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Luke and Leia Swap AU. Leia still becomes a general/senator and Luke still becomes a Jedi and rebuilds the religion.
Luke Organa, Prince of Alderaan and the ultimate Jedi nerd of the Rebellion just wants to fly an X-Wing.
Leia Skywalker, first generation Freeborn and quick-witted sharpshooter, just wants to feel less bored and change the world. And she wants to punch the Emperor in the face.
(Spoiler alert: she does. Twice. Once with her fist, then with her blaster)
They meet long before the Destruction of Alderaan and have Obi-Wan train both of them and plan the downfall of the Empire. Han Solo simps, Luke keeps getting lost and Leia makes sure sh*t gets done.
Leia, sweetie. That IS your grandfather. He’s just freaking out because he’s “not old enough.” Yes, he is just realizing it now.
And also his kid, your bio-dad, is alive.
Oh, Obi-Wan
i think about ahsoka's "she was my friend" line too many times a day
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We don’t talk about Leia killing Jabba enough. Her grandmother and father were born into slavery. Her blood was that of the desert sand and the shackles of bondage. Leia was never more a Skywalker than the day she strangled her slave master with the very chains he used to bind her. The daughter of Anakin Skywalker was the one who killed Tatooine’s most notorious slaver, and I find that really beautiful.
Modern Star Wars by @thisuserisangry
Leia post in honor of Carrie Fisher’s passing which was 7 years ago today.
Princess Leia!
I’m super proud of the shading on the hair, so I don’t want to mess up the face
“That’s no moon!”
It’s funny because until I mentioned specifically that I was talking about Leia and Han she seemed to be coming down on their side. “Parents probably shouldn’t prioritize their children above everything else” but once I said that the character in question was the son of Han and Leia ‘oh, they shouldn't have kids because they’re too selfish to be good parents’.
On some level I do agree that they were selfish but I would say it was more of Leia was young, only 24-25, when she had Ben and being a parent is a huge responsibility and on top of that she was a Senator in the New Republic. And if I understand what I have heard about Leia, Princess of Alderaan correctly, haven’t been able to read the book yet, her caretakers were mostly Droids so she wouldn’t have thought too much about leaving Ben in the care of Droids and she probably didn’t feel like she could really ask anyone for parenting advice or people would offer advice that she didn’t feel comfortable with.
My SIL, the same one in the Ask, told me that I don’t need a crib for my baby and that a Pack and Play will do just fine but that means that the Pack and Play has a dual purpose, sleep and play, and what if I put him in there when he misbehaves then could create confusion about what the Pack and Play means to him. it is where he sleeps? Is it where he plays? Is it where he goes if he hurts the cat?
Han is harder but right now my husband is more excited about becoming a Father than he is with acknowledging the responsibilities that come with becoming a Father. He still wants to get things he doesn’t need because of X. I can’t tell you how many Yugi-oh Cards he has beyond more than enough to fill what I think is a duffel bag big enough to haul sports equipment and they still don’t all fit in it. I think he’s played with them maybe once or twice in the 18 months we have been married and asking him to sell them or teach kids at the YMCA seems to border on blaspheme; especially the teaching kids how to play part since he’s more open to selling some of them but complains about more than likely not getting a lot for the cards.
The point is Han would have to do a lifestyle change and from the sound of things in The Last Shot Han was a Stay at Home Dad when other things weren’t calling for his attention and for someone that was used to not having a house or family to return to it would be a massive change to suddenly have a wife and son to return to and not just ‘onto the next mission’ and being rootless.
And if Han was the parent that was able to be home more often by the simple virtue of being free more often than Leia was he would have had to deal with Ben’s potential Force aided meltdowns. My nephew ‘Ronnie’* when he was almost two had a meltdown in the car because there wasn’t anymore juice for him to drink and my niece ‘Chibi’* who was seven at the time had a meltdown over me turning off the TV and refusing to turn it back on until she got dressed for the day since it was after 10:30; there was a lot of ‘turn the TV back on!’ and ‘not until you get dressed’ going on.
Now imagine a similar situation to the ones above but the child in question can make objects not bolted down shake, rattle and maybe even float and flying around when they’re angry or even snatch the remote out of your hands without touching it and there’s NOTHING you can do to stop them from doing it.
