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I’m terribly infuriated that they didn’t bring back Anakin so I’m going to do just that in my dream fantasy ending.

Instead of making Rey a Palpatine she just stays a nobody, because in my personal opinion it’s far more poetic to have someone hold such strength in the force without any legacy or bloodline or lineage or whateverthefuck but even if you did like the granddaughter Palpatine twist it can still apply to this fantasy ending without messing it up.

We see Leia force ghost herself beside Han as they both confront Kylo, and they bring him back to who he once was and hug him one last time before he throws his lightsaber into the ocean, it is now when Leia hands him her old lightsaber and asks him to carry on the Skywalker name. She dies knowing she saved her son, and that her family is once whole again.

Ben goes and fights beside Rey, we get to see an epic lightsaber duel between them and the old sith, all being controlled by Palpatine. They take down them all, but Palpatine is still standing, and he ‘kills them both’, harnessing their life and power. Ben attempts to get back up, but is instead taken as hostage/bait. It feels hopeless for a second (because movie cliches.) Then, we hear the sound of a lightsaber turn on, and pan up to see Anakin Skywalker holding his original lightsaber, with his son beside him. We hear another saber turn on and see Luke is wielding Leia’s saber. They both are force ghosting one last time to take down the true enemy and restore balance once and for all.

With sick music in the background, a cool ass fight commences, and Rey awakes to help him. More cool fighting commences when Ben is broken free and joins them. Anakin deals the last blow to take down Palpatine for good, just like he did years ago on the Death Star. We see a hand give Rey the lightsaber, and pan up to see Anakin handing it over, with Luke beside him. Luke confronts Ben and hands him Leia’s saber, and mentions how he is far beyond the apprintace he once trained. Anakin and Luke together give a well written mini speech to give their blessing for them to be the new Jedi, and then vanish and become one with the force. (edit: swap it, luke gives rey his saber and anakin gives ben leia’s saber bc ben has been searching for guidance from his grandfather for years and now finally has some, but luke does still apologize to ben and give him his blessing as well)

We see the events of the rest of the rebellion showing up to help fight play out. We come back to see Ben and Rey. Though they are both bloody and beaten, they both look up and watch as the Final Order is defeated.

Rey takes Anakin/Luke’s lightsaber, symbolizing her as the next Jedi, and takes Leia’s place in leading the rebellion and the new free nation alongside Chewie, Poe, and Finn.

Ben goes to the Jedi temple. We see Luke, Leia, and Anakin all smile down on him and see Ben ascend to the top of the mountain. We see him begin to reteach himself the ways of the Jedi.

I'll Fight - Daughtry

People Like Us - Kelly Clarkson

Stand by You - Rachel Platten

One Heart/Million Voices - New Empire

Guide You Home (I Would Die For You) - Rebecca Kneubuhl & Gabriel Mann

Had Me @ Hello - Olivia Holt

Meet Me on the Battlefield - Svrcina

Interstellar Hearts - Awake or Sleeping

Heroes - Zayde Wølf

Photograph - Ed Sheeran

One Foot - WALK THE MOON

We Fall Apart - We As Human

Angel With A Shotgun - The Cab

So... I was thinking. A lot of people have critiqued the new Star Wars film for a lot of rational reasons. Kelly Tran and Oscar Isaac and John Boyega deserved better, Kylo Ren... just Kylo Ren, and Disney’s executive meddling in the script was almost certainly not for the better.

But...people also critique the entire sequel trilogy for the fact that it undid a lot of the things that the first six films set up, and undid a lot of emotionally-impactful things. And I feel that’s a reasonable critique. And of these things, I feel like Luke and Vader not actually killing Palpatine is kinda a betrayal. Luke and Vader really deserved that in my mind. It was basically the main way Vader showed Luke he was serious about caring. And like, I get that maybe his intent counted, but I kinda did like thinking he succeeded.

But well, if you’re going to re-write things, you need to propose a plot. TLJ kinda nuked any chance of the final movie being about scheming about economic policy in First Order-Resistance preliminary peace talks which are not exactly intended to achieve peace but rather crush the Resistance slowly and legally. Maybe that’s for the better. I would read the heck out of that fanfic, but I’m not sure the writers would have been competent enough to pull that off in a movie, and probably that’s not a story natural for a movie. 

You could make the end to the whole series be an extended essay on droid rights, but that would 1) be something I’d have even less faith in the writers to do well, 2) cast basically everyone in an unflattering light and 3) have no buildup whatsoever. 

So you do really need a villain if you’re going not get a dumpster fire and you want to be to be true to the rest of the story.

So in conclusion, to really tie things together, you need to make the movie reflect the entire series and feel like a closure to nine movies. A tall order. So, probably, looking through the movies at least for inspiration would be good.

The first two movies of the sequel trilogy didn’t really have a single bad guy. Snoke kinda fit the role, but then ... well, he really can’t now. We use Kylo Ren to show that people, no matter who they are, who do not care about people and have power are dangerous. We could do a grand thing, drawing parallels to Anakin. But honestly, I feel that would be misunderstanding Anakin’s entire arc. Anakin went down the path of the dark side because he failed to save his parent. Ben Solo killed his. 

So we’re going to have to look elsewhere. The most iconic villains of the series are Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, and they’re both dead and their arcs ended, and disrupting those was the whole thing we were trying to avoid. 

The original trilogy doesn’t really actually have many villains that aren’t dead. Although this admittedly is Star Wars, ending your main movie series focusing on some minor character with three seconds of screen-time would be a very bold move, and not one that’s particularly warranted or emotionally satisfying. 

Okay, so what about the prequel trilogy? Again, err, most of the obvious villains are kinda dead or not really that important. You could have the villain be like, the cloners, and riff on the issues of personal autonomy, but it’s already been established that Finn wasn’t a clone. The cloners just aren’t that relevant anymore. One might think you could theoretically go with Watto, but Watto is unfortunately a collection of anti-semitic stereotypes, so let’s really not do that.

And, well, to give your film series a grand send-off, you need a sense of scale. You need a villain who can plausibly be revealed as working from the shadows, orchestrating events over long time scales, a puppet master who has everything planned. And so you probably guessed where I’m going.