The New Star Wars
If you’re as a big a fan of
Star Wars as I am, you know how important The
Force Awakens is. The original
trilogy was one of the first movies I remember watching and its been ten years
since a live action Star Wars adventure was in the movie theaters. And I’m sure like me, you were unbelievably
nervous to watch this next installment.
But Abrams and the people at Disney did not disappoint. The
Force Awakens was insanely awesomely epic and if my predictions are right,
this new trilogy is only going to get better.
Why do I think that? Because the original trilogy was perfect and it
seems like this new trilogy is exactly mirroring the original. Check this out…
WARNING: SPOILERS FOR THE
FORCE AWAKENS LIE AHEAD
A long time ago in a galaxy
far, far away…
There is a war going on
between a Nazi-esque superpower (The Galactic Empire-The First Order), headed
by a Sith Lord (Darth Vader-Kylo Ren) who answers only to a shadowy and distant
master (Emperor Palpatine-Supreme Leader Snoke), and the people who are
fighting this superpower (The Rebel Alliance-The Resistance). In the middle of all this, a young rebel
(Leia-Poe Dameron) gives a robot (R2-D2-BB-8) sensitive information regarding a
Jedi master (Obi-Wan Kenobi-Luke Skywalker) just before being captured by the
bad guys. This robot is then stranded on
a desert planet (Tatooine-Jakku) where it is found by a young orphan who dreams
of better things (Luke-Rey). Not long
after this robot comes into their possession, their home is destroyed by the
bad guys are they are forced to flee in the Millennium Falcon with some help
from some friends including Han Solo and Chewbacca. They stop at a seedy bar (Mos Eisley
Cantina-Maz’s) for help but that too is soon attacked by the bad guys. Along the way Luke/Rey, with the help of a
wise old mentor who has seen too much (Ben Kenobi-Han Solo), begin to discover
they have a great power called the Force and they are given the blue
lightsaber. When one of their own (Leia-Rey)
is captured and taken to a giant base with the power to destroy planets (The
Death Star-Starkiller Base), the main good guys take the Falcon on a nearly
impossible mission to save them, which results in the death of the wise old
mentor at the hands of the Sith Lord who at one time was the wise old mentor’s
inferior. Not long after these events,
the giant base is destroyed via explosion with some help from the trusty X-Wing
Fighters. It is revealed that two people
on opposite sides of the war are actually father and son (Darth Vader and Luke
Skywalker-Han Solo and Kylo Ren[whose birth name is Ben]) and this relationship
puts both pairs of people at odds with their ideologies. Later in the story, Luke/Rey leave their
comatose friend (Han in carbonite-Finn recovering from the battle) to travel to
a mysterious planet (Dagobah-Unnamed Island Planet) to learn the ways of the
Force from the last Jedi (Yoda-Luke Skywalker).
So, what happens next? Well
by looking at the old trilogy I have come up with five ideas that might be
pretty close to what actually happens in the upcoming trilogy.
1.
Kylo Ren
turns good. This one is pretty obvious
but I thought I’d throw it in. I believe
that Kylo a.k.a. Ben Solo, will eventually let the light side in and single
handedly destroy his evil master, Snoke, before ultimately meeting his own
doom. This will likely happen late in
the third act of the story arc so I wouldn’t expect to see this until the third
movie. You might also expect to see an
epic final battle taking place over space and planets.
2.
Our
heroes get betrayed. Remember Lando
Calrission? I believe that late in the
second film, our main protagonists will face a betrayal by a trusted friend
which will set up the end of the second film, in which our heroes go their
separate ways on separate missions. Now
we can theorize until the next film comes out about who will be the betrayer
(Did someone say Finn Calrission?) but it is also possible that much like
Lando, who we didn’t meet until The
Empire Strikes Back, that we just haven’t met that character yet.
3.
A minor
character coming back with a larger role. Remember at the beginning of A New Hope when Han was paid a visit by
Jabba the Hutt? Who knew he would play a
major role in the first act of Return of
the Jedi? Because of that, I’m going
to theorize that a minor character from TFA will return late in the new trilogy
to play some kind of key role to advancing the story. However, I have no idea who that might
be. My best guesses would be Maz, Unkar
Plutt (the collector from Jakku), or Malateek (the space pirate that attacks
Han Solo’s ship) cause he seems to be the Jabba the Hutt character.
4.
Luke
Skywalker must die. I know, we’re still recovering from the loss of our
favorite scoundrel and it seems almost impossible to think about losing another
one of the original three, but if we are following the parallels, Luke is Yoda
and in Return of the Jedi, Yoda does
die, albeit of natural causes. It is
possible that the next film will feature Luke imparting his knowledge to Rey
before lying down to forever sleep.
5.
Another
set of twins. If we continue to follow
the parallel, another big reveal will happen, this one involving a brother and
a sister. Who are they? Rey and Kylo. It only makes sense that twins would run in
the family and we have already compared both characters to Luke Skywalker and
Rey to Leia. When I told this theory to
my friends, they argued that Rey could be Luke’s daughter and they could be
cousins. I disagree though because that
relationship would not be as powerful and while my friends pointed out the fact
that Leia did not seem to acknowledge her so called daughter in TFA, I argue
that in the original trilogy many of the older mentor characters knew full well
of the relationship of Luke and Leia but kept it from the young characters. Plus in the Maz bar scene, after Rey and Finn
storm off, Maz turns to Han and asks, “Who’s the girl?” as if she knows that
Han knows exactly who she is. They both
have dark hair, they both have a strong connection with the force and Han Solo
was a father figure to both of them.
Call me crazy but I just have a feeling that this theory is not far from
the truth.