In the Star Wars Legends someone (Han or Luke) recalls how the youngest Solo, Anakin, would have Force Assisted Temper Tantrums where everything in the room would end up against the walls. It was either played for laughs or just a memory, I can’t remember, but in all honesty that would be terrifying to witness a three year old trashing a room.
Another Blogger who has Special Needs children said it’s hard and it is. My younger brother ‘Joe’* was nonverbal for several years and on top of that was a Houdini; turn your back to him long enough he would push the needed objects in front of an outside door so he could get up high enough to push aside the chain installed near the top and run off and the whole neighborhood would go looking for him.
We have resources available for parents with Special Needs children whether it be Respite or Speech Lessons, this is how Joe learned how to speak, or support and resources but Leia and Han wouldn’t have had the same resource for Ben since there no doubt aren’t any books lying around that talk about different methods to use or try when raising a Force Sensitive Child. They would have been on their own and unsure how to properly handle it since they probably didn’t want to outright discourage him using the Force but didn’t want to encourage it either.
And that’s not even touching on Snoke’s interference and the Shadow of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader that hung over Leia and Han.
TL:DR parenting is hard and parents make mistakes thinking that they are making good choices.
* Not the person’s real name
I talked to one of my SILs about Ben a bit and how he was raised, can’t remember the exact context (pairings?), and at first I didn’t mention it was Star Wars and when I did and mentioned who his parents were she, having not seen TFA or TLJ and not being a big Star Wars fan, immediately said ‘they’re both too selfish to be good parents and I felt that way for years and people are surprised when I say that. Good people but would make bad parents’.
^^^
Yeah. I’m not a fan of people who villainize Han and Leia as these horrible parents either, but one of the things that I think makes the current iteration of Skywalker family drama so compelling is that it’s this complex web of fault and mistakes and tragedy that is both and neither. Han and Leia clearly loved Ben, loved him deeply, but that wasn’t enough to protect him and give him what he needed. And frankly, I think that’s more true to life to a lot of our experiences with our families than a mustache twirling scenario where Han and Leia just let him be raised by a coffee maker in a cave somewhere or where they were perfect and Ben was a bad seed. That’s what makes it so moving and compelling, that Ben and Han and Leia have all loved and hurt each other in equal measure. And it’s what makes Han’s desperate attempt to save his son a redemption for him and for the ways he failed Ben without even meaning to– Ben’s redemption is his family’s also.
Leia: okay, now that the Empire is on stable footing I believe that it’s time to do something about the Hutts.
Vader, who’s been waiting for years for this moment, runs off and reappears with wheeled chalkboards, charts, entire portfolios etc, in thirty minutes: we must take swift and decisive action! The Hutts and their criminal empire have been a stain on the galaxy too long! We need to leave no survivors!
Leia, taken completely aback by the presentation material: shouldn’t we try negotiating with them first before we attack?
Vader: the Hutts are scum and delight in the torture of others. They feed those that disappoint or annoy them to wild animals that they hold captive and watch; Jabba the Hutt is known to feed people to a Snarlacc where they slowly digested over the course of a thousand years.
Leia, taken aback by Vader’s fury: surely not all of them are that bad.
Vader: they own and sell slaves on top of running Spice Smuggling Operations and commit countless of crimes.
Leia, not wanting an argue, looks over everything that Vader brought to the meeting: how long have you planned this attack?
Vader: since the formation of the Empire; your predecessor was content to keep the Hutts around as they had their uses.
Leia, tired but not at all surprised: of course he did
A round in the garden makes me want to cry and laugh at the same time. This disaster of a man is doing mental gymnastics and its so sad and horrific what palpatine put him through to wave his metaphorical I'm more great lightsaber. Like here Leia is showing basic kindness and he's going. Wait. Is the allowed? Imagine Leia is like. Okay we need to deal with the Hutt somehow. And it's internal screaming in all ends. Oh this is good. I love sunday morning dramas.
HDHSGTHE thank you!!! and yeah it's just a calamity all around.
Please keep us posted because I also want to read this.
fic i probably should write
Luke dies in his fight with the Emperor before Vader has a chance to save him.
This breaks Vader, to the point where he just fucking leaves the Empire and goes off to find Leia “there is another” Organa and what remains of the Rebellion.
And he shows up on Leia’s doorstep, to which Leia shoots him immediately. “Okay that’s fair,” he says, wheezing and holding his wired shoulder in pain.
