So after the critical and commercial success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it’s now
time to look to the future and talk about Star Wars: Episode 8, due out May 2017.
This film looks like it could maybe be even better than Episode 7, as it’s bringing
on Rian Johnson to direct, the director of Looper and a couple of awesome Breaking Bad
episodes.
So I’m here today to talk about what I hope to see in this next installment.
Also, as I’m talking about the follow up here, spoiler alert for The Force Awakens.
You’ve been warned.
Focus Mainly on the New Characters.
Episode 7 was, among other things, the passing on of the torch to a new cast.
So let’s keep it like that.
Sure you can have your Chewie and your Leia and your Han Solo.
Too soon?
But focus on these new characters, because to me, honestly, they’re more interesting
than the older cast.
Again, you can have them there in the background, but I really want to see where these new characters
go.
Specifically Poe, I love Finn and Rey, they’re great, but we just didn’t get enough Oscar
Isaac, who is one of the best actors out there.
Just having this trio interacting throughout a new series would be amazing, and I feel
like Rian Johnson could do that kind of thing really well.
Which leads me into a similar point….
Use a bit of Luke (but not too much).
At the end of The Force Awakens, Rey is reunited with her father, maybe.
I don’t know, that’s just my theory.
And I’m guessing Luke is going to have a vaguely similar role to Han Solo, the older
mentor there to guide the new players through this universe.
And that’s perfectly fine, but again, I don’t want him to steal focus from Finn,
Rey, and Poe.
He can teach some stuff, he can have some emotional and powerful scenes, and he should
have an awesome lightsaber fight.
A Rey and Luke tag team fight against a villain of some kind would be badass, just putting
that out there.
But don’t overuse him just for nostalgia.
Use him just as much as fits with the plot.
If he needs to have a really big role, great, just as long as it’s for the story’s purpose
and not just to have fan service.
Keep a consistent(-ish) villain.
This is one of the main things the original trilogy did right.
They kept one or two main villains throughout all three films.
Darth Vader, and the Emperor.
There were other minor bad guys to take out along the way, but it kept the main villains
consistent and that really works.
If you change out the villain for every film, you don’t have enough time to get at all
invested in them and so when they’re defeated and/or redeemed you don’t feel that much.
For this new series, these villains can be Kylo Ren or Ben Solo, whatever you wanna call
him, Supreme Leader Snoke, and to a lesser degree General Hux.
Now Kylo Ren is the obvious pick, he was an interesting character, he’s probably related
to at least one of these three in some way, and I really wanna see where his character
can be taken after what he did in Episode 7.
Then there’s Snoke, who a lot of people didn’t like, I guess because he was CG in
this otherwise very practical world, but I was personally really intrigued by his character.
We know basically nothing about him, so it’ll be cool to find out more.
Why does he have that scar?
Is he really that huge or was it just dramatic effect by the hologram tech?
And is he Darth Plagueis as many people have speculated.
It’s great to have questions after a movie and hopefully some of those will be answered
here.
Change it up a bit.
Now let’s be real here, The Force Awakens was more or less a retread of A New Hope.
Nothing really wrong with that, it was a good way to introduce us to new characters and
get us back into the franchise.
But now that’s done.
Let’s switch up the formula a bit.
I’m not saying change stuff drastically, the structure for any Star Wars movie is going
to be similar in some way, but I don’t want to see this new trilogy be a remake of A New
Hope, a remake of Empire, and a remake of Jedi.
Let’s take this in new directions, that’s what made Empire Strikes Back so awesome in
the first place.
It did something different.
The Force Awakens, while I thought it was a fantastic fun time at the movies, was also
a bit predictable.
From the start I could tell more or less the outline of the plot.
There were some twists along the way, but overall it was quite predictable to me.
Didn’t detract that much from the experience, but if that trend continues on to these subsequent
films, then they’ll become boring and repetitive.
So Rian Johnson if you’re watching this which you 100% are not, switch up the formula
a bit and make something unique.
Also, I would just like to add something about my channel to this video.
I’ve had a lot of requests to make a best and worst of Star Wars video, which does seem
like the logical thing to do.
The only problem is I saw the prequels quite a long time ago and so I don’t really remember
everything about them.
So I’m going to have to rewatch them to make that video and it might take a while
for me to get around to doing.
Hopefully that video will be out sometime in the summer or at the latest when Rogue
One comes out.
So yeah, that’s why that video isn’t out yet.
So those were the things I want to see in Star Wars: Episode 8.
What do you wanna see?
Let me know in the comments below.
Also, bonus question, what do you think the subtitle for this should be?
It’s kind of hard to predict, but one fan actually did it for the Force Awakens, so
who knows.
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Thanks for watching and I’ll see ya next time.