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Vympel wrote: ↑2019-04-14 09:38am

Steve wrote: ↑2019-04-14 08:27am I think the issue with these explanations is the movie offers none. We're given very little information on what's going on given the aversion to repeating the prequel trilogy's supposedly-despised "political stuff". And because they wanted to go "back to basics" with OT-style storytelling, including the Vietnam allegory of plucky ragtag rebels versus massive military with superior hardware.

Then TLJ went even further with trying to make the Resistance/Rebels look ragtag and outmatched.

I don't really see that TLJ went meaningfully further. TFA showed us a Resistance with even less forces than the Rebellion had in ANH - just a squadron of X-Wings. There was no hint in ANH that they had meaningfully larger forces and TESB didn't do much on that front either - presenting us with just Yavin, the Sequel at the start of the movie and a tiny fleet of greebles with a single ship the fraction of the size of a Star Destroyer at its centre. Suddenly, in ROTJ they have a fleet.

TLJ arguably one-upped TESB by giving them a much more impressive flagship, IMO.

Now in TRoS, it looks like they've got at least one commandeered ISD Mk 1.

Gandalf wrote: ↑2019-04-14 08:01pm Maybe the myth of Skywalker facing down the First Order with his laser sword, and thus enabling the Resistance to escape to fight another day might have something to do with more people rallying to their cause and bringing varied supplies.

The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2019-04-14 10:40am

Eternal_Freedom wrote: ↑2019-04-14 10:37am Maybe Wedge Antilles is leading a holdout fleet somewhere

Would be cool. But I seem to recall that Wedge's actor refused point black to return back when they filmed TFA.

Silver Jedi wrote: ↑2019-04-15 01:13pm

The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2019-04-14 10:40am

Eternal_Freedom wrote: ↑2019-04-14 10:37am Maybe Wedge Antilles is leading a holdout fleet somewhere

Would be cool. But I seem to recall that Wedge's actor refused point black to return back when they filmed TFA.

IIRC the old guy that gives Poe the map at the beginning of TFA was originally supposed to be Wedge. Which makes everything about that encounter make a lot more sense.

Rogue 9 wrote: ↑2019-04-15 03:27pm Denis Lawson rather famously resents his role in Star Wars and refuses to ever have anything to do with it again, probably mad that his story arc got cut twice, once from A New Hope and then again in Return of the Jedi. (To rub salt in, those particular deleted scenes didn't even get reused in Rogue One, because Wedge's presence at Scarif would have undercut his surprise at the size of the Death Star in A New Hope.) If Wedge makes an appearance, he'll have been recast, and because of the aforementioned story cuts he's not a major enough character in the films to be worth doing that with.

Rogue 9 wrote: ↑2019-04-15 03:27pm Denis Lawson rather famously resents his role in Star Wars and refuses to ever have anything to do with it again, probably mad that his story arc got cut twice, once from A New Hope and then again in Return of the Jedi. (To rub salt in, those particular deleted scenes didn't even get reused in Rogue One, because Wedge's presence at Scarif would have undercut his surprise at the size of the Death Star in A New Hope.) If Wedge makes an appearance, he'll have been recast, and because of the aforementioned story cuts he's not a major enough character in the films to be worth doing that with.