“What do you want?” she says, this time aiming the blaster at his head. “Answer quickly.”
He tosses her Luke’s lightsaber. “This should belong to you. He would want you to have it.” He coughs, “And I want to join the Rebellion.”
Leia lowers her gun very carefully. “Explain.”
“What is there to explain?” Vader stands fully, towering over Leia. “He killed my son. I want the Emperor dead. At this point, I no longer care what government replaces him so long as the man who murdered my son is dead.”
Leia thinks I can work with that.
So you have Leia here steadfastly ignoring Obi-Wan and Yoda’s ghosts who follow her around spouting Jedi nonsense, of which she refuses to listen to unless they let her talk to Luke, who instead turns to Darth Vader to learn the ways of the Force. “Lost, all hope is” except it isn’t.
Because you have Darth “Probably Not A Dark Sider Anymore But Also Wouldn’t Call Him a Jedi” Vader and Leia “Anger Is My Middle Name But I’m Also Firmly In the Light” Organa teaming up and wrecking havok on literally everything. Seriously, there are whole planets on fire.
Vader teaches Leia the Force, and they never bring up the fact that they are related if they can help it (which means, inevitably, that they end up talking about it occasionally: “You look like your mother,” “…What was she like?” v. “I see now why Obi-Wan didn’t train you. You couldn’t be more my daughter if you tried. Poor Bail…I can only imagine what you were like as a child.” with Leia sputtering “HOW DARE”).
meanwhile Han Solo is following them holding a baby Ben (who, I imagine, is now named Luke) going “guys? guys? i don’t understand. why is darth vader here. leia why haven’t you shot him. leia can I shoot him? leia we should probably not set this planet on fir–okay, so we’re setting this place on fire. cool cool cool”
in the afterlife, Obi-Wan and Yoda are mourning about how ALL IS LOST while Padme and Luke are drinking mimosas and laughing because they knew there was good there all along.
in light of Leia's Force-insight abilities, I propose that the reason Han was so offended by Leia calling him a 'scruffy-looking nerf-herder' was because this was her pulling directly on his own self-image issues and doubts
there's an au in my head where vader shows up at jabba's palace before luke but after leia's capture on a tip call from boba fett. leia, captive on jabba's throne, senses his arrival well before she sees him; watching his descent into the throne room, she regrets conjuring the spectre of "powerful friends" to scare jabba. vader has strangled several guards by this point; jabba doesn't care; he receives vader as though they were old business partners, without a translator. vader interrupts jabba in the middle of a self-congratulatory overture - jabba is harboring the leader of the rebel alliance, he says, pointing at leia, and must surrender her immediately. this escalates; jabba offers han instead, vader counters that jabba will relinquish the princess or die, jabba reaches for the controls to his rancor pit, leia averts her eyes, unwilling to key vader into the trapdoor beneath his feet, and suddenly vader is gone and she and the whole throne retinue are sliding, lurching, falling; they're the ones in the pit, and when she looks up, she sees vader staring down at them with an ignited lightsaber, surrounded by poorly aimed blaster fire. she looks away just as he begins to deflect it.
vader has decided to pay boba and lure luke and punish jabba all at once; he leapt over the throne and pushed its occupants with the force, pickled frogs and leia included, into the rancor pit. he still fully intends that leia be made his prisoner - he doesn't want to kill his best line to luke - he simply assumes that since she's survived him, she can survive anything. as it happens, leia does escape the rancor because it feasts on the stunned jabba first, breaking the chain that connected her to him; dodging the panicking attendants, who also end up eaten or mauled, she finds the pit entrance and secures herself by bringing down the threshold gate. if vader's right about leia, though, he's wrong here about luke, who isn't provoked into appearing. becoming impatient - having slaughtered every guard who hasn't fled - vader deprives artoo of luke's hidden saber and decides to draw luke to him where he cannot fail to appear. stuck between gates in the dungeon, leia shrieks and missteps, slicing open her boot and her foot on a misplaced axe; vader has materialized silently, like a shadow that shouldn't be in the desert. he's in a foul mood; ignoring her limp, he pulls her out by the chain still attached to her neck (because he's petty and hasn't forgotten her comment about his 'leash') all the way to his private ship (the nubian j-type that symbolizes and effected his removal from tatooine, the ship he has in the comics). with usual bumbling luck (let's say his restraining bolt no longer works because jabba is dead), threepio trails them and ends up boarding too, commenting blithely about the ship's royal trappings.
