Indeed it would have. The fact that information THIS detrimental to the plot needs to be gathered from supplementary material tells you what a horrible failure the films have been.
On that note, I found this bit from the solicit very intriguing as well: "With the new Jedi school in ruins and fellow students hot on his trail for the murder of their master, Ben Solo flees to the only friend he has left in the galaxy...a man named Snoke."
This implies that the surviving students believed Luke was dead in the wake of Ben's betrayal. So does that mean Luke faked his death, and/or hid himself from the students afterward? Or was he still just KO'd from Ben's attack when they left the planet?
Furthermore, it also implies that the surviving students were hunting Ben down to avenge Luke's "death", and didn't necessarily join his cause and turn to the dark side like many of us originally suspected.
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Last edited by Galan007 on Oct 24th, 2019 at 07:55 PM
Yeah, I'm actually looking forward to this mini quite a bit, because it seems like it's going to do quite a bit of character/world-building, and fill in some of the holes left by the films.
It's unfortunate that I have to read comic books to get this info, but here we are...
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Last edited by Galan007 on Oct 25th, 2019 at 01:21 AM
Yeah, it's interesting. The overall plot of the first 3 issues seems to be:
-Snoke starts corrupting Ben.
-Ben betrays Luke.
-Luke's other students think he's dead, and rush after Ben to get some revenge(which isn't very Jedi-like, btw.)
-Ben must defeat the previous master of the Knights of Ren(who he and Luke had evidently encountered years prior) before he can properly become "Kylo Ren", lead the KoR, and become Snoke's apprentice.
-The other students find Kylo, and he presumably fights/kills them.
But I also have a feeling that Kylo won't be portrayed as definitively 'evil' in this. It will still show us that there's still good in him, etc.
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Last edited by Galan007 on Dec 7th, 2019 at 08:28 PM
I still wonder about Luke.. why the heck didn’t he try to contact his apprentices? I must have seen that some of his Padawans were missing among the dead bodies of the temple. Why not seek them?
Also, do you remember in episode 7, Rey has a vision with the Knights of Ren and several bodies on the ground? That may be the setting of Kylo vs Jedi
Hopefully Luke tries to rescue his apprentices, but by the time he finds them they've already been killed or w/e. I'd prefer that to be the final straw that makes him renounce the force and go off the grid(even though that in itself is still retarded), as the alternative would be Luke just up and quitting without even going after his apprentices... Which would be an even bigger "f*ck you" to his character.
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Last edited by Galan007 on Dec 7th, 2019 at 10:08 PM
But yeah letting his apprentices die first would be even worse. But kind of expected from the Luke who sat around for years whining about being a Jedi whilst his best friend and the entire new Republic were getting murdered and slaughtered.
So the KoR are indeed lower-level force users... I think that's the first official confirmation we've gotten.
It is also stated in the interview that there will be 3 Jedi students(that happened to be off-world during Ben's betrayal) who will be going after him in this... And it also mentions that Snoke will be "very different" in this than he was in TFA/TLJ.
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I think the Force Awakens visual dictionary already confirmed that the knights were force users, but it’s good to hear that hasn’t been retconned. It’ll be cool to see [SPOILER - highlight to read]: Kylo fight them in TROS
Almost seems like they're basically a ragtag group of bounty hunters who can use the force... Much less formalized than the Inquisitorius by the sounds of it.
Oh it did? Couldn't remember off hand.
Ah well, at least it's for sure the canon angle that Soule is going with. I'm just curious to see how formidable they are.
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Well if they aren't on the level of a Jedi or Sith, I can't imagine they'd be that great with The Force. Perhaps some enhanced physicals and standard precog, but I'm not expecting them to have any great huge TK prowess or anything.
Oct 24th, 2019 07:43 PM
