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Star Wars Episode 10 might actually be happening, and if
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the latest reporting is right, Lucasfilm isn't just making another
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Star Wars movie. They're reopening the Skywalker saga. John Watts,
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the man behind Tom Holland's Spider-Man trilogy, and skeleton crew
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is attached to direct. Simon Kinberg is writing, and suddenly,
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the saga that supposedly ended with the rise of Skywalker
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may be heading into Episode 10, 11, and 12. Now,
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that could be exactly what Star Wars needs. Or... It
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could repeat one of the biggest mistakes of the sequel trilogy.
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Because if Lucasfilm is really doing this again, there is
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one thing I want to know before anything else. Do
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they actually have a plan this time? Because if this
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really is episode 10, they cannot afford to make it
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up as they go. G'day guys, Craig here and welcome
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back to Geek and Camo. Before we get into this one,
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thank you to everyone that has subscribed to the channel.
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everyone watching and listening to the show, and particularly the
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people supporting Geek and Camo through Patreon. It genuinely helps
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me keep doing this, so thank you. Now, we've got
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some pretty big Star Wars news today, and rather than
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just reading the headlines back to you, I want to
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talk to you about what this actually means, because there
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is a potentially much bigger story here than simply John
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Watts is directing a Star Wars movie. So, is this
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actually episode 10? Let's start with what we know. John
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Watts is attached to direct a new Star Wars film
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being written by Simon Kinberg. Watts obviously directed Spider-Man Homecoming,
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Far From Home, and No Way Home, and he's already
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worked in this galaxy as the co-creator of Skeleton. Simon
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Kinberg's trilogy isn't brand new either. Lucasfilm has had that
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project in development for some time. This is where the
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story gets interesting, because... When Kinberg's trilogy was originally reported,
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there was uncertainty over whether it would actually continue the
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Skywalker saga. At one point, the reporting suggested that it would.
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Then we had reports pushing back against that and saying
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that it would be a new story after the rise
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of Skywalker rather than episodes 10, 11 and 12. Now
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Deadline is reporting that the Skywalker saga is continuing. And
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that's a massive difference because we're not talking about another
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Rogue One. We're not talking about another standalone Star Wars adventure.
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we're potentially talking about the next numbered chapter after the
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rise of Skywalker. Now, as I'm recording this, Lucasfilm hasn't
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rolled out a giant logo saying Star Wars, Episode 10.
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So I'm not going to pretend that that title has
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officially been announced when it hasn't, but if these reports
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are accurate, that's effectively what we're talking about. And that
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immediately raises a much more important question. Why reopen the
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Skywalker Saga? Episode 9 was sold to us as the
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conclusion of the Skywalker Saga. Nine films, three trilogies, more
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than 45 years of Star Wars history. Finished. Done. Finito. So,
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if you're going to reopen that story only a few
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years later, there needs to be a bloody good reason
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for it. And for me, that reason simply cannot be
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people recognize the Skywalker name. If episode 10 exists because
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Lucasfilm has a genuinely good story that naturally continues this universe, fantastic.
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I'll be interested in that. And if Episode 10 exists
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because someone looked at the Star Wars brand and decided
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numbered movies are easier to market, that's where I'm going
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to become concerned. Because the worst possible thing Lucasfilm could
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do right now is to make another trilogy simply because
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they know the opening crawl and the words Episode 10
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will put people into cinemas. The story has to justify
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reopening the saga. The biggest lesson from the sequel trilogy.
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And this brings me straight back to the question from
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the opening. Do they have a plan? Because I don't
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want to spend this whole video reopening every argument about
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the sequels. We've all had those arguments repeatedly. For years.
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But there is one lesson I desperately hope Lucasfilm has
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taken from episodes 7, 8 and 9. If you're making
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a trilogy, know where the trilogy is going. Before episode
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10 starts filming, somebody should know where episode 12 ends.
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Who is the main protagonist? What is their journey? Who
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or what is the main threat? What is this trilogy
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actually about? Where is the galaxy at the beginning? And
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where is it at the end? And what are we
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building towards? Individual directors can absolutely bring their own style.
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That's not the problem. But the story needs direction. Because
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what I do not want to see again is one
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movie introducing great ideas, the next movie dismantling some of them,
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and then the third movie trying to hurriedly stitch everything
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back together again. You get three movies. Use all three.
