How I'd do the next Skywalker trilogy (Episodes X–XII)
Hi all,
I've been playing around with an idea of how I'd take the next "Skywalker trilogy" forward if I were in charge of Lucasfilm (I'm not, sadly), and I'd love to share it with you.
Here's the high-level pitch:
Ten years after The Rise of Skywalker, Rey has rebuilt the Jedi but something arrives from beyond the galaxy that the old order had unknowingly been holding at bay. For a thousand years the dark side screamed across the stars, and these beings evolved out in the silence, listening in dread. When Rey killed Palpatine, the screaming stopped so they've come to see what made that sound, and whether it's truly gone. What they find is someone teaching children to make it again.
The twist is that they aren't wrong. To them, every Jedi and every Sith is the same thing - a will reaching out to force the Force to obey. Light and dark are just two flavours of the same imposition. They have a genuine diagnosis of why the Jedi keep failing, and the galaxy's instinctive response (fight back, hit harder) only confirms to them that the wound is spreading. Their "weapon" isn't destruction, it's erasure: they can return people to a serene, vacated calm, alive but no longer themselves.
So the trilogy can't be won with a fight. It's about the Jedi finally becoming what their oldest teachings always pointed at - stewards rather than wielders - and it's Finn, the one who was set up as Force-sensitive and never paid off, who turns out to have been doing it right all along. The antagonists are right about the disease and wrong about the cure, and the ending concedes nothing on either side: nobody discovers they were wrong, each side discovers what it couldn't perceive.
It's built to fix what a lot of people felt the sequels broke: Finn's dropped arc; the "all the Sith" line; villains who just need killing - and to give the Jedi an antagonist that keeps them honest forever instead of one more dark lord to put down.
I've got this worked out in a lot more detail - the full three-film structure, the new characters, how it all resolves. Would people want to read a full treatment?
Thanks!