Mike_Droideka wrote:
Hayden Force Ghost communicating with Luke.
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Nice, I'd say that's my money shot as well. In fact, Luke talking to any ghost (perhaps even being introduced to Qui-Gon) would be equally great.
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This is it. I have a feeling the sequels will largely ignore the prequels, since that seems to be the case any time anyone brings up Star Wars, but I hope this moment happens.
The sequel trilogy doesn't have to be an opportunity to distance Star Wars from the prequels, but to connect them. I'd flip if I saw old Luke talking to Ghost Anakin. But these sequels are made for the casual Boba Fett lovers, not the diehard fans who spent the past 10 years on a Star Wars fan message board...
Can't help adding to that really... having spent the past 30-plus years as a Star Wars fan, the last 10 or so of those years frequenting Star Wars message boards, and also not really knowing what a "casual Boba Fett lover" might actually be...
I have no burning desire to see Luke communicating with Anakin.
For me - his appearance at the end of ROTJ said something along the lines of: "Luke,
you succeeded. You saved your father, he has joined with the Force, just like Yoda and Obi-Wan... And now they have brought him here to see you and set your mind at rest about this, they are going, you don't need them, you are a Jedi. Job done..."
It's closure - it just doesn't play out like "hey, now you call on us anytime, if ever you get into trouble, y'hear... Catch you later, Luke...". And even if this were the case, anything other than Ben filling that mentor role for Luke just feels dumb. That is the dynamic that was set up.
You know, there's got to be that tragedy there despite the happy ending, the sense of sacrifice. Luke was right about Anakin, and he saved him. But he had to kill the person to save his soul. If we imagine a scenario where Luke could have got to hang out with ghost Anakin - and vice versa - whenever he choses after that final scene, it just feels wrong and betrays that sense of pathos.
IMHO, at least.
And as for making the prequel-sequel "connection", I'm all for it,
if it works. If it makes sense, and is a worthy
narrative connection. I just can't see anything that needs connecting - hell, it's a continuation of the same nine-part story, that is connection enough.
Anakin was in the prequels, his offspring were in the, erm, original-quels, and now they are going to be in the sequels, and we just hit the ground running from there. Look, here is Coruscant, here is Tatooine (again), here is a guy in uniform that looks like some other uniform you saw before, in a spacecraft that looks a bit like that other spacecraft you saw before, saying some dialogue that you heard before... you know, it's got to step beyond those parameters and be be smarter than that now, it really has.
To be honest, pretty much everyone who mattered in the prequls is dead, and every plot point that mattered has been brought to a conclusion. There are some heroes knocking about from Episodes IV-VI, a couple of droids, and a galaxy which has, seemingly, been freed.
The Jedi Order may return, the Sith may return, the Empire may be reborn - but anything more specific than that feels like a cop out to me. (Read: Palpatine survived. Vader survived. Mace Windu recorded a holocron of great importance to future events. Something important is happening on Geonosis. Etc...)
