Star Wars The Star Wars Sequel that Might Have Been

[Deleted member]

It was ridiculous, but in its earnest charm, endearing too. It was Dark Empire, and now in tribute to that source of many of the best parts of the new trilogy--callously ignored for all the worst parts--looking better by the day in comparison to the new movies -- we may honour Dark Empire with someone's lovely animation of Luke and the Reborn Palpatine dueling:

 

[HistoryMinor]

It made everything from the truce at bakura to Thrawn's death meaningless

 

[Arch Dornan]

I found fan videos of the EU to share.

 

[HistoryMinor]

I found fan videos of the EU to share.

"The emperor is gone..."

 

[Deleted member]

It made everything from the truce at bakura to Thrawn's death meaningless

I disagree. The Dark Empire fit in perfectly and was more or less an insane terrorist campaign by a mad clone line.

 

[Husky_Khan]

The idea of the Thrawn Trilogy or something based off of it being the basis of a sequel trilogy would be quite awesome, but the main failing of the Thrawn Trilogy is that the Jedi definitely took a big step back from the whole affair. With all due respect to Jorus C'boath... he was still pretty meh. Not to say he didn't have some moments like his lines about ruling on this planet is better then doing whatever in the galaxy and his plot to force dominate the Imperials with his battle meditation power was kinda interesting I guess.... and nabbing Jedi and cloning them etc.

But overall, he just wasn't that compelling a villain. If they were ever to make a sequel trilogy based on Legends (lol they won't of course but hypothetically speaking) they'd definitely need to do better then ol' Jorus. Dark Empire did at least have that going for it. And superweapons out the wazoo...

It made everything from the truce at bakura to Thrawn's death meaningless

Yeah sequel trilogy is pretty balls on that front as well I agree.

 

[JagerIV]

Well, it seems were getting palpatine resurrected anyways, so I guess dark empire might have done that better.

Still, the new trilogy is such a mess between so many different vissions that something made with a somewhat coherent vision would be better.

 

[Deleted member]

Well, it seems were getting palpatine resurrected anyways, so I guess dark empire might have done that better.

Still, the new trilogy is such a mess between so many different vissions that something made with a somewhat coherent vision would be better.

To be honest, it seems like they’re just stealing ideas from Dark Empire and rewriting them... Badly.

 

[Vargas Fan]

While it might not be the most important part, the thing I disliked about Dark Empire was the artwork, both the low colour palette and the art itself. Many characters didn't look like their film counterparts but that might have been unavoidable due to then legal reasons.

 

[Deleted member]

While it might not be the most important part, the thing I disliked about Dark Empire was the artwork, both the low colour palette and the art itself. Many characters didn't look like their film counterparts but that might have been unavoidable due to then legal reasons.

Some of the art could be grand but I saw it very much as just the issues of Dark Horse in the 90s.

 

[HistoryMinor]

Well, it seems were getting palpatine resurrected anyways, so I guess dark empire might have done that better.

Still, the new trilogy is such a mess between so many different vissions that something made with a somewhat coherent vision would be better.

My bet is that they mixed Dark Empire with Jedi Academy, and are basically making Sidious the new Exar Kun/ whoever it was that haunted Havin 4.

 

[Vargas Fan]

Some of the art could be grand but I saw it very much as just the issues of Dark Horse in the 90s.

The legal issue I mentioned was that Image Comics had a follow on Galactica comics (follow on from the original series), and none of the characters looked remotely like the original actors, even aged a bit. Apparently at the time if you had a likeness resembling an actor there were legal issues involved.

The colour palette did seem to be a Dark Horse thing as I read a lot of Dark Horse Terminator, Aliens and other titles. It varied. Aliens book 2 was pretty colourful, as were the Indiana Jones comics, but a large number of other ones were the monochrome palette.

 

[Deleted member]

My bet is that they mixed Dark Empire with Jedi Academy, and are basically making Sidious the new Exar Kun/ whoever it was that haunted Havin 4.

That’s a mildly depressing mashup but better than the depressing, pointless nihilism of TLJ.

 

[Husky_Khan]

That’s a mildly depressing mashup but better than the depressing, pointless nihilism of TLJ.

But... But my hope.

The most depressing thing are those Star Fortresses. Good grief. Who designed such a horrible ship? I get the alliance was desperate for supplies but that was really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Could you imagine how useless those would be in literally every other battle in Star Wars?

The AT-AT walkers could probably shoot them down in the Hoth battle if they were capable of atmospheric flight.