Force

Ag Since 83 said:

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If it's a fleet of abandoned/lost ships in the middle of nowhere, I hope they call it the Dark Force

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Flagship - Eye of Palpatine

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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To be fair, none of that existed in 1977.

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What's the time frame between end of New Hope and opening of Empire? Rebels evacuate Hoth with more than 4 fighters and a freighter.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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To be fair, none of that existed in 1977.

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What's the time frame between end of New Hope and opening of Empire? Rebels evacuate Hoth with more than 4 fighters and a freighter.

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I used to know this, but I think it was maybe a year? Longer than what many thought at the time of Empire's release.

Rick McCallum put on more weight during the prequels than i did while living across the street from a Starbucks and a baskin Robbins.

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Rumor is, that's Palpatine's fleet that he's either kept in waiting or has been amassing in secret. But yeah, I love the idea of the Resistance somehow commandeering a few them. In fact, based on the trailer, with Finn and Jannah seemingly being the ones who discover the fleet, and Finn's background with the First Order, that could be a great plot line for him - heading up a covert commandeering effort. In fact, Finn being the one to ultimately use his former employers' ships and weapons against them is just too perfect. Count that as my prediction.

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I wrote this fanfic in 2004.

How much does that cost? $Texas?

$700 per reddit

Eh. Canto Bright was no cinematic wonder, but I can't rewatch any little orphan Ani scene without cringing.