well aware luke is on tatooine, vader doesn't leave the planet; flying in a way that leia first thinks is just intended to keep her off-balance, he heads for the lars homestead. lashed to the co-pilot's seat and without a sense of their direction, leia looks at featureless sand and can't help but call up the map in her mind to where obi-wan would have lived. it's popular fanon that vader can't read leia's mind owing to natural mental shields; I could see exploring an alternative where he can sense her strong emotions, where he does swoop in and catch the fish swimming right at the surface - only that what he catches is what she's chosen to sacrifice, or what she sees no reason to hide. what to him is a prize is to her an acceptable loss. so maybe in this au, there's this history between them: on the death star, she'd given up that obi-wan was part of her mission, anticipating that he'd be on alderaan and out of reach, while protecting the location of the rebel base; maybe that's why she survived her interrogation, because vader had gone so distracted with the bait that he'd lost interest in the fish. point being, vader is well aware that she's thinking about obi-wan right at this moment, and leia is chilled to realize, just from the quality of his silence, that she knows that he knows.
but this soon doesn't matter, because she realizes they're being pursued by what's left of jabba's guard and the millenium falcon. vader is possibly an even crazier pilot in atmosphere than in space, performing stomach-turning stunts like killing the ship's engines and going into a freefall dive to get each attacker but the more distant falcon to destroy itself; the falcon he shakes off by heading straight into a massive sandstorm. droid-like as he is, leia realizes he doesn't rely on the ship's instruments when the storm causes half of them to fail and they always manage to avoid hitting flying debris. after landing the ship, vader orders leia to put on a flightsuit and helmet before they exit into the storm, lest she take unnecessary further damage. freeing herself of the mask the moment they're in an enclosed part of the homestead - which required passing through a courtyard open to the hostile elements - leia is first surprised by vader's choice of an abandoned hovel, then concerned when threepio reveals where they are. the more details threepio spills (the more the limits of his memory banks are revealed to vader), the more uneasy leia becomes. luke's family died because of the empire. but they'd still be alive, she can't help but think, had she not sent the death star plans to this planet. perhaps enjoying this dark turn to her thoughts, vader doesn't interrupt the flow of commentary. evidently unfazed by his own role in murdering luke's family, he prowls through their home as though it were his own castle. leia can imagine he's designing a trap for luke. silently, she implores him to stay away.
luke doesn't come. a massive piece of farming equipment, left unmaintained for too long and violently unmoored by the storm, smashes into vader's ship, taking out an engine. bounty hunters hired by angry hutts try to finish the job; vader kills them, but not before they've set his ship on fire. and vader starts to go slightly more mad than usual; the tatooine sand in his suit and smoke preventing use of his ship's hyperbaric chamber and luke's refusal to acknowledge his psychic pleading/threats and threepio's obviously mindwiped chatter and leia's scorching presence, her immense grief and scorn, her way of judging without having to speak a word - it all warps, and blurs, as he paces like the suit is cooking him from inside, and touches the wall disjointedly, and makes sudden disappearances to repair his ship with cheap moisturizer parts. for her part, leia is judging. she knows why vader wants her alive, and she's angry to be used again as bait, to say the least. and she's also judging her own chances: she's not eaten, not had access to water, she's lost a good deal of blood, her foot is bandaged with dirty cloth, and luke's lightsaber is hanging from vader's belt, tantalizingly near and far.
she tries to goad vader, to distract him from his ship repairs and the trap he's creating and the second lightsaber on his belt. he's become predictable, and luke won't come. she has no reason to hide her love for luke, so when vader lashes out mentally - jealously pilfering surface impressions of luke from her mind - he can remain blind to her intentions. only vader is paying real attention to her now that he's gotten to taste those memories, she's fed a hunger she hadn't known could devour, and she understands that he's draining her, taking from her, that she's shriveling up from thirst and regret and this connection. he's seeing her value as for the first time and isn't seeing her at all - and when threepio begins crying for help, drawing vader's attention away, leia is certain she is going to die.