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Set things up. Let them develop. Pay them off. That
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sounds incredibly basic, but it's probably the single most important
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thing this trilogy needs to get right. And don't reset
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the galaxy again. This is the second big one. Please
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don't give us another version of Empire vs Rebels. We've
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done it. More than once. The original trilogy gave us
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the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance. The sequel gave
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us the First Order and the Resistance. Then we got
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the Final Order. At some point, the galaxy has to
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actually change. And I think this is where Episode 10
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potentially has an enormous opportunity. Because what does the galaxy
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actually look like after the rise of Skywalker? The First
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Order has collapsed. Palpatine, gone. Again. The New Republic had
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already been crippled. So who is actually running things now?
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Maybe nobody is. And that could be fascinating. Instead of
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instantly rebuilding another enormous central galactic government, show us a
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galaxy that's fractured. Different systems creating their own alliances. Regional
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powers appearing. Former First Order territories trying to survive. Criminal
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organizations filling power vacuums. Independent military forces. Planets deciding they
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don't want another republic controlling them. You could have wars.
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Political tension. Border disputes. Different philosophies. Suddenly, the galaxy feels
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enormous again. You don't need another Death Star. You don't
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even necessarily need another empire. The collapse of the Old
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Order can create enough conflict by itself. And interestingly... Lucasfilm
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is already starting to explore this post-Rise of Skywalker period.
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Star Wars Starfighter is officially set approximately five years after
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Episode IX and arrives in cinemas in May 2027. So,
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we're already moving forward. Which is good. Keep moving forward.
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Don't reset everything back to 1977 again. So, what about Rey?
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And obviously, if we're talking about the continuation of the
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Skywalker saga, we have to talk about Rey. I know
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Rey is going to be one of the most divisive
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parts of this entire conversation. Some people love the character,
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other people absolutely don't. But personally, if we're continuing this timeline,
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I don't think pretending Rey doesn't exist makes any sense.
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The more interesting question is, what do you do with
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her now? Because if there's a time jump, Rey doesn't
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necessarily need to be the young hero anymore. She could
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become the mentor, and that actually interests me far more.
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At the end of Episode 9, Rey is essentially left
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carrying the Jedi legacy. So show me what happened next.
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Did she rebuild the Jedi Order? Did she change it?
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Did she look at what happened to the prequel Jedi
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and decide, we're not going to do that again? What
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did she learn from Luke? What did she learn from Leia?
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What happened with Ben Solo? Maybe the Jedi that she
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builds are completely different from the Jedi Order that we
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saw before. That gives Rey somewhere to go as a character.
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And then introduce new protagonists. Let Episode 10 belong to
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another generation while Rey occupies the Luke or Obi-Wan role.
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She's important, don't get me wrong. She's powerful. She's part
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of the story. but somebody else gets to begin their
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own journey. That gives you continuity without making episodes 10
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through 12 simply the Rey trilogy part two. Please give
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us a new threat. And while we're doing new things,
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no Palpatine. Please, we've done that to death. Leave him dead.
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Ian McDermott is fantastic. Palpatine is one of the cinema's
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greatest villains, which is exactly why we don't need to
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keep bringing him back. And I also don't necessarily need,
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here's another mysterious bloke in black. He has a red lightsaber,
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he speaks slowly, and he's definitely not Darth Vader. We've
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done that as well. This is where Star Wars has
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an entire galaxy to work with. Maybe the threat isn't Sith.
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Maybe it isn't even primarily Force-related. Maybe the new Jedi
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themselves become controversial. Imagine Rey starts rebuilding the Order and
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some parts of the galaxy say, hang on. The Jedi
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were generals during the Clone Wars. Darth Vader came from
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the Jedi. Kylo Ren came from Luke Skywalker's Academy. Why
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exactly should we let these incredibly powerful force users rebuild
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another organization with no oversight? Now you've got tension. The
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Jedi may be the heroes from our perspective, but other
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people in the galaxy may have perfectly understandable reasons to
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fear them. That's interesting. Or, give us something from a
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part of the galaxy we've never properly explored. A completely
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new enemy. A new military power. A new philosophy. A
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new force tradition, something where I don't know everything about
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them the second that they walk onto the screen. Star
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Wars should still be capable of surprising us. John Watts,
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does he work for this? So let's actually talk about
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the director, John Watts. John Watts is an interesting choice,
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and I know there'll immediately be people saying, oh great,
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another Marvel director. But I don't think that's particularly useful.
