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I wanted to add in some senior citizen characters, although they would probably only show up in books and comics. Alternate Sequel Extended Universe?

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In making my latest video, I got awfully sad about how the new canon left Barriss. I’d love there to be some kind of way to bring her closer to her old EU counterpart. Perhaps she was possessed by the Son of Mortis, who corrupted her through the Jedi Temple (a cop-out, but still better than Ventress’s “my childhood sucked” motive or the canonical “Jedi are too violent to not be bombed” motive). In her imprisonment, the Son sought out new targets, but she never plead for her freedom, haunted by her actions. However, decades later, when Luke was helping liberate Coruscant’s underworld, he sensed her anguish. Needing experienced Jedi for his new praexum, and feeling compassion for her suffering, Luke asked Barriss to join him as chief medical officer. Though she’s still mournful for her actions, in her free time she studies ancient Force artifacts, hoping to find out more about the Celestial beings manipulating things beyond the senses.

For Kes Dameron, a peaceful life of nearly 30 years of peace was bliss. He became a skilled farmer, and happily raised his son in honor of his wife. Yavin IV is still relatively unpopulated, but the Mandalorian traders nearby still come visit his farm to get food, and Poe visits every week. Poe cautions his father against letting the Mandalorians know how close he was tied to the Republic, which makes Kes laugh, as he’s been open with them about it for years. I tried to give him a tattered version of Shara’s jacket, and an older, still handsome face that’s found peace in a peaceless galaxy.

The Jedi Younglings arc in The Clone Wars sets up these adorable little twelve year olds and then nothing… nothing in Rebels, or books, or comics, says they survive Order 66, or even that they died. My headcanon was that Hondo knew about the Order and was able to save them. He offered them positions in his gang, but they just wanted a place to be safe. Hondo took them to Florrum, safely out of the gaze of the Empire. When Katooni turned eighteen, Hondo offered her a job again. She accepted on one condition: half of the jobs she took needed to be helping people. Hondo begrudgingly accepted, and she quickly rose to second-in-command, with Hondo giving her his old jacket and hat as gifts. In between then and the new trilogy, Hondo died, and Katooni took over the gang, as well as repurposing Hondo’s old staff.

Wicket settled down after the war, save a few skirmishes in forest environments as favors to Leia, and training New Republic forces in geurilla tactics. He married Kneesaa, who became chief of the Bright Tree Village tribe, and had a child (that showed up in the last drawing). He’s got a wheelchair, which I think, at least to my knowledge, would be new to Star Wars. There’ve been a few floating chairs, but the wheels specifically would require accessibility in the New Republic, which I think could make for interesting stories.

Top 10 Possible Reasons Rey Smiled at Poe in TLJ

10. She knew this scene already happened in the TFA novelization

9. She knows how bad of a job Poe did fixing Finn’s jacket.

8. She sizes up her competition for Finn’s affection and is ready for a decent fight.

7. A line was cut where she accidentally says, “You’re BB-8’s dad, right?”

6. Poe’s fly is unzipped, but she doesn’t know how to bring it up casually.

5. Chewie had described Poe as looking “like the latest X-Men movie’s bad guy, but hot,” and she couldn’t agree more.

4. She wants to make friends with Finn’s friends.

3. She’s happy to be meeting more allies in her new fight.

2. She had heard of Shara Bey, just like Luke and Han, and this is a big deal for her.

1. And, most likely, smiling is just a thing people do without it being flirtatious. (Moth)

The Finn Immunity

If Finn is immune to impacts of the Force, which there is good evidence towards , it begs the question, “How is Finn immune?” Obviously JJ will or won’t do whatever he wants with regards to his movie, but there is some precedence in the Legends continuity for a Force immunity.

Yuuzhan Vong

The most famous case of Force Resistance in Star Wars is the famous extragalactic species from The New Jedi Order, the Yuuzhan Vong. These newcomers to the GFFA are completely outside the Force, and can’t be sensed by Force users, or even intentionally targeted. Now, obviously, Finn is human, but the First Order traveled to the Unknown Regions in its infancy. Perhaps they experimented with Yuuzhan Vong biotechnology, and genetically modified Finn at birth, as a test run for an anti-Jedi supersoldier.

Ysalamir

These cuties are called ysalamir, and they project a Force nullifying field to avoid force-sensitive predators. Finn isn’t a little lizard, but he could possibly have a random mutation that results in Force resistance, much like the evolutionary ancestors of these punks.

Force Void

A handful of individuals, whether by birth or experimentation, could let the Force flow by them rather than through them. Though Finn would be the first heroic character to have this ability, it would make sense with extreme conditioning, as well as the sense of an awakening. Finn would be awakening a new class of Force user, one able to enter and exit the universe’s connectivity.

Imperial Sith Acolyte

Employed by Darth Vader to fight his former apprentice Starkiller, these Force-users also displayed an immunity to force-based attacks. Though the reason they possessed this ability was never established, I theorize it was either through training or technology.

Force Nexus

My personal preferred theory would be that Finn’s parents lived near a Force Nexus, which is a location where the Force is incredibly strong as well as behaves weirdly. The Cave on Dagobah, Ahch-To, and potentially Mortis, for example. This would provide a way for Finn to find more about his family, as well as about his unique abilities. (Moth)

One of the reasons the idea of “TLJ is good because it was subversive” bothers me is because the prequels were more subversive and that doesn’t give them a free pass for their racism and moments of bad writing in media discussion.