vader wants to know when threepio entered her service. threepio is only too glad to answer exactly. leia is too depleted to care about what he shares - better that he spill the secrets of the dead captain antilles than having vader back in her head - she drifts into unconsciousness, and dreams. she's back at the palace in aldera, in the oval garden, where a stone statue of queen amidala had stood watch over beds of white asters. leia had liked to look into the child-queen's solemn face - her mother had often brought her here to tell her stories of amidala's adventures - but in her dream she is facing the statue's back, a meaningless circumstance that somehow chills her. she circles closer and yet can't get around to the front, and the harder she tries the more she details slip from her, until she can't even remember amidala's face. this too, she has lost.
anyway, that's the setup. it escalates from there. vader is paying enough attention to entertain new suspicions about luke's strong feelings for leia, and vice versa; amongst the many other threatening things he does, he finds desert cacti and makes leia drink the nectar. leia, still certain she is dying, commits to saving luke as her final act, which she believes means killing vader. vader repairs his ship; leia ensures the self-destruct goes off while they're both on it. vader absorbs the blast, keeping leia alive while compromising his own life support; suddenly faced with the chance to fulfil her wish, luke's lightsaber in her hands, leia finds herself unable to follow through - because vader tells her to do it.
at last, a figure on the horizon. luke is come.
Kat ko-fi requested anakin-raises-leia-au Leia hanging out w Aunt Soka and Uncle Obi-Wan!
(ko-fi requests are open!!)
In your skywalkers apart au, does Leia still have Lola?
GASP YES I HADN’T THOUGHT ABT THAT. she found lola in a dumpster and anakin used it as an opportunity to teach her how to fix droids <3 also artoo can have a daughter too. as a treat
Changing our perspective on a character is important.
Yeah, it’s easy to see Xiono as an Imperial Sympathizer until you stop and say ‘wait, he doesn’t see/know what we know and it’s not a Rebellion anymore and rules have to be followed’.
It’s heartbreaking to see the level of distrust that are going on in the New Republic between different Senators and members of the Military.
They’re not use to the Imperial Moffs/Governors working together and we see in ANH that they’re prone to bickering and it’s implied that Vader does what he wants, when he wants, where he wants and to who he wants unless ordered otherwise.
They’re used to Imperial generals and admirals disobeying orders for glory/revenge/out of spite/etc so to think that they’re actually working together for a bigger goal is borderline unbelievable.
And it’s very believable that Xiono heard the excuses from Imperial Officers as to why mass slaughter was committed that sounded disturbingly similar to what Hera gave for disobeying orders to not go.
Imagine being basically told that because you didn’t pick up a weapon and fight or join the Rebellion that your opinion on something doesn’t matter.
All Xiono sees is a woman getting off scot-free all because she’s a hero and because a high ranking senator forged documents.
How many times did that happen in the Empire in the Senate? That they had an officer dead to rights for war crimes only for them to get off on a technicality or due to fabricated evidence and you know that you can’t pursue them because of what will happen to you if you do.
Xiono can’t call Leia out for fabricating the transcripts because she’s considered a hero and using her position of Head of the Defense Committee to make it look official without him looking like a jerk or having a vendetta with either Leia or Hera.
I believe that, sadly, the New Republic was destined for failure because of distrust and fear.
Leia
You know having seen all of Ahsoka so far, Leia is being shown as the only person in the NR government who seems to have a functioning brain cell. She has no tolerance for political bs and gets shit done. The series has made me love Leia even more. She has Anakin’s intolerance for political bs but has the brain cells of Padme aka she was why the First Order had to wait to invade the Galaxy.
Well, I would argue Mon also has a brain cell.
But here is the thing. Senator Xiono isn’t an idiot. The only reason we think he’s an idiot is because we know that the Imperial remnants are going to become the First Order. He’s a bit dismissive of that threat, yes. But I cut him a lot of slack because there is a much more familiar threat he sees right in front of him and that is what he is reacting to.
And that threat is Hera.
A high ranking general of the New Republic pretty much told her civilian oversight to go fuck themselves, and disobeyed direct orders. We know Hera was right to do so. But here is the thing, Xiona has no way to know that with the information he has. (Yes, yes, he could stand to go out to the Outer Rim more. But really? He isn’t the only one guilty of that flaw. And even if he did, what proof would he find there was a coordinated effort between the Imperial factions? They went out of their way to make sure it didn’t look like they were working together.)
What Xiona does know? Is that Imperial Generals had no oversight except the Emperor. Who never reigned them in. So you have the New Republic, who acknowledges the need for a military force of some kind, but are wary of military power. Justifiably so, given galactic history of the last 40 years. So they needed accountability for their army, and make the Senate their oversight.