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Judge the bloke on the work. He directed three Spider-Man films.
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And No Way Home in particular required him to manage
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an absolutely ridiculous amount of franchise baggage. Different generations of characters,
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legacy actors, fan expectations, nostalgia, massive studio production, and somehow
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keep an emotional story going through all of it. You're
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about to make episode 10 of Star Wars, that's actually
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fairly relevant experience. And he already knows Star Wars. He
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co-created Skeleton Crew. Now, Skeleton Crew wasn't some enormous cultural phenomenon.
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But one thing I appreciated about it was that it
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actually gave us a sense of adventure. It gave us
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new places, new characters, different corners of the galaxy. And
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I've said essentially the same thing about Star Trek. When
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you've got a giant, fictional universe, use the bloody universe.
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Don't keep taking me back to the same five places.
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If Watts brings some of that sense of adventure into
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episode 10, I'm interested. Simon Kinberg is the bigger wild card.
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So Simon Kinberg is probably the name that's going to
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make people more nervous. And yes, Dark Phoenix exists. I'm
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not going to pretend that it doesn't, but neither should
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we pretend that that's the only thing that the man
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has ever done. Because Kinberg was also one of the
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co-creators of Star Wars Rebels. And I love a lot
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of what Rebels became. Kanan, Hera, Ezra, Sabine, the Ghost Crew.
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Some excellent Star Wars mythology right there. Some fantastic emotional moments.
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And perhaps more importantly, he already has a history working
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with Dave Filoni. Which brings us to something else that's changed.
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This is a different Lucasfilm. Lucasfilm in 2026 isn't structured
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exactly the way it was when the sequel trilogy was
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being produced. Kathleen Kennedy stepped down from the presidency earlier
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this year and returned to producing. Dave Filoni is now
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president and chief creative officer, working alongside co-president Lin-Manuel Benen.
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And from a creative perspective, Filoni being there while Kinberg
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develops another Star Wars trilogy is worth paying attention to.
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Those two have already made Star Wars together. Now, that
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doesn't automatically mean the movie will be good. Nothing does.
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But there is at least an existing creative relationship there.
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And one of the things I hope Filoni brings to
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this is continuity. Not cameo continuity. Not, look, it's that
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fantastic character that you remember. I mean actual continuity of
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the universe. Understanding why the Jedi matter. Understanding the history.
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Understanding how previous events should affect what happens next. Legacy
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characters should exist when the story naturally calls for them,
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but they should support the new story rather than be
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the new story. The bigger problem Star Wars has to solve,
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and this is probably where I differ from simply saying, great,
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more Star Wars. Star Wars doesn't have a shortage of content.
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We've had plenty of Star Wars. The question is whether
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the franchise can make the movies feel like events again.
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That's what episode 10 has to do. A numbered Star
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Wars movie shouldn't feel like something that could have been
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six episodes on Disney +. When the lights go down,
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when the Lucasfilm logo disappears, when you get a long
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time ago in a galaxy far, far away, and then
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that music hits, it should feel enormous. There are certain
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franchises where that still does something to you. Star Wars
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should be one of them, but the name alone can't
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carry it forever. The story has to earn that feeling. So,
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Does Star Wars actually need Episode 10? And this is
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where I'm genuinely torn. Because part of me thinks, no.
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Leave the Skywalker saga alone. Episode 9 ended it. Go
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a thousand years into the past. Go 500 years into
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the future. Give me a completely different era where I
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don't know who survives. Where I'm not waiting for Luke, Han, Leia,
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Vader or Palpatine to be mentioned. There is an entire
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galaxy sitting there. Use it. But... There's another part of
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me thinking, okay, if you're genuinely going to show us
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what happens after all of this, I'm interested. What does
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Star Wars look like when there isn't an Empire? What
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does the Jedi Order become? And what does Rey become?
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What political system replaces what was destroyed? And what does
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this galaxy learn from everything that happened? There is a
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story there, potentially a very good one, But it only
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works if episode 10 moves forward and not backwards. And
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I'm really interested to know where you guys sit on this.
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So throw your thoughts down in the comments. Are you
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excited by the idea of episode 10? Or should the
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Skywalker saga have stayed finished? And if you're enjoying these
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directly support what we're doing here, you can find us
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on the Geek and Camo Patreon as well. Because I
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have a feeling this isn't going to be the last
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Star Wars video that we make about this trilogy. So
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what Episode 10 needs to do. So, if Lucasfilm really
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is doing this, here's what it comes down to for me.
