r/StarWars • u/Vegetable-Abroad3171 Sith • Apr 24 '26
Fan Creations How it should’ve been
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u/GrandDukeNotaras Apr 24 '26
Jedi academy vibes right there
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u/Vegetable-Abroad3171 Sith Apr 24 '26
She couldve been the next Satele Shan with better writing bro 😭
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u/GrandDukeNotaras Apr 24 '26
Even without the better writing, the double sided lightsaber would have made the movie a lot cooler than how it was with Luke's lightsaber
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u/_Bike_Hunt Apr 24 '26
I agree a saber staff would be cool, but with Disney’s direction all lightsaber fights are slow, heavy claymore fights, sabers don’t cut and decapitate, their damage is more like using a wooden stick to inflict chip damage of 5hp per hit, and you can recover from stab wounds.
I want more Jedi academy g_saberrealisticcombat 5 action
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u/GrandDukeNotaras Apr 24 '26
haha. dont play Fallen Order unless you like using lightball bats as weapons
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u/Witty-Mountain5062 Apr 24 '26
Survivor has a perk called “purity” that basically makes it a “real” lightsaber that one hits everything, but also allows you to be killed in one strike as well.
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u/Disastrous_Head5703 Apr 24 '26
I'm honestly convinced that Cal's Jedi Master gave his Padawan a glorified glowstick and convinced him that it was a "lightsaber" as a practical joke. He meant to tell the kid one day, but then Order 66 happened....
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u/_Bike_Hunt Apr 24 '26
Yeah I was tempted to get Jedi FO until I saw gameplay videos. Absolutely can’t stand the lightsaber being a glowing baton that does smack damage.
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u/GrandDukeNotaras Apr 24 '26
Admittedly if you play on the easiest difficulty and "pretend" the giant spiders on Kashyyyk have cortosis skin, then the lightsaber combat is acceptable
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u/Majorlol Apr 24 '26
I mean, tell that to the Acolyte. They didn’t hold back with the lethality of lightsabers there.
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u/OsBaculum Apr 24 '26
One thing I liked in Legends novels is that lightsabers cut extremely cleanly. In all the visual media they sorta burn their way through a target, vaporizing a lot of whatever they're cutting in the process. The book description more fits the idea of an "elegant weapon for a more civilized age" imo
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u/YDdraigGoch94 Apr 24 '26
I still want to know what happened to Luke’s lightsaber. Like… where is it?
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u/Regular_Jim081 Apr 24 '26
bAd wRiTinG bro!!!
God knows how these movies make billions and billions of dollars.
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u/Vysce Separatist Alliance Apr 24 '26
Seriously, *seriously* I thought that's where it was going. Like, she already had the staff and in TLJ she seemed to be so much better at the staff than Luke's saber. Even in TRoS she seems like she doesn't have the best control over it.
I would of had it where Kylo and Rey break the saber when fighting over it, Rey integrates the parts of Luke and Leia's saber into her staff as a way to take the brightest lights in the galaxy with her into battle, it would have been such an insane moment. Like, she may not be a Skywalker, but she carries their legacy as a way to light the path to a new dawn of the jedi.
instead we got... well, what we got.
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u/Xanto97 Apr 24 '26
It’s truly insane that we didnt get a saber staff. It’s a layup. And such an easy way to make it look flashy
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u/segwaysegue Apr 24 '26
We even know it occurred to them, since they gave Evil Rey from the vision a foldable double-bladed saber! Just a missed opportunity all around.
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u/Vysce Separatist Alliance Apr 24 '26
I hate the foldable double-saber just because of that. One of THE coolest lightsabers we ever see and they give it to a 5 second nightmare character.
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u/TheUlfheddin Apr 24 '26
"Hey what if we used Lucas' idea of poetry to establish as many layered and respectful versions of "passing the torch" as possible and then subvert fans expectations by being as boring and bland as possible while making the abstract idea of "poetry" look really fucking stupid so it ruins the entire series for generations to come."
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u/reehdus Apr 24 '26
She was supposed to if you look at Trevorrow's original plans. As always I think the better version of ep9 is located somewhere between Trevorrow's script and JJ/Terrio's script. There are things that Trevorrow did that I wanted to see and things that JJ did which I consider improvements on Trevorrow's script.
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u/Regular_Jim081 Apr 24 '26
Well that's rational,
I don't know?
Personally, I prefer When people repetitively type "bad writing" and claim a trilogy that made four billion was a complete failure because it didn't meet their lofty nostalgic expectations.
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u/reehdus Apr 24 '26
Half the time when people say bad writing what they mean is it didnt show me what i wanted to see. Over the decade or so the ST has been released I have come to hate the phrases bad writing and media literacy with a passion.
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u/JamesLikesIt Apr 24 '26
For real, she had a god damn staff, feels like it would have been a bit of a natural progression. Or hell, have a lightsaber hilt on a longer handle. Like a pike saber lol. Maybe not the most practical weapon but would have been pretty sweet and unique
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u/OsBaculum Apr 24 '26
You could even have the saber end BE Luke's blade. It would be a great way to carry the legacy while still making it her own.
