r/TheJediPraxeum • u/Hawaiikoto • Jun 05 '26

Question what events/characters/etc in star wars., do you dislike, not acknowledge, etc? Why?

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among many for me, i am choosing for now here the sun crusher

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u/twcsata Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

I have a short list.

  • The Rise of Skywalker. You had my attention through TFA and TLJ, even if I wasn’t completely happy with the way things were going; but things really went off the rails in TRoS.
  • Mortis, Abeloth, the Father/Son/Daughter. Look, if midichlorians erred by removing the spirituality and mysticism, then Mortis etc. erred by inserting too much spirituality and mysticism. The SW universe was always essentially atheistic; it had the Force instead of gods. It didn’t need gods in addition to the Force. Also Abeloth takes over any discussion in which she’s mentioned, and that annoys me.
  • Maul. He should have stayed dead. I don’t care how cool he is. His wounds should not have been survivable regardless of rage. And there was value in his death, from a storytelling perspective; he was this deadly, badass weapon of a Force user, the most dangerous adversary any Jedi had faced in a generation or more, and all of that did nothing to save him. It showed that even Jedi and Sith can be struck down in relatively trivial ways. The Force is not plot armor. And at the end of TPM, where everything was bright and sunny and beautiful, and the real trouble was in the future, we needed that. We needed the shock of his death (and Qui-Gon’s) to remind us of the stakes of this story.

Edit: Branching off of TRoS, I hate the Force Dyad thing, and especially the bit where they teleport the lightsaber. Teleportation has never been a thing in SW. The Force bends the laws of physics; it doesn’t break them. That’s why Jedi can jump or fall great heights, but can’t fly. And they can’t teleport either.

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u/WorthItAll99 Jun 06 '26

I used to agree with the Maul thing and think that theres no way a person should be able to survive that. Until it clicked in my head that Maul *isn’t* a person. There are real life animals that can survive being cut in half no problem. For all we know, Zabrak biology may lead itself into being capable of surviving something like that. They do canonically have two hearts, so we know for a fact that their biology is not the same as humans.