The First Order is crippled after the loss of their dreadnought from the Holdo maneuver. Kylo's story arc is about consolidating power, killing those in his way and reaffirming to the galaxy that he is definitely the Bad Guy. Ren's rise is explicitly shown to be bankrolled by people from the casino planet.
The resistance links up with other groups that were inspired by Luke's sudden appearance at the salt planet to fight. Finn, Poe and Rose have a story arc about welding these disparate groups into a new Rebel Alliance. The new Alliance has the opportunity to be bankrolled by war profiteers like the First Order is, but rejects them and declares its intention to establish a new more equitable galactic order.
Rey similarly rejects Luke's conclusion that the Jedi were more damaging to the galaxy than they were good, and links up with non-Jedi force users and re-founds the order. The New Jedi Order is dedicated, not to the protection of the Republic as the previous one was, but to the protection of the people.
The New Rebellion and the New Jedi mass up and travel to where the First Order's fleet is being rebuilt, and there is a big space battle. Rey fights Kylo and wins, and the First Order is destroyed by a bunch of yokels in space ships. During the battle Finn is given the opportunity to sacrifice himself, but remembers what Rose said and chooses not to - and surviving puts him in just the right place at just the right time to fire the shot that actually wins the battle.
Everything set up in TLJ more or less paid off, and I think you could get this all under two hours. People might complain that it's rushed but it wouldn't be nearly as rushed as establishing and paying off a ton of brand new things like ROS did.
You just admitted that it would be rushed necessitating corporate pad it out or make another movie. Since they wanted a trilogy they would pad it out... hey, were back to ROS!
Every single good movie ever made could have been ruined by executive meddling. If executive overreach is fully determined, then no amount of rewrites will prevent it - but my outline provides a path to a satisfying conclusion that could have capped off the sequel trilogy instead of making it worse.
This implies it wasn't obvious that the sequel triology was meddled with excessively by corporate. If were going to ignore Disney being Disney why stop at cramming everything into one last movie?
The First Order is crippled after the loss of their dreadnought from the Holdo maneuver. Kylo's story arc is about consolidating power, killing those in his way and reaffirming to the galaxy that he is definitely the Bad Guy. Ren's rise is explicitly shown to be bankrolled by people from the casino planet.
The resistance links up with other groups that were inspired by Luke's sudden appearance at the salt planet to fight. Finn, Poe and Rose have a story arc about welding these disparate groups into a new Rebel Alliance. The new Alliance has the opportunity to be bankrolled by war profiteers like the First Order is, but rejects them and declares its intention to establish a new more equitable galactic order.
Rey similarly rejects Luke's conclusion that the Jedi were more damaging to the galaxy than they were good, and links up with non-Jedi force users and re-founds the order. The New Jedi Order is dedicated, not to the protection of the Republic as the previous one was, but to the protection of the people.
The New Rebellion and the New Jedi mass up and travel to where the First Order's fleet is being rebuilt, and there is a big space battle. Rey fights Kylo and wins, and the First Order is destroyed by a bunch of yokels in space ships. During the battle Finn is given the opportunity to sacrifice himself, but remembers what Rose said and chooses not to - and surviving puts him in just the right place at just the right time to fire the shot that actually wins the battle.
Everything set up in TLJ more or less paid off, and I think you could get this all under two hours. People might complain that it's rushed but it wouldn't be nearly as rushed as establishing and paying off a ton of brand new things like ROS did.
"Under two hours" :porky-scared:
You just admitted that it would be rushed necessitating corporate pad it out or make another movie. Since they wanted a trilogy they would pad it out... hey, were back to ROS!
Every single good movie ever made could have been ruined by executive meddling. If executive overreach is fully determined, then no amount of rewrites will prevent it - but my outline provides a path to a satisfying conclusion that could have capped off the sequel trilogy instead of making it worse.
This implies it wasn't obvious that the sequel triology was meddled with excessively by corporate. If were going to ignore Disney being Disney why stop at cramming everything into one last movie?