making sense of the first order's existence

I'll know what the hell they're all about tomorrow, so no need to delve into it really, but whatever.

So apparently everything they did in RotJ meant shit. The empire, the sith, the whole thing is still in full effect after the fact.

That's one of the main complaints about TFA, it kinda retroactively down plays the victory on Endor at the end of RotJ.

If they fought so hard, worked so hard, sacrificed so much, for NOTHING, kinda makes the whole of RotJ like a minor event that didn't do much.

The thing that irks me and I hate that it does is that, YES the defeat of the emperor SHOULD mean the end of the Sith. It's not like they're as wide spread and all over the galaxy in hiding like the jedi.

This new concept that the Sith is just hanging out in different places no matter what you do to them is really a bad idea that Disney has just pulled out of their ass now to keep star wars going despite the rebels winning in RotJ.

The thing is RotJ TRULY is a tough film to sequel to. The EU has been trying for decades to come up with a new story, and failed every single time.

In fact from what I've read about the plot of Force Awakens, it ultimately can't figure out the next logical step after RotJ either. It's a good movie, but not one that explains itself well enough to make sense!

EU is the same. Not much in the EU ever made sense because RotJ WORKS. It really truly was designed to be the final star wars story. There really is not much to for Luke or han or Leia to struggle against after that battle and that movie. YES they have to go after the remaining Empire and wipe them out. But that's IT!!! The Emperor truly was the biggest worst threat to the heros. With him gone, and Vader. One could argue if Vader had survived RotJ, we'd have so much more shit to deal with. But no, he dies.

I was watching RotJ recently and thought ok, MAYBE while the emperor was shooting Luke with lightning he transfered some of his dark energy into Luke and MAYBE it finally voldemorts itself into Luke's mind and takes over his body or some shit...

Essentially, Star Wars is becoming harry potter now. They killed Voldemort at least fucking fifty times in those movies and only in the last two films did they figure out why he keeps coming back. He knows how to create duplicates of himself. Simple but effect way of returning a villain to the series after he gets killed.

In Star Wars it's never said, never made clear, never a thought that the emperor can voldemort himself.

So he's fucking dead, he's gone.

Why are the heros afraid of anything, even Kylo Ren, in the new movies. Ultimately even IF a new jedi apprentice of Skywalker goes to the dark side, he's fucking luke skywalker. He'll crush him like an ant.

This new star wars trilogy better make some damn sense of itself, all I have to say. I'm on its side, but it's asking me personally as a fan to stretch myself waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much here.