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ZeeksFire posted...

The problem with the 7-9 is that when compared to the series, they shrunk the idea of glorious space opera to a single planet and reused the overarching plot 4-6 again, but poorly. Not even considering the idea of just throwing around the idiot ball between the new republic, there was nothing of worth to consider plotwise that'd redeem what got destroyed, (including the demolition of the expanded universe)

Personally I had no problem with the "idiot ball" the New Republic had that caused the trilogy, and the only way I understand people having such a big problem with it is because Star Wars fans want to know how events unfold the way they do and how things work in the universe. On that level they probably find the sequel trilogy to be a neverending parade of frustration. Personally, compared to stuff like an alien somehow being onboard the ship to kickstart the events of Alien 3 despite the previous movie giving no indication how that could be the case, Terminator 3 revealing Skynet somehow rose anyway despite the previous movie without going into detail how, Blues Brothers 2000 revealing the orphanage the title characters worked so hard to save in the previous movie got torn down anyway, and Agent K being brought out of retirement for no apparent reason in MiB2, this is peanuts by Happy Ending Override standards. Even getting into Star Wars lore, the entire prequel trilogy is predicated on the government being stupid so it's not hard to believe that problem still didn't get fixed. Not to mention the New Republic technically lasted longer than the Empire. Not to mention the meta aspect that the prequel trilogy had already tainted the franchise's mainstream reputation so there was probably pressure on TFA to avoid those pitfalls. Heck, about the only creative aspect that remained consistent throughout the sequel trilogy was distancing the franchise from the prequel trilogy. The sequel trilogy is a big middle finger to George Lucas and that's both the best and worst thing about it.