The Star Wars Sequels: Disney's Anti-Trilogy

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The Disney Sequel Trilogy feels... well, pretty different than the movies that came before it. But what, exactly, has changed?

00:00 Intro
00:58 The Force Awakens
09:17 The Last Jedi
16:44 Rise of Skywalker
23:06 Conclusion

J.J. Abrams tells how "The Force Awakens" will feel like original Star Wars trilogy

George Lucas on Disney's Sequel Trilogy

The Incredible Invisible Practical Effects Miniatures Used to Create the Star Wars Prequels

The Mythology of Star Wars (with Bill Moyers):

[kapitankapital]

Honestly I'm still just stunned that Disney, the largest media conglomerate in history, decided to make a new trilogy of Star Wars, arguably the biggest film franchise in history, without having any overarching plan for what the story would be.

[ionutcristian]

JJ Abrams - "It's not a nostalgia trip"
Almost busted a gut laughing at the lack of self awareness of that statement.

[MaelstromEnergy]

The part about the Last Jedi that disappoints me the most is the thesis about "anyone can be a Jedi, not just Skywalkers" as if that wasn't the literal point of Yoda in Empire Strikes Back.

Luke is expecting a macho warrior Jedi master and finds out the wisest Jedi is a green muppet.

[christianhoffman]

I am SO glad you touched on how BAD they absolutely disrespected the character of HAN SOLO. Man growing up that was the dude, they did nothing but race to kill him off.

[justicar]

It is more entertaining and mentally stimulating to watch criticism of the sequel trilogy than it is to watch the actual movies.

[oClock]

"A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing."
-George Lucas.

[Christopher-mdtf]

"Somehow, Palpatine has returned"
This sentence will be used as a bad example in writing classes for decades to come

[ThornHailsnap]

The best thing the sequel trilogy did was it made many fans of the trilogy go back and watch the original movies and realize then just how inferior the sequel trilogy truly is. Disney actually created more fans of the prequels and lead to more criticism of the sequels.

[pawelgo]

This video has more planning put into its plot than this trilogy had.

[ccam]

JJ : somehow palpatine has a huge fleet of manned warships buried beneath the ice because he just does. Lucas: Palpatine has a large fleet of warships and a grand army because he spent a decade setting up cloning, and creating an artificial conflict to get the senate to put the republic on a wartime footing to pump out weapons, and ships

[tgthr]

For me, the saddest part about the sequels is that this was Disney’s one chance to effectively use all of the original actors. And now, with it being done and gone, that chance has gone. Fisher is dead (RIP), Hamill is disappointed and Ford is completely over Star Wars. It sucks that the one chance we got at continuing these characters stories does the opposite, and returns them to their original state or just completely sends their character in an opposite direction. It is also actually criminal that there was never one scene where those three actors were reunited together. Just such a shame.

[buldonzwenkinz]

“George moved on, but they’re still standing right where it all started.”

Was a GREAT way to end the video! 👌

[trequor]

For all the shortcomings of George Lucas, he could never be accused of lacking creativity. The man has a million cool ideas and I have to respect the fact that all of his films feel different.

[pacoramon]

- Palpatine was't killed
-The Empire wasn't destroyed
-Luke didn't bring back the jedi order
-Han Solo left Leia and return to be a criminal
- The New Republic was a failure that a group of neonazis ended in a week
-Anakin didn't bring balance to the force.
The sequel triology made pointless the original triology, the characters and universe didn't chance from episode IV to IX.

[andrewchr]

In their struggle to put down the prequels, they managed to put them in a much better light.

[MrMgkman]

The first time I saw Force Awakens I thought Luke was on Ahch-To to learn some ancient wisdom of the Force to help set things right. That’s all they had to do justify Luke’s absence

[theelephantintheroom]

Finn: "Han Solo the rebellion general?"
Rey: "No, the smuggler!"
This sums up the sequel trilogy so well. They threw all of greatness in these characters out the window and filled in that free space in the plot with new characters who were written poorly.

[crimsonhunter]

The sequels did one thing right. They made the majority of star wars fans greatly appreciate the prequels!

[fehzorz]

Episode 7: Fuck the prequels
Episode 8: Fuck nostalgia
Episode 9:...Fuck

[themcknox]

I like the way they went into it shitting on the prequels, and ended up creating something so bad that people now revere the prequels.