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Episode 10 needs to prove very quickly that this trilogy
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has a reason to exist. I want to see evidence
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that someone knows where Episode 12 ends. I want the
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galaxy to have changed. I want new worlds. I want
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new factions. New characters. A new threat. And if Rey returns,
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let her actually have developed since Episode 9. Let the
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things she accomplished matter. Give us a new generation of
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characters capable of carrying Star Wars when the legacy characters
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aren't there. And most importantly, don't build Episode 10 around nostalgia.
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Use nostalgia when it matters. Of course you can reference
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what came before. It's Episode bloody 10. But nostalgia should
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be seasoning. It can't be the meal. Give us something
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that 10 years from now becomes someone else's nostalgia. That's
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how this franchise actually survives. Okay, so my final thoughts. So,
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am I excited? I'm interested. You know, very interested. Because
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there is enormous potential here. John Watts doesn't concern me.
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Simon Kinberg has enough Star Wars experience through Rebels that
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I'm willing to see where this goes. The change in
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Lucasfilm leadership makes the timing particularly interesting. And if Deadline
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is correct, that this is genuinely continuing the Skywalker saga,
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then this is much bigger than another director announcement. This
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is Lucasfilm deciding what the next era of mainline Star
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Wars looks like. And that means that they have a
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huge opportunity here. But it also means the expectations are
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going to be enormous. Because if you're putting an X
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after the word Star Wars, you'd better have a reason.
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So now, I want to throw it over to you.
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Should Episode 10 exist? And if it does... What is
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the one thing Lucasfilm absolutely has to get right? Do
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you want Rey back? Do you want a completely new generation?
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Do we rebuild the Jedi? Or should the films get
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as far away from the Skywalkers as humanly possible? Let
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me know down below. I'm Craig, this is Geek and Camo,
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and it looks like we're going back to a galaxy far,
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far away for episode 10. Maybe. So I'll catch you
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on the next one, and see you later. Bye.
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Star Wars Episode 10 might actually be happening, and if
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the latest reporting is right, Lucasfilm isn't just making another
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Star Wars movie. They're reopening the Skywalker saga. John Watts,
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the man behind Tom Holland's Spider-Man trilogy, and skeleton crew
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is attached to direct. Simon Kinberg is writing, and suddenly,
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the saga that supposedly ended with the rise of Skywalker
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may be heading into Episode 10, 11, and 12. Now,
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that could be exactly what Star Wars needs. Or... It
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could repeat one of the biggest mistakes of the sequel trilogy.
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Because if Lucasfilm is really doing this again, there is
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one thing I want to know before anything else. Do
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they actually have a plan this time? Because if this
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really is episode 10, they cannot afford to make it
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up as they go. G'day guys, Craig here and welcome
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back to Geek and Camo. Before we get into this one,
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thank you to everyone that has subscribed to the channel.
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everyone watching and listening to the show, and particularly the
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people supporting Geek and Camo through Patreon. It genuinely helps
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me keep doing this, so thank you. Now, we've got
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some pretty big Star Wars news today, and rather than
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just reading the headlines back to you, I want to
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talk to you about what this actually means, because there
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is a potentially much bigger story here than simply John
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Watts is directing a Star Wars movie. So, is this
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actually episode 10? Let's start with what we know. John
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Watts is attached to direct a new Star Wars film
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being written by Simon Kinberg. Watts obviously directed Spider-Man Homecoming,
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Far From Home, and No Way Home, and he's already
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worked in this galaxy as the co-creator of Skeleton. Simon
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Kinberg's trilogy isn't brand new either. Lucasfilm has had that
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project in development for some time. This is where the
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story gets interesting, because... When Kinberg's trilogy was originally reported,
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there was uncertainty over whether it would actually continue the
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Skywalker saga. At one point, the reporting suggested that it would.
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Then we had reports pushing back against that and saying
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that it would be a new story after the rise
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of Skywalker rather than episodes 10, 11 and 12. Now
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Deadline is reporting that the Skywalker saga is continuing. And
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that's a massive difference because we're not talking about another
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Rogue One. We're not talking about another standalone Star Wars adventure.