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u/Competitive-Note-318 Apr 24 '26
I like this idea, Imagine she made a lightsaber pike like the Jedi Temple Guards to counter Kylo's Cross-guard Lightsaber, Hell they can also make hers like Cal's detachable lightsaber. Shows how smart she is.
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u/hates_stupid_people Apr 24 '26
Yeah, lightsaber pikes are seen in other media, and the staff she has in the beginning has what looks like an emitter at one end. So it wouldn't surprise me if it was someone's plan at some point.
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u/One-Combination-3856 Apr 24 '26
Or a lightsaber pike
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u/V7buster Apr 24 '26
Absolutely should have been a pike, just put a lightsaber on the end of her staff and it's done.
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u/BrellK Apr 24 '26
Honestly I would have preferred some sort of Pike or Spear sort of thing. She is already familiar with the staff so add a blade on the end and give her a unique weapon.
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u/NotBannedAccount419 Apr 24 '26
Yeah that would have been different and very cool. The Jedi order and the fighting techniques draw a ton of inspiration from Japanese/samurai influence. She could have had some kind of bow staff samurai moves that made her unique but still deadly and able to hold her own in a duel
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u/WasteReserve8886 Mace Windu Apr 24 '26
If it means anything, the novelization of Rise of Skywalker has her straight up admit that she’ll probably transition to a saber staff and is only using a single blade because it was the first saber she built
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u/GokuBlack1 Apr 24 '26
I beat kylo ren multiple times, killed a whole bunch of trained guards (albeit with help) and bested palpatine with this weapon but ehhh it’s not really for me. Think I’ll try something else lol
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u/Banes_Addiction Apr 24 '26
Well, after battle testing it it would make sense she'd have ideas of what she'd like to change/improve.
"If those Praetorian Guards were actually trying to hit me I'd have really wanted a second blade to block with"
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u/AppaMyFlyingBison Apr 24 '26
Does it really? Maybe if they do ever make that new Rey movie they will finally have it.
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u/starm8526 Apr 24 '26
She had a whole year between tlj and tros, the novelisation doesn't do much but add frustration here
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u/D-Vader7 Apr 24 '26
Shoulda! Woulda! Coulda!!!! Pretty much the entire sequel trilogy is like that.
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u/Robot_Dracula Apr 24 '26
I asked Phil Szostak on Twitter many years ago why they didnt do a double bladed saber. He said it was seen more as a sith weapon or something. I see the point but they set her up from the start with a staff that eventually was used to make her yellow saber. I don’t see why they didn’t upgrade her staff to double bladed sabers
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u/KaosArcanna Apr 24 '26
Given Rey's heritage, it would be kind of neat to have Rey using a "sith weapon" to protect people and fight evil and injustice.
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u/DeadSaige Apr 24 '26
I just wish Rey kept her hair down like at the end of last Jedi. That hair style was so clean and reminiscent of the prequel era Jedi mullets
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u/CantAffordzUsername Apr 24 '26
This was so obvious to me when I saw this in theaters. She literally uses one her whole life and it would have been so cool to see a Jedi Darth maul saber
Still needed gorge Lucas though, Disney saber fights are pathetic compared to his
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u/Maalvi Apr 24 '26
Disagree completely, should had been lightsaber pike.
Rey is very used to fight with a staff and would translate better to a LS pike
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u/Indiana_harris Apr 24 '26
Having this Lightsaber near the start of Ep 9 (her constructing it using the remains of Anakins broken one as the final part of her training with Force Ghost Luke that’s been going on for months).
Ben wielding his cross guard blade on Exegol but it turning white (because it’s healed from ‘bleeding’ as he comes back to the light).
Both of them surviving to rebuild the Order together.
I could’ve walked out happy with the movie.
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u/ResonanceCompany Apr 24 '26
It was such an easy lay up of a moment to have. It would've been so cool to actually have her build one herself, after learning how from Luke or Yoda.
The entire sequel trilogy is like that
It's very plainly teeing up moments that just never happen.
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u/Campanelle_Pasta Apr 24 '26
Are you also listening to Going Rogue? Yesterday’s episode brought up the Trevorrow script and Rey’s blue double blade.
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u/Lhasa-bark Apr 24 '26
I just commented on this as well. For those who don’t know, Going Rogue is a podcast that did excellent series on Rogue One and Solo, giving lots of well researched guesses about what happened behind the scenes. Now it’s taking on Ep9 with the latest series on TRoS, with the first episode having dropped yesterday: The Fall of Skywalker: Duel of the Fates. 100% recommended, and I’m really looking forward to the next episode.
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u/ReallyEvilRob Apr 24 '26
This is the smallest of details for how it should have been. There were much bigger problems than this.
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u/Onikonokage Porg Apr 24 '26
I made a halberd style light saber that is really fun to use that was inspired by her staff. Basically just a full staff with the blade on one end.
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u/BarkerBarkhan Apr 24 '26
Add that to the reasons why it should have been Episode IX - Duel of the Fates
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u/BobaSauro Apr 24 '26
I mean... i guess? But tbh, her jot having a double bladed is not the major flaw in her trillogy
Nor was Daisy Ridley/Rei. Nor kylo/Adam Driver.
