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In regards to any post-RotJ canon, old or new;

RotJ doesn’t just have a happy ending - it’s the closing of a book, and it’s both a promise and a reassurance; it’s all right now. It’ll be fine.

That’s the point, that’s the whole and complete point to this saga, it’s all right now. All the horror and the wrongs and the darkness might not have been completely vanquished, can’t be undone, but going forward, it’ll be all right.

The special editions addition of those over-the-galaxy celebrations and Palpatine’s statue being torn down merely reinforce this reassurance-promise; it’s all right, on a galactic scale. It’s all right.

(Logically, the Empire isn’t defeated yet, realistically it’ll take more time than this. But this isn’t about realism!)

So, you know. I, and anyone else, who takes that canon reassurance and promise and accepts nothing less than that? We’re in our rights to do so, whether we’re feeling betrayed by Legends or the new canon. We can think it’s ooc and that this wouldn’t happen, for several reasons, but the bottom line, even with additional struggles that don’t mean killing what we’ve come to love and razing it?

We were promised it was all right, and as RotJ ended the saga (regardless of Legends or new canon), that’s the promise and reassurance we can take as the end point. Take anything from old or new canon that we like and twist or drop and protest the rest.