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we're potentially talking about the next numbered chapter after the
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rise of Skywalker. Now, as I'm recording this, Lucasfilm hasn't
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rolled out a giant logo saying Star Wars, Episode 10.
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So I'm not going to pretend that that title has
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officially been announced when it hasn't, but if these reports
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are accurate, that's effectively what we're talking about. And that
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immediately raises a much more important question. Why reopen the
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Skywalker Saga? Episode 9 was sold to us as the
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conclusion of the Skywalker Saga. Nine films, three trilogies, more
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than 45 years of Star Wars history. Finished. Done. Finito. So,
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if you're going to reopen that story only a few
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years later, there needs to be a bloody good reason
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for it. And for me, that reason simply cannot be
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people recognize the Skywalker name. If episode 10 exists because
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Lucasfilm has a genuinely good story that naturally continues this universe, fantastic.
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I'll be interested in that. And if Episode 10 exists
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because someone looked at the Star Wars brand and decided
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numbered movies are easier to market, that's where I'm going
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to become concerned. Because the worst possible thing Lucasfilm could
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do right now is to make another trilogy simply because
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they know the opening crawl and the words Episode 10
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will put people into cinemas. The story has to justify
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reopening the saga. The biggest lesson from the sequel trilogy.
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And this brings me straight back to the question from
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the opening. Do they have a plan? Because I don't
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want to spend this whole video reopening every argument about
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the sequels. We've all had those arguments repeatedly. For years.
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But there is one lesson I desperately hope Lucasfilm has
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taken from episodes 7, 8 and 9. If you're making
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a trilogy, know where the trilogy is going. Before episode
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10 starts filming, somebody should know where episode 12 ends.
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Who is the main protagonist? What is their journey? Who
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or what is the main threat? What is this trilogy
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actually about? Where is the galaxy at the beginning? And
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where is it at the end? And what are we
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building towards? Individual directors can absolutely bring their own style.
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That's not the problem. But the story needs direction. Because
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what I do not want to see again is one
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movie introducing great ideas, the next movie dismantling some of them,
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and then the third movie trying to hurriedly stitch everything
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back together again. You get three movies. Use all three.
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Set things up. Let them develop. Pay them off. That
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sounds incredibly basic, but it's probably the single most important
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thing this trilogy needs to get right. And don't reset
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the galaxy again. This is the second big one. Please
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don't give us another version of Empire vs Rebels. We've
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done it. More than once. The original trilogy gave us
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the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance. The sequel gave
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us the First Order and the Resistance. Then we got
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the Final Order. At some point, the galaxy has to
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actually change. And I think this is where Episode 10
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potentially has an enormous opportunity. Because what does the galaxy
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actually look like after the rise of Skywalker? The First
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Order has collapsed. Palpatine, gone. Again. The New Republic had
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already been crippled. So who is actually running things now?
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Maybe nobody is. And that could be fascinating. Instead of
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instantly rebuilding another enormous central galactic government, show us a
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galaxy that's fractured. Different systems creating their own alliances. Regional
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powers appearing. Former First Order territories trying to survive. Criminal
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organizations filling power vacuums. Independent military forces. Planets deciding they
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don't want another republic controlling them. You could have wars.
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Political tension. Border disputes. Different philosophies. Suddenly, the galaxy feels
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enormous again. You don't need another Death Star. You don't
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even necessarily need another empire. The collapse of the Old
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Order can create enough conflict by itself. And interestingly... Lucasfilm
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is already starting to explore this post-Rise of Skywalker period.
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Star Wars Starfighter is officially set approximately five years after
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Episode IX and arrives in cinemas in May 2027. So,
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we're already moving forward. Which is good. Keep moving forward.
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Don't reset everything back to 1977 again. So, what about Rey?
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And obviously, if we're talking about the continuation of the
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Skywalker saga, we have to talk about Rey. I know
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Rey is going to be one of the most divisive
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parts of this entire conversation. Some people love the character,
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other people absolutely don't. But personally, if we're continuing this timeline,
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I don't think pretending Rey doesn't exist makes any sense.
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The more interesting question is, what do you do with
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her now? Because if there's a time jump, Rey doesn't
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necessarily need to be the young hero anymore. She could
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become the mentor, and that actually interests me far more.
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At the end of Episode 9, Rey is essentially left
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carrying the Jedi legacy. So show me what happened next.
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Did she rebuild the Jedi Order? Did she change it?