Japanese stereotypes used in Neimodians, cultural dressing slapped across Naboo, and Watto all deserve to be criticized, and they are. But a lot of “liberal” fans of TLJ will explain away any claims of racism as reaching and any claims of bad writing as whiny fanboys. Yet for every point of subversion that TLJ tries, the prequels do it better.

TLJ: Luke throws away the lightsaber when we expect him to do something proactive.
Prequels: Supposedly peaceful Jedi are violent in the first scene.

TLJ: OT Sad Yoda became carefree after death.
Prequels: OT Pacifist Yoda wasn’t always a pacifist. (I’ve seen so many people complain that Yoda is a different character in AoTC, ignoring that he becomes the hideaway after RoTS.)

TLJ: Rey’s parents are nobodies.
Prequels: The origins of fan favorite Obi-Wan Kenobi don’t bother with his parentage, as it’s unimportant.

TLJ: Luke was willing to kill his nephew to prevent a massacre.
Prequels: The Republic, expected to be good compared to the Empire, was willing to utilize a slave army to win a war.

TLJ: You can’t trust criminals and terrorists after all, but military secrets are good.
Prequels: The Jedi weren’t guardians of peace, but mongers of war.

Subversion doesn’t equal quality, and weak subversions aren’t even worth getting excited about. (Moth)

The Second Battle of Tatooine

Top: Space Battle between New Republic Forces and Galactic Union Dreadnoughts. On the New Republic’s side are Home One (Ackbar’s cruiser from Return of the Jedi), Lady Luck (Lando’s ship from Legends) and Tantive’s Redemption (a new creation for Leia).

Middle: Ground Battle between the Tatooine Alliance and Galactic Union Crusaders. The location is based off from a rock formation in Tozeur, Tunisia. There’s a sandcrawler prepared to ambush and Caro leading the charge.

Bottom: Finn vs Kylo Ren.

The Binary Sunset

The second sun returned to its original shape. The flare divided, with the majority following Rey, and a small irregularity causing a flash of light to bathe the desert. Luke Skywalker exhaled as the Tuskens and Jawas around him cheered. In Luke’s brief attempts to Force Project before, he had crashed to the ground upon returning to his body. As he levitated in the air, he realized this was different.

C-3PO looked over to congratulate his old friend, but parts of his arms have begun to fade.

“Master Luke?” C-3PO walked over, worried. Luke looked down at his hand becoming transparent.

“One time, Threepio. Just Luke.” Luke realized what had happened. He only hoped he had more time than Yoda had.

“Yes… Luke,” C-3PO pieced together what was happening. “Can I contact someone? Perhaps Master Tano knows—“

“No, it’s okay,” Luke replied, as tears began to form in his eyes. “It’s my time. I just need to say my goodbyes.”

Loved ones, on and above Tatooine, and across the galaxy, felt a presence, warm but fading. Leia felt a right hand on her shoulder. Lando felt a left hand on his.

“Everyone,” Luke spoke out, and the Force echoed in his intended targets. Even R2-D2 experienced a new phenomenon, like hearing something without sound waves. “I don’t think I have much time left. I… want to say I love you. While I can.”

Caro and Lowbacca, victorious on the front lines, sped towards the last location they saw their old mentor. Lando rushed towards his hangar.

“It’s okay, everyone. I’ve had a great life. Caro, Lowbacca, all of my students. I am so proud of you. You have become far greater Jedi, greater peacemakers, and greater souls than I could have hoped for. Mara, Ahsoka, you’ve taught me more about the Force, and more about myself, then I thought was possible. I leave the future of our family in capable hands.

“Leia, I wish I could’ve helped your son. I’m so sorry.”

“No,” Leia uttered through tears. “This is on him, not you. You—“

“I know,” Luke responded. “I don’t blame myself. And you can’t either. Everyone here today, everything that happened, was because of you. Remember that. You saved the galaxy.

“Chewie,” Luke reached out specifically to the injured wookiee, recovering on Kashyyyk. “Artoo,” to the droid struggling to understand a new sense. “I don’t know if you can hear this, but get better soon. Someone needs to look out for these jokers.

“And Lando.”

Lando, almost taking off, stalled his engine. The tears in his eyes welled to the point of being unable to see. Luke paused, unsure of what to say to the man that had gone from a complete stranger to a complete friend. He settled on something simple, yet true.

“Thanks for the years.”

Lando laughed.

At this point, Luke was almost gone. C-3PO would have cried if it was possible.

“Oh, and Finn?” Luke sent out a private message, as of an afterthought to his heartfelt farewells. “She’s out there. And keep the lightsaber. It suits you.”

Luke’s body became pale and slowly his clothes began to sink.

“I’ve held on too long,” he said aloud, only to C-3PO. “I’m going soon.”

“If only it wasn’t on this contemptible planet,” C-3PO joked. “The furthest from a bright center of the universe.”

“I don’t know,” Luke whispered as he stared forward, leaving the mortal plane. “Just look at that sunset.”

(Moth)

I wanted to expand the Jedi ranks a little bit. Right to left this time, to shake things up a bit.

Alternate Mara Jade, played by sci-fi icon and legendary individual, Whoopi Goldberg. (Someone age appropriated for a Mark Hamill love interest.) She’s the counselor at the Jedi Temple, and also serves as a talented diplomat. Hints of the old Mara Jade are sprinkled as Easter eggs, and she fights with a pink lightsaber crystal flying around.

Lowbacca, Luke’s first apprentice, now a Jedi master. He works alongside Caro in the frontlines, and rides a Kybuck into battle.

Lowbacca’s apprentice is the daughter of Wicket and Kneesaa, and the first Jedi of Ewok origin. She’s aggressive, but Lowbacca keeps her away from battle. (Moth)