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The thing about Ezra is he's basically the same age as Luke because he was born on the so-called "Empire Day".
 
Oh I think it was some deconstruction. Rey is suppose to be the hero who doesn't come from noble blood or anything like that. She is just some random person discarded by bad parents who happens to have Jedi powers. Granted that sounds like the life story I would image for many Jedi but in the case of Luke, he was different in that Vadar was his dad and he was the chosen one and his mom was a queen. Granted I find the whole, chosen one stuff played out myself as well but I still would call this deconstruction.

Kylo Ren is immature manchild instead of the strong willed, has his sit together Vadar. Poe is suppose to show us why Han Solo sucks I guess since he basically is the Han Solo of the new movies and they tried to make him look terrible, which granted didn't work. Holdo ended up looking like one of the worst leaders, ever but I don't think that was what they were going for. They tried to make her strong willed but instead just made her seem snarky and stubborn for no good reason. Luke of course is the fallen hero, which goes against what people were expecting.

Thing is I think this all might have worked, in the first movie if they had at least the whole cast together and we got to see our old heroes dealing with a future that didn't turn out exactly what they expected. Holdo and Poe at odds with each other means nothing to the audience. If you had Han Solo and Leia in conflict over a leadership command then that would feel special because we have this whole already established history between each other and they also love each other.
 
Thing is I think this all might have worked, in the first movie if they had at least the whole cast together and we got to see our old heroes dealing with a future that didn't turn out exactly what they expected.
I would agree on this point.

I still don't think it's a deconstructed story.
 
IMO Solo was just released at a bad time.

I heard somewhere that LucasFilm wanted to delay it again, but Disney wanted it out.
I vaguely recall something along those lines. So the story goes, Disney was getting pissed that TFA, Rogue One and TLJ were all postponed from their originally planned spring release dates and were adamant that Solo had to be released in the spring, especially after Colin Trevorrow's departure from Rise of Skywalker meant that wouldn't ready for a spring release either.
Kylo Ren is immature manchild
I remember the joke that was circulating the internet just after TFA's release. "Harrison Ford's two most iconic characters [Han Solo and Indiana Jones] now have sons. One has a petulant manchild who will not control his emotions. The other has Kylo Ren."
 

In the vast history of Star Wars, few canceled projects remain as intriguing as Star Wars: Underworld. The series, spearheaded by George Lucas and producer Rick McCallum in the late 2000s, was set to explore the criminal underbelly of Coruscant, offering a darker, grittier take on the galaxy far, far away. However, despite over 60 scripts being nearly finished, the project was scrapped after Disney bought the rights due to its astronomical budget.

In a new interview on The Young Indy Chronicles podcast, McCallum shed new light on the doomed project, revealing that the lowest budget he could get it down to for each episode due to the technology needed was ~$40M — an impossible number for television at the time. It was supposed to be 100 episodes long, which would make the production budget $4B. Easily would’ve been the most expensive show ever. Lucasfilm even wanted John Williams to compose the music for all episodes.

“These were dark. They were sexy, they were violent, they were just absolutely wonderful. Wonderful, complicated … challenging. I mean, it would have blown up the whole Star Wars universe … And Disney definitely would’ve never offered to buy Star Wars from George. It’s one of the great disappointments of our life.”
 
I wonder if Lucasfilm will ever do anything with those scripts at some point? It seems like a waste to just have 60 finished and ready to film scripts sitting around gathering dust. Even if they're still unfilmable, you'd think they could do them as an animated series, or turn them into comics or novels.
 
So what's the outcome from the KK rumors? KK isn't going anywhere, but the clickbait sites have gotten their clicks? What else have I missed?
 
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