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Did she look at what happened to the prequel Jedi
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and decide, we're not going to do that again? What
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did she learn from Luke? What did she learn from Leia?
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What happened with Ben Solo? Maybe the Jedi that she
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builds are completely different from the Jedi Order that we
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saw before. That gives Rey somewhere to go as a character.
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And then introduce new protagonists. Let Episode 10 belong to
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another generation while Rey occupies the Luke or Obi-Wan role.
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She's important, don't get me wrong. She's powerful. She's part
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of the story. but somebody else gets to begin their
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own journey. That gives you continuity without making episodes 10
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through 12 simply the Rey trilogy part two. Please give
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us a new threat. And while we're doing new things,
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no Palpatine. Please, we've done that to death. Leave him dead.
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Ian McDermott is fantastic. Palpatine is one of the cinema's
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greatest villains, which is exactly why we don't need to
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keep bringing him back. And I also don't necessarily need,
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here's another mysterious bloke in black. He has a red lightsaber,
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he speaks slowly, and he's definitely not Darth Vader. We've
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done that as well. This is where Star Wars has
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an entire galaxy to work with. Maybe the threat isn't Sith.
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Maybe it isn't even primarily Force-related. Maybe the new Jedi
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themselves become controversial. Imagine Rey starts rebuilding the Order and
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some parts of the galaxy say, hang on. The Jedi
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were generals during the Clone Wars. Darth Vader came from
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the Jedi. Kylo Ren came from Luke Skywalker's Academy. Why
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exactly should we let these incredibly powerful force users rebuild
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another organization with no oversight? Now you've got tension. The
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Jedi may be the heroes from our perspective, but other
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people in the galaxy may have perfectly understandable reasons to
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fear them. That's interesting. Or, give us something from a
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part of the galaxy we've never properly explored. A completely
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new enemy. A new military power. A new philosophy. A
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new force tradition, something where I don't know everything about
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them the second that they walk onto the screen. Star
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Wars should still be capable of surprising us. John Watts,
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does he work for this? So let's actually talk about
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the director, John Watts. John Watts is an interesting choice,
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and I know there'll immediately be people saying, oh great,
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another Marvel director. But I don't think that's particularly useful.
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Judge the bloke on the work. He directed three Spider-Man films.
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And No Way Home in particular required him to manage
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an absolutely ridiculous amount of franchise baggage. Different generations of characters,
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legacy actors, fan expectations, nostalgia, massive studio production, and somehow
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keep an emotional story going through all of it. You're
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about to make episode 10 of Star Wars, that's actually
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fairly relevant experience. And he already knows Star Wars. He
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co-created Skeleton Crew. Now, Skeleton Crew wasn't some enormous cultural phenomenon.
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But one thing I appreciated about it was that it
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actually gave us a sense of adventure. It gave us
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new places, new characters, different corners of the galaxy. And
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I've said essentially the same thing about Star Trek. When
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you've got a giant, fictional universe, use the bloody universe.
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Don't keep taking me back to the same five places.
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If Watts brings some of that sense of adventure into
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episode 10, I'm interested. Simon Kinberg is the bigger wild card.
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So Simon Kinberg is probably the name that's going to
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make people more nervous. And yes, Dark Phoenix exists. I'm
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not going to pretend that it doesn't, but neither should
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we pretend that that's the only thing that the man
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has ever done. Because Kinberg was also one of the
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co-creators of Star Wars Rebels. And I love a lot
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of what Rebels became. Kanan, Hera, Ezra, Sabine, the Ghost Crew.
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Some excellent Star Wars mythology right there. Some fantastic emotional moments.
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And perhaps more importantly, he already has a history working
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with Dave Filoni. Which brings us to something else that's changed.
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This is a different Lucasfilm. Lucasfilm in 2026 isn't structured
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exactly the way it was when the sequel trilogy was
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being produced. Kathleen Kennedy stepped down from the presidency earlier
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this year and returned to producing. Dave Filoni is now
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president and chief creative officer, working alongside co-president Lin-Manuel Benen.
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And from a creative perspective, Filoni being there while Kinberg
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develops another Star Wars trilogy is worth paying attention to.
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Those two have already made Star Wars together. Now, that
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doesn't automatically mean the movie will be good. Nothing does.
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But there is at least an existing creative relationship there.