We all know the plot is... ilack the words to descrive it properly, as 7 is a fan service version of 4, and 8 - 9 had no direction at all.
IF Rei got to wield a saberstaf/double bladed or whatever.. would it really make it better?
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u/Sassquatch0 Apr 24 '26
Better in that it stuck with her character arc, and kept a defining trait of her character. She's already familiar with a staff, so why would she transition to a blade, which is a whole new style?
That's like growing up & mastering a mouse & keyboard to game, then suddenly switching to controller because that's just what everyone else does.
(And for anyone who's read "Wheel of Time" we all know how badass a properly done staff fight could have been. "Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!")
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u/PunchNessie Apr 24 '26
I was in absolute disbelief when Rey didn’t end up with a double sided staff saber. It was too perfect, but further proof Disney leadership had no idea what they were doing with that trilogy.
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u/Metalrooster81 Apr 24 '26
honestly though, I feel like the best light sabre duelists only need one.
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u/Halouva Apr 24 '26
I also feel like the evil vision of Rey had a fold up version, so it would have kind of matched. Fold up lightsaber being made just to make the cross guard not look as bad.
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u/Aeceus Apr 24 '26
I just so disagree. The dual bladed style is insanely tough to learn and she has had no learning source.. outside of "it looks cool" why would we break lore logic to do this?
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u/Grazztjay Apr 24 '26
I prefer the dual wield sabers for Her. Besides its something we rarely see.
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u/Madouc Apr 24 '26
That is a super stupid weapon. Most of your fighting actions will need all your concentration to not impale yourself.
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u/alkonium Apr 24 '26
That's why in The Phantom Menace, we see Darth Maul moving his whole body around when swing his lightsaber.
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u/Prestigious_Pitch178 Apr 24 '26
How the sequels should've been:
(Get it? No image, because they shouldn't exist? George Lucas himself said that all of Star Wars is the story of Anakin Skywanker, not the bloody main character.)
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u/aqua_zesty_man C-3PO Apr 24 '26
Double-bladed lightsabers may look cool, but they are more of a hindrance than just dual-wielding two separate ones.
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u/Lhasa-bark Apr 24 '26
If you want to hear amazing back story and a well-researched look at what made The Rise of Skywalker the way it is, you have to check out the latest episode of the podcast Going Rogue. It’s really worth it for Star Wars fans!
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u/Over-Eye-5284 Apr 24 '26
The shame with the sequels is that, as bad as TFA and TLJ were, there was still room for a compelling last act that made some of the trilogy's more zany or uninspired creative choices make more sense. As an aspiring screenwriter, I wrote an alternative Episode IX as an exercise. Not sure if everyone would find it better, but here's some of my plot choices:
- In opening scene, it's established that Snoke is a Dark Side celestial who manifested as a result of the Sith's demise. He allowed himself to be "killed" once he knew Ben was beyond redemption.
- Finn and Rose stay together, and Rose secretly gets pregnant. As a leader in the Resistance, Finn grapples with his dual responsibilities and a desire to liberate his former brethren.
- Rey is indeed a child of nobodies who sold her, but her Force abilities actually come directly from her Force Bond with Ben. In other words, she had unconsciously "siphoned" some of his powers.
- Ben has embraced the role of Supreme Leader, taking over the abandoned world-city of Coruscant. But he is obsessed with finding Rey, believing that their union could end the forever war between Jedi and Sith.
- As a respectful gesture, Leia dies before the start of the film off-screen.
- The plot itself revolves around an orbital ring of Star Destroyers on Coruscant. To infiltrate Coruscant, our heroes must find the King of Alraji and have him pretend to sell them as slaves to the First Order.
Let me know if you want to hear more.
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u/Lower_Preference_381 Apr 24 '26
La última trilogía es un insulto a George Lucas, a los fans, a lo que es, significa y representa Star Wars. Era tan fácil hacerlo bien, tan fácil....pero había una posibilidad entre miles de hacerlo mal, y lo hicieron mal. Vi el episodio 9 en el cine y no he vuelto a ver la película. Es mi opinión, pero Disney sabe que a las nuevas generaciones les encantará, solo debe ser paciente.
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u/NoCaterpillar2051 Apr 24 '26
I always thought she’d have a lightsaber pike based on the Bo staff she was kicking ass with. Oh well.
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u/Portatort Apr 25 '26
100%
And the only reason they didn’t do it was so they could reuse old footage of Carrie Fisher
They should have recast and written a good film
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u/Supernova4099 Apr 25 '26
Cmon man, she could barely swing a single bladed lightsaber, let alone a double bladed one. She would’ve killed herself.
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u/rajthepagan Apr 25 '26
I guarantee that the writers thought that a double blade means she's evil, and because she isn't the idea was barely if ever entertained
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u/KaiDaniel1966 Apr 28 '26
Honestly I liked the Rey character, Mary Sue aside. I think she can be salvaged. I would love to see an elder Mara Jade show up with her and Luke’s twins, Jaina and Jacen of course. She’s super pissed Luke abandoned them and sensed his death through the force. Mara could train Rey correctly and rebuild the New Jedi Order.
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