Then Hera comes along and tell them, essentially, “No, I know better,” and doing whatever the hell she wanted. And when she is brought back to the New Republic senate to justify herself, she tells them she did what she did for ‘the security of the New Republic’.
And this is where Xiono is goddamn right to be riding Hera’s ass. Because that line of justification? Is exactly what Imperial Generals used to say when committing war crimes. Granted Hera didn’t do that. But she did get several X-Wing pilots killed, so her actions had some pretty permanent consequences. Hera feels those consequences, I have no doubt. But that doesn’t take away from the fact those pilots are dead because she chose to disobey direct orders. And gave a rousing speech in her defense that was very Imperial in tone.
Hindsight is 20/20, that is the only reason so many people have taken a great big dislike to Xiono. He isn’t an Imperial sympathizer. From what I’ve gleaned from his wookiepedia page, he isn’t even corrupt. No, he didn’t fight in the Rebellion, but there are a lot of people in SW that is true for. And just because he didn’t fight directly, doesn’t mean he didn’t do anything to help the Rebellion. He was just a guy, who was doing his best. And if it wasn’t for the fact that we know how this particular chapter of SW history ended, we probably wouldn’t be so hard on him. Cause in this case? He had a really good point.
We need an animated series about Luke and Leia in the aftermath of the Return of the Jedi where they learn how to be siblings
Sequels Rant
Rey was absolutely not the issue in the sequels, she was the best part.
They should have focused more on the new trio: Rey, Poe, and Finn.
They should have followed through on the hunting about Finn being force sensitive (HE WIELDED A FUCKING LIGHTSABER?!?)
The whole point of the sequels was that anyone can be a hero, doesn’t have to be a crazy force dynasty (ex. Skywalkers), so it was very important to the narrative that Rey be no one, abandoned by scavenger parents. That was necessary, and by making her part of a blood dynasty (a Palestine), they ruined the point that Rey, coming from nowhere and no one, was still the hero.
Having her take the Skywalker name wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t powerful. It would’ve been cool if it was in a “I’ve chosen my own family” way if they had leaned more heavily into Luke and Leia being her family, not just mentors.
Kyle Ren was a poorly written antagonist. Other than having Snoke whispering to him, there was no real reason for him to be a maniac sith. Anakin Skywalker made horrible choices, but his descent into madness was understandable (BUT NIT JUSTIFIABLE!!) and I’m not saying Kyle Ren needed an entire trilogy to expand on why he became a sith, but there was zero effort to explain why. Also, he wasn’t scary enough. He felt like a cheap knock off of Darth Vader, but lacking any of the rage and grief that Vader had. Even in the original trilogy, without knowing the backstory, Vader was scary as fuck. Kyle Ren was just uninteresting, underdeveloped, and not scary. He could’ve been an interesting contrast to Rey (coming from nowhere and becoming the hero) as the villain who came from the Skywalker but still became the villain, but the directors weren’t bold enough in making him evil.
Also it’s so unrealistic for Luke to attack Ben bc he had a bad dream. This is the man who looked at his father, a genocidal maniac who killed his mentor, blew up his sisters planet, and cut off his arm, and said “I can fix him”.
Kylo Ren and Rey’s romance was pure fan service. It had potential, but instead of building emotional tension and connections, the directors relied too heavily on pure physical attraction between the actors. As a supposed force dyad, they should’ve had an intense bond, not a few conversations and eye contact. The kiss at the end undermined the force dyad as well, bc force dyads are meant to be a soul connection, not a physical one. Having their foreheads touch together would have been more touching, but they gave into fans demands.
I did really like the Kylo Ren’s actual name was Ben though. We know him as Obi-Wan Kenobi, but to Leia, the man who rescued her when she was 10 and to Luke, the man who taught him the ways of the force and looked out for him, and to Han, the old man who sacrificed himself so they could get away, wasn’t Obi-Wan. He was Ben.
I don’t even have to say anything about the piss poor palpatine plot line.
In conclusion, the directors weren’t bold enough and they didn’t have a clear image of what they wanted to say with the trilogy, so despite a lot of potential, the movies fell flat. The first one was great though!
One of my favorite niches in the Star Wars fandom is Eldritch Abomination Skywalkers