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And one of the things I hope Filoni brings to
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this is continuity. Not cameo continuity. Not, look, it's that
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fantastic character that you remember. I mean actual continuity of
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the universe. Understanding why the Jedi matter. Understanding the history.
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Understanding how previous events should affect what happens next. Legacy
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characters should exist when the story naturally calls for them,
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but they should support the new story rather than be
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the new story. The bigger problem Star Wars has to solve,
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and this is probably where I differ from simply saying, great,
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more Star Wars. Star Wars doesn't have a shortage of content.
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We've had plenty of Star Wars. The question is whether
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the franchise can make the movies feel like events again.
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That's what episode 10 has to do. A numbered Star
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Wars movie shouldn't feel like something that could have been
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six episodes on Disney +. When the lights go down,
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when the Lucasfilm logo disappears, when you get a long
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time ago in a galaxy far, far away, and then
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that music hits, it should feel enormous. There are certain
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franchises where that still does something to you. Star Wars
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should be one of them, but the name alone can't
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carry it forever. The story has to earn that feeling. So,
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Does Star Wars actually need Episode 10? And this is
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where I'm genuinely torn. Because part of me thinks, no.
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Leave the Skywalker saga alone. Episode 9 ended it. Go
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a thousand years into the past. Go 500 years into
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the future. Give me a completely different era where I
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don't know who survives. Where I'm not waiting for Luke, Han, Leia,
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Vader or Palpatine to be mentioned. There is an entire
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galaxy sitting there. Use it. But... There's another part of
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me thinking, okay, if you're genuinely going to show us
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what happens after all of this, I'm interested. What does
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Star Wars look like when there isn't an Empire? What
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does the Jedi Order become? And what does Rey become?
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What political system replaces what was destroyed? And what does
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this galaxy learn from everything that happened? There is a
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story there, potentially a very good one, But it only
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works if episode 10 moves forward and not backwards. And
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I'm really interested to know where you guys sit on this.
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So throw your thoughts down in the comments. Are you
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excited by the idea of episode 10? Or should the
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Skywalker saga have stayed finished? And if you're enjoying these
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deeper Geek and Camo discussions rather than just straight news recaps,
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make sure you've subscribed. Hit the bell icon so you
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don't miss the next one. And if you'd like to
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directly support what we're doing here, you can find us
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on the Geek and Camo Patreon as well. Because I
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have a feeling this isn't going to be the last
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Star Wars video that we make about this trilogy. So
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what Episode 10 needs to do. So, if Lucasfilm really
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is doing this, here's what it comes down to for me.
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Episode 10 needs to prove very quickly that this trilogy
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has a reason to exist. I want to see evidence
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that someone knows where Episode 12 ends. I want the
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galaxy to have changed. I want new worlds. I want
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new factions. New characters. A new threat. And if Rey returns,
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let her actually have developed since Episode 9. Let the
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things she accomplished matter. Give us a new generation of
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characters capable of carrying Star Wars when the legacy characters
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aren't there. And most importantly, don't build Episode 10 around nostalgia.
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Use nostalgia when it matters. Of course you can reference
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what came before. It's Episode bloody 10. But nostalgia should
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be seasoning. It can't be the meal. Give us something
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that 10 years from now becomes someone else's nostalgia. That's
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how this franchise actually survives. Okay, so my final thoughts. So,
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am I excited? I'm interested. You know, very interested. Because
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there is enormous potential here. John Watts doesn't concern me.
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Simon Kinberg has enough Star Wars experience through Rebels that
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I'm willing to see where this goes. The change in
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Lucasfilm leadership makes the timing particularly interesting. And if Deadline
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is correct, that this is genuinely continuing the Skywalker saga,
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then this is much bigger than another director announcement. This
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is Lucasfilm deciding what the next era of mainline Star
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Wars looks like. And that means that they have a
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huge opportunity here. But it also means the expectations are
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going to be enormous. Because if you're putting an X
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after the word Star Wars, you'd better have a reason.
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So now, I want to throw it over to you.
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Should Episode 10 exist? And if it does... What is
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the one thing Lucasfilm absolutely has to get right? Do
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you want Rey back? Do you want a completely new generation?
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Do we rebuild the Jedi? Or should the films get
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as far away from the Skywalkers as humanly possible? Let
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me know down below. I'm Craig, this is Geek and Camo,
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and it looks like we're going back to a galaxy far,
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far away for episode 10. Maybe. So I'll catch you
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on the next one, and see you later. Bye.
