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wackyteen posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

Original trilogy.

Yeah. I don't really think of it as a retcon.

RotJ was meant to be the end of the original trilogy. I'm sure if Lucas had directed 7-9 we would've gotten vastly different films <_< but for Disney to do what they wanted to do with it, they had to take the canonically sound but less... er... Disney route of everything being okay at the end of RotJ. Hell, in the new EU it's detailed just how much issue the New Republic has getting set up.

Then don't forget that it all gets blown up in TFA

It doesn't have to be a retcon to be a thematic contradiction.

It'd be like if a Rocky sequel had Rocky abusing Adrian. It doesn't retcon the fact that he won the world title. It just changes the audience's perception of who he is as a character. Rocky had anger issues, and athletes are frequently abusive, so this feel-good victory is wasted on a bitter taste of darker realities.

Or maybe we could have a Wizard of Oz followup in which Dorothy is a bitter loner in high school. Why? The whole reason she ran away from home was because her neighbor had a state order allowing her to put Toto down. That wasn't rescinded by the end of the movie, so "There's no place like home" can give way to "When I was 14, the state allowed my neighbor to kill my only real friend and there was nothing I could do about it."

It's pretentious pseudo-nihilistic bullshit.

Return of the Jedi wasn't about a small band of rebels winning a minor victory. It was about a small band of rebels toppling an empire. The New Order or whatever the hell it's called isn't a bad idea, but they should've stuck with the notion that it was something that came about decades later instead of trying to undo the period of victory and sustained peace in the meantime.